the king of Judah, 37; he is
slain by Hoshea, 38.
Pekahiah, king of Israel, ii. 35.
Pentecost, a festival, i. 141; iii.
36; whence its name, iii. 346;
vast numbers came to it, ib.;
the priests attended the temple
in the night, iv. 206; the Jews
did not then take journeys, ii.

215.

Perea entirely subdued by the
Romans, iv. 91 et seq.
Pergamens' decree in favour of
the Jews, ii. 273.
Perjury supposed by some not
dangerous, if done by neces-
sity, i. 225; dreaded by Joshua
and the elders, 209; dreaded
also by the people, 225.
Persians, their seven principal fa-
miles, ii. 88; their king is
watched during his sleep, 89;
their law forbade strangers to
see their king's wives, 108;
seven men were the interpreters
of their laws, 109; their royal
robes, 110.
Pestilence. See Plague.
Petilius Cerealis, the proconsul,

reduces the Germans, iv. 231.
Petronius, governor of Egypt, ii.
344; he supplies Herod with
corn in time of famine, ib.
Petronius (Publius) made presi-
dent of Syria, iii. 87; sent with
an army to Jerusalem by Caius,
to set up his statue in the
temple, ib.; 365; endeavours
to prevent it, and save the
Jews; with his and their deli-
verance, 366; his edict against
the Dorites, 140.

Petus (Cæsennius), iv. 243; his
expedition into Commagena,
ib.

Phalion, ii. 245; iii. 252.
Phannius, son of Samuel, made

high priest, iv. 66.
Pharaoh denoted king in the
Egyptian tongue, i. 395.

Pharisees, a sect, ii. 220; iii. 53,
249; envy Hyrcanus, ii. 220;
opposite to the Sadducees in
principles, 220; their great
authority, iii. 6; especially in
the reign of Alexandra, ii. 237;
iii. 249; refuse the oaths of
allegiance to Cæsar and Herod,
iii. 6; are fined for it, ib.;
their unwritten traditions, ii.
203, 221; their moderation in
inflicting punishments, 221;
the common people side with
them, ib.; are most skilful in
the knowledge of the law, iii.

205.

Pharnaces, ii. 248.
Phasaelus, son of Antipater, ii.
257; iii. 4, 260; his death, ii.
288, 305; iii. 275.
Phasaelus, son of Herod, iii. 4.
Pheroras, ii. 257; iii. 260; hates

Salome's children, ii. 384;
makes Alexander jealous of his
wife Glaphyra, 385; provokes -
Herod to anger, ib. 391; lays
the blame upon Salome, 386;
enters into friendship with An-
tipater, iii. 5; hated by Herod,
7; ordered to retire to his te-
trarchy, 8.

Pheroras's wife pays the fine laid
upon the Pharisees, iii. 6; asso-
ciates with the other court
ladies, ib.; charged with get-
ting poison, 9; throws herself
down stairs, 11; her confes-
sion, ib.
Philadelphus (Ptolemy), his skill
and industry about mechanic

arts, ii. 135; proposes pro-
blems to the seventy-two inter-
preters, 140; employs them to
translate the law, 141.
Philip, Herod's son by Cleopa-
tra, iii. 4, 5, 323; brother of
Archelaus, 353; what Herod
left him by his will, 27;
what Cæsar gave him, 45; te-
trarch of Gaulanitis, and Tra-

chonitis, and Paneas, 27; he
dies, 66; his eulogium, ib.
Philip, a Galilean, iv. 23.
Philip made regent of Syria dur-

ing Eupator's minority, ii. 172.
Philip, king of Syria, ii. 231, 233.
Philip of Macedon slain, ii. 123.
Philippion marries Alexandra, ii.
257; is killed by his father,
ib.; iii. 261.
Philo, chief deputy of the Jews
to Caius, iii. 86.
Philostephanus, ii. 227.

Phineas, son of Clusothus, iv. 74.
Phineas, son of Eleazar, slays
Zimri and Cosbi, i. 174; leads
the Israelites against the Mi-
dianites, 175; his speech to
the Jews, 215; is made high
priest, 217; the high priest-
hood returns to his family, 372.
Phineas, son of Eli, i. 247; high
priest, 249; is slain, 250.
Phraates, king of the Parthians,

ii. 305; his death, iii. 56.
Phraataces, the son of Phraates,
iii. 56.

