Kings of Midian, 105 he appoints Joshua to be his succes-
sor, 106; his predictions before his death, 116; his song in
hexameter verse, 115; a recapitulation of his laws, 116;
he binds the Israelites by an oath to observe them, 115; he
blesses Joshua, and exhorts him to lead the Israelites
courageously into the land of Canaan, 116; he is surround-
ed with a cloud and disappears, 117; his death greatly la-
mented by the people for thirty days, ibid; he is scandal-
ized as afflicted with the leprosy, 90; his great authority,
94; his books laid up in the temple, 249; what they con
tain, 710; called by Manetho Osarsiph, a priest of Osiria
of Heliopolis, 723; allowed by the Egyptians to be a di-
vine man, ibid; the ages in which he lived, 734; his vir-
tue and great actions, 736; his posterity honored by Da-
vid, 193.

Nabal, a foolish man, 161.

Naboandelus, or Nabonadius, or Baltasar, king of Baby.
lon, 260, 716.

Nabolassar, or Nabopollassar, king of Babylon, 715.
Naboth, 221.

Nabuchodonosor, or Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,
715; he conquers a great part of Syria, 251; he lays a tax
upon the Jews, ibid; he takes Jerusalem, 252; his fa-
mous dream or vision, 258; his golden image, 259; he lives
among the beasts of the field, ibid; he dies, ibid.
Nabuzaradan, or Nebuzaradan, plunders and burns the
temple, 254; his other memorable actions, 255.
Nacebus, captain of the Arabians, 408, 411.

Nachor, or Nahor, 37.

Nadab, son of Aaron, 86, 87.

Nadab, king of Israel after Jeroboam, 216.
Nahash. See Naash.

Nahum, the prophet, 242; his prophecy concerning Nineveh;
oid.

Naomi, Elimelech's wife, 137.

Nathan, David's son, 172.

Nathan, the prophet, 174, 178, 192.

Obedience, to be learned before men undertake governmeMA
107.
Obedas, king of the Arabians, 332.
Octavia, daughter of Claudius, 562.
Odeas, high priest, 255.

Og, king of Gilead, 101; his iron bed, ibid.
Oil, used in the Jewish oblations, 89; consumed by the se
ditions, 665; prepared by foreigners not used by the Jews
291, 562.

Olympias, Herod's daughter by Malthace, a Samaritan
416; she is married to Joseph,the son of Herod's brother,539
Olympius Jupiter, statue of, 462.
Olympus, sent to Rome, 410, 411, 537.
Omri, king of Israel, 218.
On, the son of Peleth, 96.

Onías, son of Jaddua, succeeds in the high priesthood, 284
Onias, the son of Simon, made high priest, 293; causes great
troubles, ibid.

Onias, brother of Jesus, or Jason, made high priest, 368.
Onias and Dositheus, two Jewish captains, saved Alexan
dria from ruin, 728.

Onias, son of Onias, flies into Egypt, and there desires to
build a Jewish temple, 312, 501, 706; his letter to Ptole
my and Cleopatra, 312; their answer, 313; he builds the
temple Onion, ibid; that temple is shut up, 706.

Onias, a just man, procures rain in a famine by his pray.
ers, 337; he is stoned to death, ibid.
Ophellius, 356, 516.

Ophir, 36.

Opobalsamum, 226, 339.

Oracles of the prophets, concerning the destruction of Je
rusalem, 626, 681; concerning a great prince to arise in
Judea, ibid.

Oreb, a king of Midian, 132.
Orodes, 440.

Oronna, or Araunah, the Jebusite, 191; his threshing
floor, íbid; where Isaac was to be offered and the tem
ple was afterward built, ibid.
Orpah, 137.

Orus, king of Egypt, 713.

Osarsiph, (for Moses,) a priest at Heliopolis, 723, 724.
Otho, made emperor, 632; he kills himself, 633.

Oxen, brazen, the Jews forbidden to make them, 200.
Pacorus, king of Media, 486; redeems his wife and conce.
bines from the Alans, 698.

Pacorus, the king of Parthia's son, gets possession of Sy.
ria, 356; laya a plot to catch Hyrcanus and Phasaelus, ibid
marches against the Jews, 516; is admitted into Jerusa
lem, ibid; is slain in battle, 362.

Nations, dispersed, 35; called by new names by the Greeks, Pageants, or Pegmata, at Titus's triumph, 694.
36.
Nazarites, 99, 478.

