bled nobles, to the people and Solomon, causes Solomon to
be anointed king, dies, and is buried in a part of the city cal-
led after his own name, the notion of immense treasures se-
creted in his sepulchre refuted, 223.-225. and n. he had
no design to destroy Saul's family, but was compelled
to deliver them to the Gibeonites, 237, his grant of Me-
phibosheth's estate to Ziba his steward accounted for, 258
9. his conduct towards Shimei and Joab vindicated, ib.
why he left Solomon to punish them, 241. his sin in num-
bering the people, ib. God not the cause of it, ib. why a
pestilence was sent upon the people, not upon him, 242. why
he made Solomon his successor, that he had a right to name
one, 243. and 245. n. his immense treasures how amassed,
247. introduces music of various kinds into the service of the
temple, and by whose advice, 248.

Deacons, seven, their institution, and the occasion of it,
iii. 397. their names, 398. account of them and their respec-
tive deaths, ib. n.

"Dead, let the dead bury their," explained, iii. 127. n.
Dead-sea, why so called, i. 339.

Dealings, none between Jews and Samaritans, why, iii.
29. n.

Death of Samuel, when, ii. 128. n.

Death of Christ, the necessity of it, iii. 317. why God
would not discharge mankind without this infinite satisfaction,
ib. 350. 360, &c.

Death of Moses, i. 589. some think it spoken of by him-
self from the prescience granted to him, ib. others think it
written by Joshua, &c. see answer to Objection, ib. though
he died at 120 years of age, his eyes not dim, the prospect
he had of Canaan might have been by increasing the refrac-
tive power of the atmosphere, ib. n.

Death, that was threatened to and inflicted upon our first
parents, what, i. 81.

Death called a sleep, iii. 130. n.

Debate of the apostles, account of, iii. 178. n.

DEBORAH, Rebecca's nurse, account of her, and her death,
i. 371. n.

DEBORAH, the prophetess, conquers Sisera ii, 59. her
song, 58. and 60. n.

Decalogue pronounced by God from Sinai, and written on
two tables, i. 510. review of, 558, 559.

DECAPOLIS, its situation, iii. 138. n. why so called, ib.
number of its cities, their respective names and situations, ib.
Decree of the council at Jerusalem concerning the eating
of blood, i. 212.

Dedication, meaning of, ii. 549. n.

Dedication of the temple, ii. 259. feast of, when instituted,

262.

Delegation, office of baptizing, why delegated by our Sa-
viour to the apostles, iii. 28. n.

DELILAH, account of her, where she dwelt, and her vex-
atious prattling, ii. 74. n.

DELUGE, threatening of, delayed 120 years, Noah order-
ed to build the ark, i. 156. God's covenant with him, ib.
God's justice vindicated in that awful event, 162. the waters
swell, 159. notices of by heathen poets, n. ib. when, and how
long it lasted, 160, 161. proved to be universal, 164. con-
jectures of the manner in which it was effected, 165. et seq.
Scriptural account a sufficient ground for us to rest on, 169.
of the abyss, 170. n. and in text, 171, of the shells found in
the highest mountains, Cuvier's theory examined, 173. o-
pinion, that before the deluge all creatures fed upon fruits
and vegetables, 180. how animals might travel from Arme-

nia to the West Indies, 186. partial inundations, 196. n. in.
structions which all mankind might learn from that catastro-
phe, 272. its beginning, continuance, and end, i. 161. n.
Deluge in Thessaly, Deucalion's, ii. 212.

DEMETRIUS SOTER, recovers the kingdom of Syria, puts
Antiochus Eupater to death, ii. 618. marches with a consi-
derable army into Judea, ib. defeated by J. Maccabæus, 619.
defeated by Alexander, the pretended son of Antiochus Epi-
phanes, and slain, 623.

