of them perished being loaden with sleep gorged with wine They likewise that were compleatly armed intending to make resistance were as easily slaine as they that lay naked vpon the earth Thus Dauids men abode with him from the first hower of the morning till the euening doing nought else but kill murther that that only foure hundreth of the Amalechites escaped who likewise fled being mounted on their Dromodaries So recouered he all that which the enemie had ransackt and amongst other things he released both his own wiues those of his companions Wherupon they returned to the place where they had left the other two hundreth which might not follow them because they were appointed to guard the baggage To these the abouesaid foure hundreth would not grant a part of the booty and profit because they had not as they said followed the enimie with them but shewed themselues slacke in the pursuit alledging that they ought to content themselues with the recouerie of their wiues But Dauid said that the sentence which was pronounced by them was both euill and vniust for since God had granted them the grace to defeat their enemies all of them merited to haue part in the profit which ought equally to be deuided amongst them both amongst those that had fought and amongst those likewise that staied behiâ—…d to guard the baggage And from that day forward this ordinance hath beene held firmely amongst them that they that keepe the baggage should haue equall part and portion of the pray with those that should goe out to the battell But when Dauid was returned to Siceleg he sent vnto all his familiars and friends of the tribe of Iuda a seuerall part of the spoyle In this manner was Siceleg sacked and burned and thus were the Amalechites discomfited But the Philistines assailed and fought a bloudie battell with Saul and his followers wherein the Philistines had the vpper hand and slew a great number of their enemies Saul king of Israell with his sonnes fought therin verie valiantly and with stout hearts seeing that all their honour consisted in that onely point to die nobly and to hazard themselues against all camisadoes of their enemies For since the Philistines bent all their forces against them they saw no meanes of recouerie so that encompassed by them they died in the middest of them and yet before their death slewe a great number of the Philistines There were there present Sauls three sonnes Ionathan Aminadab and Melchi who being defeated all the Hebrewe armie turned their backes so that being instantly pursued by the enemie there fell a great disorder confusion and slaughter amongst them Saul fled also although he had about him a strong squadron of men And although the Philistines marshalled foorth against him a multitude of archers that shot many dartes and arrowes at him yet were they all but a verie fewe repulsed and although he had fought verie brauely hauing receiued on him diuers wounds yet being vnable to support the paine and griefe of his woundes and trauailed with shortnesse of breath he commanded his esquier to drawe his sword and to thrust it thorow his body before he should be surprised aliue by his enemies which his esquire refused to doe not daring to lay hands vpon his master For which cause Saul drew his owne sword and setled the point to his breast and cast himselfe thereon but vnable to force it home enough nor make it by goaring himselfe thereon to pierce quite thorow him he looked backe and perceiued a yoong man hard beside him of whom he demaunded what he was and hearing that hee was an Amalechite he requested him that since himselfe was vnable to pierce himselfe with his owne hands that he would leaue vpon him and make the sword passe thorow him and bring him to that death which he so earnestly desired which he did and hauing taken from him the gold which he had about his armes and the royall crowne likewise he fled away The Esquire seeing Saul dead sodainly slew himselfe Not one of all the kings guard escaped but all of them were slaine neere vnto the mountaine Gelboa When they that inhabited the valley on the other side of Iordan and in the plaine had intelligence that Saul and his sonnes were dead and with them a great number of their nation was slaine they abandoned their Cities and fled to others that were more defenced The Philistines finding these Cities destitute of inhabitants encamped therein The next day whilest the Philistines spoyled the dead they found the bodies of Saul and his sons which they spoyled beheaded sending their heads round about the countrey to make it knowne that their enemies were defeated They offered vp their armes also in the temple of Astaroth and as for their bodies they hung them on the wals of the Citie of Bethsan at this day called Scythopolis When they of Iabes a Citie of Galaad vnderstood how the Philistines had thus cut off the heads of Saul and his sonnes they were sore moued and thought it became them not to be so carelesse of them but that they should be rescued For which cause the most valiant and