it would cost much time and expence he denied their request permitting them nevertheless to pave their City with broad Stone Matthias the Son of Theophilus High Priest He took the Priesthood from Jesus the Son of Gamaliel and gave it to Matthias the Son of Theophilus in whose time the Wars betwixt the Romans and the Jews began But I think it not amiss Hedio Ruffinus chap. 18. but very answerable to the course of this present History N to speak of the High Priests The Succession and number of the High Priests among the Jews and to shew how they had their beginning and to whom this honour may be lawfully communicated and how many they were in number until the end of the War The first of them was Aaron Moses's Brother after whose death his Children succeeded him and from that time forward the honour hath continued with their Successors For it is a Law observed by our Ancestors that no man should be admitted to the Priesthood There were eighty three High Priests in all except he be of Aaron's Posterity for albeit he were a King if so be that he were of another Line it was impossible for him to obtain the Priesthood All the Priests after Aaron who as we have said was the first until Phanasus whom the Seditious created Priest in the time of the War have been in number eighty three whereof thirteen have executed the Office from the time that O Moses erected God's Tabernacle in the Desart until such time as arriving in Judaea King Solomon builded a Temple to God For in the beginning the High Priesthood continued A with the Possessors for term of life but afterwards although the Priests were yet alive yet were there other Successors put in their rooms These thirteen were of Aaron's Posterity and obtained this degree in succession the one after the other Their first Government was Aristocracy which is the Government of the Nobility afterwards a Monarchy and at last a Royal Government The number of years wherein these thirteen flourished were six hundred and twelve years from the day that our Fathers departed out of Egypt under the conduct of Moses until the building of the Temple in Jerusalem by King Solomon After these thirteen High Priests there were eighteen others who after Solomon's time succeeded one after another until the time that Nabuchodonozor King of Babylon B having encamped before the City took it and burned the Temple and transported our Nation into Babylon and led away the High Priest Josedech Prisoner The time of the Priesthood and continuance of these eighteen was four hundred sixty years six months and ten days so long as the Jews have had the Royal Government After the surprizal of Jerusalem by the Babylonians until such time as Cyrus King of Persia dismissed the Jews and gave them leave to return from Babylon into their own Countrey with permission to re-edifie their Temple there are seventy two years and at that time the Captives being returned Jesus the Son of Josedech took upon him the High Priesthood who with those of his Posterity to the number of fifteen have governed in a Democracy or Popular Government until the time of Antiochus surnamed C Eupator for the space of four hundred and fourteen years This Antiochus was the first who with his General Lysias displaced Onias surnamed Menelaus of his Priesthood commanding him to be killed at Berith and after he had driven his Son out of the Succession he established Jacim High Priest who notwithstanding was of Aaron's Race but not of his Family For this cause Onias the Son of Onias and Nephew to the deceased Onias retired himself into Egypt Where growing familiar with Ptolomey Philometor and Cleopatra his Wife he perswaded them to build a Temple in the Confines of Heliopolis not unlike to that of Jerusalem and to create a High Priest in the same of which Temple in Egypt we have made very oftentimes mention After that Jacim had held the Priestood for the space of three years he died without D Successor so the City remained seven years without a High Priest Again the Asmoneans recovered the Government of their Nation and after they had made War against the Macedonians they established Jonathan High Priest who exercised the Office seven years but afterwards he was killed in an Ambush and Treason conspired against him by Tryphon as we have declared elsewhere After him Simon his Brother undertook the Priesthood who was not long after killed treacherously by his Son-in-Law at a Banquet After him succeeded his Son Hircanus who enjoying this Dignity for the space of thirty one years died when he was very old leaving behind him Judas surnamed Aristobulus who dying left his Brother Alexander his Heir both of the Kingdom and High Priesthood After that Aristobulus had obtained the E Royal Government he enjoyed both Dignities one whole year For this Judas surnamed Aristobulus was the first that set the Diadem on his head causing himself to be called a King the which Alexander did continue for he also joyned the Kingdom with the High Priesthood and reigned twenty seven years And feeling himself draw near to his death he left in Alexandras his Wife's hands to dispose of the Priesthood as she pleased She therefore bestowed it on Hircanus and as for the Kingdom she kept it in her own hands nine years and afterwards died Her Son Hircanus was High Priest for so long time For after Alexandra's death his Brother Aristobulus made War against him and having overcome him he took the Kingdom from him and not only seized on the Crown but the Priesthood After he had reigned three F years and as many months Pompey repaired to Jerusalem and took it perforce and laying hold of Aristobulus sent him bound unto Rome with his Children After which he restored the Priesthood once more to Hircanus committing the Government of the Nation unto his hands forbidding him in the mean space to wear the Diadem Besides the first nine years Hircanus governed twenty and four But Barzapharnes and Pacorus Princes of the Parthians passed Euphrates and made war against Hircanus and took him alive Prisoner and made Antigonus Aristobulus's Son King But after he had governed three years and three months Sosius and Herod took him alive perforce and Antonius sent him to Antioch where he was beheaded After that Herod was created King by the Romans there was never any High Priest created of G the Posterity of the Asmoneans for he gave the High Priesthood to certain men of obscure and base extraction who were of the Order of Priests Aristobulus only excepted This Aristobulus was Hircanus's Nephew who was a Prisoner among the Parthians and having given him the Priesthood he married Mariamne his Sister to the intent H to continue himself in the good liking of the people in remembrance of Hircanus But afterwards fearing lest all of them should turn to Aristobulus's
