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Antiochians rebel, ii. 195; their
envy against the Jews, 143.
Antiochus, king of Commagena,
iii. 58, 137, 144; iv. 163, 243;
Commagena and part of Cilicia
granted him, iii. 137.
Antiochus Cyzicenus, ii. 218;
assists the Samaritans, but is
put to flight, 219; iii. 243; is
taken prisoner, and put to death
by Seleucus, ii. 230.
Antiochus Dionysius makes an
expedition against the Jews, ii.
234; iii. 248.

Antiochus the Great, ii. 144; his
letters in favour of the Jews,
145, 146; his wars with Pto-
lemy Philopater, and Physcon,
144, et seq.; marries his daugh-
ter Cleopatra to Ptolemy, 147.
Antiochus Epiphanes, his expe-

dition into Egypt, ii. 157;
takes Jerusalem, 158; goes
into Persia, 164; designs to
destroy the Jews, ib.; his im-
piety, 214; he dies, 171.
Antiochus Eupator, his son in-
vades Judea, ii. 173; fights
with Judas, ib.; iii. 240; makes
peace with the Jews, iii, 174;
breaks it, 175; is killed, ib.
Antiochus Grypus, ii. 218; his
death, 230.

Antiochus Philometer, ii. 226.
Antiochus Pius makes war with

Seleucus, ii. 231; is slain, ib.
Antiochus Eusebius, or Pius be-
sieges Jerusalem, ii. 213; raises
the siege, 215; marches against
the Parthians, and is killed,
ib.
Antiochus, the son of Alexander,
commonly called The God, ii.
144; crowned in his youth,
199; enters into alliance with
Jonathan the high priest, 200;
slain by Trypho his tutor, 210;
iii. 240.
Antiochus, the brother of Seleu-
cus, slain in battle, ii. 231.
Antiochus Soter, brother of De-

metrius, ii. 218; makes war
with Trypho, 211.
Antipas, Herod's son by Mal-
thace, iii. 4; is tetrarch of Ga-
lilee, 27; goes to Rome to get
to be a king, 32, 344; what
was given him by Cæsar, 353.
Antipas is put in prison and slain,
iv. 64.

Antipater, the Idumean, excites

troubles, ii. 242; sent ambas-
sador to Aretas, 252; his wife
Cyprus, and his children, 257;
his valour, 258; advises Hyr-
canus to put himself under the
protection of Aretas, iii. 251;
makes his son Phasaelus go-
vernor of Jerusalem, and He-
rod of Galilee, ii. 262; endea-
vours to deserve Cæsar's fa-
vour, iii. 261; honoured by
Cæsar, and made citizen of
Rome, ii. 259; iii. 262; his
defence against Antigonus, ii.
259; iii. 263; made governor
of Judea, ii. 260; iii. 363; poi-
soned, ii. 277.

Antipater, son of Phasaelus and
Salampsio, iii. 70.

Antipater, son of Salome, im-

peaches Archelaus, iii. 33.
Antipater, son of Herod, ii. 280;

sent to Rome to Cæsar, 370;
iii. 325, 329; he sets his father
against his brethren, ii. 369;
his subtilty, 383; reigns joint-
ly with his father, iii. 1; hated
by every body, ib.; attempts his
father's life, 2; is concerned
for himself, ib.; appears be-
fore Varus's tribunal, 13, 332;
his plea, 14; is put in irons,
19; is put to death, iii. 26,

339.

Antipatris, taken by Vespasian,
iv. 94.

Antonia, Claudius's daughter by
Petina, iii. 373.
Antonia, Claudius's mother, lends
money to Agrippa the elder, iii.
73; her eulogium, 76.

Antonia, called Baris, iii. 251;
taken by Titus, iv. 181, et seq.
Antonius (Lucius), sends a letter
to the Sardians, in favour of
the Jews, ii. 271.
Antoninus Primus, iv. 111.
Antony, a captain, iv. 3.
Antony, a centurion, iv. 30.
Antony (Mark), his decree in fa-
vour of the Jews, ii. 269;
marches into Asia, after Cas-
sius's defeat, 280; his letter to
Hyrcanus, ib.; to the Tyrians,
281; falls in love with Cleo-
patra, 283; makes Phasaelus
and Herod tetrarchs, ib.; or-
ders their accusers to be put to
death, ib.; confers signal fa-
vours on Herod, 290; sojourns
at Athens, 295; his luxury,

308.

