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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Arion, treasurer, i. 406.
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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