AARON, account of, 62. conduct,
of before Pharaoh, 63. wicked-
ness of the sons of, 105. participa-
tion of in the sedition of Miriam,
107. sacerdotal dignity of con-
firmed, 111. the sin of, 112. death
and character of, 113.

the rod of, transformed
into a serpent, 64. buds, 111.
Abednego, holy heroism of, 234.
Abel, murder of, 7.

city of, besieged by Joab, 180.
Abdon, judge of the Israelites, 140.
Abiathar, the priest, 183.

Abihu, sin and punishment of, 105.
Abijam, king of Judah, history of,
202.

Abimelech the son of Gideon, history
of, 137.

the priest, 160.
Abiram, rebellion and punishment
of, 110.

Abishai, valour of, 181.

Abner, actions and death of, 166.
Abomination of desolation, what,
482.

Abraham, birth of, 26, family of,
ib. appearance of before Nimrod,

Adam, creation of, 3. happiness of
in Eden, 5. fall of, 6.
Administration of justice among
the Jews, 93.

Adonibezek, king of Jerusalem, de-
feated and slain, 128.

the Canaanitish king,

punished, 132.

Adonijah, son of David, intrigues
of, 183.

Adrian, the Roman emperor, slaugh-
ter of the Jews by, 432. colony of
at Jerusalem, 432, 485. cruel
edict of, ib.

Ælia Capitolina, built on the ruins
of Jerusalem, 432.

Affghans, supposed to be the descend-
ants of Saul, 164.

Agag, king of the Amalekites, slain,
156.

Agrippa the elder, power, adminis-
tration, and death of, 361, 367.
the younger, actions of,

373, 378, 391, 401.

Ahab, king of Israel, history of,

206.

Ahaz, king of Judah, history of,
223.

212.

Absalom, history of, 176.

king of Judah, 217.
Ahijah, the prophet, 204. fulfilment
of his predictions, 469.

Ahithophel, history of, 178.
Ai, seige of, 126.

126.

Achish, king of the Philistines, 160.

Alcimus, the high-priest, wickedness

of, 280.

Alexander the Great, visit of to Jeru-
salem and its consequences, 255.
successors of, their character, 259.

Balas, king of Syria, 283.
Jannæus, history of, 291.
son of Herod, tragical

fate of, 316.

son of Aristobulus II,

history of, 298.

Severus, a patron of the

Jews, 435.
Alexandra, queen of Alexander Jan-
næus, history of, 294.

- mother of Marianne, im-
prisonment of, 309. baseness of,
313. treason and death of, 314.
Alexandria, the Jews settled at, 258.
their signal deliverance at, 264.
persecution of the Jews at, 362.
their massacre at, 379, 438.
Alexandrion, fort of, bloody tragedy
at, 318.

Jannæus, 291.

house of, 148.

Ammonites, oppress the Israelites,

138. defeated by Saul, 154. sub-
dued by David, 172.

Amnon, incest and death of, 175.
Amon, king of Judah, 229.
Amorites, the, 123.

Amram the father of Moses, 56.
Ananus the high priest, 394.
Angel of the Covenant, Christ the,
35. appeared to Jacob, 44.
Animals, creation of the, 3. pre-
served in the ark, 16.
Anilai, history of, 36.

Annas, the high-priest, wickedness
of, 373.

Antediluvians, longevity of the, 9.
corruption of the, 10. destruction
of the, 15.

cruelty of, 270. death of, 275.
overthrown by Jonathan,

283.

Apostles, labours of the, 358. suc-
cess of the, 481.

Jewish, under the patriarchs
of Tiberias, account of the, 429.
Arad, defeated by the Israelites, 112.
Araunah, the Jebusite, 183.
Archelaus, king of Cappadocia, in-
tercession of for the sons of Herod,
318.

the son and successor of
Herod, history of, 337. deposl
tion of, 341.

Aretas, king of Arabia, 296.
Aristobulus I., unhappy reign of,
289.

II., history of, 295.

233, 472.

of God, taken by the Philis-
tines, 147. removal of to Jerusa-
lem, 168.

Arkites, the, 123.

Artaxerxes Longimanus, favourable
to the Jews, 241. the Ahasuerus
of the Bible, 242.
Artorius, the Roman soldier, ac-
count of, 420.
Arvadites, the, 123.

