Dositheus of Alexandria, 505.
Doubters among the Judæans, 429.
Earliest inhabitants of Canaan, 1 ff.
Earthquake in Uzziah's time, 229.
predicted by Amos, 236.
Ebal, Mount of, 45.
Eben-ha-Ezer, Philistines defeat the Israelites at, 70.
Israelites defeat the Philistines at, 78.
Ecclesiasticus, book of, 439–41.
Ecclus. ix. 3; xxxii. 3, 4 and 6; 429, 439.
Edomites, subdued by Amaziah of Judah, 222.
See Idumæa.
Eglon, king of Moab, killed by Ehud, 60.
Egypt and Assyria at war, 263.
emigration of Jacob to, 4.
emigration of Johanan, Jeremiah, etc., to, 323.
induces Judah to rebel against Nebuchadnezzar, 306, 309.
invaded by Antiochus Epiphanes, 450, 452.
Egypt under Apries (Hophra) and Nebuchadnezzar, 312.
under Necho, 296.
under Ptolemy I., Soter, 416. See Ptolemy.
under Shishak inimical to Israel, 176.
Egypt's aid courted by Judah under Hezekiah, 269.
alliance with Solomon, 161.
Egyptian idolatry, 9.
introduced in Judah, 300.
Egyptians, accomplishments and attainments of, 8.
and Israelites, 7.
and Persians, 407.
bright and dark sides of, 8.
early history of, 8.
Egypto-Judæan community in Alexandria, 418.
Ehud, the judge, of Benjamin, 60.
Elah, king of Israel, killed by Zimri, 192.
Elath and Eziongeber, important seaports, 170, 176.
Elders == Zekenim, in early time, 7.
and Moses, 25.
Eleasa, defeat of the Judæans at, 487.
Eleazar, brother of Judas Maccabæus, 479.
Eleazar, the high priest, and the Septuagint, 514.
Election of Saul at Mizpah, 83.
Eli, the priest at Shiloh, 69–71.
Eliakim == Jehoiakim, king of Judah, 299.
Eliakin, son of Hilkiah, Shebna's successor, 272.
Eliashib, the high priest, 362, 383.
deposed by Nehemiah, 385.
Elijah, the Tishbite, 199.
at Sarepta, 203.
meets Ahab, 202 f.
meets Ahaziah, 207.
pursued by Jezebel, 204.
's return prophesied by Malachi, 385.
Elisha, Elijah's successor, 207.
activity and work of, 217.
highly respected by Joash of Israel, 223.
his death, 228 f.
meets Jehoshaphat and Jehoram, 209.
meets Naaman, 224.
Emendations of Judges iii. 8 and 10; 60.
Emendations of I. Sam. xv. 32; 93.
Emigration of Jacob to Egypt, 4.
of Johanan, Jeremiah, etc., to Egypt, 323 f.
Emim == Anakim and Rephaim, 2.
Endor, Gideon's encampment at, 62.
Saul consults the witch at, 103.
Ephes Damim, Goliath and Philistines slain at, 97 f.
Epiphanes of Egypt, 433 ff.
Ephraim and Manasseh, settlement of, 35 f.
Ephraimites displeased with Saul's election, 83.
head the revolt against Rehoboam, 181 f.
punished by Jephthah, 65.
ruined with the other nine tribes, 265.
side with Absalom against David, 139.
Epicurus's doctrines influencing Judæans, 429.
Esarhaddon of Assyria, 284.
Ethbaal (Ithobel) of Tyre, ally of Omri, 194.
Ethbaal II., vassal of Nebuchadnezzar, 304, 306.
Ethnarch at Alexandria, office of, 507.
Evil-Merodach of Babylon, 331.
Exile, Babylonian, 329–53.
of the Israelites, 260, 264.
of the Judæans, 307, 317, 325.
prophets of the, 344–49.
Exiles, moral change of the, in Babylonia, 333–5.
number of the Judæan, 332.
obtain grants of land, 330.
treated kindly by Nebuchadnezzar, 329.
Exiled priests settle in Samaria, 390 ff.
Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, 17.
of the Judæans from Babylonia, 355.
