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AARON, i. 70; made high priest, 96; his
sons, 97; his death, 119.

Abdastartus, ii. 482.

Abdemon, i. 274; ii. 482.
Abdenago, or Abednego, i. 350.
Abdon succeeds Elon, i. 169.
Abel, i. 14; his sacrifice, ib.
Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, i. 205;
flies to David, 206; is high priest,
216, 229, 238, 244; deprived of the
high priesthood, 260.
Abibalus, ii. 482.

Abigall, i. 209; married to David, ib.
Abihu, the son of Aaron, i. 97.
Abijah, or Abia, i. 242, 285; succeeds
his father, 287; conquers the ten
tribes, 289.

Abilamaradochus, or Evil-Merodach, i.
254.

Abimael, i. 22.

Abimelech tyrannizes over the Sheche-
mites, i. 166; expelled, ib.; destroys
them all, ib.; killed, 167.
Abiram, i. 113.

Abishag, David's nurse, i. 253.
Abishai, i. 211.

Abner, i. 192, 219 et seq.; Saul's kins.
man, 192; general of his army, 219;
reconciles the Israelites to David, 220;
is killed, 221.

Abram, or Abraham, leaves Chaldea,
goes to Canaan, i. 23; lives at Da.
mascus, 23; at Hebron, 25; advises
his sons to plant colonies, 32; instructs
the Egyptians in the mathematical
sciences, 24; divides the country be.
tween himself and Lot, 25; God pro-
mises him ason, 26; beats the Assy.
rians, 25; dies, 34.
Absalom, flies to Geshur, i. 236; re-
called by a stratagem of Joab's, 237;
rebels against David, 238; pursues
him, 242; his army put to flight, ib.;
hangs on a tree by his hair, ib.; is
stabbed by Joab, and dies, ib.
Achar, or Achan, is guilty of theft, i.
147; is punished, 148.
Achitophel, or Ahitophel, i. 238; gives

evil counsel, 240; hangs himself, 241
Acme, ii. 233; her letters to Antipater
and Herod, ii. 17; her death, 21.
Acmon, attacks David, i. 248; is killed
by Abishai, ib.

Acratheus, or Hatach, i. 379.
Actium, battle at, i. 520, 525; ïi. 202.
Ada, the wife of Lamech, i. 14.
Adad, a king of Damascus, 1. 228.
Adam created, i. 12; his fall, 13.
Ader, or Hadad, i. 280.
Adonias, or Adonijah, pretends to the

crown, i. 253; takes sanctuary, 254;
is refused Abishag to wife, 258; killed,
ib.

Adonibesek, made prisoner, his hands
and feet cut off, and dies, i. 156.
Adoram, i. 265.

Adrasar, or Hadadezer, i. 229, 280.
Æbutius, a decurion, ii. 137.
Egypt, whence named, ii. 481.
Egyptian kings called Pharaobs for
1300 years, i. 275.

Egyptians, famous for wisdom, i. 263;
learned mathematics of Abraham, 24;
their sacred scribes or priests, 63;
held it unlawful to feed cattle, 61.
Egyptian false prophet put to flight by
Felix, ii. 119, 360.
Elius Gallus, i. 539.
Emilius Regulus, ii. 75.
Eneas, succeeds Obodas, i. 575
Esop, a servant, i. 515.
Ethiopian commodities were slaves and
monkeys, i. 278.

Agag, i. 193; is killed, 195.
Agar, or Hagar, and Ishmael, are sent
away by Abraham, i. 30.
Αγγαρεύσθαι or forcible pressure, taken
off the Jews by Demetrius, i. 431.
Aggeus, or Haggai, the prophet, i, 368;
he prophecies at the rebuilding of the
temple, 369.