Asa, king of Judah, history of, 203.
rabbi, 434.

Asahel, death of, 166.
Ascalon, punishment of by Joseph
son of Simon, 263.
Ashtaroth, worshipped by the Isra-
elites, 132.

Asinai, history of, 366.

Asmonean family, rise of the, 272.
extinction of the, 311.
Assyrians, appear upon the borders
of Israel and Judah, 241. destroy
the kingdom of Israel, 225. de-
stroyed before Jerusalem, 227.
take Jerusalem, 229. destruction
of their empire, 235, 475.
Athaliah, queen of Judah, 210, 219.
Atheneas, governor of Jerusalem,

475.

Bacchides, defeated by Judas Mac-
cabæus, 277. invades Judæa, 280.
defeats and kills Judas, 281.
makes peace with Jonathan, 282.
Bagoas the Eunuch, a pretended
Messiah, 322.

Balaam, history of, 115.
Balak, history of, 115.
Banditti, destroyed by Herod, 306.
Barak, history of, 134.
Barchochebas the impostor, history
of, 431.

Baris, castle of, bloody murder at,
290.

Bathsheba, history of, 174.
Belus, temple of destroyed, 241.
Benaiah, the warrior, 183.
Benhadad, king of Damascus, in-
vades Israel, 204. defeated by
Ahab, 208. besieges Samaria, 216
murdered, ib.

Benjamin, tribe of, war of with the
Israelites, 145. destruction and
restoration of, ib.

Berenice, wife of Aristobulus, 316.
daughter of Agrippa, 368.
Berodach-Baladan, embassy of to.
Hezekiah, 228.

Berr, M. the enlightened Jew, 458.
Bethlehem, massacre of the infants
at, 333.

Bethshemesh, arrival of the ark at,
148.

Bethsura, siege of, 279.

Bethune, terrible slaughter at, 293.
Bither, dreadful massacre at, 432.
Boils and blains, plague of the, 66.
Bombay, American missionaries at,
457.

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Cabbalists; account of the, 434.
Cæsarea, city of, built by Herod,
315. seat of the Roman govern-
ment of Judæa, 359. massacre of
the Jews at, 378.

Caiaphas, the high-priest, 343.

Chosroes, plunders Jerusalem, 486.
Chozar, the Jewish kingdom of,
441.

Christ, appeared to Abraham, 31,
35. to Jacob, 44. the Shiloh,
51. the law typical of, 88. of
his atonement, 100. character of
not understood by the Jews, 324.
effect of his appearance upon
their condition, 326. abolished
the Mosaic economy, 331. con-
firmed the moral law, 332. visit-.
ed by the magi, ibid. taken to
Egypt, 333. appearance of in
the temple, 342. consequences
of his ministry to the Jews, 349.
rejection of, the cause of all their

calamities, 349. miracles, divini-
ty, mercy, and claims of, 349.
crucifixion of, 353. observations
upon the ministry of, 354. won-
derful fulfilment of his prophecies
relative to the destruction of
Jerusalem, 478.

Christianity, nature of as a dispen-
sation, 332.

Christians, persecuted by the Jews,
480. retire from Jerusalem to
Pella, 380. how they should act

to the Jews, 460
Chronology of Jewish history, 506.
Circumcision, institution of, 33.
Cities of Refuge, 91.

Claudius, the Emperor, protects the
Jews, 369.

Cleopatra, of Egypt, 308, 310.

of Jerusalem, 336.

Cologna, the Jewish rabbi, 459.
Confusion of Tongues, 24.
Constantine the Great, restores Je-

rusalem, 485.

Constantinople, Jews at, 456.
Conversion of the Jews, will be ac-
complished by God, 488.

Covenant of God with Abraham,

32.

Crassus, avarice and impiety of,

300.

Creation, account of the, 1.
Crimes, capital under the law, 90.
Cromwell, Oliver, conduct of to the
Jews, 446.

Cumanus, governor of Judæa, 370.
Cypros, mother of Herod, 305.
Cyprus, cruelties of the Jews in,
430.

Cyrene, Jews at, 260.

Cyrenius, governer of Syria, 342.
Cyril, Archbishop, a persecutor of
the Jews, 438.

Cyrus, destruction of Babylon by,
235. decrees the restoration of
the Jews, 236. remarkable ful-
filment of prophecy in the history
of, 473.

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Daniel, character of, 235.