Ezekiel, son of Buzi, the prophet, 332 ff.
xxiii. 7, 8, and xxxviii. 8; 12, 407.
Ezra enforces the observance of the law, 387–8.
guardian of the temple, 382.
insists upon dissolution of mixed marriages, 367–9.
not a man of action, 371.
reads the law to the people, 378.
visits Jerusalem, 366.
Famine in Israel under Ahab, 203.
in Judah under Uzziah, 229 f.
Feast of Dedication, 473.
of Lights, 472.
of Tabernacles, 380.
Fertility of the land of Israel, 46 ff.
Fleet of Solomon, 170 f.
Future life, doctrine of, 404.
Gad and half Manasseh, attacked by Nahash, desire a king, 80.
settles in the trans-Jordanic territory, 29 f.
Gad, the prophet, joins David, 100, 113, 138.
Galilee, land of, 45.
Gath conquered by David's troops, 117 f.
Gaza, Ptolemy defeats Demetrius at, 417.
taken by Alexander the Great, 412.
Gazara, a stronghold of the Hellenists, 523.
Gedaliah appointed governor of Judah, 319.
murdered by Ishmael, 322.
overseer of the Judæan prisoners, 315.
Gehazi, Elisha's disciple and servant, 218, 223.
Gehenna, valley of, 115.
Ge-Hinnon == Hell, 404.
Gelil Haggoyim == Galilee, 164.
Gen. xlix. 16 and 17; 66.
Geography of Jerusalem and neighbourhood, 115 f.
of Palestine or Land of Israel, 42 f.
Gerizim, 45.
Gibeah of Benjamin, taken by Jonathan, 85.
residence of Saul, 89.
Gibeon, Joshua's victory over the Canaanites at, 34.
Gibeonites or Hivites and Rizpah, 123.
in Ezra's time, 367.
massacred by Saul, 94.
submit to Joshua, 34.
Gibborim == heroic warriors, 100.
Gideon-Jerubbaal routs the Midianites, 62.
Gilboa, Mount, 44.
Saul, his sons and army slain on Mount, 103 f.
Gilead, 50.
faithful to Jehovah under Ahab, 200.
Gilead, inhabitants of, aided by Judas Maccabæus, 474.
Gileadites of Jabesh pressed by Nahash the Ammonite, 89 f.
Gilgal, annual meetings of the people under Samuel at, 78.
first centre of worship under Joshua, 40.
Saul and his army meet at, 85.
school of prophets at, 205, 234.
tribes renew their oath of allegiance to David, 146 ff.
God of Israel, the, 5, 283, 402.
of hosts, 130.
Gods of Egypt, 9.
Goliath and David, 95 ff.
Gorgias, the Syrian, defeated by Judas Maccabæus, 465.
defeats Joseph and Azariah, 476.
Goshen, land of, 7.
Government of Israel under David, 121 f.
under Saul, 90 f.
under Solomon, 162, 172.
Governors of Cœlesyria, Andromachus, Memnon and Joseph, son of Tobias, 414, 425.
Governors of Judæa after the exile, 360 ff.
See Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, etc.
Greece and Judæa, 413.
Greek colonies in Palestine, 419.
customs spread in Judæa, 427 f.
faction among the Judæans, 435.
games among the Judæans, 438.
translation of the Pentateuch, 510, 512.
Greeks and Macedonians, 411.
Hadad (Adad) of Idumæa, fights against Solomon, 176.
Hadadezer of Zobah, helps Hanun against David, 126.
Haggai, the prophet, 359.
Hanukkah == days of consecration, 473.
Hanun, the Ammonite, defeated by David, 127.
insults David's messengers, 126.
Haphtarah, 400.
Hasmonæans. See Maccabees.
connect themselves with the Romans and Parthians against Syrians, 490.
leaders of the nation, 490.
one of the three parties in Judæa, 489.
Hathor, the Egyptian goddess, 9.
Havvoth Jair, 64.
Hazael of Damascus, invades Israel and Judah, 220 f.
's war against Israel, 210.
