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68; flies to Izates, 109; kindly re-
ceived and restored to his kingdom,
110; dies, ib.

Artabazes, or Artavasdes, is given as a
present to Cleopatra by Antonius, ii.

201.

Artaxerxes, i. 376; his edict against
the Jews, 378; contradicted, 383.
Artaxias, i. 520.

Artorius saves his life, ii. 423.
Arucas, i. 22.

Arudeus, i. 22.

Aruntius (Euaristus,) ii. 85.

Aruntius (Paulus,) ii. 82.

Azarias, one of Daniel's companions,
i. 350.

Azarias, a commander, is defeated by
Gorgias, i. 418.

Azizus, ii. 116; is circumcised, and
marries Drusilla, ib.; dies, 118.
Azotus, or Ashdod, its inhabitants
plagued, i. 178; taken by Jonathan,
i. 435.

BAAL, ii. 485; god of the Tyrians. L
316.

Baalis, king, i. 348.

Baaras, a place, and plant, ii. 454.

Asa, i. 289; alliance with the king of Baasha, kills Nadab, i. 289; dies, 292

Damascus, 291.

Asael killed by Abner, i. 219.
Asamoneus, i. 412.

Asamoneans, the end of their reign, i.
510.

Ascalonites punished, i. 405.

Ashod, i. 435; its inhabitants plagued,
i. 178.

Ashpenaz, a eunuch, i. 350.
Asineus and Anileus, ii, 67.
Asprenas, ii. 82; cut in pieces, 83.
Assemblies forbidden to all at Rome
but to the Jews, i. 487.

Ass's head falsely reported by Apion as
an object of worship among the Jews,
ii. 505.

Assyrian empire overthrown, i. 335.
Astarte's temple, i. 217; ii. 482.
Astronomy; for its improvement the
first men lived near a thousand
years, i. 19; came out of Chaldea into
Egypt, and thence into Greece, 24.
Asylum, right of, belonging to some
towns, i. 128.

Athenians decree honours to Hyrcanus,
i. 482.

Athenio, i, 404.

Athenio, a general of Cleopatra, ii.
202; perfidious, i. 522.
Athronges crowns himself king of Ju-
dea, ii. 31; is conquered, ib.
Atratinus, i. 502.

Augustus's arrival in Syria, i. 542; his
letter to Herod, 579; holds a coun-
cil about the affairs of Judea, ii. 26;
his edict and letter in favour of the
Jews, i. 563; is angry with Herod,
574; is reconciled to him, 577
vides Herod's dominions, a. 245;
his death, 254.

Azariah, the prophet, i. 290.

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Baba's children preserved, i. 533; af
terwards killed, 534.

Babylon, derived from Babel, i. 20;
taken by Cyrus, i. 256; Nebuchad
nezzar's buildings at Babylon, i. 254;
its walls not built by Semiramis, but
by Nebuchadnezzar, ii. 483; its walls
built by Nobonnidus of brick and
bitumen, ib.; its pensile gardens
erected by Nebuchadnezzar, 484;

i. 254.

Bacchides, i. 422, 425; he attacks the
Jews, ib.
Bagoses, i. 385.

Balak, king of Moab, i. 121.
Baladan, king of Babylon, i. 335.
Balaam, the prophet, i. 121, et seq.,
his ass speaks, 122.
Ballas, king of Sodom, i. 25.
Balm, or Balsam, near Jericho, i. 473,
519.

Baltasar [Belshazzar, or Naboandel, or
Nabonadius,] king of Babylon, i
354; his terrible vision, and its in-
terpretation, 255; his death, 356.
Balthasar [Belteshazzar,] Daniel's

name, i. 350.
Banus, a hermit, ii. 129.
Barachias, i. 327.

Barak, encounters Sisera, i. 163.
Barbarians, their riches formerly con
sisted in cattle, i. 69.
Bardanes, is slain, ii. 110.
Baris, built by Daniel, i. 357.
Barnabazus, i. 377.

Baruch, left with Jeremiah the prophet
in Judea, i. 347.
Barzaphernes, governor, i 189
Barzillai, i. 241, 245.