Phul, or Pul, king, ii. 35.
Phurim, or Purim, a festival, ii.

121.

Phut, the planter of Libya, i. 22.
Pilate (Pontius), occasions tu-

mults among the Jews, iii. 58;
causes a great slaughter of
them, 364; and of the Sama-
ritans, 63; is accused for it,
and sent to Rome, ib.
Pillars erected by the children of
Seth, i. 13; Corinthian pillars
in Solomon's palace, 392; in
Herod's temple, iv. 134.
Piso, governor of Rome, iii. 74.
Pitholaus, ii. 252, 257; iii. 259.
Placidus skirmishes with Jose-
phus, iii. 207, 229; his other
actions, iv. 12, 15, 31, 56, 192,

et seq.
Plague rages among the Israelites,
i. 360; ceases upon David's
repentance, 361.
VOL. IV.

Plato, iv. 333; excludes poets

from his commonwealth, 337.
Polemo, king of Cilicia, iii. 166.
Polemo, king of Pontus, iii. 144.
Polity of the Jews after the cap-
tivity, ii. 98.

Pollio, a Pharisee, ii. 304, 353.
Pompedius, iii. 107.
Pompey the Great goes to Damas-
cus, ii. 245; iii. 252; to Jerusa-
lem, ii. 248; iii. 254; the city de-
livered up to him, ii. 249; takes
the temple by force, and kills
abundance of the Jews, 250;
iii. 256; the Jews send him a
golden vine, ii. 245; goes into
the holy of holies, 250; iii.
256; meddles with nothing in
the temple, ii. 251; hears the
cause between Hyrcanus and
Aristobulus, 247; determines
it in favour of Hyrcanus, and
makes war upon Aristobulus,
ib.; flies into Epirus, 257.
Pontius Pilate. See Pilate.
Poppea, a favourer of the Jews,
iii. 172.

Porcius Festus. See Festus.
Present things Alexandra's care

more than future, ii. 238.
Presents sent to Joseph, i. 71.
Priests, if maimed, are excluded
from the altar and temple, i.
145; iv. 300; not to marry
several sorts of women, i. 145;
iv. 270; washed their hands
and feet before they minister-
ed, i. 122; succeed one another
according to their courses, iv.
318; their allowances, i. 138,
139, 162; their courses twen-
ty-four, 366; very numerous,
iv. 318; two families from
Aaron's two sons, i. 250; their
offices and employments, iv.
317, 328; their sacred gar-
ments, i. 126; iv. 138; priests
and Levites exempted from
taxes by Xerxes, ii. 100; none
but priests of the posterity of

FF

Aaron might burn incense at
the temple, ii. 33; not to drink
wine in their sacred garments,
i.145; priesthood a mark of no-
bility among the Jews, iii. 182.
High priest not to be the son of
a captive woman, ii. 221; to
marry a virgin, and not to
touch a dead body, i. 145;
the prophets, and sanhedrim,
were to determine difficult
causes, 184; several at the
same time in later ages, iv. 66,
170; to succeed by birth, 328;
elected by lot among the sedi-
tious, i. 154; abolish the re-
gular succession, ib.; Herod
made the high priests till his
death, iii. 150; a series from
Aaron to the destruction of
the temple by Titus, 176; ano-
ther series, from the building
of the temple to the captivity,
ii. 65; high priests' robes kept
by the Romans, iii. 150; where
they were laid up, ii. 357; iii.
64; high priest's ornaments
described, i. 128; iv. 138.
High priesthood translated from
one family to another, i. 250; of
Onias at Heliopolis, ii. 175,
220; iii. 178; vacant at Jeru-
salem for four years, ii. 186;
during life, excepting under
Antiochus Epiphanes, Aristo-
bulus, and Herod, ii. 309;
taken from Jesus, and given to
Simon, 346; settled upon the
family of Aaron, iii. 176.
Priests among the Egyptians only
kept their lands in the days of
Joseph, i. 80.

