Samson, 115 foll.
Samuel, Books of, 3, 287
Samuel, birth of, 121; work of,
122 foll., 128, 130, 192
Sanballat, 239, 242
Sanhedrim, the, 254, 277, 278
Sarai, 29
Sargon, 191, 199, 200
Saul, king, 125; campaigns of, 126,
127; persecution of David by,
130 foll.; death, 134; age of, 153
Sayce, quoted, 8, 51, 60
Scaurus, 270, 272
Scribes, the, 250, 279
Scythians, inroads of the, 208
Sebaste (Samaria), 275
Seir, Mount, 41
Sela (Petra), 181
Seleucus I, 255 f.
Seleucus, Philopator, 256
Sennacherib, 200 foll.
Septuagint, the, 253
Seth, Sethites, 12
Sethos (Seti I), king of Egypt, 55
Shallum, 189
Shalmaneser II, 164, 165
Shalmaneser IV, 190 foll.
Shamgar, 107
Shaphan, 209
Sharon, plain of, 96
Shaveh, vale of, 32
Sheba, 143
Sheba (Saba), Queen of, 153, 154
Shechem, 45, 48, 88, 99; destruc-
tion of, 113; assembly at, 158;
captured by Hyrcanus, 267
Shem, 13, 17; descendants of, 20
Shemaiah, 159
Sheshbazzar, 229 foll.
Shiloh, tabernacle at, 88, 90, 118,
120, 121
Shimei, 144, 152
Shinar, plain of, 20
Shishak, king of Egypt, 157; in-
vasion of Palestine by, 159, 161
Shobach, 141