hardie amongst them for that Citie bringeth vp men both valiant in heart and strong in body departed and marched all night long so as they attained Bethsan and approching neere the wals tooke downe the body of Saul and his sonnes and carried them vnto Iabes without any resistance of the enemy in that they durst not attempt the rescue These Iabesians lamented ouer their dead bodies and made publike lamentations and buried them in the fairest place of their countrey which place is called Arar They mourned after this manner weeping both men and women and children and beating their breasts and lamenting the king and his sonnes and tasting neither meat nor drinke This was the end of Saul according as Samuel had foretold him because he had disobeyed God in his war against the Amalechites and for that he had slaine the race of Achimelech and Achimelech himselfe also and destroyed the Citie of the Priests He raigned during the life of Samuel for the space of eighteene yeares and twentie two yeares after his death Thus finished Saul his life THE SEVENTH BOOKE OF THE ANTIQVITIES OF THE IEWES WRITTEN BY FLAVIVS IOSEPHVS The Contents of the Chapters of the 7. booke 1 Dauid is created king of one tribe in Hebron ouer the rest Sauls sonne obtaineth the soueraignty 2 Isboseth is slaine by the treacherie of his domesticall seruants and the whole kingdome commeth vnto Dauid 3 Dauid hauing surprised the Citie and cittadell of Ierusalem driueth the Chananites from thence and causeth the Iewes to inhabit the same 4 Dauid assayled by the Philistines obtaineth a famous victorie against them neere vnto Ierusalem 5 Dauid ouercomming the neighbouring nations imposeth tributes on them 6 They of Damasco are ouercome by Dauid 7 How Dauid ouercame the Mesopotamians 8 How
fraudulent then a woman for she it is that hath reported my words vnto you Notwithstanding all this he deliuered that which he had promised them out of that bootie which he had taken from certaine Ascalonites whom he encountred vpon the way From that time forward he forsooke this marriage and the woman the more to despite him married one of his friends who had in his behalfe first sollicited the marriage Sampson being the more incensed by this iniurie resolued to reuenge himselfe both on her and the whole nation For which cause in the sommer season when the corne was readie to be reapt he tooke three hundreth foxes to whose tailes he fastned flaming torches and droue them into the Philistines fields of corne consuming by this meanes all their haruest hope The Philistines vnderstanding that Sampson had done this and conceiuing the reason that induced him to execute this action sent their garrison of Thamna and burnt this woman aliue with all her kinred as the authors of that losse that had hapned vnto them After that Sampson had slaine diuers Philistines in the countrey he went and dwelt at Etam which is a strong rocke in the tribe of Iuda For which cause the Philistines assailed that tribe who certified them that there was no reason why they should suffer for those offences which were committed by Sampson and that in especiall because they paied them tribute The Philistines replied that except they would not be maintainers of this act of iniustice they should deliuer Sampson vnto them They therefore desirous that the Philistines should haue no cause of quarrell against them came vnto the rocke to the number of three thousand men or thereabouts and blamed Sampson for those actions which he dared to commit against the Philistines a people that might endomage all the nation of the Hebrewes alleadging further that they came to the end to take surprise and deliuer him into the Philistines hands praying him to submit himselfe voluntarily to that their resolution Sampson made them sweare that they would doe him no further iniurie but deliuer him only vnto their enemies and that done he descended from the rocke surrendring himselfe to the hands of those of Iuda who bound him with two cables and led him away to deliuer him to the Philistines Now being arriued in a certaine place which before that time had no name and at this present is called the Maxilla that is to say a Iawe by reason of the valour which Sampson shewed in that place and approching neere the Philistines campe shouting and reioycing in their presence by reason that they had faithfully executed that which they willed them Sampson brake his bonds and catching vp the iawe of an Asse which he found at his feet and marching foorth against the Philistines he slew and beat downe to the number almost of two thousand of them putting all the rest to flight and confusion Sampson becomming more elate after this execution then he ought to haue been and confessing not that it was done by the assistance of God but attributing the same to his owne vertue gloried that with the iawe of an Asse he had partly slaine and partly constrained the enemies both to feare and flie But being seased with an exceeding thirst he reknowledged and confessed that mans force is of no force