Tribes of Israel, and their portions of land determined by lot, 122.
Tribute, paid out of Judea to Antiochus Pius, 394; great men farm such tributes, 294; poll-money paid the kings of Syria by the Jews, 311; ten thousand drachmæ paid out of the temple to them, ibid; three hundred talents paid by Jonathan to Demetrius for tribute, 316; Jews freed from paying such tribute by Simon the Maccabee, 321; high priests used to pay twenty talents tribute to the kings of Egypt out of their own revenues, 293; poll-mo- ney and crown-tax, &c. forgiven the principal orders of the Jews by Antiochus the Great, 292. Triumphal gate at Rome, 693. Triumphal pomp described, 693, 694. Trophies, give offence to the Jews, 388. Trumpet, its invention and form, 92
Truth and accuracy, to be observed by an historian, 236; observed accordingly by Josephus, 21. Trypho, the tyrant, brings young Antiochus back to Syria, 316; his perfidious behavior to the same Antiochus, 320; he draws Jonathan into a snare, ibid; he makes an irrup tion into Judea, 321; imposes upon Simon, ibid; kills Jon- athan, ibid; he causes Antiochus, whose guardian he was, to be killed, 322; he is made king by the army, ibid; la killed by Apamia, ibid.
Trypho, king Herod's barber, 413, 538. Trypho, king Ptolemy's jester, 296. Tubal, 31.
Tyrannius Priscus, 578.
Uzzah, smitten by God for touching the ark; 174. Uzziah, or Azariah, king of Judah, 240; he burns incense in the temple, ibid; he is smitten with the leprosy for usurping the priest's office, 241.
Valerian, a decurion, 604. Valerius Asiaticus, 467, 470. Varro, president of Syria, 387.
Varus, (Quintilius,) president of Syria, 6, 499, 423, 438, 543, 550; he comes to succor Sabinus, 433, 568; be punishes the mutineers, 430.
Vashti, wife of king Artaxerxes, 225. Vatinius, 466.
Veils of the tabernacle, 85.
Ventidius Bassus, bribed by Antigonus, 300; sent to repel the Parthians, ibid; he kills Pacorus in battle, and defeats the Parthians, 362.
Vitellius, Proculus, 479.
Vitellius, president of Syria, 390, 691; he is highly treated by the Jews, 443, 445; his expedition against Aretas, 446, is ordered by Tiberius to enter into an alliance with Ar tabanus, 444.
Vitellius is made emperor after Otho, 624; he is stain, 637 Voice heard, in the temple, 680.
Volumnius, procurator of Syria, 407, 410, 537. Vonones, 440.
Vow of Jephthah to sacrifice his daughter, neither law nor acceptable to God, 134.
Vologases, king of Parthia, 486, 602; he declaren war against Izates, 487. War, not begun with foreign nations till ambassadors are sent, 115, 127. War, (laws of,) among the Jews, 115. War, (Jewish, whence begun, 564, 565, 573, 573. Water of Bethlehem, offered to God by David, 188. Witch, or necromantie woman, of Endor, comforts Sol, 164, her eulogium, 165.
Woman's power, 267; their cunning in preventing accu- sations, 54; their dress forbidden men, 115; foreign wo- men not to be meddled with by Jews, 205; when divorced cannot marry another without their former husband's consent, 112; Persian women, or wives, not to be seen by strangers, 275; not allowed to be witnesses, 110. Xanthicus, the Syro-Macedonian name of the Jewish month Nisan, 32; and so elsewhere.
Xerxes, succeeds Darius, 271; his letter to Eara, ibid. Year, two beginnings of Jewish years, 32 Year, (Great,) a period of six hundred common yearn. 34. Zabdiel, a prince of the Arabians, 315. Zabidus, an Idumean, 732.
Zachariah, son of Jehoiada, a prophet, is stoned, 237. Zacharias, son of Baruchi, 624; he is murdered in the tem- ple, 625.
Zacharias, son of Phalek, 619.
Zadoc, or Sadoc, high priest, 171, 175, 188, 192, 196. Zalmunna, captain of the Midianites, 132. Zamaris, a Babylonian Jew, 416.
Zarepheth, or Sarepta, the widow's habitation, whose meal and oil were multiplied on account of Elijah, 918. Zealots, 616, 617, 622, 699.
Zeb, or Zeeb, captain of the Midianites, 132. Zechariah, king of Israel, 240. Zechariah, the prophet, 269.
Zechariah, son of Ahaz, is slain by Amaziak, 942. Zedekiah, a false prophet, 224; persuades Ahab not to hearken to Micaiah, ibid; strikes Micaiah, and has his judgment pronounced, ibid.
Zedekiah, king of Judah, 252; he revolts from the Babyle- nians, ibid; calls for Jeremiah's advice, ibid; he is our ried captive to Babylon, 254; his death, ibid.
Zebina, (Alexander,) king of Syria, is conquered by Art- ochus Grypus, and dies, 269.
Zeno, styled Cotylas. tyrant of Philadelphia, 383. Zenodoras, 386, 407; his death, 387. Zepheniah, a priest, 255.
Zerah, an Ethiopian king, 216; defeated by Ass, 217. Ziba, Saul's freed-man, 176; accuses Mephibosheth, 199. Zimri, prince of the Simeonites, 104; his speech against Moses, 144; is slain by Phineas the priest, and the plague stayed thereby, 105.
Vespasian and Titus's generosity towards the Jews, 201; Zimri, kille Elah, 218; his death, ikid. Vespasian's wars in Judes, 008 to 634.
Vindex, rebels against Nero, 028.
Zipporah, Moses's wife, 78. Zizon, an Arabian, 333.
Vine, (golden,) in Herod's temple, 300; another sent to Romo, Zoilus, a tyrant, 329. 338.
Zorobabel, 266, 267, 268.
Zur, king of the Midianites, 106.
Xylophory, a Jewish festival; when they carried wood te the temple for the sacrifices, 573.
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