Hebrew alphabet, Assyrian characters of the, 395 f.
literature taken along into the captivity, 334 f.
poetry, commencement of, and two characteristics of, 29.
tongue cultivated by the Judæans in Babylonia, 364.
Hebron, Absalom rebels against David at, 139.
inhabited by the Idumæans, 474.
residence of David, 109.
Helam, defeat of the Aramæans at, 127.
Hell == Ge-Hinnon, 404.
Hellenism in Judæa, 435, 439, 442–71.
Hellenists, Acra occupied by the, 478, 488.
masters of the country, 488.
overthrow of, 523.
side with Alcimus, 483.
Heman, chief psalmist and musician at Gibeon, 79, 121.
Hermon, Mount, 44.
Heron, a Syrian commander, defeated by Maccabæus, 462.
Hezekiah, king of Judah, 268–80.
and Merodach-baladan, 278.
change of policy of, 272.
death of, 280.
defense against Sennacherib, 275.
early measures of, 268 f.
illness and recovery of, 276.
restores Jehovah's worship, 266–7.
rule of, 278.
unites with Egypt against Assyria, 269.
weakness of character, 268.
High-priestly office made equal to that of royalty, 219.
High-priests—
Abiathar, 120.
Alcimus, 482.
Azariah, 167, 245.
Eliashib, 362.
Hilkiah, 289, 365.
Jason, 444, 480.
Jehoiada, 213 ff.
Jehoiakim, 360.
Joiada, 386, 409.
Jonathan, 495.
Joshua, 351 ff.
Judas Maccabæus, 481.
Onias, I., II., and III., 413, 423, 437.
Onias IV., 505, 507, 522.
Onias Menelaus, 447–80.
Seraiah, 314, 365.
Simon I., and II., 420, 432.
Zachariah, 220.
Zadok, 120.
Highroads of the king, 171.
Hilkiah, high priest under Josiah, 289, 365.
Hiram of Tyre, 118.
friend of Solomon, 161–2.
receives for gold twenty Israelitish towns, 164.
supplies Solomon with cedar and cypress wood, 164.
Hiram, the artist, building the temple, 165.
Historical books, from Genesis to the end of Judah, compiled by Baruch, 336.
Hittites == Hivites, 3.
Hollow Syria == Cœlesyria, 414.
Holy City, 114 ff.
Land, 1, 41.
Hosea, Beeri's son, the prophet, 240.
Hosea II., contemporary of Isaiah, 251.
chapter ii. 4–6; 241.
's speeches against idolatry, 240 f.
Hoshea, son of Elah, kills Pekah of Israel, 260, 263.
king of Samaria, 263.
prisoner of Shalmaneser, 264.
Huldah, the prophetess, 286, 293.
Human sacrifices under Ahab, 260 f.
Humane spirit of the Decalogue, 23.
Hushai of Erech, David's friend, 141 f.
Hymn of Moses, 293.
Idolaters severely treated by David, 131.
Idolatry abolished by Jehu of Israel, 211 ff.
abolished by Josiah, 294.
among the Persians, 408.
Assyrian, in Israel, 247.
Assyrian, in Judah, 260, 269, 282 ff.
Egyptian, in Judah, 300, 306.
introduced by Antiochus Epiphanes, 455.
introduced by Jehoram of Judah, 209.
Idolatry introduced by Jeroboam I. and II., 186, 233.
Israelites influenced by, 57.
of the nations surrounding Israel, 54 ff.
of the Phœnicians in Israel under Omri and Ahab, 195 ff.
of the wealthy exiles, 340.
permitted by Solomon, 175.
to be spurned, 41.
Idumæans, assisted by Egypt, defeat Judah, 226 f.
defeated by Abishai, 128.
defeated by Uzziah (Azariah), 230.
fight the Israelites, 27.
intercourse of the Israelites with, 55.
kill fugitive Judæans, 318.
make settlements in Southern Judæa, 325.
remain enemies of Judæa, 435, 474.
subdued by Amaziah, 222.
Impurity, laws concerning purity and, 401.
Indian trade of Solomon, 169.
renewed by Uzziah (Azariah), 130.
Inhabitants of Canaan, original, 1.
