xxi.  10 — 13,  18,  21,  25,  27;  xxii.  14).  The  cry  usual  at  the
feast  of  tabernacles  (Buxtorf  Lexicon  Chald.  992)  was  that  of
verse  25,  "Save  now, I  beseech  thee,  O  Jehovah"  (^{i  H^'^EJ^in,
Hosanna).  The  law  was  read  each  day  in  the  street  before
the  water  gate  (Neh.  viii.  i).
The  Psalmist  sings  (ver.  22),  "  The  stone  which  the  builders
refused  is  become  the  head  stone  of  the  corner  : "  in  unde-
signed coincidence  with  which  the  prophet  Zechariah  had
foretold,  (iii.  9,)  "  Behold  the  stone  that  I  have  laid  before


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Joshua  ;  "  (iv.  6,  7,  9,)  "  Zerubbabel  shall  bring  forth  the  head-
stone with  shoutings,  Grace,  grace  unto  it.  The  hands  of
Zerubbabel  have  laid  the  foundation  of  this  house  ;  his  hands
shall  also  finish  it."  Nehemiah,  at  the  completion  of  the  wall
which  crowned  the  whole  polity,  civil  as  well  as  religious,
naturally  alludes  to  the  former  work  of  the  completion  of  the
temple.  The  stone  laid  by  Zerubbabel  kept  its  place  in
spite  of  "mountain"-like  adversaries,  by  the  Lord's  doing.
