270 CflEV. W. P. JERVIS, F.G.S., ON THE MINERAL AND 



the offering that ye shall take of them, gold, and silver, and 

 brass!' (Ex. xxv, 3) ; also xxvi, 11 ; xxxvii, 2-19, etc. 



At the taking of Jericho, Joshua commanded that all the 

 silver and gold, and vessels of brass and iron are consecrated 

 unto the Lord ; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord. 

 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein ; 

 only the silver and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron 

 they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord." (Josh, 

 vi, 19, 24.) 



B.C. 1042. David made him houses in the city of David, 

 and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a 

 tent . . . The singers Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were 

 appointed to sound with cymbals of brass." (i Chron. xv, 19.) 



Copper in connection with the Temple. 



B.C. circum 1040. David smote Hadarezer, King of Zobah, 

 unto Hamath : from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of 

 Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon 

 made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass. 



" David prepared iron in abundance for the nails of the doors 

 of the gates, and for the joinings, and brass in abundance 

 without weight. David called for Solomon his son, and 

 charged him to build an house for the Lord God of Israel, and 

 ■said, " I have prepared for the house of the Lord 100,000 talents 

 of gold, and 1,000 talents of silver, and of brass and iron 

 without weight, for it is in abundance. Of the gold, the silver, 

 and the brass, and the iron there is no number." Furthermore, 

 David said, "I have prepared with all my might for the house of 

 my God . -. . brass for the things of brass." When he 

 consigned to Solomon all the metal for the Temple he gave, 

 "of brass, 18,000 talents." (i Chron. xxii, 3, 14, 16; xxix, 2, 7.) 



In the account of the building of the Temple by Solomon we 

 find mention of Huram (or Hiram) king of Tyre, and of his son, 

 also called Huram : we would now speak of Huram the first 

 and Huram the second. The latter sent Solomon the son of a 

 widow, a cunning head artificer, technically acquainted with 

 metal work and textile industries, whose name was likewise 

 Hiram, which might have been common at Tyre. No one must 

 suppose that the king would have gone to Jerusalem leaving his 

 throne, to work as the superintendent of the building of the 

 temple ! 



In reference to the molten sea, an article on weights and 

 measures, by an atheist writer, appeared in the Westminster 

 Bcvitvj for 1832, scoffingly tending to prove that Solomon or 



