Jehoiakim, the high priest, son of Joshua, 360.
Jehoiakim, King of Judah, 299–306.
introduces Egyptian idolatry, 300.
persecutes the prophets, 301.
rebellion and death of, 306.
submits to Nebuchadnezzar, 306.
throws Jeremiah's scroll into the fire, 305.
Jehoram, Ahaziah's brother, King of Israel, 207.
at war with Hazael of Damascus, 210.
at war with Mesa of Moab, 208.
killed by Jehu, 211.
Jehoram, King of Judah and husband of Athaliah, 206.
Jehoshaphat of Judah, allied with Ahab of Israel, 206.
Jehu appointed successor to Ahab's house, 204.
captain of Jehoram of Israel, 210.
king of Israel, 211.
loses part of Israel, 220 f.
Jephthah, the Gileadite, defeats the Ammonites, 64.
punishes the haughty Ephraimites, 65.
Jeremiah of Anathoth, the prophet, 289–329.
assists Gedaliah and encourages the people, 319.
emigrates to Egypt, 324.
imprisoned by his enemies, 312.
imprisoned by Ishmael, 322.
imprisoned by Chaldæan soldiers, 314.
warns Zedekiah against rebellion, 310.
Jeremiah's counsel disregarded by Johanan, 323.
lamentations, 316.
last days, 327.
prophecies collected by Baruch, 304.
scroll read by Baruch, 304.
Jeremiah, book of, vii., vii. 12, 302, 71;
xv. 1, 72;
xxiii. 29, 291;
xxix. 4–8, 310;
xxxi. 17–18, 266;
xlvi. 15, 11.
Jericho conquered, 33.
fortified by Ahab, 201.
school of prophets in, 205, 234.
Jeroboam I., the Ephraimite, 174.
aided by Shishak, 184.
and Ahijah, the prophet, 175.
flees to Egypt, 176.
introduces idolatry, 186.
king of the Ten Tribes, 180 ff.
resides at Shechem, 180.
Jeroboam II., King of Israel, 225–43.
Jerubbaal-Gideon routs the Midianites, 62.
Jerusalem attacked by Antiochus Epiphanes, 451.
attacked and captured by Sanballat, 371.
besieged by Lysias, the Syrian general, 479.
captured by Nebuchadnezzar, 307, 311.
captured by Ptolemy I., 416.
captured by Scopas, the Ætolian, 432.
captured by Shishak of Egypt, 184.
Jerusalem, centre of religious life, 119.
David's final residence, 114.
fortified by Azariah, 231.
fortified by David, 118.
fortified by Hezekiah, 270.
fortified by Nehemiah, 373.
new walls of, consecrated, 381.
ransacked by Jehoash of Israel, 225.
re-populated, 377.
return of Judæans to, 354.
return of Judas Maccabæus, 471.
visited by Ezra, 366 ff.
visited by Nehemiah, 373, 385.
Jerusalem's walls rebuilt by Simon the Just, 421.
Jeshurun, Israel's new name, 22.
Jesus Sirach, son of Eleazar, 421, 439.
Jezebel, character of, 197.
death of, 211.
Ethbaal's daughter, married to Ahab, 194.
pursues Elijah, 201.
Jezreel, Hosea's son, 240.
Jezreel, plain of, 44.
Saul and his army slain at, 103.
town of, Ahab's summer residence, 201 f.
Joash of Judah, early years of, 213.
killed by two nobles of Judah, 221.
proclaimed king by Jehoiada, 215.
Job, book of, 341.
Joab, son of Zeruiah, 100–160.
commander of the Gibborim, 100.
David's general, 109.
defeats and kills Absalom, 144.
defeats the Aramæans and Ammonites, 126.
defeats Sheba and the northern tribes, 149.
favours Adonijah, 152.
killed by Solomon through Benaiah, 160.
kills Amaza, 149.
kills Abner, 111.
Joel, Samuel's son, 80.
Joel, son of Pethuel, the prophet, 230, 237 ff.
book of, chapter iii. 1–2; 239.
Johanan, son of Joiada, the high priest, 409.