Neco, or Necho, king of Egypt, 250; he is conquered by
Nebuchadnezzar, 251.

Nehemiah, 273; his love to his country, ibid; he exhorts
the people to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, 274; his death
and eulogium, ibid.

Nehushta, mother of Jehoiachin, 251.
Neopolitanus, 9, 568.
Nephan, or Elhanan, 188.
Nergal-sharezer, 254.

Nerias, high priest, 255.

Nero, made emperor, 491, 562; a most cruel tyrant, 491; his
death, 630.

Netir, à Galilean, 595.

Nicanor, 299, 301, 600; sent by Demetrius against Judas,
307; defeated and killed, ibid.

Nicanor, a friend of Titus, wounded with an arrow, 650.
Nicaso, married to Manasseh, 282.

Nicaule, or Nitocris, queen of Egypt, 207.

Nico, (or the conqueror,) the name of the principal Roman
battering-ram, 652.

Nicolaus, of Damascus, the Jews' advocate, 291, 393; he is
sent to Herod by Augustus, 409; his speech before Augus-
tus in favor of Archelaus, 430, 435, 550; he exaggerates
Antipater's crimes, 421, 545; his brother Ptolemy, 549.
Viger, of Perea, 578, 580, 586, 625; his wonderful escape, 587.
Niglissar, king of Babylon, 260.
Nimrod, or Nebrodes, 34.

Nisroch, or Araske, a temple at Nineveh, 247.
Noe, or Noah, 32; he is saved in the ark, ibid; invocates
God after the deluge, 34; God answers his prayer, ibid;
laws given to him, ibid; he is overtaken with wine, 36;
his genealogy, 34; his death, ibid.

Nomos, of Heliopolis, one hundred and eighty furlongs
from Memphis, 706.

Norbanus Flaccus's (Caius) letter to the Sardians in behalf
of the Jews, 401.

Norbanus, (another person,) slain, 468.

Numenius, son of Antiochus, 319.

Oath, prevails with Saul above natural affection, 149.
Obadiah, a protector of the true prophets, 219.
Obed, the father of Jesso, 138.

Obed, the prophet, 242.

Palace at Rome, 474.
Pallas, Herod's wife, 539.
Pallas, Felix's brother, 493, 562.

Palm-trees, at Jericho, very famous, 226, 390.
Pannychis, the concubine of Archelaus, 535.
Papinius, a tribune, 464.

Pappus, is sent into Samaria by Antigonus 363, 522.
Paradise, described, 29; a pensile paradise, or garden, at Ba
bylon, 715.

Parents' good deeds are advantageous to their children
209; how to be honored by the law of Moses, 738.
Parthians, possess themselves of Syria, and endeavor to
settle Antigonus in Judea, 516; their expedition into Ju-
dea, 356; they besiege Jerusalem, ibid; they take the city
and temple, 358; their perfidiousness, 358, 517.
Passover, a Jewish festival, 70, 89, 337; the manner of ita
celebration, 686; called the feast of unleavened bread,
337, 428, 643; to be kept on the fourteenth day of Nisan,
270, 643; very numerous sacrifices then offered, and vast
numbers come up to it, 428, 548; from the ninth hour to
the eleventh, and not less than ten to one paschal lamb,
686; the number of paschal lambs in the days of Cestius
was found to be 256,500, ibid.
Paulina, ravished by Mundus, 442.
Paulinus, a tribune, 600.

Paulinus, succeeds Lupus as governor of Alexandria, 700
he plunders and shuts up the temple of Onion, ibid."
Pausanias, son of Cerastes, murders Philip, king of Mace
don, 281.

Peace and good laws the greatest blessings, 191.
Peace, as a goddess, has a temple at Rome, 694.
Pedanius, 537, 674.

Pekah, slays Pekahiah, and succeeds him, 241; he defeate
the king of Judah, 242; he is slain by Hoshea, 243.
Pekahiah, king of Israel, 241.
Peninnah, 139.

Pentecost, a Jewish festival, 90, 431; whence it had the
name, 550; vast numbers came to it, ibid; the priests the
attended the temple in the night, 680.

Perea, entirely subdued by the Romans, 627, 628.
Pergamen's decree in favor of the Jews, 351.
Perjury, supposed by some not dangerous, if done by ne
cessity, 128; dreaded by Joshua and the elders; 191; dreas
ed also by the people, 128.

Persians, their seven principal families, 266; their king is
watched during his sleep, ibid; their law forbade stran
gers to see their kings' wives, 275; seven men were the in-
terpreters of their laws, ibid; their royal robes, 278.
Pestilence See Plague.

