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the possession of his friend Hiram, king of 

 T^Te, whose "shipmen that had knowledge 

 of the sea" conducted the expeditions. Nor 

 would his great men and nobles be forgotten. 

 Another notice occurs in the history of Solo- 

 mon, (1 Kings iv. 23,) which leads us to infer, 

 and we think legitimately, that ordinary do- 

 mestic poultry, of some kind or other, was 

 reared by the Israelites, as it undoubtedly was 

 by the Egyptians, whose monarch's daughter 

 Solomon had married. In the account of the 

 daily consumption of the palace, we read of 

 "ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the 

 pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts 

 and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted 

 fowl." We do not mean that poultry was 

 kept in the city, but in the adjacent villages 

 and the farms, particularly those of the king 

 and his nobles. At a far later period, poultry 

 was kept even in Jerusalem. The editor of 

 the Pictorial Bible, referring to the expression 

 'ix Matthew xxvi. 74, " the cock crew," says, 

 " To this it has been objected that there were 

 no cocks kept in Jerusalem, lest their habit of 

 turning over dunghills, where they might find 

 creeping things, should expose to pollution 

 the holy food, the peace-offerings and thank- 



