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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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. 73
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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