Bazan, or Baasha, king of Israel, slaya
Nadab i. 290

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Bassus (Ventidius.) See Ventidius.
Bassus (Cecilius,) murderer of Sextus
Cæsar, i. 492; ii. 185.

Bassus (Lucilius,) sent with an army
into Judea; takes Macherus, ii. 453,
et seq.

Bathsheba, i. 232, et seq.
Bathyllus, ii. 228.

Battering-ram, described, ii. 307.
Battle at Taricheæ, ii. 322.
Belus, the Tyrian god, i. 292.
Belus, the Babylonian god, i. 254; his
temple, ib.

Benaiah, a man of valour, i. 247; son
of Jehoiada, 229; made commander,
260; son of Achilus, 262.
Beneficence, its commendation and re-
ward, i. 214.

Benhadad besieges Samaria, i. 297;
the second time, 309; falls sick, and
is smothered, 312.
Benjamites attacked at Gibea, and at
last cut off, i. 159; their tribe restored,
ib.
Berenice, daughter of Agrippa, ii. 51;
is married to Herod, 97.

Berenice, Agrippa's mother, dies, ii. 52.
Berenice, Archelaus's and Mariamne's
daughter, ii. 116.

Berenice, the widow of Herod, marries
Polemon, ii. 117; leaves him, ib.
Berenice, Salome's daughter, Aristobu-
lus's wife, i. 551.

Berenice, Agrippa senior's daughter,
in danger, ii. 264.

Berytus, where the cause between He.
rod and his sons was debated, i. 579.
Bigthan, i. 377.

Birth-day of Ptolemy's son kept by the
Syrians, i. 406; presents made there.
upon, 407.

Bocchoris king of Egypt, ii. 497.
Book of the law found, i. 338.
Books composed by Solomon, i. 263;
twenty-two most sacred among the
Jews, ii. 476.

Booz, i. 174; kindness towards Ruth,
ib.; marries her, 175.

Brazen vessels more valuable than gold,
i. 371.

Bride, how she was to part from one
that refused to marry her, i. 136.

Britons, 2. 434.

Britannicus, ii. 259.

Broccnus, a tribune, ii. 93.

Brother a title which Alexander Balas

gave to Jonathan, 1. 430; the same
title given him by Demetrius Soter

437.

Buckle, or button, sent to Jonathan by
Alexander, king of Syria, i. 436; ane
by Demetrius, 439.

Burrhus, i. 120.

CESAR (Julius) makes war in Egypt
i. 479; his decrees in favour of the
Jews, 485; he is murdered, 492.
Cæsarea built by Herod, i. 540.
Cæsarean games instituted, i. 534; ii
208; begun at the finishing of Cæsa
rea Augusta, i. 561.
Cæsennius Petus, ii. 457
Cæsonia, killed by Lupus, ii. 89.
Cain murders Abel, i. 14; his punish-
ment, ib.; peoples the land of Nod, ib
Caius is made emperor, ii. 59; puts TL
berius to death, ib.; his behaviour,
62; orders his statue to be erected
in the temple, 63; gratifies Agrippa,
and forbids its erection, 66; his letter
to Petronius, ib.; rages against the
Jews, 74; calls himself the brother
of Jupiter, ib.; a conspiracy against
him, 75; the conspirators increase,
78; his death, 82; his threatening
letter to Petronius retarded till he was
dead, 254; his character, 90.
Caleb, one that searched the land of
Canaan, i. 109, 156.

Calf (golden) near Daphne or Dan, ă.

327.

Callimander, i. 452.
Callinicus, ii. 457.
Callistus, i 79.

Cambyses succeeds Cyrus, i. 362; dies
ib.

Camp of the Jews, i. 107; of the Assy
rians, ii. 406.

Canaan land, its description and divi
sion, i. 151.
Canaanites distress the tribc of Dan, i
160; spared contrary to the com-
mand of God, 156; war denounced
against them by Judah and Simeon, ib.
Candlestick in the tabernacle, i. 93.
Cantheras removed from the high
priesthood, ii. 106.
Capellus, ii. 133.
Capito, ii. 263.

Captives of the Jews, how many killed,
&c. ii. 440; captives carried in tri
umph, 451, et seq.