Agones, or games, instituted by Herod,
i. 534; at the finishing Cæsarea, 561.
Agrippa, (Marcus) his bounty towards

theJews, i. 400; splendidly enter.
tained by Herod, 551; makes equal

returns to him, ib.; his expedition to
the Bosphorus, ib.; hears the cause
of the Jews in Ionia, 552; confirms
their privileges, 554; his letter to the
Ephesians, in favour of the Jews, 563,
564; and to those of Cyrene, 564.
Agrippa the Great, or elder, Herod's
grandson, ii. 7, 223; his adventures,
52; is imprisoned, 56; his liberty and
happiness foretold, 57; released, and
made lord of two tetrarchies, with the
title of king, 60; gives Caius a sump-
tuous entertainment at Rome, 65; is
sent to Claudius, 54; his advice to
Claudius, ib.; Claudius bestows on
him almost all the dominions of his
grandfather, 96; his eulogium, 100;
his bounty towards those of Berytus,
101; he treats several kings splen.
didly, ib.; entertains Cæsarea with
shows, and appears himself upon the
stage in a magnificent dress, 102;
dies soon after, 103; his death and
children, 256.

Agrippa, his son by Cypros, ii. 256; did
Lot immediately succeed in his father's
kingdom, 104; Claudius gave him that
of his uncle Herod, 113, 259; to which
he added the tetrarchies of Philip and
Lysanias, 116; is hurt at the siege of
Gamala, ii. 329; his letters to Jose-
phus, ii. 156; his speech to the Jews,
to dissuade them from a war with the
Romans, 267.

Agrippa, son of Felix, ii. 117.
Agrippa Fonteius slain, ii. 449.
Ahab, i. 292; reproved by Elijah, 296;
fights with Benhadad, 298; pardons
him, 299; is afterwards killed by the
Syrians, 302; his sons. 313.
Ahaz, the king of Judah, i. 326.
Abaziah, king of Israel, i. 305
Ahaziah, king of Judah, i. 314.
Ahijah, the prophet, i. 280.
Ahimelech, or Achimelech, slain by the
order of Saul, i. 205.
Ahitophel, or Achitophel, i. 238; gives
evil counsel, 240; hangs himself, 241.
Ai besieged, i. 147; taken, 148.
Aizel, or Uzal, i. 22.
Alans, ii. 457.
Albinus, ii. 122.

Alcimus, or Jacımus, i. 422; calumni-

ates Judas, 423; dies, 424.
Alcyon, a physician, ii. 86.

Alexander Lysimachus, the alabarch, ii.

54, 96, 113.
Alexander, the son of Alexander, by
Glaphyra, ii. 323.

Alexander, the son of Antiochus Epi-
phanes, i. 429; surnamed Balas, ib.
in note; king of Syria, 430; his letter
to Jonathan, ib.; engages in a battle
with Demetrius, 431; demands Ptole.
my's daughter in marriage, 434; is
killed in Arabia, and his head sent to
Ptolemy, 437.

Alexander and Aristobulus, Herod's
sons, strangled by their father's or
der, i. 581; ii. 323.
Alexander, the son of Aristobulus, i.
476; ii. 179; makes war upon the Ro-
mans, ii. 179; is conquered, ib.; kill.
ed, i. 479; ii. 183.
Alexander Janneus succeeds his brother
Aristobulus, ii. 171; a sedition raised
against him, 172; his expedition
against Ptolemais, i. 456; is called
Thracida, for his barbarous cruelty,
462; dies of a quartan ague, 464; ii.
173; his sons Hyrcanus and Aristo-
bulus, i. 465.

Alexander the Great succeeds his father
Philip, i. 386; conquers Darius, ib.
pursues his victories, 387; sends a
letter to the high priest at Jerusalem,
ib.; goes to Jerusalem, ib. ; his dream,
ib.;
388; adores the name of God on the
high priest's forehead, ib. ; enters the
temple, ib.; grants privileges to the
Jews, ib.; the Pamphylian sea gives
way to his army, i. 77; his arms and
armour kept in the temple of Diana,
i. 419.

Alexander, son of Phasaelus and Sa
lampsio, ii. 51.
Alexander (Tiberius) succeeds Cuspius
Fadus, ii. 113, 256; is made procu.
rator of Egypt, 264; chief commander
of the Roman army, ii. 366, 427.
Alexander Zebina, king of Syria, is con-
quered and dies, i. 452,

Alexandra, Alexander Janneus's widow,

holds the administration after his
death, i. 465; dies, 467; her eulo
gium, ib.
Alexandra, daughter of Hyrcanus, writes
a letter to Cleopatra, i. 513, sende
the pictures of her son and daughter
to Antonius, ib.; is feignedly recon.
ciled to Herod 514; is suspected by

Herod, 515; prepares to fly into
Egypt, ib.; bemoans the death of
Aristobulus, 516; acquaints Cleopatra
with the snares of Herod, and the
death of her son, ib.; is put into pri-
son, 518; her indecent behaviour to-
wards her daughter Mariamne, 531;
is killed by Herod's order, 532.
Alexandra, daughter of Phasaelus and
Salampsio, ii. 51; is married to Timius
Cyprius, ib.