and protested that all ought to be ascribed to God whom he besought that he would not be displeased with that which he had spoken but that it might be remitted and himselfe deliuered from the present danger Whereupon God heard his praiers and caused a pleasant and aboundant fountaine to issue and spring from the foote of a rocke for which cause Sampson called the place Maxilla or Iaw which name continueth euen vnto this day After this battaile Sampson set light by the Philistines and went to Gaza where he soiourned in an Inne The gouernours of the Citie vnderstanding of his arriuall set men to keepe the gates to the end he might not depart without their knowledge But Sampson being no waies ignorant of that which they intended against him arose about midnight and caried away the gates with the hinges and lockes and all the furniture of the same and laying them on his shoulders caried and cast them on the mountaine Hebron Not long after that he transgressed the ordinance of his fathers and corrupted his domesticall manner of liuing conforming himselfe to the fashions of the Gentiles which was the source and ofspring of all his ruine For he was surprised and entangled with the loue of one that was called Dalila which was a common strumpet amongst the Philistines To her resorted the gouernours of the Philistines and by promises wrought so much with her that they wrought her to worke out of him wherein his force consisted what the cause was that he might not be apprehended by his enemies She conuersing with him in drinking and keeping him company tolde him that she maruailed at his actions and by subtill insinuations practised to vnderstand the manner and cause that made him so excellent in vertue But Sampson that as yet was subtill staied and well gouerned in counter check of her craft answered her that if he were tied with seuen vine branches that were yoong and pliant he should become the most feeblest amongst men Whereupon for that time she contented her selfe and hauing giuen notice thereof to the gouernours of the Philistines she had in her house certaine men of warre then when he was drunke and a sleepe she bound him as strongly fast as might be possible and sodainly waking him told him that certaine souldiers were at hand to assaile him but Sampson brake his bonds of the vine branches and addressed himselfe to repulse the assaults of those that lay in waight to offend him The woman frustrate of that hope which she expected not longtime after that getting a fit oportunitie in that Sampson conuersed continually began grieuously to complaine against him for that distrusting her loue and constancie he had concealed that from her which she most of all desired to know as if she had been insufficient to conceale that which might any waies concerne the fortune and safetie of her beloued But he deceiued her the second time and said vnto her that if he were tied with seuen cordes he should lose his force Which when she had done and found a contrarie issue to her expectation the third time Sampson told her that if she plighted his haire with a fillet he should be weakened and hauing experimented that also she found that it was false Finally for that a great misfortune attended vpon him she besought him so much that at last he condescended to gratifie her and spake vnto her after this manner God hath care ouer me and I am by his especiall prouidence bred and brought vp for this cause I nourish this haire for that God hath commanded me not to cut the same because my
God at such time as he slew the Philistine Dauid hauing gotten it fled out of the countrey of the Hebrewes and went vnto Geth a countrey of the Philistines wherein Achis was king There being knowne by the kings seruants hee was discouered and noted to be that Dauid that had slaine many thousand Philistines Dauid fearing to be put to death by him and suspecting least he should fall into the same daunger which hee had escaped by flying from Saul counterfeited himselfe to be foolish and mad so that the some frothed and issued out of his mouth and counterfeited in all things so cunningly that he made the king of Geth beleeue most stedfastly that he was besotted and frenzie in his sicknesse For which cause the king was wroth with his seruants in that they had brought him a madman and commanded them with all expedition that might be to driue him out of his countrey Hauing in this sort escaped out of the countrey of the Geths he transported himselfe into the tribe of Iuda and being in the caue of Adullam he sent vnto his brothers to let them vnderstand that he was there who came vnto him with all their linage and diuers others that either were in need or stood in feare of Saul resorted vnto him saying that they were ready to performe whatsoeuer he should command them all which amounted to the number of foure hundreth or thereabouts Dauid therfore being thus assured by reason of the succours and forces that come vnto him dislodged from thence went to the king of the Moabites beseeching him that he would