Captivities of the ten and of the two
tribes, i. 349.
Cassander governs Macedonia after
Alexander's death, i. 390.
Cassius Longinus, i. 492,547; ii. 105;
favours Antipater and Herod, i. 492;
repels the Parthians, and then retires
to Judea, 479; ii. 182; defeated at
Philippi, i. 494.

Castles or Citadels, two at Jerusalem,
i. 420, 532, 536.

Castor's cunning trick, ii. 392.
Castration forbidden by the law of Mo-
ses, i. 140; young men castrated by
Nebuchadnezzar's order, and among
others Daniel, i. 350.

- Catullus, ii. 470; his calumny against
the Jews, ib.; his death, 471.
Cecilius Bassus, murderer of Sextus
Cæsar, i. 492; ii. 185.

Cecinna, ii. 367; sent to Vespasian, 368.
Celadus, ii. 36, 246.

Celer put to death, ii. 116.
Celtic legion, ii. 83.
Cendebeus, i. 447; ii. 168.
Cerealis sent against the Samaritans,

ii. 312; marches towards Hebron,
362; is ordered to attack the temple,
420; called to a council of war, 427.
Cestius Gallus, ii. 145, 261; gathers

an army against the Jews, 281; en-
ters Jerusalem, 282; is beaten, 283.
Chereas (Cassius) is stirred up against
Caius, ii. 75; draws others into the
conspiracy, 77; gives Caius the first
blow, 82; is beheaded, 96.
Chargiras, ii. 404.
Chalaman, i. 231.
Cham, or Ham, the son of Noah, i. 19;
his posterity, 23.
Chanaan, or Canaan, the son of Ham,
i. 23; his posterity, ib.
Chares, ii. 328; dies, 331.
Chatura, or Keturah, i. 32.
Chebron, king of Egypt, ii. 480.
Chebron, or Hebron, older than Mem-
phis [Tanis,] ii. 360; taken by the
Israelites, i. 152.
Chelbes, ii. 485.

Cherubim, their shape not known, i. 266.
Christ and Christians, ii. 45.
Chusarthes, or Cushan, oppresses the
Israelites, i. 161.

Chushi, or Hushai, i. 240.

Gutheans, who they were, and whence
they came i 330); go to Samaria

349; hinder the rebuilding of the
temple, 368.
Cinnamus, ii. 110.

Circumcision is received in Palestine
by the Jews, ii. 486; its institution, i.
27; the Arabians circumcise their
children after the 13th year of their
age, 29; the Syrians in Palestine re-
ceived it from the Egyptians, 286;
not to be forced upon any body, ii.
137; the Idumeans forced to be cir.
cumcised, and become Jews, or leave
their country, i. 450; the Itureans
forced to be circumcised. 456.

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Cleopatra, daughter of Antiochus mar-
ried to Ptolemy, i. 403.
Cleopatra, wife of Philometer, i. 431 ;
she takes up arms against Ptolemy,
i. 459; makes an alliance with Alex-
ander, ib.; takes Ptolemais, ib.
Cleopatra, wife of Demetrius II, i. 447;
married to Antiochus Soter, ib.
Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, meets An-
tony, i. 496; her cruelty and avarice,
519; ii. 201; kills her sister Arsinoe,
i. 519; obtains part of Arabia and
Judea, ib.; tempts Herod to lie with
her, ib.; Herod conducts her towards
Egypt, 520.

Cleopatra (Selene) besieged by Ti
granes, i. 466; ii. 175.
Cleopatra of Jerusalem, the wife of
Herod, ii. 7, 224.

Cleopatra, wife of Florus, ii. 126.
Clitus, author of a rebellion at Tiberias,
ii. 142; cuts off his left hand ib.,
291.

Cluvius, ii. 81.

Collega (Cneus,) ii. 447.

Colonies in and out of Italy, ii. 97.
Columns in the land of Siriad, i. 15

Corinthian, in Solomon's palace, 273,
in Herod's temple, ii. 383.
Commandments written upon two tables,
i. 88; by the hand of God, 89; not
to have their very words published, 88
Conscience of wood actions is safer t

be relied on, that on the conceal.
ment of evil ones, i. 46.
Conspiracy against Herod, i. 534, et

seq.

Convention of Asia at Ancyra, i. 563;
at Jerusalem, ii. 134.
Coponius, ii. 39, 42, 247.
Coracinus, a fish, ii. 324.

