that saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, roomy, airy upper chambers, and cutteth him out windows, with wide and high openings, such as were found in the palaces of the rich; and it is ceiled with cedar and painted with vermilion, a costly paint made of sulphur and quicksilver. All this oppressing of poor workmen and the proud show of splendor that went with it was characteristic of the reign of Jehoiakim.

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