Anubis, a god, iii. 61.

Apachmas, king of Egypt, iv.

276.

Apame, Darius's concubine, ii.
91..

Apion, ambassador, iii. 86.
Apollodotus, captain of the Ga-
zeans, ii. 230; killed, ib.
Apollonius, ii. 217.
Apollonius Daus, ii. 193; chal-
lenges Jonathan to an engage-
ment, and is defeated, ib.
Apollonius, governor of Samaria,
ii. 160, 163.
Aponius, iii. 135.

Apophis, king of Egypt, iv. 276.
Apsalom, iii. 398.

Apsan, or Ibzan, judge, i. 239.
Aquila, the murderer of Caius,
iii. 116.

Arabians circumcise their chil-
dren when thirteen, i. 34;
twelve towns taken from them
by Alexander, ii. 243.
Arabia borders on Judea, ii. 243;
Petra the king's residence, ib. ;
Zabdiel their lord, 196; Ara-
bians defeated, 323; their wo-
men great poisoners, iii. 9.
Aram, i. 23.

Aran, or Haran, i. 24.
Arasca, or Nisroch, ii. 47.
Arases, or Resin, ii. 37.
Araunah, or Oronna, the Jebu-
site; his threshing floor, i. 361;
the place where Isaac was to
have been sacrificed, and
where the temple was after-
wards built, 362.
Archelaus, king of Cappadocia,
comes to Herod, ii. 391, 399;
iii. 312; goes with him to An-
tioch, 314; reconciles Herod
to his son Alexander, and to
his brother Pheroras, 314.
Archelaus, son of Herod the
Great, iii. 4, 12, 322, 329;
made ethnarch, 45; marries
Glaphyra, 50, 353; proclaim-
ed king, 28, 340; his speech to
the people, 29, 341; endea-
vours to appease the people,
30; goes to Rome, 31; ac-
cused there by the deputies of
the people, 43, 355; banished
to Vienne, 355; his dreams and
Glaphyra's, 49, 355.
Archelaus, son of Chelcias, iii.

147.

Archelaus, son of Magadatus, iv.
198.

Aretas, king of the Arabians, ii.

230, 243, 401; ii. 251, 325;
expedition against Aristobulus,
ii. 243; succeeds Obodas, 395;
succours Hyrcanus, iii. 251;
impeaches Sylleus, iii. 8.
Aretas, king of Čelesyria, marches
against Judea, ii. 234.
Aretas of Petra, iii. 41, 67.
Arioch, ii. 71.

Arion, treasurer, ii. 152.
Aristobulus, son of Hyrcanus I.;
the first high priest who as-
sumed the title of king, ii. 222;
called Philellen, or lover of
the Greeks, 224.
Aristobulus, son of Alexander
Janneus, an enterprising man,
ii. 237; complains of the Pha-
risees, ib.; reproaches his mo-

ther, 238; endeavours to take
possession of the kingdom, ib.;
fights with his elder brother for
the crown, 241; brings him to
an accommodation, 242; iii.
251; sends a golden vine to
Pompey, ii. 246; is, with his
children, brought captive to
Rome by Pompey, 252; es-
capes, but is retaken and sent
back again, 254; iii. 259; is
poisoned by the partisans of
Pompey, 261; his children, ib.
Aristobulus, son of Herod the
Great, ii. 349; marries Bere-
nice, 361; put in prison, 399;
accused by his father and con-
demned, 403; strangled, 407;
iii. 321.
Aristobulus, son of Herod, king of
Chalcis, iii. 168; iv. 244.
Aristobulus, son of Joseph and
Mariamņe, iii. 72.
Aristobulus, son of Aristobulus, is
made high priest by Herod, ii.
309; drowned by the secret
order of the same Herod, 311;
iii. 302.
Aristobulus, son of Aristobulus

and Berenice, iii. 70.
Aristocracy the best form of go-
vernment, i. 185; instituted in
Judea by Gabinius, iii. 259.
Arithmetic and astronomy came
from Chaldea to Egypt, and
thence into Greece, i. 27.
Arius, sends a letter to Onias, ii.
155.

Ark of God, its description, i.
124;
taken by the Philistines,
250; restored, 254; carried to
Jerusalem, 323.

Ark of Noah, where it rested, i.
16; mentioned by all barba-
rian historians, 17; its remains
long preserved, ib.