bee pleased to entertaine his father and mother in that countrey vntill such time as he vnderstood what should be the issue or end of his affaires The king vouchsafed him this fauour and did them great honour all the time they were in his countrey And as touching Dauid he hauing receiued instructions by the commandement of the Prophet to abandon the desart to soiourne in the tribe of Iuda he obeyed him so that comming to Saron he made his aboade in that place But when Saul had vnderstood that Dauid had beene seene with a number of men he fell into an extraordinarie feare and trouble of minde for knowing both the vnderstanding and courage of the man he thought inwardly with himselfe that he would attempt no action that was not great and such a one as might not onely endanger his kingdome or at leastwise breed him much difficultie labor For which cause assembling his friends and captaines and those of his tribe in Gaba where he kept his royall court there sitting in a place called Aror where all his honourable and ciuill magistrates with the rest of his captaines and souldiers enuironed him round about hee spake vnto them after this manner Beloued friends I know that you can beare witnesse of my bountie and how I haue aduanced some of you to honours signiories and possessions and haue preferred you to the chiefest dignities and prerogatiues amongst the people Now would I know of you whether you hope or expect from the sonne of Iesse greater bountie and larger benefits then I haue bestowed vpon you I know that all of you are confederated with him and that my sonne Ionathan likewise is of the same faction and hath perswaded you to follow and fauour him For I am not ignorant both of the othes and couenants that are past twixt him and Dauid and am well assured that he is both a counseller and assister vnto him in whatsoeuer he vndertaketh against me yet are none of you touched with these cares but intending your owne quiet you expect the euent of these matters When the king had spoken thus there were none of the assistants that replied onely Doeg the Syrian master of the kings mulets arose and said That he had seene Dauid in the Citie of Nob who resorted to the high Priest Achimelech to aske counsel of him as touching his assaires that there he had receiued those things that were needfull to furnish him in his voyage and Goliahs sword likewise and how he was safely conducted towards the place whither he pretended to go Hereupon Saul sent for the high Priest and all his kinred and spake thus vnto him What wrong or displeasure haue I done thee that thou hast entertained the sonne of Iesse and hast deliuered him victuals and armes to him I say that seeketh but the meanes to possesse himselfe of my kingdome What answere hast thou made him as touching those demaunds he presented thee in regard of his future fortunes for thou hast not been ignorant that he fled from me and what hatred he beareth against both me my family The high priest denied none of these things but freely confessed that he had deliuered him such things as were reported but not with an intent to gratifie Dauid but the king for I entertained him said he not as thine enemy but as thy faithfull minister and tribune nay which is more as thy sonne in law and such a one as was tied vnto thee by neere alliance For who would haue thought that he who was intitled to so much honour by thee should be thine enemie nay rather who would not esteeme him for thy sauourite and neerest friend And where as he asked counsell of me as touching Gods will this is not the first time I haue answered him but oft many other times haue I aduised him And where as he said that he was sent by thee about some hastie and secret businesse should I haue refused him those supplies which he required at my hands I might haue bin iudged rather to haue done iniurie to thy maiestie then to him For which cause thou art not to suspect or thinke euil of me or if thou hast receiued any aduertisement that Dauid at this time intendeth some trouble innouation against thee oughtst thou to thinke that by reason of the curtesie I haue shewed him that I either fauor him or maintain him against thee for what I bestowed I imployed as on thy friend thy sonne in law and thy tribune and whatsoeuer curtesie he receiued from me it was done vnto thee Notwithstanding all these iust allegations yet could Saul be no waies induced to beleeue them but contrariwise his vehement feare made him suspect the true iustifications of Achimelech so that he commanded certaine armed men that were about him that they should put both him and all his family to the sword But when they held it no lesse then sacriledge to violate by violent death such as were men consecrated vnto God Saul commanded Doeg the Syrian to perpetrate the slaughter who ioyning to himselfe certaine other sacrilegious and impious men he murthered Achimelech and all his race who were in number three hundreth thirtie and fiue men He further sent to Nob the citie of the Priests and put all of them vnto the sword neither sparing woman nor childe nor hauing respect vnto any