Johanan, son of Kareah, 318, 321, 322.
emigrates to Egypt, 324.
Johanan, son of Mattathias, 489.
Johanan, son of Simon, called Hyrcanus, 529.
Joiada, a high priest, 386, 409.
Jokthel, name given to Petra by Amaziah of Judah, 223.
Jonadab, son of Rechab, a Nazarite, 200.
and Jehu exterminate Baal's worship, 212.
Jonah, son of Ammittai, 225.
Jonathan, eldest son of Saul, 84–103.
and David, 97 ff.
and his sword-bearer attack the Philistines at Gibeah, 87.
attacks Gibeah of Benjamin, 85.
killed by the Philistines, 103.
his remains brought to the family tomb at Zelah, 124.
Jonathan, brother of Judas Maccabæus, 459, 475, 489, 493.
allies himself with Alexander Balas, 496.
and Tryphon, 498, 501.
appointed high priest, 494.
buried at Modin, 501.
leader of the nation, 490 ff.
Jordan, Israelites crossing the, 29.
only large river in Palestine, 46.
Josê, son of Joezer, of Zereda, 436.
Josê, son of Johanan of Jerusalem, 436.
Joseph, son of Tobias, 423–31.
ambassador to Alexandria, 425.
Joshua, son of Nun, successor of Moses, 32.
death of, 52.
defeats Jabin near Lake Merom, 37.
defeats the Canaanites at Gibeon, 34.
less active in old age, 50.
Joshua, book of, x. 12 and 13, 35.
Joshua, the high priest, son of Jehozedek, 351.
successful against Zerubbabel, 359.
Joshua, the high priest, son of Joiada, 409.
Joshua (Jesus), Sirach sings Simon's praises, 421–2.
Josiah, King of Judah, 286–97.
defeated by Necho, 297.
Passover of, 295.
reformation of Judah under, 288.
repairing the temple, 288.
Jotham and his parable, 63.
Jotham and Isaiah, the prophets, 251.
Jotham, friendship with Pekah, 249.
king of Judah, 246.
regent of Judah, 246.
Jubilee year, 393.
Judæa accounted a province of Cœlesyria, 413–4.
added to the Lagido-Egyptian kingdom, 418.
and Greece, 413.
depopulated, 325.
independent under Simon, 519.
invaded by the Syrians under Cendebæus, 528.
part of the province of Greece, 413.
under Jonathan, 501.
under the rule of the Seleucidæ, 432.
Judæa, new community in, 354.
spread of Greek customs in, 427.
three parties in, 489.
Judæan colonies in Egypt, Syria and Cyrene, 418, 503.
exiles, number of the, 332.
sect of Samaritans, 392.
Judæans adapt Hellenism, 435.
and Alexander the Great, 412–15.
and Samaritans, 389, 392.
and Samaritans in Alexandria, 515.
and Samaritans persecuted by Ptolemy Physcon, 519.
at discord after Nehemiah's departure, 383–4.
banished to the Caspian sea, 408.
become doubters and sceptics, 429.
deported to Babylonia, 307.
in Alexandria, 503 ff.
in Babylonia. See Exile.
in Babylonia begin the religious reformation, 363.
in Egypt, 326.
in the Sopheric age, 389 ff.
intermarry with neighbouring people, 361.
of Galilee ill-treated by their neighbours, 474.
permitted by Cyrus to return home, 351.
persecuted by Antiochus Epiphanes, 452, 464.
remaining in Babylonia support their returning brethren, 354.
return from other countries, 356.
revolt against the Ptolemies, 423.
under Artaxerxes II. and III., 407.
under the Maccabees, 442 ff.
under the Ptolemies, 420.
Judah, tribe of, 38 f.
and Benjamin the last to invite David to return, 146.
and Simeon assist their brethren under Samuel, 76.
elects David as king, 107.
religion in, 188.
Simeon and Benjamin faithful to Rehoboam, 182.
starts the revolt against David in favor of Absalom, 139.
Judah, kingdom of.
and Egyptian idolatry, 300.
end of, 298–316.
subject to Egypt, 298.
under Abijam, 189.