Alexandria, a great part of that city as-
signed to the Jews, i. 478; the Jews
declared its citizens, 485.
Alisphragmuthosis, or Halisphragmu.
thosis, ii. 479.

Aliturius, a Jew, ii. 129.

Alliance between Ptolemy and Antio-
chus, i. 403.

Altar of incense, i. 93; of burnt-offer-

ing made of unhewn stone, ii. 488.
Amalekites attack the Israelites, i. 83;
are conquered and plundered, 85.
Aman, or Haman, enemy of the Jews,
i. 378; his edict against the Jews, ib.;
orders a gallows for Mordecai, 381;
is obliged to honour Mordecai, ib.;
his malicious design laid before the
king, 382; his edict countermanded,
383; he is himself hanged, 382.
marinus, or Omri, i. 292.

Amasa, i. 242; killed by Joab, son of
Jether, 247, 257.

Amasias, or Amaziah, i. 321; makes war
on Jehoash, and is beaten, 322; mur-
dered in a conspiracy, ib.

Amathus, i. 22.

Ambassadors sent with presents to He.
zekiah, i. 335; ambassadors slain by
the Arabs, i. 523; this a violation of
the law of nations, ib.
Ambassage sent by Jonathan to the La.
cedemonians, i. 440; sent by the Jews
to Rome, 424.
Ambivius (Marcus) ii. 42.
Amenophis, ii. 294, 301, 480.
Amesses, ii. 480.

Ammonius, killed, i. 436.

Amnon falls in love with his sister Ta-
mar, i. 235; is slain by Absalom's
order, 236.

Amorites given to the tribes of Reuben
and Gad, and the half tribe of Ma-
nasseh, i. 144.

Amphitheatres built at Jerusalem by He.
rod, i, 534; another at Jericho, ii. 23.

Amram, Moses's father, i. 63
Amram, ii. 105.
Amraphel, i. 25.

Anacharis, or Rabsaris, i. 333.
Ananelus made high priest, i. 513,
deprived of it 514; restored to it,
516.

Ananias made high priest, ii. 113, 258,
272; he and his son sent in fetters
to Rome, ii. 115; slain together with
his brother, 275
Ananias, the son of Onias, i. 453, 459
Ananias, the son of Masambalus, ii. 408
Ananus, senior, made high priest, ii

121; his eulogium, 336.

Ananus, junior, made high priest, ii

121, 143, 337; his speech to the peo-
ple, ib.; accused of the murder of
James, 122; deprived of the high
priesthood, ib.; his death, 347.
Ananus, the son of Seth, made high
priest, ii. 41; deposed, 42.
Ananus, son of Bamadus, ii. 408; flies
to Titus, 426.

Ananus, governor of the temple, ii. 115
Ananus, son of Jonathan, ii. 282
Anchus, or Achish, i. 212.
Andromachus expelled the court of He-
rod, i. 569.
Andronicus, i. 433.

Angels of God become familiar with
women, i. 16.

Anileus, ii. 67; killed by the Babylo
nians, 72.

Annibal put to death by Fadus for a
mutiny ii. 105.

Annius (Lucius) takes Gerasa, ii. 358.
Annius Minucianus, ii. 75.
Annius Rufus, ii. 42.
Anoch or Enoch, i. 14.
Anteius killed, ii. 84.
Antigonus governs Asia, i. 390.
Antigonus, son of Aristobulus, i. 459,
477; impeaches Hyrcanus and Anti-
pater, 480; ii, 483; conquered by
Herod, i. 494; invades Judea, 497;
re-established, 500; ii. 192; cuts off
Hyrcanus's ears, and causes the death
of Phasaelus, i. 500; surrenders him-
self, i. 509; ii. 200; sent in fetters
to Marcus Antonius, ii. 201; the first
king whose head was cut off by the
Romans, i. 511.

