the tables of the law, i. 119; law of Moses translated into Greek, Pref. i. iii; ii. 129; law made by Herod to sell thieves, 360; law carried in triumph at Rome, iv. 236, and note.
Lentulus's decree in favour of the
Lepidus killed by Caius, iii. 105. Leprous persons obtain places of honour, i. 143; are to live out of cities, ii. 12; resolve in a famine to go over to the enemy, 13.
Letters, whether brought into Greece by Cadmus and the Phoenicians, iv. 267. Letters of Solomon, and Hiram, and the Tyrians, i. 378; of Xerxes to Ezra, ii. 100; of Ar- taxerxes to the governors near Judea, 118; of Antiochus the Great to Ptolemy, 145; of the Samaritans to Antiochus, 159; of Alexander Balas to Jona- than, 186; of Onias to Ptole- my and Cleopatra, 189; of Ptolemy and Cleopatra to Onias, 190; of Demetrius to Jonathan and the Jews, 197; of Julius Cæsar to the Roman magistrates, 266; and to the Sidonians, ib.; of Mark Antony to the Tyrians, 281. Levites exempted from military functions, i. 146. Levite's concubine abused by the inhabitants of Gibeah, i. 222. Levitical tribe consecrated by Moses, i. 142; their allowance, 162; how many cities belong- ed to them, ib.
Liberius Maximus, iv. 242.
Macedonians governed by a Ro-
man proconsul, iii. 388. Macheras, ii. 296; iii. 283. Macherus surrenders to Bassus, in order to set Eleazar at li- berty, iv. 241.
Machines or engines of the Ro- mans, iv. 142; for casting stones, 24.
Madai, or Medes, i. 21. Madianites, or Midianites, bring Israel into subjection, i. 231; Moses makes war upon them and beats them, 175; their wo- men seduce the Israelites, 171. Magician, an Egyptian one, iii.
Mahlon, son of Elimelech, i. 245. Malchus, or Malichus, king, ii. 198, 289; iii. 276. Malichus, a Jewish commander, ii. 198; iii. 267 et seq.; poi- sons Antipater, ii. 277; a great dissembler, 278; is killed by a device of Herod, ib. Manaem, or Manahem, ii. 35. Manahem, an Essene, ii. 353.
Liberty granted the Jews by De- Manahem, son of Judas, iii. 185,
ii. 123; made high priest among the Samaritans, ii. 147. Manna from heaven, i. 109; sig- nification of the word, 110; a sort fell in Arabia in the days of Josephus, ib. Manneus, son of Lazarus, iv. 174. Manoah, i. 239.
Manslaughter, suspected, how purged, i. 184. Marcus, or Murcus, president of Syria, ii. 276; iii. 267. Marcus, iii. 141 et seq. Mariamne, Agrippa daughter, iii. 70, 369; married to Archelaus, iii. 165, 355; di- vorced, 355; married to De- metrius, 166.
Mariamne, or Miriam, Moses's Memucan, ii. 109. sister, dies, i. 163. Mariamne married to Herod, iii. 270; grows angry with Herod, ii. 330; iii. 303; is put to death, ii. 333; her eulogium, 334; her sons strangled, iii. 321.
Menes, or Mineus, built Mem- phis, i. 395.
Men's lives had been happy, if
Marianne, daughter of Josephus and Olympias, iii. 70. Mariamne, daughter of Simon the high priest, iii. 322. Marion, tyrant, ii. 279. Marriage of free men with slaves unlawful, i. 188. Marriage contracts altered by Herod at Antipater's desire, iii. 3.
Marsyas, iii. 72, 79, 82. Mary, a noble woman, eats her own child, iv. 196. Mathusala, i. 12. Mattathias, great-grandson of Asamoneus, ii. 160; refuses to sacrifice to an idol, 161; per- suades the Jews to fight on the Sabbath, ib. exhorts his sons to defend the law, 162; dies, 163.
Matthias, made high priest, iii.
Matthias Curtus, iii. 183. Matthias, son of Margalothus, iii.
Adam had not sinned, i. 10. Mephibosheth highly favoured by David, i. 328, 351. Mesha, king of Moab, ii. 6. Meshech, one of the three holy children, ii. 70. Messalina, iii. 167, 375. Mestræi, or Mitzraim, Egyptians, i. 22.
Metellius, a Roman, iii. 398. Micah the prophet, quoted in Je- remiah, ii. 57.
Micaiah, the prophet, i, 432; he is put in prison, ib.
Mice spoil the country of Ash- dod, i. 251; five golden mice,
252. Michal married to David, i. 283;
saves David's life, 285. Midianites. See Madianites. Milk, with the firstlings of the
flock, offered by Abel, i. 11. Minucianus (Annius), iii. 105, 109.
Misael, one of the three holy children, ii. 70. Mithridates, king of Pergamus, ii. 258; brings succours to Cæ- sar in Egypt, ib.; iii. 261.