that are called Hesperians in Aethiopia and Sabaeus founded the Sabeans M As for Nimrod the sixth son of Chus Nabrodes or Nâ—mbroth he setled his Colony upon the Confines of Babylon and tyrannized there as is before declared All the eight sons of Misraim occupied all the Countrey from Gaza unto Egypt Palestine so named of Philestine but onely one of the eight named Philistin hath left his name to the Countrey which he possess'd for the Greeks call a part thereof Palestine As touching the rest Lom Enam and Labim Nethem Phetrosim Chestem Chreesene and Chepthom we know neither of their actions nor of their names except Labim who planted a Colony in Lybia and gave his name to it For the Aethiopians whereof hereafter we shall make mention overthrew their Cities Canaan also had eleven sons The Children of Canaan amongst whom Sidonius built and named Sidon a City in N Phoenicia and Amathus built Amath which at this day the Inhabitants call Amatha though the Macedonians call it Epiphania which signifies famous from the name of one of its Princes Arudeus possessed the Isles of Arudus and Ariceus built the City of Arce upon mount Libanus As for the other seven Eveus Cheteus Jebuseus Eucleus Sineus Samarcus and Gorgeseus there is no memory remaining of them in Sacred Scriptures but onely their names For the Hebrews razed their Cities upon the occasions which I am going to relate After the Deluge Hedio Ruffinus cap. 13. when the earth was established in its first estate Noah gave himself to Tillage Gen. 9. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25. and planted Vineyards and when the Fruit thereof was ripe and he had pressed and made Wine thereof he drank and banquetted after he had done sacrifice being thereby made drunk and overpressed with sleep he lay discovered in a most unseemly O and shameful fashion which when Cham his younger son beheld he scornfully discover'd it to his Brothers who being asham'd cover'd their Father's nakedness with A reverence Noah is made drunk lieth naked and is scorned and curseth him that derideth him Which fact of his coming to the knowledge of Noah he wished all felicity to the two other and as touching Cham out of a fatherly tenderness he cursed him not but only his posterity after him who accordingly were punisht for the sin of their Forefather as we shall shew hereafter Sem the third son of Noah had five sons who inhabited the Countrey of Asia beginning at Euphrates Hedio Ruffinus cap. 14. and extending to the Indian Ocean For Elimis the eldest left the Elimeans or Elamites for his Successors whence proceeded the Persians Assur the second built the City of Ninive Gen. 7. 1. and gave his Subjects the name of Assyrians who were rich above all the rest Of the Sons of Sem the third Son of Noah and of theirs and Abraham's Progeny Arphaxad the third named those of his command Arphaxadians who at this day are called Chaldeans Aram the fourth had the Arameans whom the Greeks call Syrians B And from Ludis the fifth came the Ludéans who at this day are called Lydians Of those four sons which Aram had Vses dwelt in the Region of Trachonites and built the City of Damascus scituate between Palestine and that part of Syria which is sirnamed Caeler or hollow Otrus obtained Armenia Gether Bactria Misas was father to the Mezaneans whose Countrey is called at this day the valley of Pasin Sale Arphaxad's son was Heber's father from whose name in times past the Hebrews were denominated Heber begat Jucta and Phaleg The original of the Hebrews who was so called for that he was born at such time as Lands came to be divided for Phaleg in Hebrew signifieth Division They that follow were the sons of Jucta Elmodad Saleph Azermoth Izrais Edoram Vzal Dael Ebal Ebemael Sapham Ophir Evilas and Jobel who occupied some parcel of that Region which was between Cophen a River C in India and the hither Syria Hitherto have we spoken of the Progeny of Sem now we come to speak of the Hebrews Abraham's Genealogy Phaleg the son of Heber begat Ragaus by whom was begot Seruch from whom Nachor descended and from Nachor Thares who was Abraham's father the tenth in account from Noah and born 292 years after the Deluge For Thares being 70 years old begat Abraham Nachor at 120 years of age begat Thares Nachor was born to Seruch when he was about the years of 132 of his life and Ragaus begat Seruch when he was 130 years old and about those years Phaleg begat Ragaus But Heber at 34 years of age begat Phaleg himself begotten by Sela when he was 135 years old which Sela was begotten by Arphaxad when he was 135 years of age And Arphaxad was the son of Sem and Grandson of Noah whom he begat two years after the Deluge Abraham had two D brothers Nachor and Aram of whom Aram left Lot for his son and Sara and Melcha for his daughters and afterwards dyed in the land of Canaan in a City called Vr of the Chaldees where his Sepulchre is to be seen even at this day His daughters were married Melcha to Nachor The year of the World 2950. before Christ's Nativity 2014. and Sara to Abraham But Thares growing weary of Chaldaea after the death of his son Aram he and his Family transported themselves into Charan a City of Mesopotamia in which place they buried Thares when he had lived the space of 250 years For about this time the life of man was abridged and grew more short until the time of Moses The term of man's life about this term 120. when the space of man's life limited by God himself was 120 years to which term Moses attained Nachor had eight children by Melcha his wife Vx Baux Manuel Zacham Azam Phaleg Jadelphus and Bathuel who were the legitimate sons of Nachor E But Tabaeus and Gadan Thavan and Macham were begotten by him on his Concubine Ruma To Bathuel one of the legitimate sons of Nachor was born a daughter named Rebecca and a son called Laban CHAP. VII How Abraham Gen. 12. 