the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem “in the house of Yahweh, before the new court.” Apparently the old court which Solomon had built had become too small to accommodate the many pilgrims coming to Jerusalem and Jehoshaphat may have added this new court to the existing Temple complex. This would be in harmony with the observation made by Josephus, when he wrote in War 5, “In course of ages, however, through the constant additions of the people to the embankment, the hill-top by this process of