DEMETRIUS, Son of Demetrius Soter, resolves to avenge
his father's death, and recover the kingdom, ii. 623. gains
over to his interest Apollonius, governor of Cœlo Syria, ib.
defeats and deposes Alexander the usurper, takes the name
of Nicanor, 624. by the help of Jonathan's forces, reduces
Antioch, 625. his ingratitude, ib. is defeated by Tryphon,
forced to fly from his country, ib. upon the death of his bro-
ther Antiochus Sidetes, he returns to Syria, recovers his
kingdom, 629. persisting in his wickedness and tyranny, is
again defeated, by whom, ib. takes refuge in Ptolemais, but
is shut out by his wife Cleopatra, ib. removes to Tyre, ib.
falls into the hands of his enemies, and is slain, ib.

DEMETRIUS, the silversmith, raises a mob at Ephesus,
why, iii. 430. how pacified, 432.

DEMONS, Opinion concerning, iii. 179. n.

DEMONIACS, different from people who were diseased, iii
57. exorcisms of, what, ib. n. and 58.
Denunciation against Jeroboam, ii. 277. n.
Deportation of 10 tribes, simile of, iii. 64.
Depravity of human nature, i. 100.
DESARTS of Arabia, i. 325. n.
Desire, meaning of it, i. 107. n.

Devils not knowing Christ, iii. 34. n. curing diseases, and
casting out, different, ib.

DEUCALION, who, and fables of, their origin, i. 138. n.
Dialects, how many at the confusion of Babel, i. 228. n.
DIANA of Ephesus, temple of, one of the seven wonders
of the world, why, iii. 426. n. its architect who, ib. 200 years
in building, at whose charge, ib. seven times set on fire, but
rebuilt, and by whom, ib. its present ruins, ib. her image
described, 432. n.

Dictatorship, nature of the Roman, ii. 690. and n.
DINAH, sad effects of her curiosity, i. 369.
Diocesan episcopacy, rise of it, iii. 504.

DIONYSIUS, a senator of Areopagus, account of, his re-
mark upon the eclipse at our Lord's crucifixion, iii. 299. n.

423. n.

Disciples, the 70, why instituted, iii. 184. the names only
of 28 of them known, ib. n. their mission, and return from
their ministry, 188. and n.

Discord, evil spirit of, sent by God, explained, ii. 66. ¤.
Discovery of unknown truths, i. 77.

Diseases, Jewish opinion of, iii. 37. n.
Dispersion of nations, i. 243-4.

Dissertations, diss. i. vol. i. b. i. on the wisdom of God in the
works of creation, 25. diss. ii. on the image of God in man, 40.
diss. iii. of original sin, 70. appendix, ib. diss. iv. of the in-
stitution of sacrifices, 115. diss. v. of the heathen history,
chronology, religion, learning, longevity, &c. of the antedi-
luvians, 138. diss. vi. on Mount Ararat, 187. Book ii. diss.
i. on the prohibition of blood. diss. ii. on the tower of Babel,
238. app. 240. diss. iii. sacred chronology, &c. 259. Book
iii. diss. i. of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, 335.
App. 339. diss. ii. of Isaac's blessing to Jacob, 355. diss. iii.
of Jacob's ladder and pillar, 386. diss. iv. on the person and

book of Job, 429. diss. A. on the plagues of Egypt, 472.
diss. v. on the chronology &c. of this period, 476. app. 489.
Book iv. diss. i. on the Israelites passing the Red Sea, 528.
app. 534. diss. ii. of the Jewish tabernacle, 560. app. 565.
diss. B. on Balaam, &c. 606. diss. iii. on the profane history,
&c. 620.

Vol. ii. Book 5. dis. i. on the shower of stones, 37. app.
46. diss. ii. Jephthah's vow, 97. diss. C. on the duration of
the Jewish theocracy, 158. diss. iii. on the appearance of
Samuel to the witch of Endor, 162. app. 169. diss. iv. on
the sacred chronology and profane history, 208. diss. v. of
ancient Jerusalem, and its temple, 249. Book vi. diss. i. of
Solomon's riches and trade to Ophir, 290. diss. ii. of the
translation of Enoch and Elijah, 334. app. 339. diss. iii. on
Jonah, &c. 378. app. 386. diss. iv. of the transportation of
the ten tribes, 428. diss. v. on the sacred chronology and
profane history, 467. app. 476. Book vii. diss. i. on Nebu-
chadnezzar, 521. diss. ii. on Ezra's edition of the Holy
Scriptures, and of synagogue worship, 566. diss. iii. on the
Jewish sanhedrim. diss. iv. on Jewish sects, 639. diss. v. of
the profane history, 676.

