Note 2 — APPENDIX. (continued 5)

I am laying thy stones with fair adornment.—Birks. I will lay thy stones in cement of brilliant colour.—Jones. “Same word as in 1 Chron. xxxix. 2 (A.V. glistering [stones]): probably, stones used for mosaic work (so Targhere); as black marble, &c. In the two other places where the word occurs (2 Kings ix. 30; Jer. iv. 30), it denotes the paint which was used by females for colouring the edges of the eyelids. Grotius notices (from Jos. ‘J. W.’ v. 5) that the open court of the temple had a tesselated floor.”—Kay.