JEWISH WEIGHTS, COINS, AND MONTHS.
Maneh, Mna, or Mina, as a Coin,-60 shekels Talent of silver,-3000 shekels Drachma of Gold not more than
Table of the JEWISH MONTHS in Josephus and others, with the Names of the Syromacedonian Names Josephus gives them, and of the Julian or Roman Months corresponding to them.
(7.) Tisri
(8.) Marhesvan
(9.) Casleu (10.) Tebeth
December and January January and February February and March
Ve Adar, or the second Adar, intercalated.
The first number is that of the respective Volume, the second refers to the page.
AARON, i. 93; made high priest, 131; his sons, 132; his death, 164.
Abdastartus, iv. 280. Abdemon, i. 394; iv. 280. Abdenago, or Abednego, ii. 70. Abdon succeeds Elon, i. 239. Abel, i. 11; his sacrifice, ib. Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, i. 292; flies to David, 293; is high priest, 307, 328, 341, 350; deprived of the high priest- hood, 372. Abibalus, iv. 280.
Abigail, i. 298; married to Da- vid, 299.
Abihu, the son of Aaron, i. 132. Abijah, or Abia, i. 348, 411;
succeeds his father, 413; con- quers the ten tribes, 416. Abilamaradochus, or Evil-Mero- dach, ii. 76. Abimael, i. 24. Abimelech tyrannizes over the Shechemites, i. 234; expelled, 235; destroys them all, ib; kill- ed, 236. Abiram, i. 154.
Abishag, David's nurse, i. 364. Abishai, i. 300.
Abner, i. 272, 311 et seq.; Saul's kinsman, 272; general of his army, 311; reconciles the Is- raelites to David, 314; is kill- ed, 315.
Abram, or Abraham, leaves Chal- dea, goes to Canaan, i. 25; lives at Damascus, 27; advises his sons to plant colonies, 38; instructs the Egyptians in the
mathematical sciences, 27; di- vides the country between him- self and Lot, ib.; God pro- mises him a son, 29; beats the Assyrians, 28; dies, 41. Absalom, flies to Geshur, i. 338; recalled by a stratagem_of Joab's, 339; rebels against Da- vid, 340; pursues him, 346; his army put to flight, 347; hangs on a tree by his hair, ib.; is stabbed by Joab, and dies, ib.
Achar, or Achan, is guilty of
theft, i. 206; is punished, 207. Achitophel, or Ahitophel, i. 341; gives evil counsel, 343; hangs himself, 345.
Acme, iii. 335; her letters to An- tipater and Herod, iii. 19; her death, 26.
Acmon, attacks David, i. 356; is killed by Abishai, ib. Acratheus, or Hatach, ii. 112. Actium, battle at, ii. 318, 325; iii. 290.
Ada, the wife of Lamech, i. 12. Adad, a king of Damascus, i. 327. Adam created, i. 8; his fall, 10. Ader, or Hadad, i. 402. Adonias, or Adonijah, pretends to the crown, i. 364; takes sanctuary, 365; is refused Abi- shag to wife, 372; killed, 372. Adonibesek, made prisoner, his hands and feet cut off, and dies, i. 218. Adoram, i. 380. Adrasar, or Hadadezer, i. 327, 403.