Petilius Cere alis, the proconsul, reduces the Germans, 691.
Patina, the wife of Claudius, 491, 562.

Petronius, governor of Egypt, 384; he supplies Herod with
corn in time of famine, ibid.

Petronius, (Publius,) is made president of Syria, 454; is
sent with an army to Jerusalem by Caius, to set up his
statue in the temple, ibid, 559; his endeavors to prevent
it, and to save the Jews, ibid; his and their wonderful de-
liverance, 560; his edict against the Dorites, 479.
Petus, (Cæsennius,) president of Syria, 697; his expedition
into Commagena, ibid.

Phaleg, 36.

Phalion, Antipater's brother, 338.

Phalna, David's son, 172.

Phalti, or Phaltiel, son of Laish, 162, 169.
Phanius's (the consul) decree in favor of the Jews, 350.
Phannius, son of Samuel, made high priest, 615.
Pharaoh, denoted king in the Egyptian tongue, 206.
Pharisees, a sect among the Jews, 326, 438, 506; they envy
Hyrcanus, 326; were opposite to the Sadducees in their
principles, 327; their great authority, 417; especially in
the reign of queen Alexandra, 333, 506; which lasted nine
years, ibid; they refuse the oaths of allegiance to Cæsar
and Herod, 417, they are fined for it, ibid; their unwritten
traditions, 319, 327; their moderation in inflicting punish-
ments, the common people side with them 327; they are
most skilful in the knowledge of the law, 13.
Pharnaces, son of Mithridates, 339,

Phasaelus, son of Antipater, 343, 511; his death, 358, 517.
Pasaelus, son of Herod, 416.

Phedra, Herod's wife, 416.

Pheldas, 37.

Pheles, king of the Tyrians, 714.

Pheroras, Antipater's son by Cypros, 511; makes Alexan-
der jealous of his wife Glaphyra. with Herod his father,
403; provokes Herod to anger, 404; lays the blame upon
Salome, ibid; enters into friendship with Antipater, 416;
is hated by Herod, 418; is ordered to retire to his tetrarchy,
ibid.

Pheroras's wife, pays the fine laid upon the Pharisees, 417;
she associates with the other court ladies, 416, 540; Phe-
roras's freed-men charge her with getting poison, 418; she
throws herself down from the house-top, 419, 542; her
Confession, 419.

Phideas, the high priest, 255.

Philadelphus, (Ptolemy,) his skill and industry about me-
chanic arts, 287; he proposes problems to the seventy-two
interpreters, 290; he procures the seventy-two interpre-
ters to translate the law, 287, 289.

Philip, Herod's son by Cleopatra, 416, 419; brother of Ar-
chelaus, 553; what Herod left him by his will, 426; what
Cæsar gave him, 435; tetrarch of Gaulanitis, and Tracho-
nitis, and Paneas, 426, 428; he dies, 444; his eulogium,
ibid.

Philip, a Galilean, 595.

Philip, son of Jacimus, 416, 5, 13, 573, 580.

Philip, made regent of Syria during the minority of Eu-
pator, 304.

Philip, king of Syria, 331, 332.

Philip, king of Macedon, is slain, 281.

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Placidus's skirmishes with Josephus, 15, 25; his other ac-
tions, 590, 592, 599, 611, 627.
Plague, or pestilence, rages among the Israelites, 190,
ceases upon David's repentance, 191; another pestilence
in Judea, 686.

Plato, 739; he excludes the poets from his commonwealth
741.

Polemo, king of Cilicia, 491.
Polemo, king of Pontus, 481.
Polity of the Jews, after the captivity, 270.
Pollio, a Pharisee, 388.
Pollio, a Roman, 386.
Pompedius, 463.

Pompey the Great, goes through Syria to Damascus, 338,
507; and to Jerusalem, 339, 508; the city delivered up to
him, 340; he takes the temple by force, and killa abun
dance of the Jews, ibid, 509; the Jews send him a golden
vine, 338; he goes into the holy of holies, 340, 509; med-
dles with nothing in the temple, ibid; he bears the cause
between Hyrcanus and Aristobulus, 339; determines it in
favor of Hyrcanus, and makes war upon Aristobulus, ib.,
he flies into Epirus, 343.

Pontus Pilate. See Pilate.
Poplas, 549.

335.