Mithridates Sinax, king of Par-
Mithridates, king of Pontus, dies, ii. 248.
Mithridates, a Parthian, marries
Artabanus's daughter, iii. 99; is taken prisoner, ib.; set at liberty, 100; expedition against the Jews, ib.; routs Anileus, 101.
Mitzraim, i. 22. Modius 203. Monobazus, brother of Izates, is king after his brother's death, iii. 159. Monobazus, king of Adiabene, iii. 150; his death, 151. Moon eclipsed, iii. 24.
quiculus, iii. 189, 196,
Moses, his character, Pref. i. v ; his birth foretold, 83; how born and saved, 84, 85; why called Moses, 86; iv. 296; adopted by Thermusis, i. 86: brought up to succeed her fa- ther, ib; tramples on the crown, 87; made general of the Egyp- tian army, and beats the Ethi- opians, 87, 88; marries Thar- bis, 89; flies out of Egypt, 90; assists Raguel's daughters, ib.; sees the burning bush at Sinai, 91; appointed to deliver the Israelites, 92; does miracles and hears the most sacred name of God, 92, 93; returns to Egypt, 93; works miracles. before Pharaoh, 94; leads the Israelites out of Egypt, 99; their number, ib.; how old he was, ib.; his prayer, 102; leads the Israelites through the Red Sea, 102; makes the bitter wa- ter sweet, 106; procures quails and manna, 109, 110; brings water out of the rock, 111; beats the Amalekites, 113; brings the tables of the cove- nant, 119; stays forty days upon Mount Sinai, ib.; his long stay causes great doubts
and uneasiness among the peo- ple, ib.; confers the priest- hood on Aaron, 131; offers sacrifices at the tabernacle, 133, 134; receives laws and commands at the tabernacle, 135; consecrates to God the tribe of Levi, 142; numbers the people, 146; gives orders for their marching, 147; sends spies to search the land of Ca- naan, 149; quells the faction of Corah, 157; his justice, 158; his prayer to God, ib.; cleanses the people, 163; de- stroys Sihon and Og, 165, 166; defeats the kings of Midian, 175; appoints Joshua his suc- cessor, 176; his predictions before his death, 180; his song, 196; a recapitulation of his laws, 181 et seq.; binds the Israelites by an oath to observe them, 197; blesses Joshua, and exhorts him to lead the Israelites courageously, 198; is surrounded with a cloud, and disappears, 199; his death greatly lamented by the peo- ple, 200; is scandalized, as af- Alicted with leprosy, 143; his great authority, 151; his books laid up in the temple, ii. 52; what they contain, iv. 371; called by Manetho Osarsiph, 296, 300; allowed by the Egyptians to be a divine man, 300; the age in which he lived, 323; his virtue and great ac- tions, 324: his posterity ho- noured by David, i. 366. Mosoch, or Meshech, i. 21. Mucianus, president of Syria, iv. 54, 99, 108, 110, 111. Mundus ravishes Paulina, iii. 60 et seq. Murcus. See Marcus. Musical instruments of the Jews described, i. 357. Mysian war, iv. 231. Mytgonus, king, iv. 284.
NAAMAH, daughter of Lamech,
Naash, or Nahash, king, i. 329; wars against the Israelites, i. 262.
Nabal, a foolish man, i. 297. Naboandelus, or Nabonadius, or Baltasar, king of Babylon, ii. 77; iv. 284. Nabolassar, or Nabopollassar, king of Babylon, iv. 282. Naboth, i. 426. Nabuchodonosor, or Nebuchad- nezzar, iv. 281; conquers a great part of Syria, ii. 56; lays a tax upon the Jews, ib.; sacks Jerusalem, 57, 62; his famous dream, 71; his golden image, 73; lives among the beasts, 74; dies, 75. Nabuzaradan, or Nebuzaradan, plunders and burns the temple, ii. 64; his other actions, 65. Nacebus, ii. 394, 402. Nadab, son of Aaron, i. 132, 134.
Nadab, king of Israel, i. 416. Nahum, ii. 36; his prophecy con- cerning Nineveh, ib. Naomi, Elimelech's wife, i. 245. Nathan the prophet, i. 324, 333,
Nations dispersed, i. 20; called by new names by the Greeks,
Nazarites, i. 162; iii. 139. Nechao, or Necho, ii. 55; is con- quered by Nebuchadnezzar,
Nehemiah, ii. 104; his love to his country, ib.; exhorts the people to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, 105; his death and eulogium, 107. Neriglissor, king, iv. 283. Nero made emperor, iii. 167; his death, iv. 98. Netir, a Galilean, iv. 23. Nicanor, ii. 160; iv. 33; sent against Judas, ii. 177; defeat- ed and killed, 178.
Nicanor, a friend of Titus, wound- ed with an arrow, iv. 141. Nicaso married to Manasseh, ii. 123.