Vol. iii, Book viii. diss. i. on the four evangelists and their
writings, 70. app. 84. diss. ii. on the prophecies and their
accomplishment in our Saviour, 167. diss. iii. on the mira-
cles of our Saviour, 232. supplement to do. 240. diss. iv. of
our Saviour's doctrine, and the excellency of his religion,
341. supplement to do. 360. diss. D. on the constitution and
discipline of the primitive church, 500. on the profane his-
tore, &c. 507.

Dissimulation, when allowable, ii. 152.

Distinction of clean and unclean animals, i. 552. n.
Divining by the cup, what, i. 423. n.

Division of the land among Noah's sons, not the result of
chance, but of mature doliberation, i. 243, account of Ja-
phet's settlement, ib. 5. of Shem and Ham, 245.

Divorces, method of, among the Jews, iii. 7. opinions con-
cerning, whether adultery is committed by the parties mar-
rying again, 202. n.

Doctrines, Christian, excellency of the practical, iii. 343,
345. and speculative, 347.

DOEG, murders the priests, ii. 126. sends his son to Da-
vid, the result, ib.

Dominion of man over the brute creation, i. 197. n.
DOMITIAN, his reign, iii. 526. methods used by him to
make himself popular, his reformation of several abuses, ib.
his pride and cruelty to the Christians, 527, is murdered, by
whom, 528.

DOTHAN, its situation, i. 393. n.

"Double portion of thy spirit," explained, ii. 314. n.
Dowry, given to the parents at marriage, i. 370. n. by
the woman, ii. 283-4.

Drachm of gold, its value in our money, see Jewish mo-
ney, ii. 578. n. and 498, n.

Dreams, divine communications made by them, Solomon's
accounted for, ii. 248.

DRUSILLA, account of her, iii. 443. n..

Duration of the theocracy, ii. 158.

Dynasties, Egyptian, account of, i. 141. and 478. n.

E.

EARTH, the curse of, i. 53.

EBEMELECH, one of Zedekiah's eunuchs, intercedes with
his master for the release of the prophet Jeremiah out of
his dismal dungeon, and the good effects of his charity to
himself, ii. 451-2. who he was, 451. n.

Ebenezer, why so called, ii. 107. n.

Ecbatana, the palace of the Median kings, described, ii.
447. n.

Eclipses, calculation of by Egyptian priests, this science,
and various useful and elegant arts transmitted from the an-
tediluvians, i. 493. See app. to diss. v. ib. and n.

Eclipse at our Lord's crucifixion, remarks on it, iii. 290.
n. and 326. n.

Ecclesiastes, who composed it, and why, ii. 287.

Ecclesiastical persons, when they began to judge in civil
matters, iii. 190. n.

EDEN, the reality of its garden, and where situated, i. 39.
EDOM, its situation, i. 617.

EDOMITES, i. 346. n.

EGYPT, how divided, i. 409. n. want of records concern-
ing it, 478. succession of its kings jejune, 478. and n. and
ii. 212. n. oppression of Israel, i. 478. sciences cultivated
there, astronomy, physic, magic, theology, agriculture, 480
-481. and n. inscriptions on pillars and pyramids, 484-5,
6. account of from Herodotus and others, ib. and of the la-
byrinth, ib. n. Joseph's well, 487. his hall, prison, &c. 488.
see diss. v. and app. 489. of the chronology, monumental
works, &c. ib. where Hales's account of the kings of Egypt is
referred to " out of Egypt have I called my son," the ex-
pression explained, iii. 64.