most incident to this purpose For although he knew that vvhich should befall him and that his death vvas at hand according as it had beene foretold him yet resolued he not to auoid the same neither so loued he his life that for the conseruation thereof he vvould deliuer vp his people into the hands of their enimies nor dishonour his royall dignitie but himselfe vvith his children and all his household exposed themselues to daunger thinking it more honourable to die vvith them in fighting for his subiects and farre more expedient that his children should die like valiant men then to leaue them aliue in incertitude of estate whereinto they might fall supposing that hee should haue sufficient successours of his race if he left behind him a perpetuall memorie and praise both of him and his For which cause in my opinion he was both iust strong and prudent and if anie one either is or hath beene like vnto him I suppose that it becommeth all men to giue testimony of such a mans vertue For I thinke that the Historians and ancient Writers haue not worthily entituled them with the stile of valiant men who attaining some worthie actions attempted warre vnder assured hope of victorie and safetie but they only that imitate Saul may deseruedly be called iust praise-worthie couragious hardie and contemners of all dangers For what great thing is there in vndertaking the common hazard of warre and tossing twixt hope and feare to vse fortunes fauour if she fawne vpon vs but contrariwise I count it an assured signe of a valiant man when as without conceit of hope of any goodnes and knowing his death at hand and assured in his conflict is not affraid nor dismaid with such apprehensions but seeketh out with an inuincible courage his most assured hazard This is the praise of our Saul who is an example to all true louers of glory that if they haue regard to leaue an honest memory to their posterity they should vpon the like opportunitie propose the same resolution to themselues but in especiall kings who by reason of the excellencie of their degree ought not onely forbeare to be euill but also striue to be excellently vertuous I could likewise say more of this generous argument of Sauls valour but least I should seeme too affectionate I will returne to our former purpose After that the Philistines were thus encamped according as hath beene afore-spoken and had numbred their forces according to their nations kingdomes and gouernments king Achis issued in the rereward with his particular companie whom Dauid followed accompanied with his sixe hundreth soldiers whom when the chieftaines of the Philistines beheld they asked the king whence those Hebrewes came and what their leaders name was Who answered thē that it was Dauid who fled from Saul his master and how he had entertained him being fled from him againe how Dauid in recompence of the good he had receiued at his hand and to reuenge him on Saul was readie to fight for them against him But the chieftaines blamed him because he had chosen an enemie for his associate counselling him to dismisse him for feare least he should secretly performe some straunge stratageme against his confederates because said they he hath a fit opportunitie to reconcile himselfe to his master They therefore willed him to send Dauid backe vvith his sixe hundreth souldiers vnto the place vvhich he had giuen him to inhabite because it was the same Dauid of whom the damsels made songs singing in praise of him that he had slain many thousand Philistines When the king of Geth vnderstood these things he thought their counsell to be laudable for which cause calling Dauid vnto himhe said vnto him I protest vnto thee said he that I beare a most singular affection and good liking towards thee and for that cause I haue called thee out to assist vs in this battel but our captaines allow not of my resolution for which cause retire thy selfe to the place which I haue giuen thee without conceiuing any euil suspitiō of me There shalt thou be in garrison to forestal the enemie from foraging our country and in so doing thou shalt partly assist vs in the warre Herupon Dauid departed vnto Siceleg according as the king had commaunded him But during the time that Dauid was in campe and attended on the Philistines warre the Amalechites arose and tooke Siceleg by force and burned the Citie and after they had gathered a great bootie both in that place and in other villages of the Philistines countrey they retired backe againe Now when Dauid arriued at Siceleg and found it wholy ruined and spoiled and seeing likewise that his two wiues and the wiues of his companions were prisoners togither with their children he presently rent his rayment and began to weepe and lament with his companions yea so much was he afflicted that he had scarce any teares left him to bemone himselfe beside this his companions amated with the captiuitie of their wiues and children were readie to stone him to death accusing him