" Ahaz, 257–66.
" Amaziah, 222.
" Ahaziah, 211.
" Amon, 285.
" Asa, 189.
" Athaliah, 213.
" Azariah (Uzziah), 226–48.
" David, 109.
" Hezekiah, 266–80.
" Jehoahaz, 298.
" Jehoiachin, 306–8.
" Jehoiakim, 299–306.
" Jehoram, 209.
" Jehoshaphat, 206 ff.
" Joash, 216.
" Josiah, 286–97.
" Jotham, 248–56.
" Manasseh, 281–5.
" Mattaniah-Zedekiah, 308–15.
" Rehoboam, 179–89.
" Zedekiah-Mattaniah, 308–15.
Judaism loses its national meaning, 392.
Judas Maccabæus, 461–87.
accused by Alcimus before Demetrius II., 482.
appointed his father's successor, 461.
at war with the Idumæans, 474.
at war with the Syrians under Lysias, 478.
defeats Apollonius and Heron, 462.
defeats Gorgias the Syrian, 468.
defeats Lysias the Syrian, 469.
defeats Nicanor twice, 484–5.
falls in a battle against Bacchides, 487.
makes overtures to Rome, 485.
punishes Timotheus and the Ammonites, 475.
returns to Jerusalem, 471.
Judges appointed by Moses, 26.
name of the temporary deliverers of Israel, 59–67.
Book of, iii. 8 and 10, 60;
vi. 13, 58;
xi. 7, 65.
importance of the, 68.
Justice administered among the Judæans, 394.
supreme court of, 394.
Kanna == religious zeal, 199.
Kedeshim and Kedeshoth, 54, 198, 283.
Kehillah, a Levitical guild, 76.
Kenites, allies of the Israelites, 38.
Kikkar == meadows, 45.
King desired by the tribes, 80.
Kingdom of Israel not an offspring of affection, 81.
See Israel.
Kingdom of Judah. See Judah.
Kings, First book of the, viii. 27, 348;
xviii. 21;
xxi. 19, 203.
Second book of the, ix. 25, 203.
Kirjath-Jearim, ark of covenant at, 72, 119.
Lachish, Sennacherib's encampment at, 273.
Lake Merom, victory of Joshua near, 37.
Lake of the Harp, or lake of Galilee, 42.
Lamentations of Jeremiah, 316, 319.
Law of Moses and its influence, 385.
authority of, among the Judæans, 393.
interpreted by Jesus Sirach, 440.
maligned by Menelaus, 449.
regularly read at Jerusalem, 395.
strict observance of, 387, 397.
translated into Greek, 510.
See Pentateuch and Septuagint.
Law books among the Judæans of Babylonia, 364.
of Judah, 292.
strictly adhered to by the Samaritans, 392.
taught and enforced by Ezra-Nehemiah, 365, 378.
Laws concerning purity and impurity, 401.
Lebanon, Mount, 44.
Leontopolis the site of the temple of Onias, 508.
Levites, and Egyptians, 8.
assist Samuel, 76.
destitute forsake the temple, 382.
emigrate to Judah from Israel, 187.
explain the law, 379.
help to consecrate the walls, 381.
how to be supported, 382.
leave Jerusalem for want of support, 372, 377.
live in Shiloh, 69.
rebuke the people for idolatry, 58.
receive no lands in Canaan, 40.
re-instated by Judas Maccabæus, 473.
return to Jerusalem, 386.
scatter over the country after
Shiloh's destruction, 72.
side with David against Absalom, 141.
true to God, 12.
Leviticus, xvii. 7, 11.
Licentiousness to be spurned, 41.
Lysias the Syrian, 463–82.
besieges Jerusalem, 479.
censured by the Romans, 481 f.
defeated by Judas Maccabæus, 469.
general of Antiochus Epiphanes, 463, 476.
guardian of Antiochus V., 477.
invades Judæa victoriously, 478.
makes a truce with the Judæans, 480.
put to death by Demetrius II., 482.
Maachah, Rehoboam's mother, worships Astarte, 188.
