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Eleazar, son of Aaron, i. 97.

Eleazar, the son of Ananias, high priest,
ii. 42, 272.

Eleazar, the son of Dineus, ii. 114, 118.
Eleazar, the son of Dodo, i. 249.
Eleazar casts out a demon, i. 263.
Eleazar, the brother of Joazar, made
high priest, ii. 37; deprived, ib.
Eleazar, brother of Judas Maccabeus,
i. 412, 420; crushed to death by an
elephant, 421.

Eleazar of Massada's speech to his gar-
rison, ii. 463.

Eleazar, high priest in the days of Jo-
shua, i. 116; dies, 155.
Eleazar, high priest in the days of Phi-
ladelphus, Pref. i. vii.; i. 394; his
letter to Philadelphus, ib.; dies, 403.
Eleazar, the son of Sameas, his valour,
ii. 307.

Eleazar, the son of Simon, ii. 285, 341,
370, 377.

Eleazar, the companion of Simon, dies,
ii. 360.

Eleazar, commander of the temple, ii.
122, 272.

Eleazar taken by Rufus, ii. 455.
Eleutheri (or Freemen,) horsemen so
called, ii. 190.

Eli, is judge after Samson, i. 173; his
profligate sons, 175.

Eliashib, i. 373; dies, 385.
Elijah, the prophet, i. 292; his miracles
for the widow of Sarepta, ib.; pre-
sents himself to Ahab, ib.; foretells
rain, ib.; false prophets killed by his
order, 295; calls for fire from hea-
ven, 305; taken up, 306; his let.
ter to Jehoram, 313.
Elimelech, i. 173.

Elioneus made high priest, ii. 102.
Elisha, the prophet, i. 296; his mira-

cles, 307, 308; his death, 321; his
cure of the fountain, ii. 357.
Elkanah, or Elcanah, Samuel's father,
i. 175.

Elon succeeds Ibsan, i. 169.

Elthemus, ii. 204.

Eluleus, i. 330.

Epaphroditus, his character, Pref. i. vi.
a great friend of Josephus, ii. 161.
Ephesians, their decree in favour of the
Jews, i. 491.
Ephod, i. 94.
Epicrates, i. 452.

Epicureans, their error concerning Pro.
vidence confuted, i. 358.
Epistle of Jonathan the high priest, i.
441; of Philadelphus, 394; to Elea-
zar the high priest, 394; of Solomon,
and Hiram 264; of Xerxes to Es
dras, 370; of Artaxerxes to the
governors near Judea, 383; of Anti.
ochus the Great to Ptolemy, 401; of
the Samaritans to Antiochus, 411; of
Alexander Balas to Jonathan, 430; of
Onias to Ptolemy and Cleopatra, 432;
of Demetrius to Jonathan and the
Jews, 437; of Julius Cæsar to the
Roman magistrates, 485; of Mark
Antony to the Tyrians, 495.
Esaiah, or Isaiah, the prophet, i. 333
et seq.; his eulogium, 336; his pro-
phecy concerning the Assyrians, 335;
concerning Cyrus, 360; his prophecy
concerning the temple of Onias, ii
470.

Esau, or Edom, i. 44; his birth, 34.
Esdras, i. 370; his grief for the foreign

marriages, 372; reads the law of Mo-

ses to the people, 373; dies, ib.
Essen, or high priest's breast-plate, i

94.

Essens honoured by Herod, i. 544; are
against swearing, ii. 248; manners,
rites, &c. described, i. 441; ii. 40,
247; abstained from anointing them-
selves with oil, ib.; diligence in read.
ing their sacred books, 248; Simon
the Essen, an interpreter of dreams,
37.

Esther, i. 377; married to the king, ib.,
concerned for the Jews, 379; invites
the king and Haman, 380.

Etham, i. 278.

Ethbaal, or Ithobalus, i. 293; ii. 482,
485.

Ethi, or Ittai, the Gittite, i. 238.

Enemies, when conquered, may be law. Ethnarchy, Simon's, contracts thence

fully killed, i. 309.

Enoch, i. 14, 17.

Enoch and Elijah, translated, i. 306.
Enos, the son of Seth, i. 17.

Ensigns of the Romans, ii. 44; sacri.
fices to them, il. 433.

dated, i. 445.

Euaratus of Cos, i. 575; ii. 221.
Euaristus, Aruntius, ii. 85.
Eve created, i. 12; her fall, 13.
Evil-merodach, i. 354; ü. 484.
Euodos, ii. 58.

