A.

AARON, birth of, 163; ordered by God to
meet Moses, 168; appears before Pharaoh
with Moses, 169; his rod changed into a
serpent, 170; aids Moses in the battle with
the Amalekites, 192; makes a golden calf,
196; constituted high-priest, and his ap-
pointment miraculously approved by fire
from heaven, 204; his envy of Moses, and
God's rebuke, 211; confirmation in the
priesthood by the budding of his rod, 216;
transgression at Meribah, 217; death and
burial on Mount Hor, 218; supposed tomb,
219, note.

ABANA, a river of Damascus, 377, 569.
ABARBANEL'S charge against Josephus, 365.
ABARIM, mountains of, from which Moses
took a view of Canaan, 227.
ABBAS MEERZA, of Persia, 323, note.
ABDON, a judge of Israel, 260.

ABEL, birth of, signification of name, his sac-
rifice and why preferred to Cain, and his
murder, 77.

ABEL-MAHOLAH, west of the Jordan, 370.
ABEL-MIZRAIM, the mourning of the Egyp-
tians, 161.

ABGARUS, king of Edessa, 48.

ABIAH, Son of Samuel, degeneracy of, 271.
ABIATHAR, son of the high-priest Ahimelech,
the only one of the family that escaped
Saul's massacre, 296; officiating as high-
priest under David, 313; joins the rebel
Adonijah, 334; deposed, 335; expelled from
Jerusalem, 339.

ABIGAIL, wife of Nabal, liberality of to David

and his men, 299; marries David, 300.
ABIHU, killed by lightning, 206, 277.
ABIJAH, Son of Jeroboam, death of, 359.
ABIJAH, or ABIJAM, son of Rehoboam, king
of Judah, 363; he addresses Jeroboam and
his army at Mount Zemarim, and prophe-
cies defeat to Israel, 364; surrounded by the
enemy while speaking, 364; gains a great
victory, and takes Bethel, 365; dies, 365.
ABIMELECH, king of Gerar, takes Abraham's

wife, 103; makes a covenant with Abraham

at Beersheba, 106; a title, like Pharaoh,
117; renews treaty with Isaac, 118.
ABIMELECH, a spurious son of Gideon, slays
all his brothers, seventy in number, except
Jotham, 254; anointed king, reigns three
years in Shechem, and is expelled by the
people, 254; has his skull broken by a stone
thrown by a woman at the siege of Thebes,
and commands his armor-bearer to kill him,

255.

ABINADAB of Kirjath-jearim, to whose house
the ark was removed, 270, 312, 313.
ABINA DAB, son of Saul, slain by the Philis-
tines, 303.

ABIRAM, a chief of the tribe of Reuben, rebels
with Korah and Dathan, 214; destroyed by
an earthquake, 216.

ABISHAG, à concubine of David, 338.
ABISHAI, brother of Joab, entreats David to

slay Saul when he is in his power, 300;
defeats the Edomites, 315; puts the Ammon-
ites to flight, 317; takes command of the
royal guards, 331; slays a giant, and saves
David, 332.

ABISHUA, high-priest, 265.

ABNER, cousin of Saul, appointed general of
the army, 284; espouses the cause of Ish-
bosheth against David, and is defeated by:
Joab, 305; kills Asahel, Joab's brother,
306; sides with David, 308; is stabbed by
Joab, 309.

ABRAM, call of, his obedience, and God's
promise, 93; removes to Moreh, Bethel, and
Egypt, 93; calls his wife his sister, but the
consequences averted by divine interposi-
tion, 94; returns to Canaan, 94; separates
from Lot, 95; recaptures Lot, 96; promised.
a son, 97; change of name, 99.
ABRAHAM, signification of, 99; is visited by
three heavenly messengers, informed of the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and
prays for the doomed cities, 101; removes
to Gerar, and again equivocates concerning
his wife, 103; plants a grove for worship,
106; his faith tested by the command to
sacrifice Isaac, 107; God's promise renewed,
109; sends his steward Eliezer to Haran to

697

procure a wife for Isaac, 110; marries Ketu-
rah, dies, and is buried, 114.
ABSALOM avenges his sister Tamar's disgrace,
and flees to Talmai, his grandfather, 322;
returns to Jerusalem, but does not see his
father for two years, and plans a rebellion,
322; proclaimed king at Hebron, 324;
marches to Jerusalem, and fulfils Nathan's
prophecy by taking his father's concubines,
325; defeated in the forest of Ephraim,
caught by his hair in an oak, and slain by
Joab, 326; view and description of his sep-
ulchre, 327, 328.

Acco, or PTOLEMAIS, a harbor of Palestine,
347.

ACHAIA, 590, 591, 594, 596, 597, 623.
ACHAN, theft of, discovered by casting lots,
232; he is stoned and burned, 232.
ACHIACARUS, nephew of Tobit, 415.
ACHISH, king of Gath, 294, 301.
ACHMETHA, city of, 430.

