Kings of

Egypt. Ptolemy Soter.

2 Seleucus having made himselfmafter of all the provinces of Alexander's empire beyond the Euphrates, invadeth India, and ma keth peace with Sandrocottus. 3 Seleucus, Ptolemy, Caffander, and Lyfimachus, confederate against Antigonus.

4 They vanquish and flay him at Ipfus in Phrygia.

5 After this victory, Ptolemy had Judea, Phoenicia, and Cœle-Sy. ria, and Seleucus Upper Syria, where he builds Antioch. 6 Demetrius gives his daughter, Stratonice, in marriage to Se leucus, and feizeth Cilicia. 7 Caffander dies in Macedonia. 8 Pyrrhus marries Antigone, the daughter of Berenice, Ptole my's beft beloved wife, and by his affistance recovers his kingdom of Epirus.

9 Samaria wafted by Demetrius' foldiers from Tyre.

10 Ptolemy recover's Cyprus from Demetrius.

11 Demetrius made king of Mace don, and there reigns seven years. 12 Seleucus builds Seleucia on the Tigris.

13 Simon the Juft, high priest of the Jews, dies, and is fucceeded by Eleazar, his brother.

ABRAHAM held in veneration

by the Magi, p. 233.
Achoris king of Egypt, his wars
with the Perfians 463-466; his
death, 470.

Adoration paid the king of Perfia

by the Greeks, 475.
Era of the Seleucide, or of con-
tracts, 557; why called by the
Arabs, Taric Dilcarnain, 557;
of the creation of the world, ibid.
of the Julian period, ibid.
Agefilaus king of Sparta, his wars
againft the Perfians, 456; ill
conduct, 458; his parley with
Pharnabazus, 459; corruption,
460; greedy of money, 478; his
treachery, 479; makes Necta-
nebus king of Egypt, 480; his
death, ibid.

Ahasuerus. See Aftyages, 78. See
Cambyfes, 172, 219. See Arta-
xerxes Longimanus, 261; con-
jectures about him, ibid. his
kindness to the Jews, 263.
Ahaz king of Judah, his wicked
reign, 2. & feq. and diftreffes,
3, 4; and loffes, 5; becomes
tributary to Arbaces, 13; his
idolatry, ibid. his death and ig-
nominious burial, 16.
Ahaziah king of Ifrael, partner in

the trade to Ophir with Jeho-
faphat king of Judah, 7.
Ahikam, his friendship to Jere-
miah, 62.

Alcibiades put to death at the infti-
gation of the Lacedemonians,
446.

Alexander the Great, his birth,
484; victories in Greece, 496;
his army in Afia, 497; victories
there, 499; facrifices to God at
Jerufalem, 504; his cruelty and
vain glory, 506; reduces Egypt,
508; his vanity and cruelty,
509; builds Alexandria, ibid.
punishes the Samaritans for the
death of Andromachus, 516;
masters the Perfian empire, 517;
plunders Perfepolis, 518; burns

it, 519; his luxury there, ibid.
weeps over Darius's dead body,
520; his fwift marches, ibid.
builds another Alexandria, 521.
wars with the northern Afiatics;
522; kills Clitus, ibid. Callift.
henes, 524; his vanity, ibid.
march to India, 525; conquefts
and return, 525, &feq. his luft
and cruelty, 528; his riches,
529; his defigns, 531; his death,
533; his burial, 541.
Alexandria built, 509, & feq. now
a village, ibid. fettled, 515;
peopled with Jews, 559.
Amafis ufurps the kingdom of
Egypt, 94; vice-roy to Nebu-
chadnezzar, 97; slays Apries,
ibid. his death, 174; indignities
offered him afterwards, 175.
Altar for burnt offerings defcribed,
146.

Ammon king of Judah, his wicked

reign, 44; his death, ibid. re-
venged, 45.

Ammonites carried into captivity
by the Affyrians, 93.
Amos, his prophecy of the capti-
vity of the Jews fulfilled, 13.
Amyrtæus reigns in the fens of
Egypt, 319; recovers the whole
kingdom, 422, 424; dies, and is
fucceeded by his fon, 442.
Anna, Tobit's wife, carried into
captivity, 19.

Angels of the churches, why the

Afian bishops fo called, 399.
Annius, a lying hiftorian, 583.
Anointing of kings and priests, 164.
Antalcidas the Lacedemonian, his
bad peace with the Perfians, 464,
470, 473; ftarves himself to
death, 465, 474.

Antigonus, his government after
Alexander's death, $37; his
war, 540, & feq. 545; fets up
for himself, ibid. wars with Eu-
menes, 547, & feq. puts him to
death, 552; his greatness, ibid.
wars with Seleucus, 553; with
Ptolemy, ibid. caufes Alexan-
der's

der's fifter to be murdered, 568;
his cruelty, ibid; takes the title
of king, 571; his ill nature, 572;
confederacy against him, 575;
routed and flain, 576.
Antioch built, 578; ruined, 580;
why called Tetrapolis, 579.
Antipater confpires the death of
Alexander, 553; dies, 544.
Apis the Egyptian god described,
176; killed by Cambyfes, 1773
by Ochus, 493.