EHUD murders Eglon, king of Moab, ii. 56. Scripture
merely relates the fact, 79, 80.

EKRON or Akron, its situation, ii. 108. n.

ELA succeeds his father Baasha in the kingdom of Israel,
ii. 277. his abominable conduct, ib. is assassinated by Zimri,
one of his officers, ib.

ELAH, a port on the Red Sea, whence David and his suc-
cessors carried on a trade to Ophir and other parts, ii. 295.
is made the chief station for ships in Jehoshaphat's reign,
ib. is taken first by Rezin, king of Damascus, then by Tig-
lath-Pileser, king of Assyria, and at last falls into the hands
of the Syrians, ib.

ELAM, its situation, ii. 264. n. and history, 400. n.

Elders, who, and their offices, iii. 483. and n. and ii.
345. n.

ELEAZAR Succeeds. his father Aaron in the high priest-
hood, dies, ii. 16.

ELEAZAR the martyr, his magnanimity and stedfastness
under the persecution of Antiochus Epiphanes, ii. 593-4.
ELEAZAR, the brother of Judas Maccabæus, slays a royal
elephant, but is crushed to death under it, ii. 617. why to
be commended for that action, 636.

El-Elohe Israel, meaning of, i. 369.

Elephants, after the reign of Alexander the Great much

used in armies, ii. 587. n. naturally quiet and tractable, ib.
of prodigious strength when provoked, ib. methods of pro-
voking them, ib. fall upon the spectators instead of the Jews,
how they might do this, 588-604.

racle, is often mentioned in Holy Scripture, ib. refuses the
present offered him for the cure, 318. whether he permitted
Naaman to attend his master in worshipping his idol at Rim-
mon, 321. 322. reasons for his slaying the children, 322. is
ordered by Benhadad to be seized at Dothan, but is protect-

ELIAS, notion of his coming, iii. 140. n.

ELIEZER, Abraham's steward, is sent to Haran in Meso-
potamia to procure a wife for Isaac, i. 295. meets Rebecca,
is courteously entertained at her brother's house, and suc-
ceeds in his errand, 296.

ELIHU, one of Job's friends, who he was, i. 432. n.
ELIJAH, the prophet, his birth and parentage uncertain,
ii. 298. n. is sent to Ahab to denounce a famine of three
years duration, ib. secluded for a whole year, and fed by
ravens, 299. increases the widow of Zarephath's meal and
oil, promises its continuance during the famine, ib. lives
with her and her son, ib. restores her son to life, ib. returns
to the land of Israel, has an interview with Ahab, 300. and
n. his contest with Baal's priests, ib. his sarcasms upon them,
301. orders them to be slain as impostors, 302. prays for,
and obtains rain, ib. is threatened by queen Jezebel, and
for what, ib. forced to fly from her to Beersheba, thence to
Mount Horeb, ib. his vision there, 303. ordered by God to
return into his own country, by the way of Damascus, to
anoint Hazael king of Syria, Jehu king of Israel, and Elisha
to succeed himself in the prophetical office, ib. sends a me-
nacing letter to Jehoram king of Jndah, its contents, 310.
commands fire from heaven to destroy the king's messen-
gers who came to seize him, 312. his person described, ib.
n. is translated, and how, 313, 314. his character, ib. and
323. his slaying the messengers justified, 324. n. how he
was said to prevent the rain from falling, ib. why he fled
from Jezebel, ib. his living 40 days and nights upon what
the angel brought him, 325. how he might be concealed
and Ahab not find him, 326. that he was really fed by ra-
vens, ib. their fitness for this purpose, ib. why he did not
anoint Jehu and Hazael, 327. why his challenge was ac-
cepted by Baal's priests, 329. why he ordered them to be
slain, ib. the reality of his translation, and the manner of it,
334. diss. ii. for what ends this was done, whether to return
before the end of the world, 339. what his anointing Ha-
zael means, 328. and n. sce append. to diss. 339.

ELIMELECH, his story, ii. 60.

