The excavations commonly known under this name, Professor Robinson observes, are situated on the western declivity of the Mount of Olives, a little south of the footpath leading over from St. Stephen’s gate to Bethany. Pococke describes them as very large, having many cells to deposit bodies in; the farther end of them they call the Labyrinth, which extends a great way; I could not find the end of it;’ this part seems to have been a quarry. Doiibdan compares them with the tombs of the judges and kings; but says the chambers are not square, as in these, but consist of two large and high galleries, cut strictly one within the other in a continued curve; the holes or niches for the bodies being on a level with the floor (Bibl. Res. 1, 529; comp. Latter Res. p. 233). See De Saullcy, Dead Sea, ii, 107; Williams, Holy City, 2, 215. SEE OLIVET. It is ordinarily supposed (but with no good reason) that it is of these tombs our Lord speaks when he says: Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them (Luk 11:47). SEE TOMB. <\/p>\n
Prophets, Tombs Of The The excavations commonly known under this name, Professor Robinson observes, are situated on the western declivity of the Mount of Olives, a little south of the footpath leading over from St. Stephen’s gate to Bethany. Pococke describes them as very large, having many cells to deposit bodies in; the farther end … Continue reading “Prophets, Tombs Of The”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}