Eupolemus, son of John, i. 424.

e Eurycles slanders the sons of Herod, i.
574; ii. 219; he returns to his own
country, 221.
Eutychus, Agrippa's charioteer, ii. 54.
Eutychus, Caius Cæsar's charioteer, ii.

95.

Exorcisms,composed by Solomon, i.263.
Ezechias, i. 482.

Ezekiel the prophet, i. 340, 345; car.
ried captive to Babylon, 341; his pro-
phecy concerning the destruction of
the Jews, 342; his prophecy recon.
ciled to that of Jeremiah, ib.

FABATUS, Cæsar's servant, ii. 10; He.
rod's steward, 226.

Fabius, governor of Damascus, i. 495;
ii. 188.

Fabius, a centurion, i. 474.

Factions, three in Jerusalem, ii. 372.
Fadus (Cuspius,) i. 547; ii. 104, 256.
Famine in Judea in Herod's reign, i.

537; in the reign of Claudius, ii.
109, 113; in Jerusalem, ii. 400, 406;
for Saul's cruelty to the Gibeonites, i.
248; at Samaria, 452.
Fannius's decree in favour of the Jews,

i. 488.

Fannius, a pretor, i. 451.

Fast observed at Jerusalem, on the day
on which Pompey took Jerusalem, i.

510.
Felix, procurator of Judea, ii. 116, 118,

258; punishes the mutineers, 119.
Festivals of the Hebrews, i. 102; three
great ones, ii. 47; Roman guards
were posted at the temple, ii. 256;
immunity granted them at those fes-
tivals, i. 431; celebrated in shining
garments, 455; and on them no man-
ner of work, i. 103; celebrated by the
Gentiles in idleness and pleasure, 42;
no mourning among the Jews at such
times, 373; nor did they then tra-
vel far, 460; Egyptian women ap.
peared at such times in public, i. 48;
wood carried on a festival day for the
altar, ii. 274; festival of the dedica-
tion of the temple by Judas Macca-
beus, i. 416.

Flaccus (Norbanus,) proconsul, i. 563;
president of Syria, ii. 53.

Flesh of horses, mules, &c., forbidden
to be brought within the walls of Je.
rusalem, i. 402.
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Florus (Gessius,) i 41, 123; is the
cause of the Jewish war, 126, 130,
261, et seq.; is derided by the people,
263; plunders the city ib.; calum.
niates the Jews, 266.

Fonteius Agrippa killed, ii. 449.
Fountain near Jericho, ii. 356; is cured
by Elisha, 357; its wonderful virtue,
ib.

Fronto, ii 427, 440.

Fulvia, a lady, defrauded of her money
by a Jew, ii. 46.
Furius, i. 474; ii. 178.

GAAL protects the Shechemites agains1
Abimelech, i. 167.

Gabinius, i. 471, 473; ii. 177; is made
president of Syria, i. 476; ii. 179.
Gad, the prophet, i. 251.

Gadara taken by Vespasian, ii. 354.
Gaddis (John) i. 427.

Galadens, their queen Laodice, i. 460
Galba succeeds Nero, ii. 359; is mur
dered, ib.

Galilee comes under the Roman domi.
nion, ii. 327, 334.
Gallicanus, ii. 314.

Galls become Herod's life-guards, ii.

205.

Gallus (Ælius,) i. 539.
Gallus (Cestius,) ii. 145, 261.
Gallus, a centurion, ii. 329.
Gallus (Rubrius,) ii. 449.
Gamala besieged, ii. 327, et seq.
Games of the circus, ii. 76; Olympic
games restored, i. 561; Cæsarean
games instituted, 534, 561; ii. 208,
ordained by Titus on the birth-days
of his father and brother, ii. 445.
Gaza demolished, i. 460.
Gazeans grievously punished by Jona-
than, i. 440.

Gemellus (Tiberius,) ii. 58.
Gemelius, Herod's friend, expelled his
court, i. 669.
Geometry invented by the long-lived
patriarchs, i. 18.
Gerizzim, its temple demolished, i. 450.
Germanicus, father of Caius, ii. 58; sent
into the east, 44; poisoned by Piso, ik
Germans mutiny, ii. 448; a German's
predictions concerning Agrippa, i.

57.