ELIPHAZ, one of Job's friends, i. 432. n.

ELISHA Succeeds Elijah in the prophetical office, the man-
ner of his call, ii. 303. cures the brackish water and barren

carries them into the midst of Samaria, 344. dissuades Je-
horam, its king, from killing them, and persuades him to le
nity, ib. goes to Damascus to anoint Hazael king of Syria,
foretels his advancement and future cruel deeds to the Is-
raelites, 347. sends a prophet with great secrecy to anoint
Jehu king of Israel, ib. who that prophet was, ib. n. falls
sick, and is visited by Jehoash king of Israel, 359. to whom
he gives his dying advice and blessing, encouraging him to
make war against the Syrians, assuring him of success by
several emblems, ib. his death, burial, and of the dead man
raised to life upon touching his bones, 360. his speech to the
Syrian officers who came to seize him justified, 370. of the
blindness with which he struck them, ib. his message to
Benhadad explained and vindicated, 371-2. also his beha-
viour to Joash king of Israel, 372.

EMANUEL, prophecy of, how applied, iii. 8. and 62. 63.
Embalming, how performed in Egypt, i. 414.
Embassadors, violation of their rights unjust and impious,

ii. 201.

Emerods, what, ii. 109. n. and 157.

Encampment, manner of it among the Israelites, i. 502.
and n.

Enchantment, forms of, ii. 163. n.

ENDOR, witch of, called by the Septuagint a ventriloquist,
sec dissert. on, ii. 162. her generosity praised by Josephus,
134. the prediction, ib. see append. to dissert. ii. 169.
ENGEDI, how situated, ii. 127. n.

ENGLAND, by whom peopled, i. 245. and 259. n.
Engines, what, ii. 616. n.

ENHAKKOR and ETAM, scenes of Samson's prowess, ii.
73. as another was, viz. Lehi, ib. miracle of water gushing
out of the jaw explained, ib. and 88. and ib. n.

ENOCH, a city built by Cain, why so called, i. 109. n.

ENOCH born, i. 121. his singular piety and sanctity of
life, 123. translated, 124. the reality of it, 135. conjectures
as to the place into which he was taken, ib. his prophecy,
151. n. ib. and 152.

Enquiring of God, how done, ii. 133. n.
EPAPHRAS, account of him, iii. 455. n.
EPAPHRODITUS, secretary to Nero, assists him to kill
himself, iii. 516.

EPHESIAN letters, what, iii. 57. and 428. n.

EPHESUS, account of, and its temple, iii. 426. n. inhabi-
tants of, addicted to magic, 428. n. burn their books upon
their conversion, ib. the tumult caused by Demetrius, 431.
how pacified, 432. St Paul's fight with beasts there explain-

Ephod described, i. 561. and ii. 106. n.
EPHRAH, the same with Bethlehem, which see.
EPHRAIM, Mount, its situation, i. 201. n.
EPHRAIM, wood of, ii. 193. n.

EPHRAIM, second son of Joseph, i. 401.
EPHRAIMITES, slaughter of, ii. 70. and n.
Epicureans, their tenets, iii. 421. n.
EPIRUS, its situation, iii. 460. n.

Epilepsy, supposed to be the cause of David's idiotism,
ii. 151.

Epistles of St Paul, contents of, first to Thess. iii, 424.

second, 425. its contents, ib. first ep. to Corinthians, 429. to
the Galatians, 430. 2 Corinthians, 433. to the Romans, ib.
to Philemon, 454. and n. to the Philippians, ib. and n. to
the Ephesians, ib, and 455. and n. to the Colossians, 455.
and n. to the Hebrews, 457. and n. the first to Timothy,
462. n. to Titus, ib. n. second to Timothy, 465. and n. the
first of St Peter from Babylon, iii. 429. and 461. n. the se-
cond from Rome, 464. and n. that of St James, 456. n. and
St Jude's, ib. and 467. n.

Equivocal generation, i. 179. n.

ER and Onan punished with death, why, i. 396.