Poppea, Nero's wife, 4, 494, 497; a religious lady and fa
vorer of the Jews, 494.
Porcius Festus. See Festus.
Present things, queen Alexandra's care, more than future,
Presents, sent to Joseph in Egypt, 57.
Priests, if maimed, are excluded from the altar and tem
ple, 91, 724; are not to marry several sorts of women, 91,
washed their hands and feet before they went to minis-
ter, 81; succeed one another according to their courses,
732; their allowances, 88, 99; their courses, in number
twenty-four, 193, 732; are very numerous, ibid; two fami-
lies from Aaron's two sons, 140; their offices and em-
ployments, 732; their sacred garments, 83, 84, 649 priests
and Levites exempted from taxes by Xerxes, 271; have
places of the greatest trust committed to them, 737; none
but priests of the posterity of Aaron might burn incense
at the temple, 241; not to drink wine in their sacred gar.
ments, 91; priesthood a mark of nobility among the
Jews, 3; priests among the Egyptians, only kept their
lands in the days of Joseph, 62.

Priesthood, high, translated from one family to another,
140; of Onias, at Heliopolis, 305, 326; vacant at Jerusalem
for four years, 311; during life, excepting under Antio
chus Epiphanes, Aristobulus, and Herod, 368; taken from
Jesus, and given to Simon by Herod, 385; settled upon the
family of Aaron originally, 495.

Priest, high, not to be the son of a captive woman, 327;
high priests went into the temple to officiate on Sabbath-
days, new moons, and festivals, 642; were to marry a vir.
gin, and not to touch a dead body, 91; the high priests de-
sired by Saul to prophesy for him, 149; high priests with
the prophets and sanhedrim, were to determine difficult
causes, 109: several high priests at the same time in later
ages, 615; to succeed by birth, 737; elected by lot among
the seditious, 615; they abolish the regular succession,
ibid; Herod, king of Chalcis, made the high priests till his
death, 483; a series of the high priests from Aaron to the
destruction of the temple by Titus, 495; another series,
from the building of the temple to the captivity, 255;
high priest's robes kept by the Romans, 483; where they
were laid up, 443, 390, 483; high priest's ornaments de
scribed, 83, 84, 649.

Philippion, son of Ptolemy, marries Alexandra, the daugh
ter of Aristobulus, 344; he is killed by his father, ib. 511.
Philistines, their chief towns, Gaza, Accaron, or Ekron,
Askelon, Gath, and Azotus, or Ashdod, 140, 163.
Philo, chief deputy of the Jews to Caius, 454.
Philosophy of the Jews, contained in the books of their law, Priscus, shoots Jonathan dead with a dart, 674.

728.

Philostephanus, 330.

Phineas, son of Clusothus, 619.

Phineas, son of Eleazar, slays Zimri and Cosbi, 105; leads
the Israelites against the Midianites, ibid; his speech to
the Jews beyond Jordan, 124; he is made high priest, 125;
the high priesthood returns to his family, 196.
Phineas, son of Eli, 138; he officiates as high priest, 140;
he is slain, ibid.

Phraates, king of the Parthians, 366; his death, 440.
Phraataces, the son of Phraates, ibid.

Phul, or Pul, king of Assyria, 241.
Phurim, or Purim, a Jewish festival, 281.
Phut, the founder of Libya, 36.

Pilate, (Pontius,) the procurator of Judea, occasions tu-
mults among the Jews, 441; causes a great slaughter of
them, ibid, 558; and of the Samaritans, 443; he is accused
for it, and sent to Rome, ibid.

Pillars, erected by the children of Seth, in the land of Si-
riad, 32; pillars of the Corinthian order in Solomon's pa
lace, 205; in Herod's temple, 646.

Piso, governor of Rome, 448.
Pitholaus, 341, 343, 509, 511.

Primogeniture, its privileges sold by Esau, 51.
Primus, (Antonius,) 6; he marches against Vitellius, 636.
Priscus, (Tyrannius,) 578.

Privileges, granted the Jews by Alexander the Great and
Julius Cæsar, 728.

Problems, or riddles, proposed by Samson at his wedding,
136;

Proculus (Vitellius,) 479.

Prophecies, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem 323,
680; of Jeremiah and Ezekiel reconciled, 252; coule not
agree to the events, if the world were governed by chance,
263.

Prophecy of Isaiah, accomplished, 312.

Prophets, excepting Daniel, chiefly foretold ealamities, 300,
how greatly to be esteemed 225.