Giant, i. 108, 156.
Gibeath, rape at, i. 158.
Gibeonites, by a wile, make a covenant,

1. 149; their fraud punished, ib.;
they are satisfied for the attempt of
Saul to slay them, 248.
Gideon's stratagem, i. 165; he dies, 166.
Glaphyra married to Alexander, i. 551,
566; her enmity with Salome, ib.;
ii. 214; her lamentation when her
husband was put in chains, i. 576 ; is
sent back a widow, ii. 6; afterwards
married to Juba, and then to Arche-
laus, 37; her dream, and death, ib.
God (the true God,) his presence in the
tabernacle, i. 98; judged to be only
the god of the hills by the Syrians,
298; discovers his ineffable name to
Moses, 70.

Gods of Laban stolen, i. 40; of Cutha,
brought to Samaria, i. 331; of the
Amalekites, worshiped by Amaziah,
322; of the heathen, not to be cursed
or blasphemed, 132; ii. 518; Beel.
zebub, the god of flies, i. 305.
Goliath of Gath challenges the Jews to
a single combat, i. 197; is slain by
David, 198.

Gorgias is put to flight, i. 415; has bet.
ter success, 418.

Gorion and Simeon exhort the people
to attack the mutineers, ii. 337; put
to death, 350.

Gratus, ii. 55; puts Simon to death, 30;

meets Varus, 243; discovers Clau
dius, and brings him out to be empe-
ror, 91.

Greeks put Hebrew names into their
own form, i. 21.

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Haggai, a prophet, i. 369; he and Ze-
chariah encourage the Jews to re-
build their temple, 368.
Halicarnassians' decree in favour of the
Jews, i. 490.

Haman, an enemy of the Jews, i. 398;
his edict against the Jews, ib.; he
orders a gibbet to be erected for Mor-
decai, 381; is obliged to honour
Mordecai, ib. ; the edict is contra-
dicted, 382; he is hanged, ib.
Harlots excluded from marriage, i. 135.
Hatach, or Acratheus, i. 379.

Hazael, i. 296, 312; he plunders Ju.
dea, 319; he dies, 321.
Hebrews twice carried captives beyond
Euphrates, i. 349; thought by some
to have come originally from Egypt,
60; not put to servile labour, in the
days of Solomon, 276; of those He-
brews that came to offer their sacri.
fices from beyond Euphrates, 110;
fight the Canaanites against Moses's
order, 111; ten tribes lived beyond
Euphrates, i. 371; language and cha-
racter came near to the Syriac, 391;
nouns have all the same formation,
21; have but one temple and altar,
131; met at Shiloh thrice in a year,
160; only the two tribes under the
Roman dominion, 371; their wise
men in the days of Solomon, 263.
Helcias the Great, ii. 64.
Helcias, treasurer, ii. 121.
Helena, queen, embraces the Jewish re-
ligion, ii. 106; goes to Jerusalem,
109; buried there, 112.
Herennius Capito, ii. 53.
Herod, the son of Antipater, i. 479, ii.

182; began to rule in Galilee in his
15th [25th] year, i. 482; puts Eze-
chias, and other robbers, to death,
483; being accused for it, he takes
his trial, i. 483; ii. 185; escapes,
i. 484; goes to Sextus Cæsar, and is
made governor of Celesyria, ib. ; is
in favour with the Romans, 492;`
made procurator or governor of Sy.
ria, ii. 186; puts Malichus to death,
ib.; beats Antigonus, i. 494; bribes
Mark Antony, 495; impeached by the
Jews, but made a tetrarch by Antony,
496, 497; gets the better of the Jews,
ib.; escapes the snares of the Par
thians, 499; accidents of his flight, ii.
191; goes to Egypt, thence to Rhodes,
and thence to Rome, i. 501; ii. 192;
male king by the Roman senate, i.
502; ii. 193; sails back to Judea,
and fights against Antigonus, i. 502;
takes Joppa, and besieges Jerusalem,
503; ii. 194; takes Sepphoris, i. 504:
conquers his enemies, ib.; joins his
troops with Antony's, at the siege of
Samosata, 506; is providentially de
livered, ib.; defeats Pappus, 507;
besieges Jerusalem, takes it, makes
Antigonus prisoner, and sends him in
chains to Antony, 508; ii. 200; pro