that he was the cause of all that which had hapned But when as his griefe was after a manner aslaked and he somwhat returned to himself he lifted vp his heart vnto God and commaunded the high Priest Abiathar to put on the Ephod and aske counsaile of God and that done to declare vnto him whether by his assistance he might ouertake the Amalechites if so be he should pursue them and whether he should recouer his wiues and children that they had led away and reuenge him of his enemies As soone as the high Priest had certified him that he might pursue them he sallied out with sixe hundreth soldiers and pursued the enemie and drawing neere vnto the riuer he found a certaine stragler an Egyptian by nation wholy discomforted and feeble thorow want and famine wherewith he was pressed hauing for three daies space wandred in the desart without any sustenance whom after he had refreshed with meate and drinke and recomforted he asked him to whom he belonged and what he was The Egyptian told him his nation and how he had beene left in that place by his master because that thorow his weaknes it was impossible for him to follow them He consessed likewise that his master was one of the number of those that had burned and sacked not onely other quarters of Iudea but Siceleg also Dauid taking this man for his guide ouertooke them finding some of them lying on the earth others banquetting and following drunkennesse and almost sencelesse by ouerdrinking so recouering both his booty and pillage and sodainly setting vpon them he made a great slaughter For they being naked and suspecting no such inconuenient and wholy addicted to frolicke drinking and feasting were all of them easily defeated diuers likewise amongst them were slaine as they sate at their meat others likewise were slaughtered whilest they carroused the one vnto the other and some
heate To speake in a word all the building was made of white marble of Cedar of gold and of siluer the floores and walles were figured with diuersitie of flowers and of precious stones inchaced in gold after the maner of the Temple of God which shined with such like ornaments There was likewise erected a most mightie throne made in forme of a tribunall with sixe steps of pure iuorie on each side of which there stood two ramping lyons and the like number were placed aboue The stage of the Throne was after the forme of hands that laid hold on the king and he sate vpon a halfe Oxe looking backwards and this throne was all inuironed with gold Salomon builded all this that hath beene spoken of in the space of twentie yeeres being furnished by Hiram king of the Tyrians for these his buildings with great summes of gold and farre more greater of siluer besides a quantitie of Cedar and Pine trees Salomon also remunerated him and gaue him great presents and sent him euerie yeare sufficient of corne wine and oyle as we haue heretofore declared whereof he stood in great need by reason that his countrie was an Island And besides that he gaue him twentie cities in Galilee not farre distant from Tyre Hiram hauing visited them and not wel pleased with them sent vnto Salomon to certifie him therof that he had no vse for his cities and from that time forward they were called the countrie of Chebal which is as much to say in the Phoenician tongue as Vnpleasant Hiram likwise sent vnto Salomon certaine mysteries and difficult questions requiring him to decide the same and to dissolue those doubts and difficulties that occurred in his demaunds Salomon being a man of ripe iudgement and vnderstanding pretermitted none of them but after he had attained their resolution in his owne opinion and had gathered the sence he expressed and opened the same Of these two kings Menander who translated the antiquities of the Tyrians out of the Phoenician tongue into the Greeke maketh mention speaking after this maner After the decease of Abibale Hiram his sonne succeeded him in the kingdome who liued fiftie and three yeares and reigned thirtie and foure He annexed the field which is called Ample vnto the Island and dedicated a golden piller in Iupiters Temple He also caused a great quantitie of wood to bee hewed downe in the mountaine Libanus to make couers and roofes for temples For hauing pulled down some auncient temples he builded that of Hercules and that of Astrate and made this first building of Hercules in the moneth Peritien and made warre against the Eucecans who refused to pay their tributes and after he had once againe brought them vnder his subiection here turned to his owne pallace In his time liued the young sonne of Abdimon who alwaies resolued those questions which Salomon king of Ierusalem proposed Dius also maketh mention of him in these termes After the decease of Abibale his sonne Hiram raigned he it was that fortified the quarter of the Citie to the Eastward and enlarged the same and conioyned the temple of Olympian Iupiter to the Citie which before that time was in an other place and filled all the place betweene them with earth and adorned it