JER

culties of his ministry, 245; belonged
to the priesthood, 248; a type of the
dissolution of the kingdom, 248; de-
nounced at the beginning of the reign
of Jehoiakim, 252; description of the
Scythians and Chaldeans, 255; predicts
the fall of Egypt and the rise of the
Chaldean power, and the subjection of
Judah by Nabuchodrozzor, 258; com-
pilation and public recital by Baruch
of a book of his prophecies, 258; his
arrest, 258; his description of Nabu-
chodrozzor, 259; warns Jehoakim
against revolt, 261; publishes his en-
larged prophetic book early in Zede-
kiah's reign, 266; opposes Hananiah
and warns Zedekiah against resistance,
267; put in the stocks, 267; prophetic
epistle to the exiles in Babylon, 269;
consulted by Zedekiah, 272; again
arrested, 272; negotiates with Hanameel
about a patrimonial estate, 272; recom-
mends surrender to the Chaldeans,
272; receives permission to remain in
the country after the destruction of
Jerusalem, 275; and joins Gedaliah,
275; forced to flee to Egypt, 275;
tradition that he was stoned there, 275
note 3; his language, 278; inserts
passages from older works, 279; his
style, 280; proclaims the necessity of a
new covenant, 290 sq.

Jeremiah, book of, ii. 3-6, 207 note 2; iii.-
vi., 230 note 4; iv.-vi., 229 note 1; xi.-
xiii., 263 note 2, 266, note 2; xiv.-xvii.
18, 267 note 2; xvii. 19-xx., ibid. ;
xxi. 1-10,272 note 2; xxii. 10-xxiii., 266
note 2; xxiv., 269 note 2; xxvi.-xxix.,
262 note 2; xxvii., xxviii., 267 note 6,
271 note 2; xxix., 269 note 2; xxxii.,
xxxiii., 272 note 3; xxxiv. 1-7, 273
note 2; xxxiv. 8-22, 272 note 1; xxxv.,
266 note 2; xxxvi., ibid.; xxxvii.
1-10, 272 note 2; xxxvii. 11-21, 272
note 3; xxxviii., 273 note 2; xl.-xliv.,
275 note 2

Jericho, incorporated in the northern
kingdom, 3; rebuilt by Hiel, in the
reign of Ahab, 39; sons of the prophets
in, 80; well at, improved by Elisha,
85; visited by Elijah, before his as-
cension, 110; captive Judahites sent
back to, 160

Jeroboam I., king of the Ten Tribes,

reigns twenty-two years, 23; chooses
Shechem as his capital, 23; removes
the seat of government to Penuel, 23;
at length fixes his residence at Tirzah,
23; erects palaces and fortifications
at Tirzah, 24; relation of foreign
powers to, 24 sq.; establishes centres
of Jahveh-worship at Bethel and Dan,
27; forbids the people to visit the

JOA

temple at Jerusalem, 27; transposes
the autumn festival from the seventh
to the eighth month, 27; ordains
priests at Bethel, 28; his mother, 32
note 1; said to have married a sister of
the Egyptian queen Thekemina, ibid.;
his native city, ibid.; defeated by
Abijah, 48; his death, 32; his neglect
of the commands of the Decalogue,
239; fall of his house, 8 note 1, 33
Jeroboam II., son of Joash, king of the
Ten Tribes, 123 sqq.; length of his
reign, 118, 124; his conquests, 124;
dissolution of morals and prophetism
during his reign, 124 sqq.; banishes
Amos from Israel, 133; external con-
dition of the people in his reign,
133

Jeruel, wilderness of, in Judah, 55
Jerusalem, position of, on the southern
border of Benjamin, 4; several times
reduced during the period of the mon-
archy, 14; captured by Egyptian troops
in the reign of Rehoboam, 46; attacked
by the Philistines in the reign of Jeho-
ram, 94; submits to Joash, king of the
Ten Tribes, 142; fortified by Uzziah,
143 sq.; by Jotham, 166; and by
Hezekiah, 175; advance of the As-
syrians against, under Tartan, 182;
additional fortifications of, by Manasseh,
218; besieged by the Scythians in the
reign of Josiah, 230; invested by
Nabuchodrozzor, surrenders under Je-
hoiachin, 263; besieged by Nabucho-
drozzor, under Zedekiah, 270; the siege
raised, 272; re-invested, 272; breach
made by the Chaldeans, 273; the lower
city occupied, 273; the walls razed,
274; date of its capture, 296; date of
the siege of, by the Assyrians, 297
Jeshanah, a city of Israel, taken by
Abijah, 48