Corban, or sacred treasure, ii. 252.
Cores, or Korah, raises a sedition, i.

112; perishes, 116.

Corinthus, ii. 10; an Arabian by birth,
226.

Cornelius Faustus, i. 474; ii. 178.
Cornelius, ii. 423.

Corus, a Jewish measure, i. 110.
Costobarus, an Idumean, Salome's hus-
band, i. 532.

Costobarus, a ringleader of the robbers,
ii. 123.

Cotylas, or Zeno, i. 448; ii. 169.
Cotys, king, ii. 101.

Cow, the red cow for purification, i. 119.
Coze, or Koze, Idumean Idol, i. 532.
Crassus, succeeds Gabinius, i. 477 ; ar-
rives in Judea, and plunders the tem-
ple of its treasures, 478; perishes in
an expedition, ii. 182.

Creation of the world, i. 12.

Cyrus, the son of Xerxes, made king.
i. 376; his letter rescinding the edict
of Haman, 383,

DAGON, his temple burnt, i. 345.
Damascene colonies transported into
Higher Media, i. 328.

Damascus taken by Tiglathpileser, i.

328; taken by the Romans, 470.
Dan built by the Danites, i. 161.
Danaus, or Hermeus, king of Egypt, ii.
491.

Daniel the prophet, i. 350; is castrated,
ib.; Daniel foretells future events,
351; tells and interprets Nebuchad
nezzar's dream, ib.; is honoured for
it, 352; his companions are cast into
a fiery furnace, ib.; Daniel explains
the handwriting upon the wall, 355;
is carried into Media, 356; is made
one of the presidents of the kingdom,
ib.; a conspiracy against him, ib.;
is thrown into the lion's den, 357,
builds a tower at Ecbatana, 358; the
manner and certainty of his prophe-
cies, ib.; his vision of the ram and
the he-goat, ib.; his prophecy of the
destruction of the Jews, ib.; of the
profanation of the temple, 416.

Crown or mitre of the high priest, i. 94. Darius, the son of Astyages, called by

Cumanus, ii. 113, 256.

Curses denounced from Mount Ebal, i.
141, 150.

Cuspius Fadus, procurator, i. 547; ii.
104, 256.

Customs or taxes of Syria, Phoenicia,

Judea, and Samaria, 8000 talents,
i. 404.

Cypros, King Agrippa's wife, ii. 256.
Cypros, Antipater senior's wife, i. 479;

ii. 182.

Cypros, Antipater's daughter by Cy.
pros, ii. 52; married to Alexas Sel.
cias, ib.

Cypros, Herod's daughter, married to
Antipater, ii. 52.

Cypros, daughter of Phasaelus and Sa.
lampsio, married to Agrippa senior,
ii. 51.

Cyrenius, or Quirinius, ii. 39, 459.
Cyrenians derived from the Lacedæ.
monians, ii. 270.

Cyrus, king of Persia, i. 356; purposes

to rebuild the Jewish temple; re-
leases the Jews from their captivity,
260; his death, 362,

another name among the Greeks, i.
356.

Darius, the son of Hystaspes, made king,
i. 363; makes a splendid entertain.
ment, ib.; proposes questions to be
resolved, ib.; his letters for rebuild.
ing the temple, 365; has Cyrus's re-
cords searched about that temple,
369; gives order for its rebuilding,
ib.; his edict against the Samaritans,
370.

Dathan, i. 113.

David anointed by Samuel, 195; plays

upon the harp before Saul, 196; fights
Goliath, 198: his and Jonathan's
friendship, 200; is reconciled to Saul,
ib.; is in danger of being killed by
Saul, 201; his flight, ib., 204; he
spares Saul's life twice, 208, 211;
promises to assist the king of Gath,
212; pursues the Amalekites, 216;
makes a funeral oration for Saul and
Jonathan, 218; is made king of Ju-
dah, 219; and of the Israelites, 223;
takes Jerusalem, 224; casts the Je
busites out, ib,; marries several wixes,

225; conquers the Philistines, ib.;
has the ark carried to Jerusalem, 226;
purposes to build the temple, 227;
his victories, 228; his liberality to
Mephibosheth, 230; falls in love with
Bathsheba, 231; causes Uriah to be
slain, 232; marries Bathsheba, 233;
is reproved by Nathan the prophet, ib.;
his son by Bathsheba dies, 234; he
mourns for Absalom's death, 243; or.
ders the people to be numbered, 250;
chooses the pestilence, 251; makes
great preparations for the building of
the temple, 252; exhorts Solomon to
build it, ib., 256; divides the priests
and Levites into twenty-four courses,
255; he dies, 257; is buried, ib.;
Treasures hidden in his monument,
258, 449, 465.