Primogeniture, its privileges sold
by Esau, i. 55.
Primus (Antonius), iv.99; marches
against Vitellius, 111.
Priscus (Tyrannius), iii. 408.
Priscus kills Jonathan, iv. 193.
Privileges granted the Jews by
Alexander the Great, iv. 309.

Problems, or riddles proposed by
Samson, i. 241.
Prophecies of the destruction of
Jerusalem, iv. 88, 207.
Prophecy of Isaiah, accomplish-
ed, ii. 189.
Prophecies could not agree to the
events, if the world were go-
verned by chance, ii. 83.
Prophets, excepting Daniel, chief-
ly foretold calamities, ii. 82;
greatly to be esteemed, i. 437.
Prophets (false ones) suborned by
the Jewish tyrants, iv. 205.
Proseuchæ, or houses of prayer,
among the Jews, iii. 215.
Prostitution of the body, a most

heinous crime, i. 182.
Providence asserted, ii. 83.
Prudence requires us to prevent
the growing power of an ene-
my, i. 111, 112.
Pseudalexander, iii. 46, 353.
Ptolemy, the administrator of He-
rod's kingdom, ii. 384, 399;
iii. 197.

Ptolemy, the brother of Cleopa-
tra, poisoned by her, ii. 315.
Ptolemy, the brother of Nicolaus
of Damascus, iii. 31.
Ptolemy Epiphanes, ii. 144; he
dies, 156.
Ptolemy Euergetes, Philopater,
or Eupator, ii. 144, 147; iv.

310.

Ptolemy, the son of Jamblicus,
ii. 258; iii. 261.
Ptolemy Lathyrus, ii. 219; iii.
248; driven out of his king-
dom, ii. 229; makes an alliance
with Alexander, and breaks it,
227; his soldiers called Heca-
tontomachi, ib.; defeats Alex-
ander's army, 228; his cruelty,
ib.

Ptolemy, son of Lagus, obtains
Egypt, after the death of Alex-
ander the Great, ii. 128; takes
Jerusalem, and carries many
Jews into Egypt, 129.

Ptolemy Philadelphus, the second
king of Egypt of that race,
Pref. i. iii.; ii. 129; iv. 310;
procures a translation of the
law of Moses, ii. 129; sets a
vast number of the Jews free,
ib.; sends a letter to the high
priest, 134; his liberal obla-
tions and presents, 135, et seq.
Ptolemy Philometer, ii. 156, 157,
189; iv. 311; he and his queen
Cleopatra permit Onias to
build the temple Onion, ii. 190;
expedition into Syria, 195; dis-
covers Alexander's and Ammo-
nius's plot, ib.; takes his daugh-
ter from Alexander, and gives
her to Demetrius, ib.; might
have put two crowns upon his
head, 196; is wounded and
dies, ib.

Ptolemy, son of Meneus, ii. 238,

246, 279; prince of Chalcis,
257; he marries Alexandra, ib.
Ptolemy, the murderer of Simon

the Maccabee, ii. 212; mur-
ders John Hyrcanus's mother
and brothers, 213.
Ptolemy Physcon, ii. 156, 217;
iv. 311.

Pudens engages in a duel with
Jonathan, and is killed, iv. 193.
Purple robes worn by the Chal-
dean kings, ii. 78; by the Per-
sian kings, 89, 116; Joseph is
clothed in purple by Pharaoh,
i. 67.
Pygmalion, king of Tyre, iv. 281.
Pythian, or Apollo's temple, built
by Herod, ii. 378.

QUADRATUS (Ummidius), iii.
163.

Quails are numerous in the Ara-
bian gulf, and fall upon the
camp of Israel, i. 109.
Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia
comes to Solomon, i. 397; re-
turns home, 398.
Quintilius Varus. See Varus.

137.

Raven sent out of the ark, i. 16.
Rebeka, i. 25; demanded for a

wife to Isaac, 39; bears twins,
41; imposes upon her hus-
band, 43.