with pendants of gold and afterwards going vp to Libanus he hewed downe timber to build temples withall He said also that Salomon raigning at that time in Ierusalem sent vnto Hiram certaine subtill questions demaunding the exposition thereof vnder this condition that if he declared them not in way of penaltie hee should pay a great summe of money and afterwards that a certaine Tyrian called Abdimon expounded that which had beene proposed and in lieu thereof proposed certaine others which Salomon could not expound and for that occasion he paid a great summe of money vnto Hiram This is it that Dius writeth The king seeing that the Citie wanted both bulwarks and towers to secure the same and that the strength of the same was no waies answerable to the dignitie thereof he repaired the walles and erected great towers on the same Moreouer he builded certaine Cities which deserue to be memorized among the most renowmed namely Asor and Magedon and for the third the citie of Gaza in the country of the Philistines against which Pharao king of Aegypt led out his army and tooke it by force and after he had put all the inhabitants thereof to the sword he destroyed the same and afterwards he gaue it in dower vnto his daughter which maried with Salomon For which cause the king fortified it seeing it to be alreadie sufficiently defenced by nature and that it stood verie commodiously for the warre and to hinder the inuasions of the enemie that might happen Not farre from thence he fortified two other Cities whereof one was called Betachor and the other Baleth Besides these he builded others which were Cities of recreation and pleasure by reason of the good temperature of the ayre and the pleasantnes of the fruits and in especiall the sweet streamie riuers wherewith they were watered Afterwards entering into the desart that is aboue Syria cōquering the same he builded an other great city two daies iourney distant from the higher Syria a daies iourney from Euphrates and sixe from the great Babylon The cause why this Citie was inhabited farre from the ciuill and peopled quarters of Syria was because in no place of the lower countrey there was water to be found in this Citie only there were fountaines and springs He therefore builded this Citie and begirt it with strong walles and called it Thadamor which is the name which the Syrians tearme it by euen at this day and amongst the Greekes it is called Palmyra And these were Salomons works in that time But for that there are diuers that demaund the question how it commeth to passe that all the kings of Aegypt that haue beene since Minaeus the founder of Memphis and who raigned diuers yeeres before our great ancestor Abraham who I say haue beene till Salomons time for the space of more then thirteene hundred yeeres haue beene called Pharaohs deriuing that name from one that raigned in the mid time betweene both I haue thought it requisite to manifest the same to the intent to resolue that doubt and expresse the cause of that name The name of Pharao amongst the Aegyptians signifieth as much as King But I thinke that from their childhood they had other distinct names and that afterwards when they are created kings they take vpon them that name which in their mother toong signifieth no lesse then Authoritie For the kings of Alexandria hauing been before time called by other names at such time as they are introduced into the kingdome they are called Ptolemies by the name of their first king The Romaine Emperours likewise notwithstanding they haue other names at the time of their birth yet are they called Caesars because
114. g. m. 126. g. 209. b. 210. k. 212. h. 213. f. 214. g. h. 217. c. 231. c. 239. e. f. 240. g. 121. c. 242. h. i. 248. g. 250. k. l. 251. c d e. 252. k l. m. 253. a b c. 254. g h c. 255 a. c. Imprecation for building Iericho 10â—… l. Imprecation of Saul 137. e. Incest 71. b. of Lot 16. h. of Ammon 172. i k. Inchanters banished 154. l. Inclosure before the temple 197. d. Inconstantie of fortune 668. l. m. Inconueniences vnder a king 131. c. d. Incouragement of Moses 46. 〈◊〉 of Iosua h. 98. m. Incredulitie punished 229. k. d. Incursions of the Amalechites 115. f. of the Philistines 150. h. of Ader 205. c. Indebteds acts and deuices 748. g. Indulgence cause of sinne 139. f. Industrie of the Romans 648. g h. Ingratitude of the Sichemites 117. f. of the Israelites 135. d. of Nabal 152. i. m. of Demetrius 326. g. of Malchus 577. a. Inhabitants of Nob slaine 149. d. Inhabitants of countries 10. g c. and 11. a c. Inheritance of Iacob and Esau 28. g of Salpades danghters 88. l. Inhibition of Cambyses 226. l m. Iniquitie 580. h. of the Iewes 726. l. Iniuries of Florus 464. h. Iniurie to Dauids Embassadours 168. k. to Thamar 172. k l. Iniustice of lawmakers 797. d e. Innocencie of Dauid 151. d. 153. d e. Insolence 237. c. 239. d e. 240. h. 719. c. Institution of circumcision 15. b. of the Passeouer 49. c d. Instruments of Musicke 197. c. Interpretation of Iosephs dreames 24. a b. of the Butlers 32. l. of the Bakers 33. a b. of Pharaohs ibid. e f. of Nabuchodonosors 259 c d. of the hand writing 262. g h. Interpreters royally entertained 293. b. Intent of Florus inanifested 626. k. Intention of Saul against Dauid 144. h. l. 145. f. 146. l. Intestine discord 672. k. Inuectiue against murtherers 163. c. against the Zealous 674. h of Ioseph against the Iewes 715. f. Inuentor of Musicke who 5. f. Inuentor of the art of forging ibid. first Inuentors of letters 765. a. Inuocation of God in trouble 54. l. Ioab generall of Dauids armie 160. discomfiteth Abner ibid. i. slaieth Abner 162. g. discomfiteth the Syrians 169. a. reconcileth Absalon to his father 174. h. i. Ioab and the armie enter the citie mournfully 179. 