Prophets, (false ones,) suborned by the Jewish tyrants, 688.
Proseuche, or houses of prayer, among the Jews, 16.
Prostitution of the body, a most heinous crime, 109
Providence, asserted against the Epicureans, 263.
Prudence requires us to prevent the growing power of an
enemy, 76.

Psaltery, a musical instrument among the Jews, described,

189.

Pseudo (or false) Alexander, 435, 554.

Ptolemy, the administrator of Herod's kingdom,10,403, 410
Ptolemy the brot`ter of Cleopatra, poisoned by her, 371.

Ptolemy, the brother of Nicolaus of Damascus, 429.
Ptolemy Epiphanes, 291; he dies, 297.
Ptolemy Euergetes, or Eupator, 293, 728.
Ptolemy, the son of Jamblicus, 344, 511
Ptolemy Lathyrus, 326, 504; he is driven out of his king.
dom, 330; he makes an alliance with Alexander, and
breaks it, 329; his bold soldiers called Hecatontomachi,
330; defeats Alexander's army, ibid; his barbarous cruel-
ty, ibid.

Ptolemy, son of Lagus, called Soter, obtains Egypt after
the death of Alexander the Great, 284; takes Jerusalem,
and carries many Jews into Egypt, ibid.
Ptolemy Philadelphus, the second king of Egypt of that
race, 284, 728; he procures a translation of the law of
Moses by the advice of Demetrius Phalerus, 285; sets a
vast number of Jews free, ibid; sends a letter to Eleazar
the high priest, 286; his liberal oblations and presents, 287,
291.

Rue, of a prodigious magnitude, 692.
Rufus, 551, 552.

Rufus, (an Egyptian,) takes Eleazar prisoner, 696.
Rufus, (Terentius, or Turnus,) takes Simon, the son
Gioras, 689; he is left with an army at Jerusalem afte
it was taken, ibid.
Rumah, or Reumah, Nahor's concubine, 37.

Ruth, gleans in Booz's field, 138; is married by Boox, and
becomes the mother of Obed, the father of Jesse, ibid.
Sabactas, or Sabtecha, 36.
Sabas, or Seba, 36.
Sabathes, or Sabrah, 36.
Sabbath-day, kept very strictly by the Essenes, 556; Sab
bath, according to Apion, so called from the Egyptian
word Sabo, 727; Sabbath-day, so superstitiously observ
by the Jews, that they came to great mischiefs thereby
299, 508; they are advised by Matthias to defend them
selves on the Sabbath-day, 299; and by Jonathan, 309; al
lowed to repel but not to attack an enemy on that day,
340, 458; Antiochus, a Jew, forces the Jews to break the
Sabbath-day at Antioch, 565; Sabbath-day spent in read-
ing the law, 690; ushered in, and ended with the sound
of a trumpet, 634; Jews on the Sabbath-day dined at the
sixth hour, 18; the seditious kill the Romans on the Sab
bath-day, 574; unlawful to travel far on the Sabbath-day,
324; pretended to be unlawful either to make war or
peace on the Sabbath-day, 613; not allowed by some, even
in case of necessity, to take arms either on the Sabbath
day, or the evening before, 12.
Sabbatic river, 692.
Sabbeus, 313.

Ptolemy, son of Menneus, 338, 354, 505; prince of Chalcis,
343, 511, he marries Alexandra, 344.

Ptolemy, the murderer of Simon the Maccabee, 323; he mur-
ders John Hyrcanus's mother and brother, ibid, 502.
Ptolemy Physcon, 297, 325, 729.
Ptolemy VI. 500.

Sabion, discovers Alexander's designs to Herod, 368.

Pudeus. engages in a duel with Jonathan, and is killed, Sabec, or Shobach, captain of the Syrians, 176.

674.

Ptolemy Philometor, 297, 312, 728; he and his queen Cle-
opatra permit Onias to build the temple Onion, 313; he
makes an expedition into Syria, 315; discovers Alexan-
der and Ammonius's plot against him, ibid; takes his
daughter from Alexander, and gives her to Demetrius,
ibid; he might have put two crowns upon his head, that
of Asia, and that of Egypt, ibid; he is wounded, and dies
of his wounds, ibid.

Ptolemy Philopater, 291, 293.
Ptolemy, called Menneus, 333, 335.

Pul, or Phul, king of Assyria, 241.
Punishment of the wicked, a joyful sight to good men, 235.
Purple robes, worn by the Chaldean kings, 261; by the Per-
sian kings, 279; Joseph is clothed in purple by Pharaoh,

56.

