After the third day, he was introduced to the king; when measuring off four cubits upon the floor with the stick he held in his hand, hi said to Solomon, "When thou diest, thou wilt not possess in this world (he referred to the grave) more than four cubits of earth. Meanwhile thou has conquered the world, yet thou wert not satisfied until thou hadst overcome me also.® To this the king quietly replied, "I want nothing of thee, but I wish to build the Temple and have need of the Shameer.^ To which Ashmedai at once answered, <l The Shameer is not committed in charge to me, but to the Prince of the Sea, and he intrusts it to no one except to the great wild cock, and that upon an oath that he return it to him again.® Whereupon Solomon asked, "And what does the wild cock do with the Shameer?® To which the demon replied, "He takes it to a barren rocky mountain, and by means of it he cleaves the mountain asunder, into the cleft of which, formed into a valley, he drops the seeds of various plants and trees, and thus the place becomes clothed with verdure and fit for habitation.® This is the Shameer (Lev. xi. 19), Nagger Tura, which the Targum renders Mountain Splitter.