The chronography of Gregory Abû'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew physician, commonly known as Bar Hebraeus : being the first part of his political history of the world / translated from the Syriac by Ernest A. Wallis Budge.
- Bar Hebraeus
- Date:
- 1932
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The chronography of Gregory Abû'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew physician, commonly known as Bar Hebraeus : being the first part of his political history of the world / translated from the Syriac by Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![possess the various senses to which these names apply, but He is One, Simple, Lord-like, and not One who doth accept division, neither in sense nor in fact. After david [came] Solomon his son when he was twelve years old, and he reigned forty years; and all [the days of] his life were fifty-two years. In the fourth year of his kingdom he began the building of the Great Temple, and he finished it in seven years, in the mountain of the amorites, that is Jerusalem, in the threshing-floor of ’aran, the jebusite. Its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty cubits, and its height was thirty cubits. In the thirty-fourth year of his kingdom he forsook the God of Israel, and he builded a high place in the mountain in front of Jerusalem to chemosh [a god] of moab, and to malkum [a god] of the children of ammon. Its length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. And he made for it shields of gold, and a sea of brass, and bulls. [19] And at the beginning of his kingdom ’iromos (hiram) ruled over tyre, and he sent to Solomon to help [him] in building the temple eighty thousand men. And according to some men homer and hesiod were renowned at that time. Solomon uprooted ’antiochya and built seven cities, viz. palmura (palmyra), which is tedhmur (tadmor), MALO, HASOR, MAGHDO, GHAZAR, Lower BETH HAWRAN, [and] BA'LUTH. And from the Exodus from Egypt to the building of the Temple was six hundred and thirty-four years. In other manuscripts [it is written] six hun¬ dred and ten, and in the Book of kings four hundred and eighty is written, leaving out the years of the domination of enemies. And thus also Paul, the Apostle, saith, ‘He gave them Judges for four hundred and fifty years’ until samuel [came]. And from ad am to the building of the Temple was four thousand, one hundred, and sixty-eight years. After solomon, rehoboam his son reigned over judah in Jerusalem seventeen years. And at the beginning of his kingdom jeroboam reigned with rectitude over Israel for twenty-two years. And he made two calves of gold, one in dan, and one in bethel. And he said, ‘Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt’. And shama'ya the prophet came from judea, and rebuked him for the sin which he had committed, and [for making] Israel to sin. And he prophesied and said, ‘Altar, Altar, hear the word of the Lord. Behold a son shall be born to the house of david, josiah [shall be] his name, and he shall sacrifice heathen priests upon thee, and he shall burn the bones of men upon thee.’ And because of this jeroboam stretched out his hand to slay him; and his hand withered. And when jeroboam entreated the prophet it was healed. And epiphanius saith that the name of this prophet was yoyada, from shamrin (samaria). It was he whom the lion killed, because he heard ’abhiton the prophet, an old man to whom he had lied. And he ate bread and transgressed the command.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0106.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