motes his friends, and destroys those
of Antigonus, i. 511; marries the fa.
mous Mariamne, 513; ii. 199; causes
his wife's brother Aristobulus to be
drowned, 516; is summoned to take
his trial for it, 517; brings Antony
over to his interest by bribes, ib. ; puts
Joseph to death, 518; is solicited to
adultery by Cleopatra, 517; makes
war against the Arabians, 520; ii. 202;
his speech to the army in distress, i.
522; ii. 203; beats the Arabians, i.
524; ii. 204; puts Hyrcanus to death,
i. 526; his commentaries, ib.; or-
ders Mariamne to be put to death, if
he himself come to an ill end, 527;
his presence of mind before Augustus,
ib.; is confirmed in his kingdom, 528;
entertains Cæsar magnificently, ib.;
receives more favours from Cæsar,
and has his dominions enlarged, 529;
ii. 205; puts Mariamne to death, ii.
211; is very uneasy at her death, i.
531; ii. 211; is afflicted with a kind
of madness, ii. 18, 233; departs from
the manners and customs of the Jews,
i. 534; builds theatres, and exhibits
shows, ib.; a conspiracy against him,
535; builds a temple at Samaria, 537;
a palace at Jerusalem, 539; and a
citadel, ib.; relieves the people in a
famine, 538; marries Simon's daugh-
ter, 539; his policy, ib.; builds Cæsa-
rea, 540; sends his sons to Rome, 541;
builds a temple to Cæsar, 543; eases
the people of a third part of their
taxes, ib.; forbids them to meet pri-
vately, ib.; keeps spies, and becomes
one himself, 544; honours the Essens,
ib.; rebuilds the temple, 545; ii. 206;
makes a new law concerning thieves,
i. 550; goes to Cæsar, brings home
his sons, and marries them, ib., 551;
entertains Marcus Agrippa, 551; is
in great favour with Agrippa, ib.;
eases his subjects of the fourth
part of their taxes, 555; quarrels in
his family, ib.; favours Antipater,
556; impeaches his sons at Rome,
557; is reconciled to them, 560; ii.
212; celebrates games in honour of
Cæsar, i. 561; builds towns and cas.
tles, ib.; builds Apollo's temple, and
renews the Olympic games, 562; ii.
207; his temper described, i. 562;
opens David's sepulchre, 505; sus.

pects his kindred, ib.; is accused by
Sylleus, 574; his cruelty to his sons,
579; accuses them in a council, ib.;
orders them to be strangled, 581;
provides for their children, ii. 6; his
wives and children, 7, 51; contracts
marriages for Mariamue's children,
7, 223; alters those contracts, 224;
sends Antipater to Cæsar, 9, 225; is
made to believe that his brother was
poisoned, 10, 226; finds the poison
was for himself, ii 227; tries Anti-
pater, and puts him in chains, 12;
his bitterness in his old age, 18;
makes his will, ib. ; his terrible sick.
ness, 20, 233; his order for murder.
ing the principal of the Jews, 21; at-
tempts to murder himself, 22; alters
his will, ib.; his character, ib. ; his
death and burial, 23, 235; his will
opened and read, 23; not to take
place till confirmed by Cæsar, ib.
Herod, son of Herod, made tetrarch, ii.
41, 61, 251; builds towns in honour
of Cæsar, 252; sends a letter to Cæ-
sar, 49; makes war upon Aretas, ib.;
is banished, 253.

Herod, Agrippa senior's brother, ii. 113;
marries Mariamne, 52; has the pow.
er over the temple given him by Clau-
dius, 106; his death and children,
113, 256.

Herodias envies Agrippa's royal digni.
ty, ii. 61, 253; follows her husband
in his banishment, 62; married to
Herod, son of Herod the Great, 52;
afterward married to Herod, the for-
mer husband's brother, 53.
Hezekiah, king of Judah, i. 328; his
speech to his people, ib.; his solenn
celebration of the passover, 329;
makes war upon the Philistines, ib.;
defends himself from Sennacherib,
332; recovers from sickness, 335;
dies, 336.

Hiram, David's friend, i. 224; sends
ambassadors to Solomon, 263.
Hiram, king of Tyre, ii. 481.
Hophni, i. 176; is slain, 177.
Hoshea, king of Israel, i. 390. ha ia
made a prisoner, 330
House of the forest of Lebanon, 1. 270
Huldah the prophetess, i. 338.
Human sacrifice, i. 307.
Hushai, i. 239, et seq.
Hymns composed by David, 1. 249.

Hyrcanus, son of Joseph, i. 405; his
artful invention, 406; sent to Ptolemy,
and kindly received, 407; actions and
death, 407, 409.