1. ad 4. the Author of our Nation departed from the Land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in the Countrey of the Canaanites which is now called Judea ABraham having no Issue adopted Lot the son of Aram's brother and brother to Sara his wife The year of the World 2204 before Chri 〈…〉 Nativity 1940. he departed out of the Countrey of Chaldee when he was 75 years old having had commandment from God to depart thence into Canaan in which Countrey F he remained and left the same to his Posterity after him He was a man accomplished in all things full of understanding and apt to persuade those that gave ear unto him without any default in his foresight and providence Hedio Ruffinus cap. 15. For this cause
displeasure if the matter were discover'd whereby both he and the Child should be made away and Gods promises should be frustrate he chose rather wholly to commit the safety of his son to F his Providence supposing that if the Boy were hidden which notwithstanding would be hard to effect yet it would be troublesom unto him to live in continual peril both of his own and his sons safety moreover he thought that God would provide some means of preservation to the intent that nothing of that which he had foretold might be proved false Having taken this resolution they prepared and made a Cradle of Sedge after the manner of a Couch so great that it was sufficient to lay the Child in at ease and having pitched it on every side lest the water should pierce the same they put the Child in to it and suffering him to float along the stream committed him to the mercy of God Ver. 3. Whil'st in this manner it was born down by the stream Mariam the sister of the young Infant Moses cast into the floud by her Mothers command went along the Bank on the other side of G the River observing whither at length the Basket would be carried and where it should arrive At that time God manifestly declared That nothing is atchieved by mans wisdom but that all things are brought to pass by his admirable Providence and that they who for their profit The year of the World 2376. before Christ's Nativity 1588. and particular security seek the ruine and destruction of others H with never so much subtilty care and diligence yet are oftentimes deceiv'd in their expectations And that they that submit their wills unto Gods Will are secured from all wrongs by such means as were never thought on as may most manifestly be perceived by this Child Thermuthis Ver. 5. the King's daughter walking alone the River side espied this Basket carried away by the course of the stream Thermuthis Pharaohs daughter causeth Moses to be taken out of the River and presently commanded certain Swimmers to fetch it to Land and bring it before her who executing her Command she opened the Basket and beheld the Child who in that he was fair and well featured did greatly delight her Thus God so loved and favoured Moses that he caused him both to be nourished and brought up by them who for fear lest he should be born had decreed to I destroy all the rest of the Race of the Hebrews Thermuthis therefore commanded them to fetch her a Nurse who might give the Child suck who refusing the same as all other Nurses did that were sent for to suckle him Mariam as if by good fortune and not of set purpose she had light into their company began to speak thus unto Thermuthis In vain said she O Princess doest thou strive to give this Babe suck by any but an Hebrew Nurse for he will not accept it for if thou call unto thee a Nurse of the same Nation and agreeable with his nature doubtless he will take the nipple This Speech of hers being both heard and plausibly accepted the Princess commanded her to bring her an Hebrew woman that gave suck which she diligently performing returned and brought her Mother with her whom none of the assistants knew and who presenting her breast unto the Child K he willingly took the dug Moses whence he received his name so that upon the Princess command the suckling of the Child was wholly committed unto her By reason of this accident and for that he was cast into the River he was called Moses for the Egyptians call water Mo and saved Yses so this name composed of these two words was imposed on this Child who afterwards without exceptions became the wisest Man among the Hebrews according as God had foretold Moses the 7th after Abraham He was the seventh after Abraham for he was Amrams son and Amram son unto Cathis and he to Levi and Levi to Jacob who was the son of Isaac who was the son of Abraham He had a judgment riper than his age for even amongst his childish delights he shewed himself more discreet than all his equals and whatsoever he did it gave testimony that at such time as he should attain to Mans estate he would be L capable of great things When he was but 3 years old God adorned and endowed him with an admirable beauty He was so fair and amiable that there was not any how austere and inhumane soever but in beholding him would be astonished Yea divers who met him as he was carried through the streets turned themselves about to behold him and intermitted their other affairs Ver. 10. onely to look upon him for the admirable beauty of this Infant Moses the adopted son of Thermuthis daughter unto Pharaoh did ravish all those that saw him Whence it came to pass that Thermuthis in that she had no other Issue adopted him for her Heir and carrying him to the King her Father she presented him to him saying That she was careful of a Successor by reason God had not vouchsafed him to have any Issue for saith she I have brought up this Infant no less excellent in wit than divine in beauty having received him miraculously from the M River Nilus and I have decreed to adopt him my Child and to establish him as Successor to thee in thy Kingdom This said she delivered the Infant into her Fathers arms who after he had embraced and hugged him at his breast to give his daughter the more content he put his Diadem upon the Childs head but Moses pulling