Æbutius, a decurion, iii. 296. Egypt, whence named, iv. 278. Ægyptian kings called Pharaohs
for 1300 years, i. 395. Egyptians, famous for wisdom, i. 377; learned mathematics of Abraham, 27; their sacred scribes or priests, 83; held it unlawful to feed cattle, 79. Ægyptian false prophet put to flight by Felix, iii. 170, 375. Ælius Gallus, ii. 345. Emilius Regulus, iii. 105. Æneas, succeeds Obodas, ii. 395. Æsop, a servant, ii. 310. Ethiopian commodities
slaves and monkeys, i. 399. Agag, i. 273; is killed, 276. Agar, or Hagar, and Ishmael, are
sent away by Abraham, i. 34. Αγγαρύεσθαι, or forcible pres- sure, taken off the Jews by De- metrius, ii. 187. Aggeus, or Haggai, the prophet, ii. 96; he prophesies at the re- building of the temple, 98. Agones, or games, instituted by Herod, ii. 338; at the finishing Cæsarea, 377. Agrippa (Marcus) bounty to- wards the Jews, ii. 144; splen- didly entertained by Herod, 362; makes equal returns to him, ib.; his expedition to the Bosphorus, ib.; hears the cause of the Jews in Ionia, 363; con- firms their privileges, 367; his letter to the Ephesians, in fa- vour of the Jews, 380, 381; and to those of Cyrene, 381. Agrippa the Great, or Elder, He- rod's grandson, iii. 4. 321; his adventures, 70, 71; is im- prisoned, 77; his liberty and happiness foretold, 78; re-
leased, and made lord of two tetrarchies, with the title of king, 83; gives Caius a sump- tuous entertainment at Rome, 91; is sent to Claudius, 132; his advice to Claudius, ib.; is
sent back to his kingdom, 136; Claudius bestows on him al- most all the dominions of his grandfather, ib.; his eulogium, 143; his bounty towards those of Berytus, 144; he treats se- veral kings splendidly, ib.; en- tertains Cæsarea with shows, and appears himself upon the stage in a magnificent dress, 145; dies soon after, 146; his death and children, 369. Agrippa, his son by Cypros, iii. 269; did not immediately suc- ceed in his father's kingdom, 148; Claudius gave him that of his uncle Herod, 160, 373; to which he added the tetrar- chies of Philip and Lysanias, 165; is hurt at the siege of Ga- mala, iv. 52; his letters to Jo- sephus, iii. 224; his speech to the Jews, to dissuade them from a war with the Romans, 386.
Agrippa, son of Felix, iii. 166. Agrippa Fonteius slain, iv. 232. Ahab, i. 421; reproved by Elijah,
427; fights with Benhadad, 429; pardons him, 431; is af- terwards killed by the Syrians, 436; his sons, ii. 18. Ahaz, king of Judah, ii. 36. Ahaziah, king of Israel, ii. 4. Ahaziah, king of Judah, ii. 17. Abijah, the prophet, i. 403. Ahimelech, or Achimelech, slain by the order of Saul, i. 292. Ahitophel, or Achitophel, i. 341; gives evil counsel, 343; hangs himself, 345.
Ai besieged, i. 206; taken, 208. Aizel, or Uzal, i. 24. Alans, iv. 245. Albinus, iii. 173. Alcimus, or Jacimus, ii. 176; ca- lumniates Judas, 177; dies, 178.
Alcyon, a physician, iii. 121. Alexander Lysimachus, the ala- barch, iii. 73, 137, 160.
Alexander, the son of Alexander,
by Glaphyra, iii. 321. Alexander, the son of Antiochus Epiphanes, ii. 185; surnamed Balas, ib. in note; king of Sy- ria, 186; his letter to Jona- than, ib.; engages in a battle with Demetrius, 188; demands Ptolemy's daughter in mar- riage, 192; is killed in Arabia, and his head sent to Ptolemy, 196.
Alexander and Aristobulus, He-
rod's sons, strangled by their father's order, ii. 407; iii. 321. Alexander, the son of Aristobu-
lus, ii. 252; iii. 257; troubles Syria, ii. 253; makes war upon the Romans, iii. 257; is con- quered, ib.; killed, ii. 257; iii. 261.
Alexander Janneus succeeds his brother Aristobulus, iii. 246; a sedition raised against him, 231; his expedition against Ptolemais, 226; is called Thra- cida, for his barbarous cruelty, 233; dies of a quartan ague, 236; iii. 249; his sons Hyrca- nus and Aristobulus, ii. 237; iii. 261. Alexander the Great succeeds his father Philip, ii. 123; conquers Darius, 124; pursues his vic- tories, ib.; sends a letter to the high priest at Jerusalem, ib.; goes to Jerusalem, 125; his dream, 126; adores the name of God on the high priest's forehead, ib.; enters the temple, ib.; grants privi- leges to the Jews, ib.; the Pam- phylian sea gives way to his army, i. 104; his arms and armour kept in the temple of Diana, ii. 171.