Apollo of Tyre chained by them,

501.

Apollonius Tyanæus, hiftory of
him, a fable, 589.

Apries fucceeds his father Pfammis
king of Egypt, 78; deceives Ze-
dekiah, 82; forced to fly from
the ufurper Amafis, 9; ; flain by
him, 98; his pride, ibid.
Apronadius king of Affyria, 28;
his death, 30.

Arabs preferve and reftore the an-
cient nan es of places, 60, 61.
Arbaces founds the fecond Affy-
rian monarchy, 1, 2. See Tig-
lath Pilefer.

Arbela, Darius routed there, 517;
arbitrary power, the ill effects of
it, 446.

Archimagus high prieft of the Ma-
gians, 230; Darius takes that
office, 235.
Argyrafpides, why Alexander's fol-
diers fo called, 546; betray Eu-
menes, 552.

Ark of the covenant defcribed,

149; its hiftory, ibid. & feq.
Arkianus king of Babylon, 28.
Aridæus, Alexander's baflard bro-
ther, made king, 5,6; an idiot,
ibid. n.urdered, 549.
Arimanus the evil god of the Per-
fians, 185.

Ariftides the Athenian, his ex-

ploits, 246, 250.

Ariftotle, how many lines his works

confitted of, 349; his birth and
life, 491; his converfe with a
Jew, 492. 497.

Artaxerxes, third fon of Xerxes,

made king, 260; flays his elder
brother, ibid. ; why furnamed
Longimanus, 261; Ahafuerus,
262; his army routed in Egypt,
269; bribes the Lacedemonians,
ibid. his death, 418.
Artaxerxes Mnemon, why fo call-
ed, 444; his negociations with
the Greeks, 464, 473, feq. his
incestuous marriages, 481; death,
ibid.

Artaxerxes. See Smerdis.
Afhdod, its ftrength, 35; blockade
of 19 years, ibid. Jeremiah's fay
ing of it, 36.

Afhes the manner of a death in
Perfia, 419. See the 13th chap-
ter of Maccabees.
Afkalon, temple of Venus robbed
by the Scythians, 46.
Afphaltites, lake of Sodom, why
fo called, 563.

Affyrian empire, its duration, 1,

5T, 129.

Allyages of Media, marries one of
his daughters to Nebuchadnez-
zar, 48; another to Cambyfes
king of Perfia, 73; fucceeds his
father Cyaxares, 78; the fame
with Ahafuerus, ibid.
Aftronomers of the Sabian fect,
185.

Atheism punished by the Athe-
nians, 422.

Athenians quarrel with Darius,
207; murder his herald, 215;
quit their city for fear of Xerxes,
243; Perfian fleet in their bar-
bours, ibid. refuse to make peace
with the Perlians, 246; deftroy
their fleet and armies, 247; af-
fift the Egyptians, 268; rout the
Perfians, ibid. their loffes in
Egypt, 320; allowed two wives,
and why, 417; ufe a Perfian am-
baffador honourably, 418; van-
quifhed by the Lacedemonians,
443; put Socrates to death, and
repent of it, 452; affift Euago.
ras against Artaxerxes, 463.

Perfia, 493; flain, 494.

Arphaxad. See Deioces.
Artabafanes, fon of Darius, yields
the crown to his younger bro-
ther, 217.

plague there, 410, 417; walls
rebuilt by Conon, 461; taken
by Demetrius, 584.
Azelmelic made king of Tyre by
Alexander, and why, 502.
Babylon,

B.
Babylon, confufion in that king-
dom, 31; taken by the Affy-
rians, ibid. its grandeur under
Nebuchadnezzar, 99. & feq. ta-
ken by Cyrus, 126; its kingdom
deftroyed, 129; prophecies
about it fulfilled, 130; rebels
against Darius, 193; cruelty of
the citizens, 194; taken and de-
ftroyed, 195; taken by Alexan-
der, 518; by Demetrius, 565;
entirely ruined, 586, 587.
Babylonians, how early they made

aftronomical obfervations, 104.
Bagdad, fituation of it, 586; where

Seleucia was, 590; whence its
name, ibid.

Bagoas, the Egyptian eunuch, fa-
vourite to Ochus, 492; why of-
fended at him, ibid.; his revenge,
493; makes Darius king, ibid.
Bagorazus, his fidelity to Ar-
taxerxes, and death, 418.
Bagofes, the Perfian, governor lays
a mulct on the Jews facrifices,

477-

Balch in Perfia, the refidence of
the Perfian kings of the Sabian
fect, 228; Zoroaftres, 231, 234;
healthy, ibid.

Ballafcia in India, kings of Alex-

ander's race there, 525.
Barfina, Memnon's widow, marries
Alexander, 499; murdered, 566.
Baruch employed by Jeremiah to
publish his prophecies, 64, 66;
hides himself, 67; his brother
fent by Jeremiah to Babylon
with his prophecies against that
city, 76.

Baruch, the book fo called, fuppo-

fed to be a fiction, and why, 76,
77; what account of authority,

282.

Bel and the Dragon, a fable, 170.
Bel, temple of, deftroyed by
Xerxes, 251.