it from his head after a childish manner cast it on the ground and spurned it with his feet which act of his was supposed ominous to the Realm and dangerous for the King Whereupon the sacred Secretary who had foretold that his Nativity would be the destruction of the Egyptians willed them to kill the Child crying out with a loud voyce to the King after this manner O King this Child by whose death God promiseth us security hath already confirmed the presage insulting over thy Kingdom and spurning thy Diadem Take from the Egyptians N that fear which they have conceived of him by his death and from the Hebrews that hope which they build on his courage and life Ver. 10. But Thermuthis hastily conveyed him thence and the King was not overforward to lay hands on him Moses delivered from death by reason that God disposed all things in this manner in that he had a care of Moses preservation He was therefore very carefully brought up and by reason of him the Hebrews in general were replenished with good hope but by the Egyptians his education both was suspected and grudged at yet by reason that if the Lad should have been slain there was not any one either akin or adopted that could pretend to the succession of the Crown of
much mov'd supposing that which was fallen B upon them had hapned by Moses Inchantments and it was concluded to pursue them They therefore arm'd The Egyptians pursue the Hebrews and furnish'd themselves with all their abiliments of War intending to pursue them with intent to bring them back if they overtook them for they said that God would no more be displeas'd against them for that already they had given them leave to depart They hoped likewise very easily to bring them under subjection because they were all of them disarm'd and wearied with Travel And having inquir'd which way they held Why Moses conducted them thorow Palestine they hasted to follow them although they knew the Region was very hard to Travel in not only for those that were to march in Troop but also for those that were to journey one by one Now Moses conducted them this way to the end that if the Egyptians should repent of their dismission and hasten to pursue them they might receive the C reward of their wickedness and the breach of their promise He chose this way likewise lest the Philistines should understand their departure by reason they were displeas'd against the Hebrews upon an ancient grudge which they bear them and Palestine confines and borders upon Egypt wherefore he led them not by the way that directly leadeth thither but he intended to bring them into Canaan by conducting them far about and thorow many calamities to the end that afterwards he might lead them to Mount Sinai there to offer Sacrifice The Israelites are encompassed by the Egyptian multitudes and depart to the red Sea according to Gods commandment As soon as the Egyptians overtook the Israelites they prepar'd themselves to fight trusting to the number which they had for with them there served 600 Chariots with 50000 Horsemen and 200000 armed Footmen They also stopped the passages where they thought the Hebrews might escape enclosing D them betwixt unaccessible Rocks and the Sea on which place there abutteth a Mountain unfrequented Exod. 14. 16. by reason of the dangerousness of the way and by this means they excluded them from all hope of escape or flight for on the one side they were shut in by the Mountain that extended it self even to the Sea and on the other side by their Camp pitched and embattelled before their faces to cut them off from the Champion if so be they intended to flie that way Seeing therefore that they were in no security but were hemmed in by the straitness of the place and by reason of want of provision could not endure a siege nor yet find any ways to flie from their Enemies neither although they greatly desir'd to fight had they means to defend themselves because they were disarm'd Finally Ver. 11 12. perceiving that there was no hope of safety left them but only by their abject E submission The perplexity of the Israelites being enclosed by the Egyptians they began to accuse Moses forgetting those Prodigies which God had done to set them at liberty and their incredulity proceeded so far that they were upon the point to stone Moses and voluntarily to yield themselves subject to their former Thraldom For they were much mov'd by the Tears of their Wives and Children who expected nothing but death seeing themselves begirt with Rocks Seas and Soldiers and left destitute of all hope of flight But although the multitude were exasperated against Moses yet ceased he not to take care of them and to have recourse to God recounting to them what he had said in times past touching their deliverance and assuring them that after so many Miracles God would not suffer them to be subjected or overthrown by their Enemies Ver. 13. And standing up in the midst of them he said Moses exhorteth the people to put their trust in God If your affairs had hitherto been F managed by Men onely it were not amiss in you to distrust them leâ—t hereafter they should not bring them to their determined and your desired issue But in that at this time you distrust the Providence of God this sheweth you to be without sense or understanding considering it is he that hath made you see all those things which he promised you by me concerning your deliverance even at that time when you your selves expected it not you rather ought to hope that God will help and assist you in these difficulties who hath brought to pass that you are now in this strait to the end that when he shall have delivered you from these extremities from which neither you your selves nor your Enemies suppose you can escape he may shew his power and providence in your behalf Ver. 13. for God is not accustomed to yield his favorable assistance when the dangers are only easie and supportable When God is most ready to help us but in those wherein all humane hope is lost and extinct Therefore rest your selves G your fortunes upon such a Helper who can make great things small and the strongest feeble Fear not the force and power of the Egyptians and though you have the Sea and Mountains before you which permit