Alexander, son of Phasaelus and Salampsio, iii. 70. Alexander (Tiberius) succeeds
Cuspius Fadus, iii. 160, 369; is made procurator of Egypt,
381; chief commander of the Roman army, iv. 109, 199. Alexander Zebina, king of Syria, is conquered and dies, ii. 218. Alexandra, Alexander Janneus's widow, holds the administra- tion after his death, ii. 237; dies, 240; her eulogium, ib. Alexandra, daughter of Hyrca- nus, writes a letter to Cleopa- tra, ii. 307; sends the pictures of her son and daughter to An- tonius, ib.; is feignedly recon- ciled to Herod, 308; is sus- pected by Herod, 309; pre- pares to fly into Egyyt, 310; bemoans the death of Aristo- bulus, 312; acquaints Cleopa- tra with the snares of Herod, and the death of her son, ib.; is put into prison, 315; her in- decent behaviour towards her daughter Mariamne, 334; is killed by Herod's order, 336. Alexandra, daughter of Phasaelus and Salampsio, iii. 70; is mar- ried to Timius Cyprius, ib. Alexandria, a great part of that city assigned to the Jews, ii. 256; the Jews declared its citizens, 266. Alisphragmuthosis,
or Halis- phragmuthosis, iv. 276. Aliturius, a Jew, iii. 184. Alliance between Ptolemy and Antiochus, ii. 147.
Altar of incense, i. 125; of burnt- offering made of unhewn stone, iv. 290. Amalekites attack the Israelites, i. 112; are conquered and plundered, 114, 115. Aman, or Haman, enemy of the
Jews, ii. 111; his edict against the Jews, ib.; orders a gallows for Mordecai, 115; is obliged to honour Mordecai, 116; his malicious design laid before the king, 117; his edict counter- manded, 118; he is himself hanged, 117.
Amarinus, or Omri, i. 420. Amasa, i. 346; killed by Joab,
son of Jether, 354, 369. Amasias, or Amaziah, ii. 28; makes war on Jehoash, and is beaten, 30; murdered in a con- spiracy, ib. Amathus, i. 23. Ambassadors sent with presents to Hezekiah, ii. 49; ambassa- dors slain by the Arabs, ii. 320; this a violation of the law of nations, 322. Ambassage sent by Jonathan to the Lacedemonians, ii. 202; sent by the Jews to Rome, 179.
Ambivius (Marcus) iii. 55. Amenophis, iv. 277, 294, 301. Amesses, iv. 277.
Ammonius, killed, ii. 195. Amnon falls in love with his sis- ter Tamar, i. 336; is slain by Absalom's order, 337. Amorites given to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, i. 201. Amphitheatres built at Jerusa- lem by Herod, ii. 338; another at Jericho, iii. 28. Amram, Moses's father, i. 83. Amram, iii. 149. Amraphel, i. 28.
Anacharis, or Rabsaris, ii. 44. Ananelus made high priest, ii.
307; deprived of it, 309; re- stored to it, 311. Ananias made high priest, iii.
160, 372, 394; he and his son sent in fetters to Rome, iii.. 164; slain together with his brother, 397.
Ananias, son of Onias, ii. 220, 228.
Ananias, the son of Masambalus,
Ananus, senior, made high priest,
iii. 173; his eulogium, iv. 65. Ananus, junior, made high priest,
iii. 173, 205; iv. 66; his speech to the people, ib.; accused of
the murder of James, iii. 173; deprived of the high priest- hood, 174; his death, iv. 81. Ananus, the son of Seth, made high priest, iii. 55; deposed,
56. Ananus, son of Bamadus, iv. 170; flies to Titus, 198.
Ananus, governor of the temple, iii. 164.
Ananus, son of Jonathan, iii. 408. Anchus, or Achish, i. 301. Andromachus expelled the court of Herod, ii. 389. Andronicus, ii. 191. Angels of God become familiar with women, i. 14. Anileus, iii. 94; killed by the Babylonians, 101.
Annibal put to death by Fadus for a mutiny, iii. 149. Annius (Lucius) takes Gerasa, iv. 98.
Annius Minucianus, iii. 105. Annius Rufus, iii. 55. Anoch or Enoch, i. 12. Anteius killed, iii. 118. Antigonus governs Asia, ii. 128. Antigonus, son of Aristobulus, ii. 252, 254; impeaches Hyrca- nus and Antipater, 259; iii. 263; conquered by Herod, ii. 280; invades Judea, 284; re- established, 288; iii. 275; cuts off Hyrcanus's ears, and causes the death of Phasaelus, ii. 288; surrenders himself, ii. 302; iii. 288; sent in fetters to Marcus Antonius, iii. 289; the first king whose head was cut off by the Romans, ii. 305. Antigonus, son of Hyrcanus I.
made commander at the siege of Samaria, ii. 219; beloved by his brother, 222; watched by the queen and her favourites, 223; iii. 244.
Antioch, the chief city in Syria, iv. 4; the Jews made citizens thereof by Seleucus, ii. 143; it is burnt, iv. 228.
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