Era, Chaldean, a famous one settled by Belesis, called
Nabonassor's, ii. 474. n. when it began, i. 253.

ERASTUS, account of him, iii. 429. n.

ESARHADDON succeeds his father Sennacherib in the
kingdom of Assyria, invades Judea, puts Manasseh in irons,
and carries him prisoner to Babylon, ii. 411.

ESAU, his birth, and import of his name, i. 342. and n.
sells his birthright to his brother Jacob, ib. marries two Hit-
tites against the consent of his parents, 345. is deprived of
his father's blessing, and how, ib. his best robe, what, ib. n.
complains bitterly to his father, 346. meditates revenge, ib.
his birthright, what, 350, his hunger not the result of fa
mily poverty, 353. marries one of Ishmael's daughters, and
settles in Mount Seir, 367. n. marches with an army to
meet Jacob, ib. accepts his presents, and treats him kind-
ly, 368. the names of his wives, ib. n.

ESHTAOL, its situation, ii. 71. n.
Espousing, or betrothing, the manner of performing it,
iii. 4. n.

ESSENES, their origin and tenets, ii. 644.

ESTHER, OF HADASSAH, who she was, ii. 536. n. upon
queen Vashti's divorce she is married to Ahasuerus, king
ef Persia, and saves her countrymen the Jews from the ge-
neral destruction which Haman designed against them,
the manner of her approaching the king, 589. conjectures
concerning the book of, its genuineness, and Esther vindi-
cated, ib. 562.

ETAM, a strong place in Judah to which Samson retired,
ii. 73. n.

ETHBAAL, king of Tyre, and father of Jezebel, his name,
ii. 297. n.

Eunuchs, their employment in Eastern courts, ii. 350. n.
and iii. 401. n.

EUPHRATES, one of the rivers that watered the country
of Eden, its course, i. 38, 39. import of the name, 38. n.
Evangelist, office of, what, iii. 437. n.

Evangelists, and all the other penmen of the New Testa-
ment, divinely inspired, iii. 42. obliged to omit several par-
ticulars, 83. 222. why the resurrection of Lazarus not
noticed by three of them, 222.

Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke reconciled in the
case of the fishermen, iii. 32. n. illiterate, except Luke,
though not wholly so, why, 42. n.

EVE, formed, how, i. 13. and n. and 18. n.
Evil, origin of, i. 69, 70.

"Evil spirit from the Lord," explained, ii. 146.

EVIL-MERODACH succeeds his father Nebuchadnezzar in
Babylon, ii. 489. releases Jehoiakim, king of Judah, who
had been captive 37 years, and promotes him to great ho-
nours, ib. his vices make him detested, ib. is succeeded by
Neriglissar his sister's husband, who was the principal per-
son concerned in his death, ib.

VOL. III.

Exorcisms, the practice of them, customary among the
Jews, iii. 124. and 427. n.

Expiation, the great day of it, why instituted, and the
peculiar ceremonies observed on it by the Jews, ii. 497. n.
Expiatory sacrifices, instituted, how, i. 53.

EZEKIEL, at Babylon, prophesies the same things that Je-
remiah did at Jerusalem, ii. 445. foretels the dreadful ruin
of Jerusalem, ib. what the type of this, 464. his lying 390
days on one side, baking his bread with human excrements,
shaving his head and beard explained, his removing his
goods, and delineating the siege of Jerusalem, ib. and 466.
his description of the chariot, 515. his Gog and Magog ex-
plained, ib. and 516.

EZIONGEBER, its situation and history, ii. 264. n.

EZRA, his high birth and character, ii. 544. n. obtains a
commission from Ahasuerus to return with his countrymen
to Jerusalem, 545. reforms the custom of marriages among
them, 546. his prayer, ib. n. reads the book of the law, and
expounds it to the people, who listen with profound attention,
551. he prevails with them to enter into a covenant with
God, ib. which was done with great solemnity, 552. why
he might be styled the scribe of the God of heavens, 560.
the author of the book that goes under his name, who, 561.
his great skill in the Holy Scriptures, ib. and 566. what he
did towards the restoration of them, ib. various conjectures
as to his adding the vowel points, and arguments on both
sides, 567-9.