Jezebel, a Tyrian princess, wife of Ahab,
39; attempts to destroy the prophets
of Jahveh, 66, 104; persuades Ahab
to compass the destruction of Naboth,
75; denounced by Elijah, 75; threatens
Elijah with death, 107; her influence
over Jehoram, 91; perishes in the
revolt of Jehu, 98 sq.

Jezreel, palaces of Ahab in, 40, 71; in
the plain of southern Galilee, 74
Joam, name given by Epiphanius to the
prophet who announced the destruction
of the altar at Bethel, 30 note 5
Joash, son of Jehoahaz, king of the Ten
Tribes, length of his reign, 118; re-
covers from Benhadad the towns on
the west of the Jordan, 122; visits
Elisha in his last illness, 123; war
with Amaziah, 142; razes part of the
wall of Jerusalem, 142

JOA

Joash, son of Ahaziah, king of Judah,
saved from the massacre of Athaliah,
134; through the aid of Jehoiada,
established on the throne, 136; ca-
lamities of his reign, 137 sq.; the
drought, 138; the locusts, 138; length
of his reign, 139; his repairs of the
temple, 139 sq.; his fall, 141, 232
Job, book of, 9 note 1, 109 note 1, 192
note 2, 199, 200, 212 note 4, 220, 231,
255, 277 sq., 280, 285; xxviii. 1-11,
192 note 2

Joel, a prophet of Judah, announces the
'Day of Jahveh,' 127 note 3; a con-
temporary of Elisha, 128; prophesies
under Joash, 138 sq.; his literary com-
position, 196 sq.

Jonadab, son of Rechab, founder of the
association of the Rechabites, 79 sq.
Jonadab, associated with Jehu in the ex-
termination of the Baal-worship in
Samaria, 100

Jonah, son of Amittai, a prophet,

123; wide range of his labours, 128,
196 note 2; his grave, 128
Jonah, book of, 123 note 3, 128 note 5
Jonah-place, the present Khan-Jûnus on
the Phoenician coast, 123 note 3
Joppa, a sea-port, Jewish infantry con-
veyed to Egypt by sea from, 219
Joram, brother of Tibni, 37
Jordan, river, the sons of the prophets
settled on, 80; Elijah crosses, before
his ascension, 110

Joseph, a designation of the northern
kingdom, 5

Joshebah, sister of king Ahaziah, saves
Joash, and brings him up, 134
Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, ex-
tends his dominion over Samaria, 227;
accession of, 230; discovery of the
book of the law in his reign, 233;
convenes a popular assembly and
makes a new covenant, 234; celebrates
the passover, 238; marches against
Necho, 242; falls in battle near Me-
giddo, 242; buried at Jerusalem, 242;
Jeremiah's elegies upon him, 242; his
violence, 243; condition of parties
during his reign, 244

Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah,
length of his reign, 118; age at his
father's death, 145; power of Judah
under him, 155; activity and prosperity
of his reign, 166; his death, 167
Jozachar, assassinates Joash, 141
Judah, kingdom of, its extent, 2; its
nature and characteristics, 10 sqq.;
chronology of, 20 sqq.; alliance of,
with Damascus, 24 note 5, 25; at-
tacked by Baasha, 34, 52; peace with
Israel under Omri, 38; early history
of, under Rehoboam, 43 sqq.; invaded