Maccabæus. See Judas Maccabæus.
Maccabees, the, 458–531.
First book of, i. 26–28, 452.
Macedonia, Alexander of, 412.
Philip of, 411.
Macedonian kingdom dissolved, 416.
Macedonians, influence of, 411.
Machpelah, 4.
Mahanaim, residence of Ishbosheth, 108.
welcomes the fugitive David, 144.
Malachi, the last of the prophets, 384.
Malcom or Milcom, god of the Ammonites, 55, 128.
Manasseh, settlement of the tribe of, 35.
Manasseh, king of Judah, 281–5.
Manasseh appointed high priest of the temple at Gerizim, 390.
banished from Judah by Nehemiah, 386.
marries Sanballat's daughter, 383.
Manetho's libels on the Judæans, 510.
Marriage, mixed. See Intermarriages.
Martyrs executed by Antiochus Epiphanes, 456.
Mashal or allegorical poems, 158.
Mattaniah (Zedekiah), King of Judah, 308.
Mattathias and his five sons, 459.
Media conquered by Cyrus, 342.
Megiddo, battle at, 297.
Memnon, governor of Cœlesyria, 414.
Menahem, son of Gadi, King of Israel, 244–8.
Menelaus. See Onias Menelaus.
Meonenim == cloud-seers among the Philistines, 55.
Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son becomes lame for life, 104.
spared by David, 123.
Merodach-Baladan of Babylonia, 278.
Merom, battle at Lake, 37.
Mesa of Moab, defeated by Jehoram, 209.
Messengers of God, 403.
Micah II., contemporary of Isaiah, 251, 261, 273.
Book of, chapter vi. 4, 12.
Michaiah, the prophet, inimical to Ahab, 205.
Michal, Saul's second daughter, 100–120.
married to David, 100.
rebukes him for dancing in front of the ark, 120.
returned to David, 110.
Michmash, Jonathan's headquarters, 494.
Saul defeats the Philistines at, 87.
Midianite maidens beguile the Israelites, 28.
Midianites ravaging Palestine are defeated by Gideon and 300 warriors, 62.
Midrash, the, 396.
'Millo' == border, 118.
site of Solomon's palace, 168.
Miriam, 12.
Mixed language of the Samaritans, 391.
Mixed marriages. See Intermarriages.
Mizpah, annual meetings of the people under Samuel at, 78.
Mizpah, centre of importance and a holy place, 321.
Gedaliah's capital, 319.
Judas Maccabæus assembles the army at, 467.
Saul elected at, 83.
Mnevis, the white bull, 9.
Moabites, after the exile, 362.
defeated and subdued by David, 125.
defeated by Jehoram and Jehoshaphat, 209.
influencing the worship of the Israelites, 56.
made tributaries by Omri, 194.
routed by the Israelites under Ehud, 60.
Moabitess, Ruth the, 370.
Modin, residence of Mattathias, 459, 469.
Moloch, Ahab sacrifices his son to, 260.
sacrifices to, 283, 300.
Moriah, Mount, 115.
a sacred place, 138.
site of Solomon's Temple, 162.
Moses, 12–31.
and his councillors, 25.
called as deliverer, 15.
characteristic of, 30.
death of, 30.
grave of, not known, 31.
the great leader, 17.
song of, 293.
Mount Gerizim, temple on, 390. Sinai, 20.
Mountains of Palestine, 44–45.
Mourners of Zion in the exile, 337.
Murder to be spurned, 41.
Mylitta, worship of, introduced in Israel, 247, 282.
Mythology of the nations surrounding Israel, 53.
Naaman, the Syrian, 224.
Nabatæans receive Jonathan and his followers, 498.
Nabonad, King of Babylonia, 342.
at war with Cyrus, 343.
persecutes the Judæans, 342.
Nabopolassar of Babylon, 296, 303.
Naboth's vineyard, 201.
Nadab succeeds Jeroboam, 189.
Nahash, King of Ammonites, 80.
besieges Jabesh-Gilead, 89.
defeated by Saul, 90.
supports David against Saul, 100.
Naphtali, settlement of the tribe of, 37.