〈◊〉 his Oration vnto Dauid c. ibid. c. sent out against Siba 181. d. killeth Amaza ib. e. rebuked proposeth conditions of peace 181. g h. one of Adonias coadiutors 186. i k. slaine 191. f. Ioachas king of Israel subdued 236. h i. and why ibid. his repentance and praier ibid. Ioachim king of Iuda 250. l. paid tribute ibid. 251. a. reuolteth and is slaine 251. a b not buried ibid. c. Ioachin king of Iuda 251. c. see Iechonias Ioas king of Israel 236. k. called Elizaeus his father ibid. k. his treble victorie 236. m. 237. a. Ioas saued and how 233. f. created king of Iuda 234. g. his pietie during Ioiadas time 234. m. repaireth the temple 235. c d. his impietie after Ioiadas decease ibid. e. stoneth Zacharias ibid. e f. bought his peace 236. g. dieth ib. Ioatham his workes about the temple 240. k. actes of warre ibid. k. 241. a. Ioaz king of Iuda taken prisoner 250. k. his impictie death ibid. k l. Iobel a maker of tents 5. f. Iochabel Moses mother 42. i. secretly hid him three moneths ibid. k. appointed to be his nurse by Pharaohs daughter 43. b. Iodes killeth Eglon 114. k. subdueth the Moabites and ruleth Israel ibid. k l. Ioel and Abia gouerne the common weale 130. k. Ioiada high priest 233. m. creaÌ„teth Ioas king 234. g. sweareth king and people to serue God ibid. l. deceaseth 235. d. Iohn releaseth Ismaels captiues 257. b. refused counsell ib. c. Iohn high priest slaieth his brother 283. f. punished 284. g. Iohn Ionathans brother slaine 318. i. Iohn Baprist slaine 471. a. Iohns actes in Gischalis 533. c f. his treason 534. l. secketh to murther Ioseph 535. a. he and the Embasladours resort to Iesus 544. g. his followers forsake him 551. b. a trecher and murderer 640. k. flieth into Gischala 642. k. perswadeth the Tiberians to reuolt ibid. h i. mooueth to rebellicu 670. k l. reserued to be at the siege of Ierusalem 671. d. sweareth to the people c. 676. h. breaketh his oath ibid. i. assaulted on both sides 698. k l. putteth the Zealous to flight 702. g. seaseth the temple ibid. raileth vpon Ioseph 729. c. apprehended 744. m. is condemned to perpetual prison ibid. Iohn captaine of the Idumaeans 710. l. slaine ibid. l. Ionas cause of a tempest and why 238. k l m. deuoured of a Whale and cast out 239. a. preacheth to the Niniuites ib. 2. Ionathan Sauls sonne 136. h. entred the enemies campe and slew them 137. b c. breaketh the edict ibid. f. counselleth Dauid to flie 144. m. pacifieth Sauls displeasure and certifieth Dauid thereof 145. b c. discouereth Sauls hatred to Dauid and how 147. d e f. renueth his couenant 150. k. Ionathan gouernour of the Iewes 318. g h. reuengeth his brothers death 318. l. assaileth Bacchides by night 319. c. putteth Apollonius to flight 324. h i. appeaseth Demetrius 326. i. putteth Demetrius to flight 329. a. renneth friendship with the Romans c. 329. b c. c. fighteth with Demetrius 330. g. repaireth Ierusalem c. ibid. i l. taken by Tryphon 331. b. 560. h. slaine 332. k. 560 h. Ionathans letters to Ioseph 542. h. m. Ionathan challengeth a Combate 732. l m. slaieth Pudens 733. a. Ioppe a retreat for theeues 661. c. taken ibid. e f. Ioram king of Iuda 226. l. serued Idols 230. h. murthereth his brethren ib. k. dieth miserably 230. m. Ioram king of Israel an impious man 225. c. asketh aide ibid. c. in distresse with two other kings ibid. e f. relieued and how 225. f. 226. g. ouercame the Moabites ibid. h. besieged 227. f. threatneth Elizaeus 228. h. certified of the enemies flight 229. b. his expedition to recouer Ramath 231 a b. Iordan yeeldeth the Israelites passage 161. e f. his fountaine 667. b. Iosaphat king of Iuda his pietie 220. i k. his expedition with Achab 220. l m. reprooued 223. b. renueth the true seruice of God ibid. c. prayeth and why 223. c. obtaineth victorie and how 224. g h i. his ships cast away ib. i. aydeth Ioram 225. c. dieth 226. k. Ioseph sonne of Iacob 24. l. enuied of his brethren 28. l. dreamed a dreame ibid. l m. sold by his brethren 29. c. 30. h i. resisted his mistris twofold temptation 31. a b. c accused and cast into prison 32. g h i. expounded dreames 32. l. 33. b e f. counselled the king how to preuent famine 34. g h. aduanced to honour and married a wife ibid. h i. sounded his brethren and why ibid. l. sent them away but detained Simeon 35. d e. banquetteth them and Beniamin 36. h i. staieth their iourney