KIN

by Egyptian troops, 46; by Zerah,
the Ethiopian, in the reign of Asa, 51;
and by Baasha, 52; its prosperity
under Jehoshaphat, 57 sqq.; formation
of the Messianic hope in, 59 sqq.; de-
cline of its power under Jehoram, 94
sq.; its convulsions on the murder of
Jehoram, 101; history during the
second period, 134 sqq.; condition of
the people in, under Uzziah, 146 sq.;
its power under Jotham, 155, 166;
invaded by Pekah's troops, 160; its
dangers under Ahaz, 167 sqq.; laid
waste by Shalmaneser, 177; invasion
of, by Sennacherib, 180 sq.; its de-
liverance, 183; development of art,
philosophy, and literature in, 190 sqq.;
history of, during the third period, 201
sqq.; the Messianic hope in, 201 sqq.;
overrun by the Scythians, 230 sq.; the
reformation of Josiah, 236 sqq.; foreign
relations of, under Josiah, 240 sq.; its
independence threatened by the Egypt-
ians, 241; position of parties in, after
the death of Josiah, 244 sq.; the
Egyptian supremacy, 251 sqq.; the
Chaldean supremacy, 259 sqq.; the
fall of the kingdom, 264 sqq.; litera-
ture in its last age, 276 sqq.; general
results, 286 sqq.

Justice, arrangements of Jehoshaphat for
the administration of, in Judah, 54;
growing perversion of, in the kingdom
of the Ten Tribes, under Jeroboam II.,
126

Kadytis, in Herodot. ii. 159, a Syrian
city, not Jerusalem, but probably Gaza,

252 note 2

Kari, the, 135 note 3

Kenites, the, remnant of them dispersed
in Israel, 79

Kidron, the brook, the ashes of the phallus
of the goddess of love thrown into it,
50; heathen vessels and statue of
Astarte burned beside, by Hilkiah, 237
'King of Kings' or 'Great King,' origin
of the title, 152

Kingdom, the, date of the disruption of, 298
Kingdom of Israel, see Israel
Kingdom of Judah, see Judah
Kingdom of the Ten Tribes, see Israel
Kings, book of, the older or prophetic,
59, 285

Kings, first book of, xiii., 246 note 4;

xvii.-xix., 84 note 2, 103 notes 1, 2;
xix. 4-8, 107 note 2; xix., 246 note 4
Kings, second book of, i. 2-16, 111 note 3;
ii. 1-18, 84 note 2, 103 notes 1, 2; ii.,
246 note 4; xviii. 13-xx., 181 note 1;
xix. 20-34, 183 note 2; xxi. 11-15,
220 note 2

KIR

Kir-Haraseth, a fortress of Moab, be-
sieged by Jehoram and his allies, 89
Kir, river, northern boundary of the As-
syrian empire, 150; deportation of the
Damascenes to, 160
Kirjath-jearim, Urijah of, a prophet, exe-
cuted by Jehoiakim, 253

Lachish, in the south-west of Judah,
Amaziah put to death at, 142; intro-
duction of the worship of the kingdom
of the Ten Tribes at, 147; besieged by
Sennacherib, 181; captured by the
Chaldeans, 272

Lamentations, book of, 242 note 3
Language, decline of, in the seventh cen-
tury, 250

Law, instruction in the, provided by Je-
hoshaphat, 54; the old and the new,
harmonised in Deuteronomy, 222; book
of, discovered in the temple in the reign
of Josiah, 233; books of, similar to
the Pentateuch, their condition before
Josiah, 239

Lebanon, mining operations in, 192
Levi, tribe of, not included in the com-
putation of the tribes at the disruption
of the kingdom, 2; treatment of the
Levites in the kingdom of the Ten
Tribes, 14; congregate in the kingdom
of Judah, 28, 44, 224; appointed by
Jehoshaphat to assist in teaching religion
and the laws, and in the administration
of justice, 54; their part in the fall
of Athaliah, according to the Chroni-
cler, 135 note 5; their duties, 140; re-
commended to the sympathy of the people
in Deuteronomy, 224; hereditary Levites,
how punished for their participation
in idolatrous rites, by Josiah, 238
Libnah, a city of Judah, revolts in the
reign of Jehoram, 95; besieged by
Sennacherib, 182