Antigonus, son of Hyrcanus I. made
commander at the siege of Samaria
i. 452; beloved by his brother, 154,

watched by the queen and her fa-
vourites, 455; ii. 170.
Antioch, the chief city in Syria, ii. 295;

the Jews made citizens thereof by
Seleucus, i. 400; is burnt, ii. 447.
Antiochians rebel, i. 436; their envy
against the Jews, 400.
Antiochus, king of Commagena, îi. 44,
96, 101, 103, 457; Commagena and
part of Cilicia granted him, 96.
Antiochus Cyzicenus, i. 452; assists
the Samaritans, but is put to flight,
ib.; ii. 169; is taken prisoner, and
put to death by Seleucus, i. 460.
Antiochus Dionysius makes an expedi-
tion against the Jews, i. 463; ii. 173.
Antiochus the Great, i. 401; his letters
in favour of the Jews, 401, 402; his
wars with Ptolemy Philopater, and
Physcon, 401, et seq.; marries his
daughter Cleopatra to Ptolemy, 403.
Antiochus Epiphanes, his expedition in-
to Egypt, i. 409; takes Jerusalem,
410; goes into Persia, 414; designs
to destroy the Jews, ib.; his impiety,
449; he dies, 419.
Antiochus Eupator, his son invades Ju-
dea, i. 420; fights with Judas, ib.;
ii. 167; makes peace with the Jews,
i. 421; breaks it, ib.; is killed, 422.
Antiochus Grypus, i. 451; his death, 460.
Antiochus Philometer, i. 457.

Antiochus Pius makes war with Seleu-
cus, i. 460; is slain, ib.
Antiochus Eusebius, or Pius besieges
Jerusalem, i. 448; raises the siege,
449; marches against the Parthians,
and is killed, 450.

Antiochus, the son of Alexander, com-
monly called The God, i. 400;
crowned in his youth, 439; enters
into alliance with Jonathan the high
priest, ib.; slain by Trypho his tutor,
446; ii. 168.

Antiochus, the brother of Seleucus, slain
in battle, i. 460.
Antiochus Soter, brother of Demetrius,
i. 452; makes war with Trypho, 447.
Antipas, Herod's son by Malthace, ii. 7;
is tetrarch of Galilee, 22; goes to
Rome to get to be a king, 26, 289;
what was given him by Cæsar, 245.
Antipas is put in prison and slain, ii.
835, 336.

Antipater, the Idumean, excites troubles,
i. 469; sent Ambassador to Aretas,

475; his wife Cyprus, and his chil.
dren, 479; his valour, 480; advises
Hyrcanus to put himself under the
protection of Aretas, ii. 175; makes
his son Phasaelus governor of Jeru
salem, and Herod of Galilee, i. 482;
endeavours to deserve Cæsar's fa-
vour, ii. 182; honoured by Cæsar,
and made citizen of Rome, i. 480;
ii. 183; his defence against Antigo-
nus, ib.; ii. 183; made governor of
Judea, i. 481; ii. 183; poisoned, i
493.

Antipater, son of Phasaelus and Sa
lampsio, ii. 51.

Antipater, son of Salome, impeaches
Archelaus, ii. 26.

Antipater, son of Herod, i. 494; sent
to Rome to Cæsar, 557; ii. 225, 229 ;
he sets his father against his bre
thren, i. 556; his subtilty, 565; reigns
jointly with his father, ii. 1; hated
by every body, ib.; attempts his fa
ther's life, ib.; is concerned for him.
self, ib.; appears before Varus's tri-
bunal, 13, 231; his plea 14; is put
in irons, 17; is put to death, ii. 22,
235.

Antipatris, taken by Vespasian, ii. 356.
Antonia, Claudius's daughter by Petina.

ii. 259.

Antonia, Claudius's mother, lends mo-
ney to Agrippa the elder, ii. 53; her
eulogium, 55.

Antonia, called Baris, ii. 175; taken by
Titus, ii. 415, et seq.