Armais, king of Egypt, iv. 277.
Armenia conquered by Antonius,
ii. 317; Cotys king of the
Lesser Armenia, iii. 144.
Armesses, king of Egypt, iv. 278.

Arphaxad, i. 24.
Arsaces, king, ii. 205, 215.
Artabanus, king of Media, iii. 57.
Artabanus, king of the Parthians,
iii. 65, 95; flies to Izates, 155;
kindly received and restored to
his kingdom, 155; dies, 156.
Artabazes, or Artavasdes, is given
as a present to Cleopatra by
Antonius, iii. 290.
Artaxerxes, ii. 107; his edict
against the Jews, 111; contra-
dicted, 118.
Artaxias, ii. 317.
Artorius saves his life, iv. 194.
Arucas, i. 23.
Arudeus, i. 23.

Aruntius (Euaristus), iii. 120.
Aruntius (Paulus), iii. 115.
Asa, i. 417; alliance with the
king of Damascus, 419.
Asael killed by Abner, i. 312.
Asamoneus, ii. 160.
Asamoneans, the end of their
reign, ii. 303.

Ascalonites punished, ii. 150.
Ashdod, or Azotus, taken by Jo-
nathan, ii. 150; its inhabitants
plagued, i. 251.

Ashpenaz, a eunuch, ii. 70.
Asia, its convention at Ancyra, ii.
379; Valerius proconsul of, iii.

121.

Asineus and Anelius, iii. 93.
Asprenas, iii. 115; cut in pieces,
117.

Assemblies forbidden to all at

Rome but to the Jews, ii. 269.
Ass's head falsely reported by
Apion as an object of worship
among the Jews, iv. 314.
Assyrian empire overthrown, ii.

48.

Astarte's temple, i. 309; iv. 280.
Astronomy; for its improvement
the first men lived near a thou-
sand years, i. 18; came out of
Chaldea into Egypt, and thence
into Greece, 25.
Asylum, right of, belonging to
some towns, i. 177.

Athenians decree honours to Hyr- Badus, or Bath, i. 380.

canus, ii. 261.
Athenio, ii. 149.

Athenio, a general of Cleopatra,

iii. 290; perfidious, ii. 322.
Athronges crowns himself king of
Judea, iii. 40; is conquered, ib.
Atratinus, ii. 290.
Augustus's arrival in Syria, ii.
351; his letter to Herod, 403;
holds a council about the af-
fairs of Judea, iii. 32; his edict
and letter in favour of the
Jews, ii. 380; is angry with
Herod, 395; is reconciled to
him, 400; divides Herod's do-
minions, iii. 353; his death,
363.

Azariah, the prophet, i. 418.
Azarias, one of Daniel's compa-
nions, ii. 70.
Azarias, a commander, is defeat-

ed by Gorgias, ii. 170.
Azizus, iii. 165; is circumcised,
and marries Drusilla, ib.; dies,
168.

Azotus, or Ashdod, its inhabit-
ants plagued, i. 251; taken by
Jonathan, ii. 194.

Bagoses, ii. 121.

Balak, king of Moab, i. 166.
Baladan, king of Babylon, ii. 48.
Balaam, the prophet, i. 166, et

seq.; his ass speaks, 168.
Ballas, king of Sodom, i. 27.
Balm, or Balsam, near Jericho, ii.
248, 316.

Baltasar [Belshazzar, or Naboan-
del, or Nabonadius], king of
Babylon, ii. 77; his terrible
vision, and its interpretation,
77, 78; his death, 79.
Balthasar [Belteshazzar], Daniel's
name, ii. 70.

Banus, a hermit, iii. 183.
Barachias, ii. 37.

Barak encounters Sisera, i. 230.
Barbarians, their riches formerly

consisted in cattle, i. 91.
Bardanes, iii. 156; is slain, 157.
Baris, built by Daniel, ii. 81.
Barnabazus, ii. 110.

Baruch, left with Jeremiah the
prophet in Judea, ii. 66.
Barzaphernes, governor, iii. 271.
Barzillai, i. 346, 352.

Basan, or Baasha, king of Israel,
i. 418; slays Nadab, 417.

BAAL, iv. 284; god of the Tyri- Bassus (Ventidius). See Venti-

ans, ii. 21.

Baalis, king, ii. 67.

Baaras, a place, and plant, iv.

239.

Baasha, kills Nadab, i. 417; dies,

420.

Baba's children preserved, ii.