Libyan troops in the Egyptian army of
invasion of Judah, 46
Literature, in the kingdom of the Ten
Tribes after the disruption of the king-
dom, 42 sq.; in the period of its de-
cline, 194; in Judah, during the first
period, 57 sqq.; in the second, 190 sqq.;
prophetic, 195; poetic, 197; dramatic,
199; historical, 199 sq.; in the last
age of the monarchy, 276 sqq.; arti-
ficial arrangement of songs, 280 sq.;
prophetic, 282 sq.; proverbs, 283; his-
torical, 284; its outward form, and arts
connected with it, 285

Lydian monarchy, its rise puts a stop to
the ravages of the Cimmerians, 229

MER

Maachah, grand-daughter of Absalom,
wife of Rehoboam, 47, 50 note 1
Magdol, city of, 242

Magedon, for Megiddo, 242 note 1
Magic, arts of, practised by prophets, 247
Magog, probably denotes Scythian tribes,
229; designation of the Chaldean forces,

256

Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah,
206; restores the heathen rites of Ahaz,
207; removes the altar from the fore-
court of the temple, and the ark from
the Holy of Holies, 209; carried cap-
tive to Babylon, 217; his repentance,
218 sq.; restores the altar, 218; pros-
perity of his later years, 219; his
attempts to promote heathenism, 237;
his violence, 243; length of his reign,
299 note 2

Manasseh, prayer of, in the Apocrypha,
217 note 5

Manuscripts, preparation and circulation
of, 191; art of copying, 285
Maonites or Minites, reduced by Uzziah,

143

Mardokempad, 187, see Merodach-Bala-
dan

Mareshah, in the south-west of Judah,
the Ethiopian army at, 50
Marriage with a husband's brother, pro-
vision for, in Deuteronomy, 225
Mattan, high-priest of Baal at Jerusalem,
slain on the accession of Joash, 136
Mattaniah, younger son of Josiah, on his
accession took the name of Zedekiah,
264

Media, part of the Assyrian empire, 150;
deportation of Israelites to cities of,
165; made itself independent of Assy
rian sway after the retreat of Senna-
cherib, 184

Medes, the, at the head of the eastern
nations attack Nineveh, 227; their
failure and rout, 228

Medo-Persians, their invasions of the
southern countries, 151

Mediterranean, the, Necho's fleet in,
241

Megiddo, in the plain of Galilee, Ahaziah
dies at, 98; battle near, between Josiah
and Necho, 242
Menahem, son of Gadi, becomes king of
the Ten Tribes, 154; length of his
reign, 156; calls in the assistance of
Pul, 150 note 6; and pays him tribute,
156; his death, 157; overthrow of his
house in the reign of Pekahiah, 8 note
1, 157

Merbal, king of Tyre, 298

Merj 'Ayûn, probably the ancient Ijon,

34 note 3

Merodach Baladan, king of Babylon,
sends an embassy to Hezekiah, 187

MES

Mesha, king of Moab, revolts from Israel,
77

Meshek, probably denotes the Scythian
tribes, 229

Messiah, the, growth of the expectation
of his coming, 19; causes contributing
to its development, 59 sqq.; Isaiah's
conception of, 202, 290; would belong
to the house of David, 203; his advent
not to be brought about by violence,
204; his origin limited by Micah to
Bethlehem, 204 note 1; hopes of, in
Deuteronomy, 226, 291; powerfully re-
awakened under Josiah, 241; in the
age of Zedekiah, 271

Mezâr Osha', tomb of Hosea, 131 note 3
Micah, a prophet of Judah, 172, 174; his
view of the origin of the Messiah, 204
note 1

Micah, book of, 177, 197; vi. vii., 207
note 2, 219 note 5

Micaiah, son of Imlah, a prophet of Israel,
76; predicts the defeat of Ahab and
Jehoshaphat, 76

Michaiah, daughter of Uriel of Gibeah,

wife of Rehoboam, 47 note 8; mother
of Abijah, identified with Maachah, 2
Chron. xiii. 2, 50 note 1; see Maachah
Middle-gate of Jerusalem, 273
Mining operations in the Sinaitic penin-
sula, and in Lebanon, 192
Minites, see Maonites