Antonius (Lucius,) sends a letter to the
Sardians, in favour of the Jews, i. 489.
Antoninus Primus, ii, 367.
Antony, a captain, or centurion, ii. 294.
Antony (Mark,) his decree in favour of
the Jews, i. 487; marches into Asia,
after Cassius's defeat, 494; his letter
to Hyrcanus, 495; to the Tyrians,
ib.; falls in love with Cleopatra, 496;
makes Phasaelus and Herod te.
trarchs, 497; orders their accusers
to be put to death, ib.; confers sig.
nal favours on Herod, 502; sojourns
at Athens, 505; his luxury, 513.
Anubis, a god, ii. 46.
Apachmas, king of Egypt, ü. 479.
Apame, Darius's concubine, i. 364.
Apion, ambassador, ii. 86.
Apollodotus, captain of the Gazeans, i
460; killed ib.

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Aram, i. 22.

Aran, or Haran, i. 23.
Arasca, or Nisroch, i. 334.
Arases, or Resin, i. 326.
Araunah, or Oronna, the Jebusite; his
threshing-floor, i. 251; the place
where Isaac was to have been sacri.
ficed, and where the temple was af-
terwards built, 252.
Archelaus, king of Cappadocia, comes
to Herod, i. 571, ii. 217; goes with
him to Antioch, 218; reconciles He-
rod to his son Alexander, and to his
brother Pheroras, ib.

Archelaus, son of Herod the Great, ii.
7, 12, 244, 229; made ethnarch, 34;
marries Glaphyra, 37; proclaimed
king, 23, 236; his speech to the peo.
ple, 23, 237; endeavours to appease
the people, 24; goes to Rome, ib.;
accused there by the deputies of the
people, 33, 246; banished to Vienna,
ib.; his dreams and Glaphyra's, 37,
246.

Archelaus, grand-son of Chelcias, ii.

103.

Archelaus, son of Magadatus, ii. 426.
Aretas, king of the Arabians, i. 460,
469, 577; ii. 175, 226; expedition
against Aristobulus, i. 470; succeeds
Obodas, 575; impeaches Sylleus, ii.
10; succours Hyrcanus, 175.
Aretas, king of Celesyria, marches
against Judea, i. 463.
Aretas of Petra, ii. 31, 49.

Arioch, i. 350.

Arion, treasurer, i. 406.

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Aristobulus, son of Hyrcanus I., the
first high priest who assumed the title
of king, i. 454; called Philellen, os
lover of the Greeks, 456.
Aristobulus, son of Alexander Janneus

an enterprising man, i. 465; com
plains of the Pharisees, ib.; re
proaches his mother, 465; endea
vours to take possession of the king
dom, ib.; fights with his elder bro
ther for the crown, 468; brings him
to an accommodation, ib.; ii. 175;
sends a golden vine to Pompey, i
471; is, with his children, brought
captive to Rome by Pompey, 475;
escapes, but is retaken and sent back
again, 477; ii. 180; is poisoned by
the partisans of Pompey, 182; his
children, ib.

Aristobulus, son of Herod the Great, i.
542; marries Berenice, 551; put in
prison, 576; accused by his father
and condemned, 579; strangled, 581;
ii. 223.

Aristobulus, son of Herod, king of
Chalcis, ii. 118, 457.

Aristobulus, son of Joseph and Mar
amne, ii, 52.

Aristobulus, son of Aristobulus, is made

high priest by Herod, i. 514; drowned
by the secret order of the same He-
rod, ii. 210.
Aristobulus, son of Aristobulus and Be-
renice, ii. 51.
Aristocracy the best form of govern
ment, i. 133; instituted in Judea by
Gabinius, ii. 180

Arithmetic and astronomy came from
Chaldea to Egypt, and thence into
Greece, i. 24.

Arius, sends a letter to Onias, i. 408.
Ark of God, its description, i. 92; ta-

ken by the Philistines, 177; restored,
179; carried to Jerusalem, 226.
Ark of Noah, where it rested, i. 17

mentioned by alì barbarian historians
ib.; its remains long preserved, 18.
Armais, king of Egyyt, ii. 480.
Armenia conquered by Antonius, i. 529
Cotys king of the Lesser Armenia, ü.
101.

Armesses, king of Egypt, ii. 480.
Arphaxad, i. 23.

Arsaces, king, i. 442, 450.
Artabanus, king of Media, ii. 43
Artabanus, king of the Parthians, ii. 49

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