CHAPTER 21.
Of The [Temple And] Cities That Were Built By Herod And Erected From The Very Foundations; As Also Of Those Other Edifices That Were Erected By Him; And What Magnificence He Showed To Foreigners; And How Fortune Was In All Things Favorable To Him.
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Accordingly, in the fifteenth year of his reign, Herod rebuilt the temple, and encompassed a piece of land about it with a wall, which land was twice as large as that before enclosed.

The expenses he laid out upon it were vastly large also, and the riches about it were unspeakable.

A sign of which you have in the great cloisters that were erected about the temple, and the citadel which was on its north side.
The cloisters he built from the foundation, but the citadel [32] he repaired at a vast expense; nor was it other than a royal palace, which he called Antonia, in honor of Antony.

He also built himself a palace in the Upper city, containing two very large and most beautiful apartments; to which the holy house itself could not be compared [in largeness].