ACILIUS GLABRIO, a Roman consul, defeats
Antiochus III. at Thermopylæ, 463.
ACRE, a province and city in Palestine, 93.
ACRO, Corinth, 580.

ACTIUM, battle of, 503.

ACTS of the Apostles, 26; dedicated to
Theophilus by Luke, 634.
ADAH, wife of Lamech, 78.

ADAM, his name Hebrew, and signification of,
67; joy at receiving Eve, 68; quotation
from Milton, 69; expulsion from Eden, 70;
posterity of, in the line of Seth, 79.
ADBEEL, son of Ishmael, 106.
ADELM, translation of the Psalms by, 52.
ADIABENE, 402, note.

ADJEROUD, modern, the Etham of the Bible,
a haiting-place of the Israelites, view of, 181.
ADNAN, descendant of Ishmael, and one of
the progenitors of the Arabs, 115.
ADONAI, 40.

ADONI-Bezek, king of Bezek, is captured,
has his thumbs and toes cut off, and dies at
Jerusalem, 238.

ADONI-ZEDEK, a Canaanite king of Jerusa-
lem when Joshua enters Canaan, makes war
upon the Gibeonites, is defeated by Joshua,
and great numbers of his army killed by
hail, 234.

ADONIJAH, Son of David, rebels, and is par-
doned at the crowning of Solomon, 334;
forms another plot, and is put to death, 338.
ADRAM-MELECH, an idol, 127.

ADRAMYTTIUM, a seaport in Asia, 607.
ADRIAN, emperor of Rome, 47.
ADULLAM, a cave in which David found
shelter in his flight from Saul, 295, 312.
EGEAN SEA, 583.

ÆGENAS, pro-consul of Achaia, 623.
ELIA CAPITOLINA, a Roman city, built on
the site of Jerusalem, 539.

AFRICA, possessed by the descendants of
Ham, 91; visited by the Phoenician navies,
348.

AGABUS, prophecy of a famine by, 575.
AGAG, king of the Amalekites, has his life
spared by Saul contrary to divine command,
285; is put to death by Samuel, 286.
AGRIPPA, his treatment of Paul, 606, 607;
at Jerusalem during the revolt, 651; leaves
the city, 652; sends troops to Jerusalem,
653; receives Vespasian at Antioch, 658;
goes to Rome with Titus, 665.
AGRIPPA I., son of Aristobulus, 513.
AGRIPPA II., king of Chalcis, 513.
AGRIPPA, son f Felix and Drusilla, 513.
AHAB, son and successor of Omri, comes to
the throne of Israel 931 B.C., and, with his
wicked wife Jezebel, introduces idolatry,
368; he consecrates a grove to Baal, and
builds a temple in Samaria, 368; conquers
Ben-Hadad, and forms an impious alliance
with him, 371, 372; obtains Naboth's vine-
yard by his death, 372; Elijah pronounces
his doom, 373; killed by Syrian archer, and
the prophecy fulfilled, 374; his seventy
sons beheaded, 382.

AHASUERUS. See ARTAXERXES.

AHAZ, successor of Jotham on the throne of
Judah, 391; introduces Syrian gods, altars,
and finally shuts up the temple, 392; de-
feated by the king of Syria, 392; dies 725
B.C., 394; dial of Ahaz, 400.
AHAZIAH, son and successor of Ahab, con-
sults Beelzebub, and is denounced by Elijah,
dies, 374.

AHAZIAH, Son and successor of Jehoram
king of Judah, forms an alliance with Jeho-
ram king of Israel, is wounded in battle,
and dies, 356.

АHIJAH, a prophet who foretold the future
rule of Jeroboam over the Ten Tribes, 356;
foretells the death of Jeroboam's son and his
race, which prophecy is fulfilled by Baasha,

359.

AHIMAAZ, son of Zadok the high-priest, 326,

328.

AHIMELECH, high-priest at Nob, gives the
show-bread from the sanctuary and the
sword of Goliath to David, 294; killed by
order of Saul, 296.
AHINOAM, of Jezreel, wife of David, after
Saul had given Michal to another, 300.
AHITHOPHEL, a counsellor of David, who
joined Absalom in his rebellion, 324; his
counsel to pursue and kill King David, 325;
hangs himself, 326.

AHOLIAB, one of the builders of the taberna-
cle, 198.

AI, a city near Jericho, 232; the Israelites
defeated there, 232; captured on the second
attack, the king hung, and the spoil divided
among the soldiers, 233.

AIN MOUSSA, place where the Israelites came
up from the sea, 188; view of, 189.
AIN ROGEL, Adonijah proclaimed king there,

334.
AKABA, 129.

by Bartholomew, 630.

ALBINUS, Roman governor of Judæa, 651.
ALCEUS, a famous lyric poet, 598.

ALCIMUS, high-priest of the Jews, 475, 476;
dies, 478.

