Chapter XXIV (3)

Seventy, Council of the, 394.
elders of Moses, 25 f.

Seyag == the fence around the law, 397.

Shallum, husband of Huldah, 293.

Shallum, King of Israel, 244.

Shallum, King of Judah, 298.

Shalmaneser takes Samaria and Tyre, 263 f.

Shamgar, 60.

Shaphan under Josiah, family of, 292.

Sharon, plain of, 45.

Shealtiel, King Jehoiachin's son, 342.

Sheba the Benjamite rebels against David, 148.
killed at Abel, 150.

Sheba, Queen of, visits Solomon, 173.

Shebna, Hezekiah's sochen, 268-71.

Shechariah suggests the people's covenant against proselytes and
intermarriages, 368.

Shechem, 4, 36.
capital of Jeroboam, 180.

Shechemites' feud with Abimelech, 63.

Shefelah == low country, 45.

Shemaiah, the prophet, prevents a civil war between Judæans and
Benjamites, 184.

Shiloh (Salem), ark of the covenant at, 41, 57.
at the time of the Judges, 69.
destroyed by the Philistines, 71.

Shimei executed by Solomon, 160 f.
of Bahurim reviles David, 142.
pretends enthusiasm for the returning king, 147.

Shir-ha-shirim == song of songs, 431.

Shishak of Egypt inimical to Israel, 176.
assists Jeroboam against Rehoboam, 184.

Shobi, Hanun's brother, assists David against Absalom, 144.
becomes king of the Ammonites, 129.

Shofetim == judges, 59.

Sidon, 3.

Sihon slain by the Israelites at Jahaz, 27-29.

Simeon and Judah assist the other tribes under Samuel, 76.
tribe of, merged in the tribe of Judah, 39.

Simon I. the Just and his descendants, 420.
improvements of, 421.
's children, 423.

Simon II., the high priest, 432.

Simon, the Benjamite, 437 f.

Simon, brother of Judas Maccabæus, 459, 461, 475, 489, 498.
and Demetrius II., 521.
at the head of the nation, 500-31.
becomes high priest, 521.
defeats the Syrians, 493.
expels the Hellenists, 523.
killed by his son-in-law, 530.
quarrels with the Syrian king, 528.

Simon's coinage, 525, 528.
league with the Romans, 525.
sons defeat Cendebæus, 529.

Sinai, Mount, 20.

Sirach, Jesus, 439.

Sisera defeated by Barak and slain by Jael, 61.

Sochen == superintendent of the palace, 249, 268.

Solomon, 133-77.

Solomon, and queen of Sheba, 173-4.
anointed king during David's lifetime, 153.
author of allegorical poems, 158.
causes the murder of Adonijah and Joab, 160.
David's successor, 153.
discontent of tribes against, 174.
king over Israel, 156-78.
Solomon's buildings, 162.
children, 177.
choice of wisdom, 158.
court, 161.
death, 177.
fleet, 170.
greatness, 156.
temple, 162.
weaknesses, 157.

Song of Deborah, 61.
Moses, 293.

Song of songs, 430 f.

Songs of praise, an element in worships, 78, 120.

Songs of praise by David, 120 f.

Songs of war, the earliest Hebrew poetry, 29.

Songs of the prophets, 200, 205, 234, 253.

Sopheric age, the, 389 ff.
regulations, 395.

Sopherim and schools, 396.

Spirit, prophetic, and its meaning, 14.

Successors of Alexander the Great, 416.

Supreme Council of the Judæans, 394.

Symmetry in Hebrew poetry, 29.

Synagogues, 401.

Syrians. See Seleucidæ.

Tabernacles, Feast of, 380.

Tabor, Mount, 44.

Talmide Chachamim, 396.

Tamar seduced by her half-brother Amnon, 134.

Tax-collector, Joseph appointed as, 425.

Tekoa, Amos of, 235.

Tekoah, wise woman of, 136.

Temple at Jerusalem planned by David, 150.
built by Solomon, 162 ff.
cleansed and repaired by Josiah, 288, 294.
consecrated (1007 B. C.), 166.
defiled by Antiochus Epiphanes 451, 454. See also Sacrilege.