you not to flie from them despair not of your lives for God if he please can turn the Mountains into Plains and change the Sea into dry Land CHAP. VII H The Hebrews are pursued by the Egyptians the Red Sea divideth it self and giveth passage to the Hebrews but overwhelmeth the Egyptian Army THis said he conducted the Hebrews towards the Sea in the sight of the Egyptians who being very much wearied with pursuit and travel thought best to forbear the Combat till the next day Exod. 14 15. But when Moses was arriv'd upon the bank of the Sea he took his Rod and called upon God and implored his aid and succor in these words O Lord Thou too well knowest that it is impossible for us by humane force or policy to escape these extremities Moses prayer unto God but thou art he only that canst save this company who have forsaken Egypt following I thy Commandment And since of our selves we have not any hope or means we only recommend our selves unto thy Providence being assur'd that by that means onely we can be delivered from the pursuit and fury of the Egyptians Send us therefore speedily thine assistance to the end that thy Power may be known in our weakness Relieve encourage and hearten thy People assuring them of their safety who through their distrust have sinned against thee we are environed with difficulties which notwithstanding thou canst make easie For the Sea is thine and this Mountain that incloseth us which shall open and the Sea divide it self if thou commandest We may likewise flie thorow the Air if it please thy Power to deliver us in that manner Having made his Request unto God after this manner Ver. 21. he strook the Red Sea with his Rod The
with Fountain water and the precious Oyntment to the end they might be sanctified to God And for seven days space he consecrated both them and their Vestments The dedication of the Tabernacle and the Priests and the Tabernacle with those things which appertained thereunto with the Oyle abovementioned with the Blood of Bulls and Rams slain every other day after their kind But on the eighth day he proclaimed a Holy day and festival to all F the People Lev. 18. per totum and decreed that every one of them should particularly sacrifice according to his ability and they with emulation striving to exceed one another obeyed him Lev. 9. 24. and offered up their Sacrifices according as it was commanded them Whilst thus the Sacrifices were upon the Altar The sacrifice is consumed of it self suddenly there issued a fire from them which kindled of it self the flame whereof resembled the Light or brightness of Lightning and consumed all that was upon the Altar At that time there hapned an affliction to Aaron the greatest that could befall a Father yet he supported it with a constant and generous mind for he was a Man of much constancy and such an one as knew that nothing could befall him without the prescience and providence of God Of his four Sons the two eldest Nadab and Abihu bringing other sacrifices to the Altar G than those that were appointed by Moses were burnt by the violent flame that issued from the Altar scorching both their Breasts and Faces in such sort that they dyed without possibility of being succoured Moses commanded their Father and Brothers to take their bodies and carry them out of the Camp and bury them decently All H the People wept and were very much amazed at this their death so strange and unexpected But Moses forbad both the Father and his Sons to lament to the end they might make it appear that being honoured with the dignity of Priesthood they were more sensible of Gods honour than of their own misfortune But as touching Moses he refused all honours which were offered him by the People neither applied he himself unto any other thing but to the service of God Naâ—ab and Abihu Arons Sons burned Levit. 10. 1 2 3. 4. He went up to the Mountain of Sinai and entred into the Tabernacle to take counsel of God concerning those things whereof he needed to be informed He demeaned himself like a private Man not onely in his apparel but in all other things continuing a familar and modest course of life and challenging no priviledge above any Man Numb 3. 3 4. but onely in those things which pertained I to the administration of the Common-wealth He reduc'd into writing the Laws and ordinances touching policy in due performance whereof if they liv'd they should be both agreeable to God and live in union and peace amongst themselves And all this he established following those directions which God instructed him in But now will I return and bend my stile to speak of that which I omitted in the ornaments of the High Priest for this apparel of theirs leaveth not any occasion to false Prophets to excecute their wicked impostures and if there be any such as dare intermeddle with that which appertaineth to Gods Majesty this habit maketh them know that God never honoured their sacrifices with his presence but he gave visible signs thereof not onely to the Hebrews A miracle of the Stones in the High Priests vestment but to all those strangers K who by any occurrence might be eye-witnesses of the same For of those Stones which the High Priest bare on his shoulders which were Sardonixes whose nature is so well known to all Men that it were unnecessary to speak of it that which was fastned on his right shoulder shined very clearly at such time as God was present at the sacrifice and cast its rayes afar off that it might be perceived by those that beheld the same contrary to its nature and custome which truly deserveth admiration amongst all Men except those who through contempt of Religion do hunt after an opinion of wisdom But that which I will now speak of is more to be admired at which is that by the twelve Stones which the High Priest bare Enchased in his Rational in the midst of his Breast God was wont to fore-signifie victory to those that were prepared L for Battel For such brightness lightned out of them even before such time as the Army did dislodge or enter skirmish that it was manefestly known to the People that God was present and ready to assist them for which cause the Greeks that have no aversion for our mysteries and are convinced by their own eyes of the