Miracles, relation of, to religion, 83 sq.
Miriam, her position in Israel, 134 note 1
Mizpah, near Jerusalem, fortified by Asa,

35; Gedaliah and Jeremiah at, 274
Mizpeh, chief city of Gilead, its situation,

131 note 1; outrages at, 155
Moab and the Moabites, subject to the
kingdom of the Ten Tribes, 4, 24; re-
volt after the death of Ahab, in the
reign of Ahaziah, 24, 56, 77; war of
Jehoshaphat with, 54 sq.; invaded by
Jehoram and his allies, 88 sq.; sub-
sequently remained independent, 90;
plunder Israel in the reign of Jehoahaz,
121; reconquered by Jeroboam II., 124;
pay tribute to Uzziah, 144; oracle on,
Isaiah xv. xvi., 145 note 1, 194; re-
volt from Judah under Manasseh, 214;
toleration of, not enjoined by Deutero-
nomy, 223; attempt of Josiah to
subdue them, 241; take part with
Nabuchodrozzor against Judah, 261;
oppressed by the Chaldeans, seek help
from Judah, 267; subside in the ad-
vance of the Chaldeans, 270; war with
the Chaldeans, 276
Mochraqah, place of Elijah's sacrifice on
Carmel, 106 note 1

Mockers, in the kingdom of the Ten Tribes,
115; in Judah, 147, 210

Moloch, sacrifices of, tolerated and per-

NAH.

formed by Ahaz, 169; and by Manas-
seh, 208
Monarchy, in the kingdom of the Ten
Tribes really elective, 8; how affected
by the revolution of Jehu, 114 sqq.; its
relations with the prophetic power, 5,
9, 70, 119, 229; in Judah, 15; its re-
lations with the priesthood under Joash,
140; and under Uzziah, 145; after the
death of Josiah, in the hands of the
heathen party, 245 sqq.; its general
results, 286 sqq.

Morals, dissolution of, in the kingdom of
the Ten Tribes, under Jeroboam II.,
126 sq.; decline of, in Judah, under
Uzziah, 146 sqq.

Moresheth, near Gath, not to be con-
founded with Mareshah, 50 note 4
Moses, Elijah subsequently ranked with,

113; use of his name and personality
in Deuteronomy, 221 sqq..

Mount Seir, inhabitants of, invade Judah
in the reign of Jehoshaphat, 54 sq.

Naaman, an Aramean general, cured by
Elisha of his leprosy, 86, 93 note 1
Nablus, on the site of the ancient She-
chem, 23

Nabonassar, king of Babylon, 296
Nabopolassar, general of Sarak, sent to
protect Babylon against the Scythians,
255; became the founder of a new
Chaldean power, 255; alliance with
Cyaxares, 256; his death, 257; length
of his reign, 296 note 2

Naboth, of Jezreel, refuses to part with
his vineyard, 74; executed on a charge
of high treason, 75; Ahab's crime
against, 71, 107 note 1
Nabuchodrozzor (Nebuchadnezzar), son of
Nabopolassar, married to the grand-
daughter of Cyaxares, 256; defeats
Necho at Carchemish, 257; recalled to
Babylon on the death of Nabopolassar,
257; invades Syria, 258; his position
among contemporary monarchs, 259;
subjugates northern Syria, and invades
Judah, 261; besieges Jerusalem, 263;
carries Jehoiachin into exile, 263; war
with the Ammonites, 267; executes the
false prophets, 269; besieges Tyre, 270,
298; advances against Judah, 270; in-
vests Jerusalem, 270; carries Zedekiah
away into exile, 273

Nadab, son of Jeroboam I., becomes king
of the Ten Tribes, 32; besieges Gib-
bethon, 32; is slain by Baasha, 32;
the last of his house, 8 note 1
Nahal-Arabim, the southern boundary of
the kingdom of the Ten Tribes, 4 note 1
Nahum, a prophet among the exiles of
the Ten Tribes, his residence in Elkosh,

NAH

165; predicts the fall of Nineveh, 227;
his style, 279; oracle of, 283
Nahum, book of, iii. 8-10, 240 note 2
Naphtali, subdued by Baasha, 34 note 3
Nature, cessation of works on, in the se-
cond period of the monarchy in Judah,
200

