chief fathers

歷代志上 9:13
他們和眾弟兄都是族長，共有一千七百六十人，是善於做神殿使用之工的。

尼希米記 11:1-15
百姓的首領住在耶路撒冷，其餘的百姓掣籤，每十人中使一人來住在聖城耶路撒冷，那九人住在別的城邑。…

歷代志上 8:28
這些人都是著名的族長，住在耶路撒冷。

;) but the Jerusalem of sacred history is no more. After having been successively destroyed by the Babylonians and Romans, and taken by the Saracens, Crusaders, and Turks, in the possession of the latter of whom it still continues, not a vestige remains of the capital of David and Solomon, not a monument of Jewish times is standing. The very course of the walls is changed, and the boundaries of the ancient city are become doubtful. The monks pretend to shew the sites of the sacred places; but they have not the slightest pretensions to even a probable identity with the real places. The Jerusalem that now is, however, called by the Arabs {El Kouds}, or `the holy city,' is still a respectable, good looking town, of an irregular shape: it is surrounded by high embattled walls, enclosing an area not exceeding two miles and a half, and occupying two small hills, having the valley of Jehoshaphat on the east, the valley of Siloam and Gehinnom on the south, and the valley of Rephaim on the west; and containing a population variously estimated at from

20,000 to

30,000 souls.