ALEXANDER, son of Philip of Macedon, as-
cends his father's throne, B.C., 335, 442;
invades Asia, B.C., 334, and defeats the
Persians, 443; in the following year sub-
dues Phrygia, and other provinces, 443;
captures Tyre, 444; visits Jerusalem, and
salutes the high-priest, whom he had
seen in a dream, 444; invades Egypt, and
founds Alexandria, 446; pursues Darius
beyond the Euphrates, and acquires pos-
session of the Persian throne, 447; his
plans, excesses, and death, 448; empire di-
vided among his generals, 448.
ALEXANDER, Son of Herod the Great, 508;
strangled by order of his father, 509.
ALEXANDER BALAS announces himself the
son of Antiochus Epiphanes, and lays claim |
to the throne of Syria, 479; his cause
espoused by Jonathan Maccabeus, 480;
killed by Zabdiel, an Arabian emir, 480.
ALEXANDER, son of Aristobulus, attempts to
usurp the government of Judæa, and is
defeated, 494; makes another attempt, is
defeated by the Roman army, and beheaded,

496.

Alexander GONATUS seizes the sceptre of
Macedonia, 455.

ALEXANDER JANNEUS, third son of Hyrca-
nus, succeeds his brother, 488; defeated in
battle by Ptolemy Lathyrus, recovers his
ground by the assistance of Cleopatra, and
visits her in Egypt, 488; pursues an aggres-
sive policy and meets disasters, 488; is
hated by the Pharisees, and insulted in the
temple, 489; rebellion of the people, which
he overcomes with great slaughter, 489;
reduces the provinces beyond Jordan, re-
turns victorious to Jerusalem, and dies,
leaving the government in the hands of his
queen, 490.

ALEXANDER, a Jewish convert of Ephesus,

596.

ALEXANDER ZEBINAS takes the throne of

Syria, 487; put to death by Ptolemy, 487.
ALEXANDRA, wife of Alexander Jannæus, is
invested with regal power, follows her hus-
band's counsels, and throws herself into the
hands of the Pharisees, 490; appoints her
eldest son to the priesthood, 490; dies, and is
succeeded by her eldest son Hyrcanus, 491.
ALEXANDRIA, 139, note; founded by Alex-
ander the Great, 446; the metropolis of
Ptolemy's empire, St. Mark plants a church
there, 633; massacre of Jews in, 654; de-
clare for Vespasian as emperor, 667.
ALEXANDRIUM, fortress of, 492, 503.
ALEXIUS COMMENES, 626, note.
ALFRED, king, his Bible, 52.

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ALLA SHEHR, the ancient Philadelphia, 641,

642.

ALLON-BACHUTH, an oak under which Debo-
rah was buried, 134.

ALTAR to the unknown God, 587, 588.
AMALEKITE, an, informs David of the death
of Saul, 304.

AMALEKITES, battle of the Israelites with,
192; descended from Ham, 192; inhabit
the south part of Canaan, 212; their de-
struction prophesied by Balaam, 223; assist
the Moabites and Ammonites to subdue
Israel, 241; defeated by Saul, 285.
AMARIA, city of, 426.
AMARIAH, high-priest, 384.
AMASA, cousin of Absalom, his chief captain,
326; appointed captain under David, after
Absalom's death, 330; killed by Joab, 331.
AMASIS, king of Egypt, successor of Pharaoh-
Hophra, 411.

AMATHUS, a fortress beyond Jordan, 488.
AMAZIAH, son and successor of Joash as king
of Judah, is victorious over the Edomites,
falls into idolatry, 389; taken prisoner at
Beth-shemesh by Joash, king of Israel, 389;
killed in a conspiracy, 390.
AMMAH, hill of, 306.

AMMON, County of, 219, 317.
AMMON, city of, ruins of, 318; description of,
318, 319, note.

AMMONITES, descendants from Lot, 103; as-
sist the Moabites and Amalekites to subdue
Israel, 241; assemble an army in Gilead,
256; defeated by Jephthah with great slaugh-
ter, 257; lay siege to Jabesh-Gilead, and
demand that the right eyes of all the people
be put out, 279; overthrown by Saul with
great slaughter, 280; defeated by Joab and
Abishai, 317; tributary to Solomon, 336;
reduced to tribute by Uzziah, 391.
AMMONIUS, favorite minister of Alexander
Balas, 480.

AMNON, son of David, dishonors his half-

sister Tamar, 321; slain by her brother
Absalom, 322; claim of, to the throne, com-
pared with Absalom, Adonijah, and Solo-
mon, 337.

AMON, son of Manasseh, account and death
of, 402.

AMORITES, land taken from by Jacob, 157,
note; inhabit the mountains of Canaan, 212;
defeated by the Israelites, their kings killed,
and their cities captured, 220.
Amos, book of, 26.

AMOs, a prophet in the time of Uzziah, 391.
AMRAM, of the house of Levi, father of Moses,

163.

AMROU, conqueror of Alexandria, 446.
AMYRTEUS, king of Egypt, 440.
AMYTIS, wife of Nebuchadnezzar, 84, note.
ANACLET, bishop of Rome, 637, 638.
ANAK, race of, giants found in Canaan by the
spies, 212.