F

FABLES and allegories, religious, of the Heathens, iii.

155.

Fall of man, history of it literal, i. 47. &c. its effects, 50-
53. 70-104.

Famines, remarkable, among the Israelites, i. 552.
Fasts, how often observed by the Pharisees, iii. 38. n.
commonly observed in national calamities, ii. 306. n.

Feasts, that of trumpets, instituted, ii. 497. n. of taber-
nacles, 259. n. and 497-8. n. of dedication, 262.
Feciales, Roman officers, what, ii. 201.

FELIX, governor of Judea, his character, &c. iii. 441. n.
Festivals, three great ones among the Jews, ii. 56. n.
FESTUS Succeeds in the government of Judea, iii. 443.
brings St Paul before Agrippa, 445. and n.

Fiery chariot, remarks on Elijah's, ii. 314. n. and 337.
Figs, time of, explained, iii. 330. n.

Figures, hieroglyphical, of the Egyptians, whether prior
to the invention of letters, 495-498.

Fire, holy in the temple and tabernacle, ii. 520. n.
First-born, what it means in Scripture, iii. 8. n.
Fleece, the dew upon Gideon's, ii. 62. n.

Flesh, not eaten in the days of innocence, i. 204-5. why
granted to Noah and his sons, ib.

Flies, one of the plagues of Egypt, i, 472. their ravages,

ii. 311. n.

FоHI, fictions concerning him, i. 207. n.
Forgetfulness, Saul's, of David, accounted for, ii. 149.
Forgiveness of enemies, praised by Heathens, iii. 344 in.
dispensible in Christians, 345.

HAGGAI the prophet, some account of, and his writings,
ii. 531. n.

Foxes, the miracle of Samson's, credible, ii. 89.
Freedom of choice, natural to man, i. 62.
Friendship, tender between Jonathan and David, ii. 121.
and n.

Frugality, a virtue highly extolled and practised in early
times, i. 353.

Fulfilled, the expression" that it might be fulfilled," ex-
plained, iii. 63.

G

GABA, GIBEON, and GIBEAH, cities of the Benjamites,
ii. 115. n.

GABINIUS alters the Jewish government, ii, 656. n.
GADATES and GOBRYAS aid the Persians in murdering
Belshazzar, ii. 492. n.

GALATIA, its situation, iii. 418. n.

GALATIANS, epistle to, iii. 430. n.

GALEN'S account of the structure of the human body, i.
29. n. writes a hymn in praise of the Creator, ib.
GALILEE, its situation, iii. 29. n.

GALLIO, account of him, iii. 425. n.
GAMALIEL, who he was, iii. 396. n.

GANYMEDE, fables of, ii. 212.

GAULS, destroyed for their sacrilege, ii. 491. n.

GAZA, its situation, ii. 73. n. Samson's body taken from
it, 76. n. besieged by Alexander Jannæus, 650.
GEBA, its situation, ii, 115. n.

GEDALIAH is made governor of Judea by Nebuchadnez.
zar, ii. 454. and n. murdered by Ishmael, 480.

GEHAZI, Elisha's servant smitten with leprosy, why, ii.

318.

Genealogies of Seth, i. 121. remarks on, ib. n. of our
Lord, iii. 43-44, n.

General, after Joshua, who, ii. 52. n.

GENNESARETH, lake of, described, iii. 32. and n.

Geometry of the Egyptians, i. 480.

GERAR, royal city of the Philistines, i. 290. n.

GERGESENES, their country, where, iii. 128. n.

GERIZZIM and EBAL, account of these mountains, ii. 9.
and n.

GESHUR, its situation, ii. 185. n.

GETHSEMANE, account of that garden, &c. iii. 273. n.
GEZER, its situation, given to Solomon upon his marriage
with the Egyptian princess, ii. 283.