Iy unusually lengthened, i. 150.
Deborah, i. 188.

Decrees of the Komans, &c. in favour
of the Jews, i. 481, 485, et seq.
Dellius, i. 503, 5i5; ii. 194.
Deluge, i. 16, et seq.
Demetrius, alabarch at Alexandria, ii.
117.

Demetrius the son of Demetrius, joins
Jonathan and Ptolemy, and conquers
Alexander, i. 436, et seq.: called Ni-
cator, 437; his letter in favour of the
Jews, ib.; hated by the Antiochians,
438; breaks friendship with Jonathan,
439; conquered by Antiochus, ib.;
made prisoner by Arsaces, and re-
leased, 443; Trypho rebels against
him, 446; defeated, and flies in vain
to Cleopatra his wife, 451; goes
thence to Tyre, is made a prisoner,
and dies, ib.

Demetrius Eucerus made king of Syria
Damascena, i. 460; his assistance de-
sired by the Jews, 461; makes war
upon Alexander, and conquers him,
ib.; ii. 172; makes war with his bro.
ther Philip, is carried prisoner into
Parthia, and dies there, i. 462.
Demetrius of Gadara, obtains the re-
building of that city, i. 475.
Demetrius Phalerius, i. 391; ii. 502;
his petition to king Philadelphus, i.393.
Demetrius Soter, made king of Syria, i.
422; puts Antiochus to death, ib.;
sends Bacchides against the Jews, ib.;
his character, 429; his letter to Jo-
nathan, 430; is killed, 432.

Demons, i. 263.
Demoteles, i. 441.
Diana's temple at Elymais in Persia i

419.

Dido, sister of Pygmalion, ii. 482.
Dinah, Jacob's daughter, i. 42.
Diodorus, son of Jason, i. 451.
Diodorus, or Trypho, i. 438.
Dionysius, i. 471.
Diophantus, i. 576.
Divorce, causes of it, i. 136.
Doeg, the Syrian, i. 204.
Dogs; it is natural to them to devou
the bones with the flesh, i. 407.
Dolabella's letter to the Ephesians in
favour of the Jews, i. 488.
Dolesus, ii. 354.

Domitia kind to Josephus, ii. 161.
Domitian, regent in his father's absence
ii. 368; kind to Josephus, 161; ex
pedition against the Germans, 449.
Domitius Sabinus, ii. 393.
Doris, Herod's wife, i. 494; expelled
the court, ii. 227.

Dorians erect Cæsar's statue in a syna.
gogue, ii. 98; Petronius's edict
against them, 99.
Dortus, ii. 115.

Dositheus, a Jew, his perfidiousness 1.
526.

Dositheus, a general of the Jews, ii. 502.
Dove sem ut of the ark, i. 17.
Draco's laws, ii. 474.
Drusilla, a daughter of Agrippa senior,
ii. 51; married to Azizus, 116; af
terwards to Felix, 117.
Drusus, her brother, ii. 51.
Drusus, brother of Tiberius, ii. 58.

EAGLE, pulled down from the front of

the temple, ii. 19; holding a dragon
in his claws, in the Lacedemonian
seal, i. 408.

Earthquake, wherein the followers of
Dathan and Abiram were swallowed
up, i. 116.

Earthquake, a very great one in Judea,
i. 521.

Eating the sinew upon the hip, why re-
fused by the Jews, i. 42.
Ebutius, ii. 202; slain, 229.
Eclipse of the moon, ii. 29.
Ecnibalus, king of Tyre, ii. 485.
Eglon, oppresses the Israelites, i. 161
Elah succeeds Baasha in the kingdom
of Israel, i. 291.

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