truth of this miracle call it Logion i. e. oracle which we term Esseâ— This Rational and the Stone Sardonix gave over to shine two hundred years before I began to write these Antiquities by reason of Gods wrath which he had conceived against us for the breach of his Laws of which at another time I will more fitly treat and at this time continue and prosecute my intended discourse and purpose After the Tabernacle had been thus consecrated and that which appertained to the Priests was set in order the People M transported with joy that God dwelt with them in his Tabernacle began to sacrifice and to sing Hymns of praises The sacrifices and gifts of the Princes of the Tribes as to him that had driven far from them all fear of evil and from whom they expected in time to come far better and more prosperous things and both in general and in particular they offered gifts unto God according to their tribes and the Governors of the tribes assembling themselves together two by two prepared a Chariot and a yoak of Oxen so that there were six Chariots to bear the Tabernacle by the way Furthermore every one of them offered a vial of the weight of 70 Sicles and a Censor containing 10 dariques and a Coffer or Basin weighing 130 Sicles The Censor was filled with odoriferous perfumes and the coffer and vial served to hold the Meal and Oyl which they were wont to use at the Altar at such time as they offred N sacrifice They offered likewise a Calf and a Ram with a Lamb of one year old for a burnt-sacrifice and a Goat for a sin-offering All the other Governors likewise brought every one of them their sacrifice called Salutarie for every day two Oxen and five Rams with a Lamb and a Goat of a year old and sacrificed them during the term of twelve days every one his day But Moses ascended no more to the Mountain of Sinai but entred into the Tabernacle where he was instructed by God of that which he had to do and what Laws he ought to make which are so good and laudable as they ought not to be attributed to humane wisdom Moses asketh counsel of
sequestred them for the space of seven days after which it was lawful for them to converse with Men. The like decreed he of those that had assisted at the burial of a dead Man whom he permitted not to converse with the other till seven days were expired It was also decreed by Law that he that had a flux of seed beyond seven days should sacrifice two Wethers one of which should be sacrific'd and the other given to the Priests Also that he that hath unnatural pollution should wash himself with cold water Goâ—orrhaâ— The like must Husbands do after they have had use of their Wives Of Lepers He likewise order'd that the Leprous should be separated for ever not permitting them to frequent any Mans company but esteeming them as little differing from the dead And if any one by his prayers made unto God was delivered D from this disease and his skin reduced to its native colour such an one presented himself before God with divers oblations and sacrifices Against them that object against Moses and his Followers that they fled out of Egypt for Leprosie of which we will speak hereafter Whence it appears how ridiculous a fable it is that Moses fled out of Egypt because he was a Leper and that all the Hebrews whom he conducted with him and brought into the Land of Canaan was troubled with that disease For if that were true Moses would not have made these ordinances to his own shame and if any other had proposed them he would have opposed himself against them especially since among divers other Nations there are Lepers who are held in great honour and who are so far from disdainand contempt that they have been made Generals of Armies and elected for Governors of Common-wealths having liberty to enter the Temples and to be present at the sacrifices E What therefore hindred Moses if he had been infected with this malady to make such Laws and ordain such Statutes among those People who honoured and obeyed him whereby such as were therewith infected might be preferred By which it is manifest that those things that are objected against him are rather of malice than probability But Moses being clean from such sickness and conversing amongst his Countrey-men which were untainted made these ordinances for them that were sick having regard to the honour of God But of these things let each Man censure as best liketh him He forbad women to enter into the Temple soon after their deliverance Hedio Ruffinus cap. 14. or to assist at the sacrifice until forty days were expired if they had been brought a-bed of a Son The Laws of Women that are brought a-bed but if it were a Daughter he appointed that the number of the dayes should be F doubled and that when they should enter they should present their offerings to God whereof one part was consecrated and the other belonged to the Priests And if any one suspected that his Wife had committed adultery Numb 5. v. 15. ad finem he brought an Assar of Barly Meal and cast an handful thereof upon the Altar The Laws of adultery and jealousie and the rest was reserved for the maintenance of the Priests and then the Priest placing the Woman in the porch which is right over against the Tabernacle and taking the cover from her head writeth the name of God upon a Parchment and maketh her swear that she hath not violated her faith to her Husband and wish if she had transgressed the bounds of chastity that her right thigh might be put out of joynt her belly burst and death follow thereupon but if her Husband had been inconsiderately drawn into that suspition through excess of love then it pleased G God at the end of ten months to give her a Son And after such an oath ministred unto her the Priest dippeth in water the Parchment on which the name of God was written and then taking some of the earth of the Temple according as he findeth it and having mingled the same giveth it to the Woman to drink and if she had been H unjustly accused she became with child and brought forth happily but if she had falsified her faith to her husband and forsworn her self before God then dyed she a shameful death in the manner above mentioned You see what Laws Moses provided for the sacrifices and purifications Of adultery and incest He furthermore made these Laws which ensue He generally forebad Adultery judging it to be a great felicity if Men demeaned themselves honestly in Marriage and that both in politick Estates and private Families Exod. 22. it was a thing most profitable Deut. 17. that children should be born in Lawful Matrimony Levit. 