Giants before the flood, their persons and wickedness de-
scribed, i. 133, 134. and n.

GIBEAH, its situatiod, ii. 55. n.

GIBEON and AJALON, account of the miracles there, ii.
37-51.

GIBEONITES, their stratagem to procure peace with the
Israelites, ii. 9. and n. question among the casuists concern-
ing them, n. ib. their slavery, manners, &c. n. ib. David's
compliance with them in giving up Saul's sons to be slain,
219. n. and 234-7:

GIDEON, one of the judges of Israel, his family, ii. 61. n.
taken from the plough, ib. desires a token from the angel
who appeared to him, 62. remarks on this interview, the idol
Baal, &c. his experiment of his soldiers, 63. the victory,
and how he gained it, the watch word, 64. his wives, &c.
his refusal of power, 84. his ephod, and the Divine goodness
to him, 85.

GIHON, a river of paradise described, i. 37. and n. also
a fountain near Jerusalem, ii. 251.

GILBOA, its situation, ii. 132. n.

GILEAD, father of Jephthah, ii. 68.

GILEAD, Jacob's monument, i. 365. and n.

GILEADITES invaded by the Amorites, ii. 69. chuse Jeph-
thah their general, their success, ib. recover and burn the
dead bodies of Saul and his sons, 135.

GILGAL, where situated, ii. 5. n. the angel from who,
52. n.

Gnat, described by Pliny, i. 27. n.

Goads, described, ii. 86. n. Shamgar's how formidable,

57. n.

Goat, how said to bear the sins of Israel, i. 87.

GOD, idea of, not innate, Introd. p. 6. his existence and at-
tributes easily proved, ibid. 7. not however discoverable by
solitary savages, ibid. 8. his wisdom, goodness, and power,
in the work of creation, i. 25. &c. his prescience no cause of
the first or any other sin, 58. his justice vindicated in de-
stroying the world, 126. sons of God, the Sethites so called,
132. his veracity in all his promises, 349. corporeal acts
ascribed to him, 524. his loving one and hating another ex-
plained, 349, 350. taught the first pair to speak, probably also
to write, 497. the angel of God's presence, who, i. 30. n.
his tremendous appearance upon the promulgation of the law,
509, &c.

God of the Hills, by whom the Almighty so called, ii.
304. notion of heathens concerning tutelar deities, ib n.
GOG and MAGOG, in Ez. 38. 39. who supposed to be, ii.
516-17. and n.

Gold Powder, given by Moses to the Israelites to drink,
why, i. 512.

GOLGOTHA, described, iii. 287. n.

GOLIAH, a giant, his stature, challenge, and death, ii. 119.
and n. and 120. n.

GOMORRAH, the wickedness of its inhabitants, i. 288. de-
stroyed by fire from heaven, 289. remarks upon that catas-
trophe, 335-341.

GOSHEN, its situation, i. 408, n. and 409.

Gospel, meaning of, iii. 2. n. spurious ones in the first cen-
tury, ib.

Gospels, the harmony of the three first accounted for, iii.
84113.

Government, at first paternal, i. 150. the various kinds of
among the Jews, 418. 521. ii. 121. 158-162. both civil and
ecclesiastical, a Divine institution, iii. 210. n.

Greatness of soul, in what it chiefly consists, ii. 156.
GRECIANS, those mentioned in Acts, iii. 397. n.
GREECE, short account of it, iii. 460. n.

GREEKS, those mentioned by St John, c. 12. iii. 256, n.
Ground, why cursed, i. 52-83.
Guardian Angels, iii. 181. n.

Gum, the most valuable, i. 37. n. where found, ib.
Gunpowder, absurdity of supposing it used at the siege of
Jericho, ii. 25.

H

HABAKKUK the prophet, account of, ii. 438. n.
HACHILAH, mountain, David's retreat, ii. 130. n.
HADAD, an account of him, and his opposition to king Sq-
lomon, ii. 266. n.

HAGGAI and Daniel, the two principal prophets who de
termine the period when our Lord was to appear, iii, 1. n.