337; afterwards killed, 338.
Babylon, derived from Babel, i.
20; taken by Cyrus, ii. 79;
Nebuchadnezzar's buildings at
Babylon, ii. 76; its walls not
built by Semiramis, but by Ne-
buchadnezzar, iv. 282; its
walls built by Nabonnidus of
brick and bitumen, ib.; its
pensile gardens erected by Ne-
buchadnezzar, 283; ii. 76.
Bacchides, ii. 176, 179; he at-
tacks the Jews, 180.

dius.

Bassus (Cecilius), murderer of

Sextus Cæsar, ii. 276; iii. 266.
Bassus (Lucilius), sent with an
army into Judea; takes Ma-
cherus, iv. 238, et seq.
Bathsheba, i. 331, et seq.
Bathyllus, iii. 329.
Battering-ram, described, iv. 21.
Battle at Taricheæ, iv. 45.
Belshazzar [or Baltasar, or Na-
boandel, or Nabonadius], king
of Babylon, ii. 77; his terrible
vision, and its interpretation,
77, 78; his death, 79.
Belteshazzar (Daniel), ii. 70.
Belus, the Tyrian god, i. 421.
Belus, the Babylonian god, ii. 76;
his temple, ib.

Benaiah, a man of valour, i. 355;

son of Jehoiada, 328; made
commander, 371; son of Achi-
lus, 376.
Beneficence, its commendation
and reward, i. 304.
Benhadad besieges Samaria, i.
428; the second time, ii. 11;
falls sick, and is smothered, 15.
Benjamites attacked at Gibea,
and at last cut off, i. 223;
their tribe restored, 224.
Berenice, daughter of Agrippa,
iii. 70; is married to Herod,
137.

Berenice, Agrippa's mother, dies,
iii. 71.

Berenice, Archelaus's and Ma-

riamne's daughter, iii. 165.
Berenice, the widow of Herod,

marries Polemon, iii. 166;
leaves him, ib.

Berenice, Salome's daughter, Aris-
tobulus's wife, ii. 361.
Berenice, Agrippa senior's daugh-
ter, in danger, iii. 381.
Bernicianus, iii. 373.

Berytus, where the cause be-

tween Herod and his sons was
debated, ii. 403.
Bigthan, ii. 110.
Birth-day of Ptolemy's son kept

by the Syrians, ii. 152; pre-
sents made thereupon, 153.
Bocchoris king of Egypt, iv. 303.
Book of the law found, ii. 52.
Books composed by Solomon, i.

377; twenty-two most sacred
among the Jews, iv. 271.
Booz, i. 245; kindness towards
Ruth, 246; marries her, 247.
Brazen vessels more valuable than
gold, ii. 101.

Bride, how she was to part from
one that refused to marry her,
i. 189.

Britons, iv. 210.
Britannicus, iii. 373.
Brocchus, a tribune, iii. 131.
Brother, a title which Alexander

Balas gave to Jonathan, ii. 186;

the same title given him by
Demetrius Soter, 197.

Buckle, or button, sent to Jona-
than by Alexander, king of Sy-
ria, ii. 194; and by Demetrius,
200.

Burrhus, iii. 171.

CESAR (Julius) makes war in
Egypt, ii. 258; his decrees in
favour of the Jews, 266; he is
murdered, 276.

Cæsarea built by Herod, ii. 347.
Cæsarean games instituted, ii.

338; iii. 299; begun at the
finishing of Cæsarea Augusta,
ii. 377.

Cæsennius Petus, iv. 243.
Cæsonia, killed by Lupus, iii.

126.

Cain murders Abel, i. 11; his
punishment, ib.; peoples the
land of Nod, 12.

Caius is made emperor, iii. 81,
364; puts Tiberius to death,
81; his behaviour, 86; orders
his statue to be erected in the
temple, 87; gratifies Agrippa,
and forbids its erection, 92;
his letter to Petronius, ib.;
rages against the Jews, 103;
calls himself the brother of
Jupiter, 104; a conspiracy
against him, 105; the conspi-
rators increase, 109; his death,
115; his threatening letter to
Petronius retarded till he was
dead, 93, 367; his character,
127.

Caleb, one that searched the land
of Canaan, i. 149, 219.
Calf (golden) near Daphne or
Dan, iv. 50.
Callimander, ii. 219.
Callinicus, iv. 244.
Callistus, iii. 111.
Cambyses succeeds Cyrus, ii. 87;
dies, 88.

Camp of the Jews, i. 146; of the
Assyrians, iv. 168.

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