Pythian, or Apollo's temple, built by Herod, 400.
Quadratus, (Ummidius,) president of Syria, 489.
Quails, are numerous in the Arabian gulf, and fall upon
the camp of Israel, 75.

Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia comes to king Solomon,
207; she returns to her own country, 208.
Quintillius Varus, president of Syria. See Varus.
Quirinius, or Cyrenius, sent by Caesar to tax Syria, 437.
Rabsases, (Themasius,) 267.

Rabsaris, a commander of the Assyrian army, 245.
Rabshakeh, general of the Assyrian army, 245; his speech
to the people of Jerusalem, ibid.

Rachel, Laban's daughter, 48; she steals away, and con-
ceals her father's idols, ibid.

Roxana, Herod's daughter by Phædra, 416, 530
Rubrius Gallus, 567.

Sabinus, Cæsar's steward in Judea, 428, 550; he accuses
Archelaus by letters, 429; falls heavy upon the Jews, 431.
Sabinus, one of the murderers of Caius, 476; he kills him-
self, 477.

Sabinus, the brother of Vespasian, takes the capitol, 6374
is killed by Vitellius, ibid.

Sabinus, by birth a Syrian, a man of great valor, 600.
Sabinus, (Domitian,) one of the tribunes, 654.
Sabtah, or Sabathes, 36.
Sabtecha, or Sabactas, 36.

Sacrifice of Abel was milk, and the firstlings of the flock,
31; sacrifices were either private or public, 88; either all,
or part only burnt, ibid; how the former were offered, ibid;
how the latter, ihid; how sin offerings were offered, ibid;
those of swine forbidden, 298; Titus desires John not to
leave off the Jewish sacrifices, 670; daily sacrifices, 270
670; sacrifices every day for Caesar's prosperity, 559, 730;
omission thereof the beginning of the Jewish war, 572;
offerings of foreigners usually received by the Jews, ibid,
the same prohibited by the seditious, ibid; what parts of
sacrifices were due to the priest, 100; the sacrifices in the
temple, not to be viewed by others than Jews, 493; sacri-
fiices not to be tasted till the eblation is over, 295; not to
be bought by the hire of a narlot, or the price of a dog,
109; meat-offerings joined to bloody sacrifices, 88; not to
be abused to luxury, 737; ought to be entire and without
blemish, 91; of what were burnt offerings, 88; animals
not offered till the eighth day after their birth, 89 wine
and oil reserved for sacrifices consumed by the seditious,
665.

Sadduc, a Pharisee, stirs up a sedition, 438.

Sadducees, deny fate, 319; are contrary to the Pharisees,
327; observed only precepts of the written law, ibid; their
opinions, 438, 557; have the rich men of their side, 327.
Sadrach, or Shadrah, 257.

Badraces, 271.

Sages, or wise men among the Israelites, 198.
Salampsio, daughter of Herod, married to Phasaelus,
446.

Salathiel, Zorobabel's father, 268.
Salatis, king of Egypt, 712.

Saleph, 36.

Salmana, or Zalmunna, captain of the Midianites, 132.
Salmanasser, or Shalmanezer, king of Assyria, 244; invades
Syria, and Phoenicia, ibid; carries the ten tribes away
into Media and Persia, ibid.

Salome, Antipater's daughter, Herod's sister, 343, 511;
charges her husband, Joseph with adultery, 370, 530; sends
a bill of divorce to her second husband Costobarus, 380;
envies Herod's sons and their wives, 392, 395; she clears
herself, ibid; Herod forces her to be married to Alexas,
415; she discovers to Herod the conspiracy of Antipater
and Pheroras, 417, 540; what Herod left her by his will,
426; what Cæsar gave her, 435.
Salome, Herod's daughter by Elpis, 416.
Salome, grand-daughter of Herod the Great, and daugh
ter of Herod Philip by Herodias, 446; she is married to
Philip the tetrarch, and afterward to Aristobulus, the
grandson of Herod and brother of Agrippa senior, ibid.

Salt, sown apon the ruins of a demolished town, 133.
Salt-tax, and crown-tax, remitted to the Jews by Demetri-
us, 311.

Samacha, Abennerig's daughter, 484.
Bamaria, built, 218; whence its name was derived, ibid; it is
besieged by the Syrians, and wonderfully relieved, 231; a
mother there eats her own son in a famine, 230; is be-
sieged again by Hyrcanus, suffers famine, is taken, and
levelled with the ground, 326, 503.