Nicaule, or Nitocris, i. 396. Niceteria, or festival for the vic-
tory over Nicanor, ii. 178. Nico, the name of the principal
Roman battering-ram, iv. 145. Nicolaus of Damascus, the Jews' advocate, ii. 144, 364; is sent to Herod by Augustus, 396; his speech before Augustus, iii. 34, 45, 345; exaggerates Antipater's crimes, 14, 335; his brother Ptolemy, 344. Niger of Perea, iii. 407, 412; iv. 2, 86; his wonderful escape, iv. 4. Niglissar, ii. 76.
Nimrod, or Nebrodes, i. 19. Nisroch, or Araske, a temple at Nineveh, ii. 47.
Noah, or Noe, i. 14; is saved in
the ark, 14, 15; invocates God after the deluge, 17; God an- swers, 18; laws given to him, ib.; is overtaken with wine, 23; genealogy, ib.; death, 18. Norbanus Flaccus's letter in be- half of the Jews, ii. 381. Norbanus (another) slain, iii. 117.
ОBADIAH, a protector of the true prophets, i. 423 et seq. Obed, the prophet, ii. 37. Obedience to be learned, before men govern, i. 179. Og, i. 166; his iron bed, ib. Oil used in the oblations, i. 139;
that oil consumed by the sedi- tious, iv. 174; oil prepared by foreigners not used by the Jews, ii. 143; iii. 416. Olympias, Herod's daughter, iii. 4; is married to Joseph, son of Herod's brother, iii. 323. Olympius, Jupiter's image, iii. 104. Olympus sent to Rome, ii. 400, 402; iii. 318.
Omri, king of Israel, i. 420.
On, the son of Peleth, i. 154. Onias, son of Jaddus, succeeds in the high priesthood, ii. 127. Onias, the son of Simon, made high priest, ii. 147; causes great troubles, 156. Onias, brother of Jesus, or Jason,
made high priest, ii. 309. Onias and Dositheus saved Egypt from ruin, iv. 310. Onias, son of Onias, flies into Egypt, and there desires to build a Jewish temple, ii. 189; iii. 239; iv. 262; his letter to Ptolemy and Cleopatra, ii. 189; their answer, 190; he builds the temple Onion, ib. ; that temple is shut up, iv. 262. Onias, a just man, procures rain in a famine by his prayers, ii. 244; is stoned to death, ib. Ophellius, ii. 285; iii. 273. Opobalsamum, i. 398; ii. 2, 248. Oracle concerning the destruc-
tion of Jerusalem, iv. 184, 206; concerning a great prince to arise in Judea, 207. Oreb, a king of Midian, i. 233. Orodes, iii. 57.
Oronna, or Araunah, the Jebu- site, i. 321; his threshing-floor, 361; where Isaac was to be offered, and the temple was afterwards built, 362. Osarsiph (for Moses), a priest, at Heliopolis, iv. 295, 296, 298. Othniel, i. 227.
Otho made emperor, iv. 99; he kills himself, 103. Oxen, brazen, the Jews forbidden to make them, i. 402.
PACORUS, king, iii. 157; redeems his wife and concubines, iv.
Pacorus, the king of Parthia's son, gets possession of Syria, ii. 283; lays a plot to catch Hyrcanus and Phasaelus, 285; marches against the Jews, iii.
271; admitted into Jerusalem, 272; slain in battle, ii. 296. Pageants, or Pegmata, at Titus's triumph, iv. 236.
Pallas, Felix's brother, iii. 171,
Palm-trees, famous, ii. 2, 248; iii. 254; iv. 95. Pannychis, iii. 314. Pappinius, iii. 108. Pappus is sent into Samaria by Antigonus, ii. 299; iii. 285. Paradise described, i. 8; a pen- sile paradise at Babylon, iv. 283.
Parents' good deeds are advanta-
geous to their children, i. 415; how to be honoured, iv. 331. Parthians possess themselves of Syria, and endeavour to settle Antigonus in Judea, iii. 271; their expedition into Judea, ii. 283; besiege Jerusalem, 284; take the city and temple, ib. ; their perfidiousness, 285; iii.
Passover, a festival, i. 98, 141; ii. 244; iii. 31; manner of its celebration, iv. 219; called the feast of unleavened bread, ii. 244; iii. 30; iv. 125; on the 14th day of Nisan, ii. 98; iv. 125; numerous sacrifices then offered, and vast numbers come up to it, iii. 31, 342; from the 9th hour to the 11th, and not less than ten to one paschal lamb, iv. 249.
Paulina ravished, iii. 60. Paulinus, a tribune, iv. 32. Paulinus succeeds Lupus, iv. 262; he plunders and shuts up the temple Onion, ib. Pausanias murders Philip, the king of Macedon, ii. 123. Peace, as a goddess, has a temple at Rome, iv. 237. Pedanius, iii. 319; iv. 191. Pekah slays Pekahiah, and suc-
ceeds him, ii. 35; he defeats
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