18. 20 21 29. He condemn'd also as a horrid crime for a Man to have the use of his Mother or his Fathers Wife his Aunt or his Sister or his Sons Wife and detesteth it as a most I heinous and hideous offence He prohibited also the use of a Woman when she hath her monthly sickness also the lying with Beasts or boys by reason that such affections are abominable and against the transgressors of these Laws he established Capital punishments He willed also that the Priests should be more chaste than the rest for he not onely forbad them that which he prohibited others but moreover he enjoyned them not to marry Women that had been cast off or Slaves or Prisoners or Victualers and Taverners forsaken by their Husbands for any occasion whatsoever And touching the High-Priest Lev. 21. 7 8 9 he permitted him not to match with a Widow although it were Lawful for the other Priests and granted him onely liberty to take a Virgin to his Wife What Wife the High-Priest might marry with and to keep her The said High-Priest is also forbidden to approach a dead Man K although the other Priests are not forbidden to approach their Brothers Fathers and Mothers and children deceased Requiring that they should be sincere and true in all their words and actions He likewise ordained that the Priest which had any bodily defect should be maintained by the other Priests but in the mean time that he should not approach the Altar nor enter into the Temple willing that not onely they should be pure in that which concerned the divine service but also that they should study and endeavour to be so in all the actions of their life to the end that no Man might reproach them For which cause when they wore the habit of Priests besides their general obligation to be always pure and sober they were forbidden to drink Wine and they were to offer up entire L sacrifices and no ways maimed These Statutes did Moses make in the Desart and caus'd to be observ'd during his life Levit. 25. v. 2. ad 8. Afterwards he made others also which both the People might practise in that place The
Enemy the Canaanites hoping that God would be their Guide Ver. 43. so as they needed not the assistance of their Lawgiver The Canaanites put the Hebrews to flight When this sentence was approv'd by a general consent they flock out in multitudes against their Enemies who neither affrighted by their boldness nor multitude valiantly resisted them who desperately charg'd them so that the better part of the Hebrews being slain they pursued the rest enforced shamefully to turn their backs even unto their Camp This overthrow hapning besides all mens opinion wondrously dejected the minds of the multitude so that they grew desperate of all future good fortune concluding that God had sent and inflicted that plague upon them because without his counsel and order O they had enterpriz'd the Battel But when Moses saw that his Countreymen were dismay'd with the overthrow which they had receiv'd and the Enemy grown proud with A their late Victory fearing likewise lest not content with their present success they should attempt further he determined to retire his Forces back again into the Desart And whereas the People promised thenceforward to be obedient to him being taught by their own misery that nothing would fall out prosperously unto them without the counsel and conduct of their Guide they disincamping themselves Moses retireth the people into the Desart retired into the Desart with this resolution that they would no more attempt a Battel against the Canaanites till they received a sign of their good success from Heaven But even as in a great Army it accustomably falleth out especially in time of trouble that the common multitude wax head-strong and disobedient to their Governors so did the like also happen amongst the Jews For whereas they were in number 600000 and even in their better B Fortunes sufficiently disobedient to their Governors so much the more were they exasperated by their wants and misfortunes Sedition against Moses both amongst themselves and against their Governor For which cause there arose so great a Sedition as neither among the Greeks or Barbarians the like was ever heard Which things without doubt had overthrown them being brought into so desperate an estate had not Moses forgetting the injury he had received which was no less than a purpose to stone him to death succoured and relieved their distressed Fortunes Neither did God utterly abandon the care of them but although they were contumelious against their Lawgiver and transgressed also against the Laws which he had delivered them by Moses yet delivered he them out of that danger of which without his special Providence there could be expected no C other but a lamentable issue This Sedition as also how Moses governed the estate when the troubles were ended we will now declare having first expressed the cause thereof CHAP. II. The Sedition raised by Chore against Moses and his Brother for the Priesthood CHore a Man noble by Birth Numb 16. 