Nazirites, in the kingdom of the Ten
Tribes, 79

Nebo, probably intended as the place of
Elijah's end, 111 note 1
Nebuchadnezzar, see Nabuchodrozzor
Nebuzaradan, commander of the royal
body-guard, carries out the destruction
of Jerusalem, 274; his treatment of
Jeremiah, 275

Necho, son of Psammetichus, king of
Egypt, 241; his preparations for
a campaign against the Assyrians,
241; defeats Josiah near Megiddo,
242; entices Jehoahaz to Riblah, and
sends him prisoner to Egypt, 251;
treats Judah as a conquered country,
and places Eliakim on the throne, 252;
occupies Carchemish, 257; defeated by
Nabuchodrozzor, 257; his retreat and
capture of Gaza, 257›

Necromancy, tolerated by Ahaz, 169
Nethaniah, father of Ishmael, 275
Nimshi, grandfather of Jehu, 96
Nineveh, Aramean language spoken a-
round, 149; its foundation and construc-
tion due to Babylon, 153 note 3, 253;
attacked by Medes under Phraortes, 227;
besieged by Cyaxares, 228; prolonga-
tion of its existence during the Scythian
ascendancy, 229; conquest of, by the
Medes and Chaldeans, 253; Chaldean
settlement in, 254; its fall before the
attacks of the Medes and Babylonian
Chaldeans, 256

No-Amon, i.e. Thebes, destruction of, by
Carthage, 240 note 2
Northern kingdom, see Israel

Obadiah, house-steward of Ahab, 66; re-
quired by Elijah to announce his coming
to Ahab, 106
Obadiah, prophet of Judah, under Ahaz,

159 sq.; inserted passages from older
works in his prophetic book, 279
Obadiah, book of, 270 note 4
Oded, father of Azariah, 49
Oded, prophet of the Ten Tribes, inter-

cedes for the captive Judahites, 160
Omens, or signs, use of, 186
Omri, commander-in-chief of the army of
the Ten Tribes, proclaimed king by the
troops, 36; besieges Zimri in Tirzah,
36; becomes sole king, 37; after six
years, removes the capital to Samaria,
37; length of his reign, 37; makes

Pekah, murders Pekahiah and becomes
king of Israel, 157; his alliance with
the Arameans against Judah, 158, 170;
length of his reign, 118, 161; his fall,
161

Pekahiah, son of Menahem, king of the
Ten Tribes, 157; the last of his house,
8 note 1, 157

Pelusium, Sennacherib's army advances
past, towards Egypt, 180

Penates, the ancient, in Israel, 26 note 2
Pentateuch, the, neglect of, before the
time of Josiah, 234

Penuel, east of the Jordan, temporary
seat of government under Jeroboam I.,

23

People, the, their condition in the kingdom
of the Ten Tribes during the first period,
41 sqq.; after the revolution of Jehu,
116 sq.; under Jeroboam II., 125 sqq.;
in Judah, during the first period, 57
sqq.; in the reign of Uzziah, 147; un-
der Hezekiah, 192

Petra (Sela), the chief city of Edom, cap-

tured by Amaziah, 141; refortified by
the Idumeans, 159

Phasael, well of, not to be identified with
the brook Cherith, 105 note 1
Phelles, king of Tyre, displaced by Eth-
baal, 39

Philistines, position of their territories
with respect to the two kingdoms after
the disruption, 4; besieged in Gibbe-
thon by Nadab, 32; and under Elah,
35; probably freed themselves from
the supremacy of Judah in the reign of
Rehoboam, 46 sq.; tributary to Jeho-
shaphat, 57; attack Jerusalem in the
reign of Jehoram, 94; call in the aid
of Hazael against Judah, 137 sq.; sub-
sequent alliance with the Arameans,
137 note 4; invade the kingdom of the
Ten Tribes under Menahem, 155; re-
gain their independence in the reign of
Ahaz, 160; their inroads during his
reign, 170; revolt from Judah, in the
reign of Manasseh, 214; take part with
the Chaldeans against Judah, 270