Temple rebuilt after the exile, 356-9.
re-consecrated by Judas Maccabæus, 471.
repaired by Joash, 218.
thrown into the background after the exile, 379.

Temple of Baal in Samaria, 197.

Temple of Onias in Egypt, 508.

Temple of the Samaritans on Gerizim, 390.

Temple-mount fortified by Judas Maccabæus, 473.

Temple-worship restored, 382.

Ten tribes, beginning of the kingdom of the, 181.
end of the kingdom of the, 265.
See also Israel.

Theodotus, a Samaritan poet, 517.

Throne-chamber of Solomon, 168-9.

Tibni and Omri, civil war between, 192.

Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria, 258.
assists Ahaz against Rezin and Pekah, 259.

Timotheus, leader of the Ammonites, 474.

Tirhakah, king of Egypt, and Sennacherib, 276.

Tirzah, capital of the kingdom of the ten tribes, 189.

Tithes for the Priests and Levites, 382.

Tobiades, 432, 435.

Tobiah expelled by Nehemiah, 385.
hostile towards Judæa, 369, 375.
leader of the Ammonites, 362.
returns to Jerusalem, 383.

Tobias, son-in-law of Simon the Just, 423.

Torah == Law, which see

Transjordanic territory allotted to Reuben and Gad, 29.

Tribal union, 7.

Tribes, allotment of land to the, 36 ff.
discontented under Solomon, 174.
disintegration of, 37 f.
isolation of the, in Canaan, 36.
the ten, secede from Rehoboam, 181.
united by Samuel, 72.

Tryphon. See Diodotus.

Tyre == Zor, 3, 80.
besieged by Nebuchadnezzar, 306.
captured by Shalmaneser, 64.
founded by the Sidonians, 80.
in Jeroboam's II. time, 232.
taken by Alexander the Great, 412.

Tyrus, residence of Hyrcanus, 437.

Union of all the tribes under Samuel, 77.
Israel and Judah under David, 112.

Uriah, the Hittite, 131.

Uriah, the prophet, 301.

Uzziah. See Azariah.

Wanderings of the Israelites in the desert, 20.

War-songs, the earliest Hebrew poetry, 29.

Wives of Solomon, 161.

Worldly among the exiles, 339 f., 349.

Worship among the early Israelites, 5 f.
among the Egyptians, 9.
among the Judæans, 399.
at the temple, restored by Nehemiah, 382.
centre of, at Shiloh, 41, 57.
centre of, later at Jerusalem, 120.
improved under Samuel, 78.
of Baal and Astarte by the Phœnicians, 54 f.
of Dagon by the Philistines, 55.
under David, 151 f.

Xerxes, successor of Darius, 361.

Zachariah, the high priest, stoned, 220.

Zachariah, the post-exilic prophet, 359.

Zadok, high priest in Gibeon, 120.
appointed chief high priest, 152 ff.
sides with David against Absalom, 141.

Zadok's descendants sole incumbents of the high-priesthood, 160.
deprived by Manasseh of their right and income, 284.

Zebaoth, Adonai, 130 f.

Zebulon, settlement of, 37.

Zechariah, son of Berechia, contemporary of Isaiah, 254, 259.

Zechariah, son of Jeroboam II., King of Israel, 343.

Zedekiah-Mattaniah, King of Judah, 308.

Zedekiah-Mattaniah, captured by Chaldæan soldiers, 314.
deprived of his eyesight and led to Babylon, 315.
rebels against Nebuchadnezzar, 310.

Zekenim == elders, 7.

Zephaniah the prophet, 286.

Zerubbabel, grandson of Jehoiachim, returns to Jerusalem, 351.
governor of the province of Judæa, 352.
resigns the leadership in favor of Joshua, 360.

Ziklag assigned to David by Achish, 101.
burned by the Amalekites, 106.

Zimri of Israel, 192.

Zion, Mount, 45.
captured by David, 114 f.
Jebus (Jerusalem) situated on, 113 f.
mourners of, in the exile, 337.

Zipporah, wife of Moses, 14.

Zoar and its vicinity, 43.

Zor == Tyre, 3, 80.

Transcriber's Notes:

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Simple typographical errors were corrected.

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