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INDEX OF THINGS.

ACRA, one of the hills on which

Jerusalem stood, 398
Acrostic,-see Alphabetical
Additions, Heb. Text, 231, 241,

264, 270, 272, 277, 280, et al.
Aleppo, ploughing time there, 237
great houses how disposed, 327
lodging rooms how warmed, 356
All the kingdoms of the earth, to

be taken in a limited sense, 345
Almond tree, its early blossoms, 227
Alphabetical poems, 455 their va-

riety and use, ib.
Alphabetical order inverted in three
instances, 463, 471
Ammon, the Egyptian Jupiter, 411

his temple at Thebes, ib.
Anathoth, a city of Benjamin, be-
longing to the priests, 221
Arabia, whence denominated, 230
its divisions, 344
Arabians distinguished, 273, 430
of the desart, why called a min-
gled people, ib. their isolated
habitations, 431 Scenites, 350,
431 watching for plunder, 237,
cut their hair and beards in a
particular manner, 273
Arabian freebooters called the sword
of the wilderness, 477
Ararat, called the greater Armenia,

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Babylon, its situation, 345 its

greatness, 442 height and
thickness of its walls, 445 the
manner of its being taken al-
luded to, 438, 442, 443 Baby-
lon, its fall and perpetual de-
solation foretold, 340,433,445,
446 why called a golden cup
in God's hand, 440
Babylonish nation of great anti-
quity, 250
Babylonians supposed to have com-
menced the year differently from
the Jews, Note at the bottom
of p. 330. date the reign of Ne-
buchadnezzar differently from
the Jews, 330, 338 prefixed
the names of their idols to those
of their great men, 398 their
invasion and conquest of Judea
foretold, 239

Balm of Gilead, 267
Bactrians subjected by Nebucliad-
nezzar, 245

Barbary, time of sowing there, 237
Bel, the chief idol of Babylon, 398
Benhadad, a name common to the

kings of Syria, 430
Beth-haccerem, 252
Bible, a new English version by

authority much wanted, xiv
Boccore, an early sort of figs, 358
Bows, large ones of steel, how bent,
439

Brasiers of lighted coals used to
warm rooms in several parts of
the East, 356

Captain of the temple, 319
Calamus aromaticus, 256
Captivity of the Jews at Babylon,
its period ascertained, 340,341,

361

Caphtorim, and country of Caph-
tor, 414

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Covenant of general release entered

into, and broken, by the Jews,

382

Covering the head in affliction, 235
Covert of the Sabbath, 396
Courses of the priests, 319
Courts of justice held in the city

gates, 294, 312, 395, 477
Cush, a country of merchandise, 321
Cushites, Arabians bordering on
Red Sea, 292, 344, 409
Cup of consolation, 306
Cup of the wine of God's wrath,
289, 342, 475

Cutting the flesh in mourning, 303,
401, 414, 421 forbidden the
Jews, 303-305
Cutting the hair in the like circum-
stances usual with many na-
tions, but forbidden by the law
of Moses, 305
Damascus, 429

Darkness, an emblem of distress,
Death personified, 271, 459
234, 467
Delusive appearance of water in the
Desolation of Judah, whence to be
desart, 301

Difference in the given heights of
computed, 224

Solomon's brazen pillars how
reconciled, 451
Distinction between

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Doves build in the natural hollows
of rocks, 419

Dragons suck in the air, 295
Dress, its magnificence in the east

consisted much in the rich co-
Drought, a calamity frequent in
lours, 276
Palestine, 294
Dungeon, 385, 395
Dwelling houses of great men used

for prisons in the East, 384
Dying, an art carried to great per-
fection by the ancients, 276

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Egyptians, deceitful allies, 236,
397, 409 their defeat at Car-
chemish, foretold, 408 their
repositories for the dead, 349
Elam, or Elymais, an ancient king-
dom, 431 distinct from Persia,
ib. under Daniel's government,
ib.
Elamites, famous archers, ib.
Ellipsis 241, 253, 269, 293, et al.
English Version vulgar, its defects

its marginal notes sometimes.
preferable, 227, 284, 293, 477
English Version old, 229, 235, 250,
288, 300, 456
Ethiopians paint their eyes with
antimony and soot, 247 fa-
mous for long bows, 409
Euphrates, 232, 288, 444

False prophets, 334, 335, 360, 376,

463

Festival, annually at Heliopolis in

honour of the Sun, 404
Figs, three different sorts, 358
Figures, strong poetical ones, not
to be interpreted too strictly,
324

Form of ratifying a covenant, 383
Formalities in a Hebrew bargain of
sale, 387
Fullers fields, 375

Gate Harsith, 317 higher of Ben-
jamin, 320 middle, or center
gate of Jerusalem, 398