Hyrcanus (John,) son of Simon, escapes
being slain, i. 447; attacks Ptolemy,
448; ii. 168; is made high priest, i.
448; ii. 168; is besieged by Antio-
chus, i. 448; buys a peace, 449;
marches into Syria, recovers the towns
that had been taken, and renews the
alliance with the Romans, 450; takes
Samaria, and demolishes it, 452; his
intercourse with God, ib.; his dream,
456; was ethnarch, high priest, and
prophet, ii. 169; his death, and eulo-
gium, i. 454.

Hyrcanus II, made high priest, i. 465;
ii. 174; agrees to leave the civil go.
vernment to his brother, i. 468; his
inactive genius, and why he fled to
Aretas, 469; tries to bribe Scaurus,
471; pleads against his brother before
Pompey, 472; recovers the high
priesthood, 475; confirmed therein
by Cæsar, 481; ii. 183; honoured by
the Romans and Athenians, i. 481; ta.
ken prisoner; and his ears cut off, 500;
released by the Parthians, and returns
to Herod, 512; perfidiously treated,
and put to death, ib.; ii. 210.

JAREL, i. 14.

Jabesh Gilead demolished, i. 159.
Jabin enslaves the Israelites, i. 163.
Jacimus, or Alcimus, i. 422.

Jacob born, i. 34; contracts with Laban
for Rachel, 38; wrestles with an an.
gel, 42; his sons, 43; privately de
parts from Laban, 40; his posterity
when he went into Egypt, 60; sends
Benjamin to Egypt, 55; meets Esau,42.
Jacob, an Idumean, betrays his country,
ii. 360.

Jadus, or Jadua, high priest, i. 386;

meets Alexander, 387; dies, 3S9.
Jadon, i. 283; killed by a lion, 284.
Jael kills Sisera, i. 163.
Jahazaleel, the prophet, i. 304.
James, the brother of Jesus Christ,
stoned, ii. 122.

Japhet, i. 19; what countries his sons
possessed, 22.

Jason, or Jesus, i. 409.
Jason, son of Eleazar, i 424.
Javan, i. 20,

Ibis destroys serpents, i. 67.
Ibzan, judge after Jephtha, i. 165.
Ide, ii. 45; is crucified, 46.
Idumeans, i. 417; ii. 341,et seq.; refuse
to give the Israelites passage, i. 119
turn Jews, i. 450; are but half Jews,
503; Koze their former idol, 532.
celebrate the Jewish festivals, ii. 28.
Jehoahaz, king of Judah, i. 340; he
dies in Egypt, ib.

Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel,
i. 319, 320.

Jehoash saved, i. 317; made king, 318,
murdered, 320.

Jehoiachin, or Jeconiah, i. 341.
Jehoiakim, rebels against the Babylo
nians, i. 340; is slain by Nebuchad.
nezzar, and cast out of the gate, 341.
Jehonadab, i. 316.

Jehoram, king of Judah, i. 313.
Jehoram, king of Israel, his expedition
against the Moabites, i. 306; his dis.
temper and death, 313.
Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, i. 300; par-
doned for an alliance with Ahab, i. 303;
his fleet broken, 304; his death, 307.
Jehoshebah, i. 317.

Jehu, i. 296; is made king of Israel, i.

314; his actions, 315, et seq.; puts
Baal's priests to death, 316; dies, 319.
Jehu, the prophet, i. 290.

Jephtha puts the Ainmonites to flight,
168; sacrifices his daughter, 169,
makes a great slaughter among the
Ephraimites, ib.

Jeremiah, i. 340; his lamentations on
the death of Josiah, ib.; his prophe-
cy against Jerusalem, 341; his scribe
Baruch, ib.; is accused and dis-
charged, ib.; his prophecy read in
the temple, and his roll burnt, ib.; his
prophecy of the Jews' release from
captivity, 343; he is thrown into the
dungeon, ib.; is left with Baruch, in
Judea, 347.

Jericho taken, i. 146; its rebuilder
cursed, 147; it is plundered by the
Romans, i. 504.

Jeroboam conspires against Solomon, i.
280; made king of the ten tribes,
282; erects golden calves, ib.; his
hand withered, 283; his expedition
against Abijah, 288; dies, 289.
Jeroboam II, makes war against the Sy.
rians, i. 323; dies, 324.

Jerusalem taken by David, i. 224,

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