Page images
PDF
EPUB

Water, bitter, made sweet by Moses, i. 148, brought out of the rock at Rephiding
155.

Witch, or necromantic woman, of Endor, comforts Saul, i. 423, encomium on her
conduct, ib.

Witness, a single, not to be accredited, i. 248.

Woman, creation of, i. 17.

Women, purification of, i. 196, their power, 239-240, cunning in preventing accu,
sations, 86, their dress forbidden men, 263, foreign women not to be meddled with
by the Jews, ii. 321, when divorced, cannot marry another without their former
husband's consent, 560, Persian women or wives not to be seen by strangers, 263,
not allowed to be witnesses, i. 248.

X.

Xanthicus, the Syro-Macedonian name of the Jewish month Nisan, i. 26, the same
with the Egyptian month Pharmuth, i. 137.

Xerxes succeeds Darius, ii. 250, his letter to Ezra, 251.

Xylophory, a Jewish festival, when they carried wood to the temple, for the sacrifi-
ces, iii. 522.

Year, two beginnings of the Jewish, i. 26.

Y.

,great, a period of six hundred common years, i. 30.

Z.

Zabdiel, a prince of the Arabians, ii. 382.

Zabulon, son of Jacob and Lea, i. 69.

Zachariah, king of Israel, ii. 150, his death, 153.

son of Jehoiada, a prophet, is stoned, ii. 139.

-, the prophet, ii. 247.

son of Ahaz, is slain by Maaseiah, ii. 157.

Zacharias, son of Baruch, iv. 136, is murdered in the temple, 137.

Zadoc, high-priest, i. 519, ii. 201.

Zalmunna, captain of the Midianites, i. 319.

Zarephath, or Sarepta, the widow's habitation, ii. 89.

Zealots, iv. 115–133.

Zebul, a magistrate of the Shechemites, i. 323.

Zedekiah, a false prophet, ii. 99.

-, king of Judea, ii. 192, revolts from the Babylonians, 194, calls for Jere-
miah's advice, ib. carried captive to Babylon, 199, his death, ib.

Zeeb, a king of the Midianites, i. 319.

Zerah, an Ethiopian king, ii. 73, defeated by Asa, ib.

Zeruiah, i. 419.

Zeuxis, ii. 316.

Ziba, Saul's freedman, i. 494.

Zillah, Lamech's wife, i. 22.

Zimri, chief of the Simeonites, his speech against Moses, i. 235, slain by Phineas, ib.

[blocks in formation]

163
2315. Famine in Jerusalem.

6. Cleopatra receiving the presents. 383 6. Men of Masada.

4. Josephus in the Cave,

78

277

254

« PreviousContinue »