Gaza, 412, 414

Gareb and Goatha, 375
Geruth-Chimham, 402-

Gilead, 326, 436

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Jews carried captives to Babylon at | Marks on the hand, 388

six different times, 452
Idiom of the passive verb impersonal
with an accusative after it, 351,
357

Images, fine assemblages of them,
246, 456

Josephus convicted of mistakes, 330

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Judah, called God's mountain, 309

Kedar, 231 a general name for

the Arabs descended from Ish-
mael, 430

Messiah called David, 364, 366
Migdol, or Magdolus, in Egypt,

404

Milcom, the chief Deity of the
Ammonites, 424, 425
Milstones, their noise first heard in
the morning, 339

Minni, the lesser Armenia, 441
Money anciently paid by weight,

386

Mourning feasts, 3061

Mourning women, 270, 324
Mournful outcries over the dead,
303, 324
Mountains, powerful nations and
princes so called, 309
Nazarites, 261, 473

Nebo, an idol of the Babylonians,
398

Nebuchadnezzar, styled the sword
of Jehovah, 415

Nergal, an idol of the Cuthites, 398

Kedem, one of the divisions of Ara- New names assumed by kings on

bia, 344, 430

Keepers of fields, 245

Keepers of the door of the temple

at Jerusalem, 451
Kermez, or summer fig, 358
Kidron, the brook, 376
Kir-heres, a principal city of Moab,

419

Lamentations of Jeremiah, their

metrical construction, 455 date
and occasion, 455 poetic ex-
cellence, 456
Lamentation of David over Abner,
311 over Saul and Jonathan,

324

Lead used in refining silver ancient-
ly, 258

Lebanon, 314, 326, 332

mounting the throne, 326, 332
New Zelanders, their custom of

cutting themselves on the fore-
head in mourning, 304
Nitre, or Natrum, of the ancients,

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Numbers of Jews carried to Baby
lon, 452

Oaks, scenes of idolatrous worship,
235

Oath, a solemn act of religion, 242
ancient manner of administering
it, 435

Omissions, Heb. Text, 297, 317,
347, 362, 374, 387, et al.

Lions denote great princes and con- Ophir, gold of-see Uphaz

querors, 231

Locusts, 442

Luhith, 416

Masoretical readings rejected, 232,
234, 235, 246, 250, et al.

Ostrich, its unnatural cruelty, 473
Otaheitean women wound the crown
of their head in mourning, 304
cut off their hair on the like
occasion, 305

Overflowing of vitiated bile occa-

sioned by vexation, 462
Painting eyelids, a fashion of East-
ern Ladies, 247
Pans of coals, see Brasiers
Paranomasia, 227, 241, 416
Parallelism, a mark of versification,
ix. its use in correcting and in-
terpreting, 242, 246, 255, 276
Passages cited in N. T. 370, 373
Pathros, or Thebais, 405
Pelusium, 405

Peninsula of Arabia, 273, 344, 431
Period of 70 years captivity ascer-
tained, 340, 341
Petra, or Selah, strong city of Idu-
mea, 427

Philadelphia, see Rabbah

long after the first publication,
413 concerning the Philistines
and other nations, when deliver-
ed, 412 when fulfilled, 415
Prophecy by Vision, 288, 342, 368

misapplied to the miraculous
conception of Virgin Mary, 371
Prostitutes, their punishment, 292
Proverb of fathers eating sour

grapes, &c. explained, 372

Rains, former and latter, 237
Rabbah of the children of Ammon,
420

Ramah a city of Benjamin, 370
Rechabites, when they retired into.
Jerusalem, 349 their descent
and rules of living, 350

Philistines when ravaged by Ne. Reigns of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah

buchadnezzar, 412

Phocæans, their oath not to return
to their own country, 447

Phut, 409

intended for the punishment of
the Jews, 448
Reservoirs, see Cisterns

Release of Hebrew slaves given and
recalled, 382

Pillars of brass in Solomon's tem- Return of Jews from Babylon fore-

ple, 451

Pillars, or tall Poles, set up as way-

marks in the desart, 371
Pit, or Reservoir, at Mizpeh, 401
Pomegranates on the brazen pillars,
their number, 451
Potter's wheel, 314
Principal scribe of the host, 451
Princes of Judah, their court, or
Sanhedrim, 347

Prisoners of the land, insolvent
Debtors delivered over to their
Creditors, 469
Prisoners of war, their treatment,
234, 292
Prisoners of war, how disposed of

by the Mogul Tartars, 321
Promise of perpetuity in the lines

of David and Levi, 392, 393
Prophets, an order of men bred in
seminaries or schools, 346
called watchmen, 255
Prophecies of Jeremiah, part in
metre and part in prose, 228
not compiled into a book till

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