Dreadful slaughter in Alexandria.
Splendour of the Princes of the Captivity. Jews denounced by Mohammed.
Jews persecuted in Persia.
Dreadful persecution of the Jews in Spain.
Jews forbiddden to appear in Paris.
Dreadful persecution of the Jews in France.
Napoleon's regulations relative to Jews. Slaughter of the Jews at York.
Jews expelled from England.
Statute of Joseph II. relative to Jews in Austria. 1780. Jewish Sanhedrim held in France.
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,
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,
Ahaz, king of Judah, history of, 223.
27. call of, ib. the gospel preached Ahaziah, king of Israel, history of, to, 28. journey of to Canaan, ib. danger of in Egypt, 29. predic- tions made to, 30. God's covenant with, 32. posterity of, 37. bless- edness of, ib. character of, 38.
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.
Achan, crime and punishment of, Ajalon, miracle in the valley of, 128.
Achish, king of the Philistines, 160.
Alcimus, the high-priest, wickedness
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
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.
Alypius, prevented from rebuilding Antipater the Idumæan, rise of,
Ambroze, bishop of Milan, hatred of Apollodotus, betrayed to Alexander to the Jews, 436.
Aminadab, the ark placed in the Apollonius, governor of Judæa, 266.
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,
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.
Aristobulus, brother of Mariamne, Babylon, Jews carried captive to, murder of, 308.
son of Herod, melan- Babylonian Empire, destruction of, choly history of, 318. Ark of Noah, account of the, 13.
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,
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.
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-
Constantinople, Jews at, 456. Conversion of the Jews, will be ac- complished by God, 488.
Covenant of God with Abraham,
Crassus, avarice and impiety of,
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.
Daniel, character of, 235.
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