Samaritans, a colony from Cutha in Persia, 245, 257; pre-
tend to be the posterity of Joseph, 283; sometimes deny,
and sometimes profess themselves Jews, 245, 283, 298;
they harass the Jews under Onias, the high priest, 293;
pretend to be Sidonians, 299; their temple upon Mount
Gerizzi, 284; they pollute the temple of Jerusalem, 439;
they are enemies to the Jews, 270, 489; they dispute with
the Jews in Egypt about their temple, 313; they gave An-
tiochus the title of a god, 299.
Gambabas, 271.

amgar, or Semegar, 254.
Jampsigeramus, king of Emesa, 446.

Samson's birth, 135; he marries a woman of the Philis-
tines, ibid; kills a lion, ibid; proposes a riddle at his wed-
ding, 135: burns the Philistines' corn, ibid; he is deliver-
ed up to the Philistines, 137; he slays them with the jaw-
bone of an ass, 136; he carries the gates of Gaza away
upon his shoulders, ibid; he falls in love with Delilah,
137; he is betrayed by her, is bound, and his eyes put
out, ibid; he pulls a house down upon the Philistines, and
slays above three thousand of them, ibid.

Samuel, is born and consecrated to God, 139; God calls to
him, ibid; he conquers the Philistines, 142; his sons prove
very bad judges, 143; he is offended at the people's de-
manding a king, ibid; he tells the people the manners of
a king, ibid, 145; threatens Saul with the loss of his
kingdom, 151; anoints David to be king, 152; dies, 161; is
raised out of Hades, and foretells Saul's death, 164.
Janabassar, governor and president of Syria and Phoni-
cia, 270

Sanballat, 281.

Sanctum sanctorum, or holy of holies, 82.

Semegar, or Samgar 254.
Semelius, the scribe, 265.

Sempronius, (Caius,) son of Caius, 269.
Senabar, 38.

247.

Sennacherib, makes war on Hezekiah, 245; his death
Senate of Rome's decree concerning the Jews, 307; they
renew their league with the Jews, 345; another decree of
theirs concerning the Jews, 349.
Sepphoris burnt, 433; taken by Josephus, 23.
Seraiah. See Sareas.
Seraiah, high priest, 255.
Serebæus, 268.

Seron, general of the army of Colosyria, 301.
Serpent, deprived both of speech and feet, 30.
Serug, 37

Servilius, (Publius,) his letter to the Milesians in favor ●
the Jews, 351.
Sesac. See Shishak.

Seth, son of Adam, 31; his posterity's pillars in the land
of Siriad, 32.
Sethos, king of Egypt, 721.

Sethosis, or Sesostris, king of Egypt, 713.
Seventy-two interpreters, sent by Eleazar, the high priest,
with the books of the law, 287; their arrival at Alexan-
dria, 289; they bring with them the law written upon
parchment in golden letters, ibid; they wash in the sea be-
fore they fall to their work, 290; they finish their transla
tion in seventy-two days, ibid.

Sextus Cæsar, president of Syria, 346, 512; he is slain by
Cecilius Bassus, 513.
Shadrach, 257.
Shallum, 241.

Shamgar, son of Anath, succeeds Ehud as judge, 130.
Shaphan, the scribe, 249.
Sheba, 187.

Shechem, the place of Joshua's habitation, 122.
Shechemites, meet Alexander the Great, 283; their kindred
with Raguel, Moses's father-in-law, 150.

Shekel, a coin equal to four Attic drachmæ, 86.
Shem, 34; his posterity, 37.

Sanhedrim at Jerusalem, 6; none could be put to death but Shenaber, king of Sodom; 38.
by the Sanhedrim, 347.

Sapinnius, 335.

Sapphora. See Zipporah.

Barai, Sarah, Abraham's wife, 37; she goes with him into
Egypt, ibid; the king falls in love with her, 38; her death,43.
Baramalla, 356, 516.

Baraser, son of Sennacherib, 247; slew his father, ibid.
Sardians, their decree in favor of the Jews, 351.
Bareas, or Seraiah, high priest, 255.

Sarepta. See Zarephath.

Sarmatians, invade Mysia, 692.

Shield, covered the left eye in war, 145.

Shield, a token of league between the Jews and Romans,
345.

Shiloh, a town where the tabernacle was fixed, 122.
Shimeí, son of Gera, curses David, 182, 186, 195; put to
death by Solomon, 196.

Ships, sent to Pontus and Thrace under Ahaziah, son of
Ahab, 227.