Intermarriages between Israelites and their neighbours, 56.
between Judæans and their neighbours, 361.
dissolved and forbidden by Ezra, 367–9, 386.
practised again, 383.
Internal affairs of the Alexandrian community, 504.
conflicts in Judæa after the death of Maccabæus, 491.
government of Israel under David, 121, 154.
government of Israel under Saul, 90.
government of Israel under Solomon, 162, 172.
Ipsus, battle at, 417.
"Iron sea" of Solomon's temple, 165.
Isaiah, Amoz's son, of Jerusalem, 251–4.
disciples of, 253.
's efforts to restrain Hezekiah from war with Assyria, 270.
immediate and permanent effect of the speeches of, 252–3.
opposes Ahaz's seeking Assyrian help, 258.
predicts Jerusalem's deliverance, 272.
sons of, 251, 258–9.
Isaiah, the Babylonian, 344 ff.
Isaiah i. 11–14, 253;
ii. 2–4, 243;
vi. and vii., 252, 258;
viii. 5–8, 259;
x. 5–xi. 10, 272;
xxii. 1–14, 16–25, 271;
xxviii. 1–4, 266;
xxix. 13, 253;
xl. 345;
xlii. 1–4, 347;
liii. 3–7, 344;
lv. 12, 355;
lvi. 7, 347;
lxiv. 9, 325;
lxvi. 1, 5, 348, 349.
Ishbosheth and David, 106–124.
Ishmael, son of Nehemiah, 317, 321.
flees to Egypt, 323.
murders Gedaliah, 322.
Isolation of the tribes, 36.
Israel == Jacob, 7.
Israel and Judah, kingdoms of, 182 ff.
at Goshen, 7.
claim of, to Canaan, 4.
distinctions of the land of, 42.
end of kingdom of, 265.
remnant of == kingdom of Judah, 266.
Israel under Eli and Samuel, 68–81.
under the judges, 60–67.
" King David and Ishbosheth, 106–24.
under David, 125–55.
" Saul, 82–105.
" Solomon, 156–78.
" Ahab, 196–206.
" Ahaziah, 206.
" Ba'asha, 189–91.
" Elah, 191.
" Hoshea, 263.
" Jehoahaz, 221.
" Jehoash, 221 f.
" Jehoram, 207.
" Jehu, 211.
" Jeroboam I., 182–9.
" Jeroboam II., 225–43.
" Menahem, 244–7.
" Nadab, 189.
" Omri, 192–6.
" Pekah, 248.
" Pekahiah, 248.
" Shallum, 244.
" Tibni, 192.
" Zechariah, 243.
" Zimri, 192.
Israelites and Egyptians, 7.
and the neighbouring nations, 53.
crossing the Jordan, 29.
exodus of, from Egypt, 17.
influenced by their pagan surroundings, 51 f.
Israelites, occupying the land of Canaan, 32 ff.
victorious over Canaanites, 27.
wandering in the desert, 26 f.
Isis, 9.
Issachar, settlement of tribe of, 37.
Ittai, the Hittite, David's general, 137, 141, 144.
Jabesh-Gilead, besieged by Nahash, 89.
Jabesh-Gileadites, rescue Saul's body, 104.
Jabin, defeated by Joshua near Lake Merom, 37.
Jabin, the Canaanite king, 61.
Jacob == Israel, 7.
Jael slays Sisera, 61.
Jakim. See Alcimus.
Jason appointed high priest by Antiochus Epiphanes, 444, 451.
son of a high priest, 435, 439.
Jebus, changed to Jerusalem, 114.
Jebusites, 3.
between Ephraim and Judah, 76 f.
made subject to David, 113.
Jeconiah == Jehoiachin, 306.
Jeduthun, choir-leader in Gibeon, 121.
Jehoahaz, King of Israel, 221.
Jehoahaz, King of Judah, 298.
Jehoash, King of Israel, 221.
defeats Amaziah of Judah, 224.
defeats Benhadad III. of Damascus, 222.
Jehoiachin == Jeconiah == Coniah, 306.
favored by Evil-Merodach, 331.
taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, 307.
Jehoiada, the high priest, 214.