Bel, his image fet up by Nebu.
chadnezzar, 91.

Belefis founds the kingdom of Ba-
bylon, 2.
Belibus fucceeds Efarhaddon king
of Affyris, 28.
Beith zzr See Nahonadius.
Belus, temple of, at Babylon, 101,

103; its tower mentioned by

Herodotus, ibid. bigger than
that of Jerufalem, 105; Alexan-
der's defign to rebuild it, 532.
Beflus, his treafon to Darius, 519;
declares himself king, 520; pu-
nished by Alexander, 522.
Bethfhean taken from the Jews by
the Scythians, 46; thence called
Scythopolis, ibid. Betis the eu-
nuch, Alexander's cruelty to
him, 506.

Bible, the Jewish, 343, 344; fome
books want the correctnefs of
others, 345; how read, ibid.
how at first written, 348, 370;
concordance made to it, 352;
of its vowels and pointing, 359,
&feq. wherein the Samaritan
and Jewith differ, 434; when it
ends, 440.

Bible, Chriftian, when divided in-
to chapters, 350, & feq. books
added to it after Ezra's time,
592.

Bible of Bononia said to be Ezra's,
a cheat, 374.

Bigthan and Teresh, their confpi-
racy against king Ahafuerus,
326; discovered by Mordecai,
ibid.

Bitumen found in the lake of So-
dom, 564.

Boated to death, the manner of it
in Perfia, 265.

Books of holy fcripture, how di-
vided by the Jews, 344.
Boccharis, king of Egypt, burnt
alive, 18.

Branchide, a Milesian family, be-
tray their temple, 249; fettled
in Perfia by Xerxes, 250; de-
ftroyed by Alexander the Great,
ibid.

Brazen ferpent deftroyed by Heze-
kiah, 17; the Papifts impudence
about it, 18.

Burial place of the kings of Judah
defcribed, 23.

Burial place, honourable, denied to
wicked kings by the Jews, 16.
C.
Cabbalifts, Jewish doctors so call-
ed, 365.
Cabbala, what, 365.
Cadufians fubjećted by Artaxerxes,

468; their manners, ibid. faid
to be part of the ten tribes, 469.
Cadytis,

Cadytis, Jerufalem fo called by He-
rodotus, 59, 382.
Calendar, Jewish, when made, 193.
Callifthenes the philofopher, his
obfervations of the Chaldean
aftronomy, 104; killed by Alex-
ander's order, 524.
Calves, golden, set up by Jero-
boam, carried from Jerufalem
by the Affyrians, 15.
Cambyfes fon of Cyrus fucceeds
him, 172; his war with Egypt,
173; fucceffes, 174, 175; his
agents in Ethiopia defpifed, ibid.
his army deftroyed, 176; whips
the Egyptian priefts, and kills
their god Apis, 177; kills his
wife, ibid. fets his fucceffors an
example of incestuous marriages,
178; his madnefs, ibid. his
death. 179.

Canon, Jewish, of fcripture when
completed, 180.
Captains, Alexander's, affume the
name of kings, 566, 571; efta-
blifh four great monarchies,
577; Daniel's prophecy of them
fulfilled, ibid.

Captivity, head of, an officer a-
mong the Jews at Babylon, 113.
Carthaginians league with Xerxes
against the Greeks, 240; routed
in Sicily, 245.
Caffander, fon of Antipater, fup-
posed to have poisoned Alexan-
der, 533; his defigns against
Alexander's children, 544; puts
his mother to death, 549; and
wife, 566; and fon, ibid. takes
the title of king, 571; divifions
among his family, 585.
Caffius, his virtue, 581.
Chapters, the division of scripture
into them, 350; why fcripture
divided into chapters, 361.
Charrae in Mefopotamia, the Ha-
ran of the fcripture, 547; Abra-
ham dwelt there, ibid. Craffus
routed, ibid.

Children, three, carried captives
from Judea to Babylon, 65;
preferred there, 70; their zeal
for their religion, ibid.
Chiniladanus fucceeds his father
Saofduchinus king of Affyria,
44; his effeminacy, 47.
Chinzerus king of Babylon, his
reign, 19..

Chrift's coming, Daniel's prophe-
cy of 70 weeks concerning it
made clear, 272, & seq. when,
they begin, 279, 302; when
completed, ibid. perplexed, 317.
Chronicles, book of, more modern
than the reft, 592.
Cimon, his defcent, 213; his rela-
tion to Thucydides, 214; his
wars against the Perfians, 259;
deftroys their fleet, ibid. reco-
ver's his father's territory, ibid.
tried for his life, and why, ibid.
Clearchus leads a Grecian army to
affift Cyrus against Artaxerxes,
446, 448; flain, ibid.
Cleopatra, Alexander's fifter, mur-
dered by order of Antigonus,
568.

Cleophis queen of the Affacans
prostitutes herself to Alexander,
525; has a fon and fucceffor by
him, ibid.

Clitus killed by Alexander, 523.
Coans refufe to deliver Hippocrates
to Artaxerxes, 411.

Concordance, Latin, the first that
was made, 351.
Concordance, Hebrew, when made,

racter, 507.

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