Shishak, or Sesac, king of Egypt, 175, 210.
Shobach, captain of the Syrians, 177.
Sibbechai, the Hittite, 188.

Saturninus, (Sentius,) president of Syria, 411, 412, 415, 418, Sicarii, or banditti, flee to Alexandria, 705: cannot be
420, 538.

Sathrabuzanes, 264, 269.

Saul, son of Kish, 144; seeks his father's asses, and comes
to Samuel, ibid; dines with Samuel, and seventy others, ib.;
Samuel anoints him for king, ibid; he is actually made
king, 145; he promises to assist the Gileadites, ibid; is in-
augurated again, 146; conquers the Philistines, 149; his
wars and family, ibid; he makes war on the Amalekites,
150; spares Agag against God's command, ibid; for which
Samuel foretells him the loss of his kingdom, 151; his cru-
el order for murdering Ahimelech and the priests, 159;
being forsaken of God, he consults with a necromantic
woman, 164; his death 167.

Saulus, a ringleader of the robbers, 495.

Scaurus, president of Syria, 507,509; he returns into Syria,
338; he raises the siege of Jerusalem, ibid; his expedition
into Arabia, 341.

Scopas, general of Ptolemy's army, defeated by Antiochus
the Great, 292.

Sea, the seventy interpreters wash their hands in the sea
before they begin their translation, 290.

Sea, divided for the Israelites, 72.
Sebas, or Sheba, the son of Ilus, 189.
Bects of the Jews, 3, 318, 438, 554.
Becundus Emilius, 579.

Sedition, among the priests, 493; sedition of Corah and his
followers 95, 96, 98; of the Israelites, 92; is quelled by
Joshua, 93; sedition at Cæsarea between the Jews and
Syrians, 492.

Bejanus, put to death, 149.
Seisan, the scribe, 175.

Selene, queen of Syria, otherwise called Cleopatra, 335.
Seleucus, possesses Syria after the death of Alexander the
Great, 284; he is called Nicator, (the conqueror,) 291; his
bounty towards the Jews, ibid.

Beleucus, Soter, or Philopater, son of Antiochus, 296.
Seleucus, son of Antiochus Grypus, 331; his death, ibid.
Sellum, or Shallum, 241.

Semeas, Pollio's disciple, 346, 365, 38: speech against
Herod, 346; he is honored by Herod 347

forced to own Cæsar for their lord, ibid.
Sidon, 36.

Signs, appearing before the destruction of Jerusalem, 688.
Sihon, king of the Amorites, conquered, 101.
Silanus, president of Syria, 441.
Silas, governor of Tiberias, 8, 18.
Silas, tyrant of Lysias, 338.

Silas, an attendant on king Agrippa senior, in his adver.
sities, 450, 479; he becomes troublesome to the king, 480
he is killed, ibid.

Silas, a Babylonian, 578, 586.

Silo, the Roman captain, 360, 361.

Silva, (Flavius,) governor of Judea, 698; he besieges Ma-
sada, 699, 700.

Silver, of little value in the days of Solomon, 208.
Simeon, one of Jacob's sons by Lea, 47.
Simon, son of Boethus, made high priest, 385; his daugh-
ter married to Herod, ibid; he is deprived, 419.
Simon, son of Cathlas, captain of the Idumeans, 621.
Simon the Just, Eleazar's brother, high priest, 286, 293.
Simon, son of Onias the high priest, dies, 296.
Simon, the Essene, a prophet, 437.

Simon, son of Giora, 578, 631; fights with the Zealots, bid;
conquers Idumea, 632; is made a prisoner, and reserved
for the triumph, 684; is put to death at the triumph, 694.
Simon, brother of Judas and Jonathan, the Maccabees,
beats the enemy in Galilee, 299; is made captain of the
Jews, 308; he makes a speech to them, 320; is made their
prince, ibid; is made high priest, 321; is killed by Ptole
my, his son-in-law, 323.

Simon, son of Dositheus, 325.

Simon, a life-guard man to Josephus, 10.
Simon, a magician, 490.

Simon, of Jerusalem, persuades the people to exclude Agrip
pa out of the temple, 480.
Simon, a Pharisee, 13.

Simon, a slave of Herod, assumes the crown, 438.
Simon, son of Saul, 575.

Simonides Agrippa, Josephus's son, 26.
Siphar, the Ammonite, 184

Sterility of the country, is one of the punishments for the Theophilus, brother of Jonathan, made high priest, 446.
king's doing ill, 174.