Recem, or Rekem, king, i. 175.
Records of the Tyrians, iv. 279.
Regulus (Emilius), iii. 105.
Rehoboam succeeds Solomon, i.
404; gives the people a rough
answer, 405; ten tribes revolt,
406; builds and fortifies seve-
ral towns, 410; has eighteen
wives and thirty concubines,
411; dies, 413.
Revenues of Colesyria, Phoenicia

Judea, and Samaria, ii. 149.
Rezin, king of Syria, ii. 37.
Rezon, Solomon's enemy, i. 403.
Rhodes relieved, ii. 280.
Riches, great riches laid up in

David's monument, i. 370.
Riddles, or problems, between
Solomon and Hiram, i. 393;
proposed by Samson, 241.
Rod of Aaron, i. 161.
Roman army described, iv. 8.
Roman senate's decree in favour
of the Jews, ii. 260.
Rubrius Gallus, iv. 232.

Rue of a prodigious magnitude,

iv. 239.

Rufus, iii. 38, 348, 350.
Rufus (an Egyptian) takes Elea-
zar prisoner, iv. 241.
Rufus (Terentius or Turnus) left
with an army at Jerusalem,
takes Simon, iv. 225.
Ruth gleans in Booz's field, i.
246; married to Booz, and be-
comes the mother of Obed,
247.

SABBATH-DAY kept very strict-
ly by the Essens, iii. 359; Sab-
bath, so called from the Egyp-
tian word Sabo, iv. 308; Sab-
bath-day so superstitiously ob-
served by the Jews, that they
came to great mischiefs, ii. 161;
iii. 255, 392; they are advised
by Matthias to defend them-
selves on the Sabbath-day, ii.
162; and by Jonathan, 183;
allowed to repel, but not to
attack an enemy on that day,
iii. 95; Antiochus forces the
Jews to break the Sabbath, iv.
228; Sabbath-day spent in
reading the law, ii. 365; usher-
ed in and ended with the sound
of a trumpet, iv. 105; Jews,
on that day, dined at the sixth
hour, iii. 215; the seditious
kill the Romans on the Sab-
bath day, 397; unlawful to
travel far on the Sabbath-day,
ii. 215; pretended to be un-
lawful either to make war or
peace on the Sabbath-day, iv.
60; not allowed by some, even
in case of necessity, to take
arms either on the Sabbath-
day, or the evening before, iii.

201.

Sabbatic river, iv. 232.
Sabbeus, ii. 191.
Sabbion discovers Alexander's

design to Herod, ii. 310.
Sabinus, Cæsar's steward in Ju-

dea, iii. 31, 346; he accuses
Archelaus, 22; falls heavy
upon the Jews, 36.
Sabinus, one of the murderers of
Caius, iii. 135; kills himself,

136.

Sabinus, the brother of Vespasian,
takes the capitol, iv. 112; is
killed by Vitellius, 113.
Sabinus, by birth a Syrian, a
man of great valour, iv. 181.
Sabinus (Domitius), one of the
tribunes, iv. 31.

Sacrifice of Abel, i. 11; sacri-
fices were either private or
public, 138; either all or part
only burnt, ib.; how offered,
ib.; how sin-offerings were of-
fered, ib.; those of swine for-
bidden, ii. 159; Titus desires
John not to leave off the sacri-
fices, iv. 185; sacrifices for
Cæsar's prosperity, iii. 366;
omission thereof, the beginning
of the Jewish war, 394; offer-
ings of foreigners usually re-
ceived by the Jews, but now
prohibited by the seditious, ib.;
what part of sacrifices were
due to the priests, i. 162; none
but Jews to overlook the sacri-
fices in the temple, iii. 172;
sacrifices not to be tasted till
the oblation is over, ii. 153;
not to be bought by the hire of
an harlot, i. 182; meat-offer-
ings joined to bloody sacri-
fices, 139; not to be abused to
luxury, iv. 329; ought to be
without blemish, i. 145; what
were burnt-offerings, 138; ani-
mals not offered till the eighth
day after their birth, 139; wine
and oil reserved for sacrifices,
consumed by the seditious, iv.
174.

Sadduc stirs up sedition, iii. 52.
Sadducees deny fate, ii. 203; con-
trary to the Pharisees, 221;
observe only the written law,