1. ad 4. and famous for his wealth amongst the Hebrews and endowed with a certain kind of popular Eloquence seeing Moses placed in the highest place of Authority Chore endeavoureth to persuade the multitude to mutiny against Moses was filled with jealousie and envy thereat For although he were of the same Tribe and Kindred yet he thought it a great indignity to himself to D be held his inferior being both more potent in Riches and his equal in Parentage For which cause he began to murmur and complain to the Levites which were of the same Tribe with him and his Kinsmen telling them That it was not to be suffered that Moses under a pretext of Communication with God should by ambitious policy to other mens prejudice onely study his own glory having of late against all sort of reason given the Priesthood to his Brother Aaron and distributed other dignities at his own pleasure like a King without the suffrage and approbation of the People That this injury done by him was not to be endured by reason that so covertly he had insinuated himself into the Government that before it could be observ'd the People would be brought into servitude For he that knoweth himself to be worthy of a Government endeavors to obtain the same by the consent of the People and not E by force and violence but they that despair by good means to attain thereunto do notwithstanding abstain from force lest they should lose the opinion of their goodness and honesty yet endeavor they by malicious subtilties to attain thereunto That it concerned the Commonweal to check the attempts of such Men lest of private they at last grow publick Enemies For what reason said he can Moses give why he hath bestowed the High Priesthood on Aaron and his Sons If God had decreed that this honour should be bestowed on one of the Tribe of Levi there were more reason that I should have it who am of the same Kindred with Moses and who surpass him both in riches and age On the contrary If this honour appertain to the most ancient of the Tribes that of Reuben ought by right to enjoy it namely Dathan and Abiram and Phalal Alias Baâ—â—â— who are the most ancient of that Tribe and the most powerful in riches These things F spake Chore under colour and pretence of the good of the Commonwealth but in effect only to raise a Tumult amongst the multitude and intrude into the office of the High Priest Ver. 35. Which discourse of his passing by little and little from one ear to another Two hundred and fifty men follow Chore's Faction amongst the multitude and multiplied by the envious and such as maligned Aaron at last brought all the Tribes into a mutiny so that 250 of the chiefest Nobles grew at length to be partakers of Chore's Conspiracy and all of these conspir'd together to take away the Priesthood from Moses's Brother and to transfer it to him The People likewise were in such sort incensed They cry out to stone Moses that they sought to stone Moses and ran all of them confusedly with noise and uproar crying out before the Tabernacle of God that the Tyrant was to be cut off and the People delivered from thraldom who under pretext G of Religion had insupportable thraldom imposed on them For if it were God that had chosen him to be High Priest he would have preferred such an one to the dignity who had been worthy and would not have confer'd it on those who were far inferior to others That if he had decreed to bestow it on Aaron he would have remitted the election H to the People and not left the disposition thereof to his Brother Although Moses was inform'd of Chore's treacherous Calumnies and saw the People highly incensed yet was be nothing at all abashed thereat but being satisfi'd in his Conscience that he had governed the estate uprightly and well assured that his Brother obtained the Priesthood not
alledged that Moses having given this maim unto the People by the loss of so many Noble Men who as they said perished onely for the zeal they bear to God's Service not onely had done them open wrong but which was more had assured the Priesthood to his Brother after such a manner that henceforward no Man durst pretend to the same seeing how miserably those others were punisht by a violent death Moreover the Kinsmen of those that were slain sollicited and stirred the People praying them to restrain the Pride and overgreat power of Moses in that it lay in their power easily to perform the same But Moses perceiving that the People were incensed and fearing lest once more they should fall upon some Innovation whereby some O great mischief might succeed he assembled them together and gave audience to their accusations and without replying any wayes for fear he might the more A incense them he onely commanded the heads of the Tribes to bring every one a rod whereon the name of each Tribe should be written promising that the Priesthood should remain with them in whose rod God should shew any sign Which proposal being allowed by all both they and Aaron brought their rods with their inscriptions and Aaron had written on his the name of the Tribe of Levi. Aaron's Rod fructifieâ—h These Moses laid in the Tabernacle and the next morning brought them forth every one which were easily known by the People to be the same which the Princes of the Tribes had brought by the marks which they had made upon them and they saw that all theirs remained in the same form which the day before they retained when Moses took them but out of Aaron's rod there grew Branches and Buds and which is more to be wondred B at it bare ripe Almonds because it was of the Wood of the Almond-Tree The People amazed at the strangeness of this spectacle changed their hatred against Moses and Aaron into admiration of the judgment which God gave in their favour and forbare any more to repugn against God or to oppose themselves against Aaron's Priesthood v. 8. Thus three times confirmed by the approbation of God Hedio Ruffinus chap. 3 4 by all Mens consent he remain'd High-Priest and the People of the Hebrews turmoyled with long seditions Numb 18. at last by this means became setled peace in and quietness v. 8. ad 20. But after Moses had made the Tribe of Levi which was dedicated to God's service free and exempt from warfare Lev 14. 18 23. for fear lest they should employ themselves in providing necesâ—aries for their maintenance The revenues of the Priests and so grow negligent in the service of God he ordained that C after the Land of Canaan should be conquered Forty eight of the best Cities with their Lands within two Miles compass should be given to the Levites Moreover he commanded that the tenths of all the yearly fruit that was gathered by the whole People should be given to the Levites and Priests which hath been ever since inviolably observed Now must I declare what things are proper to the Priests Of the forty eight Cities which were granted to the Levites he commanded them to give thirteen to the Priests and the tenth part of the Tythes Besides he ordained that the People should offer to God the first-fruits of whatsoever the earth yieldeth and that the first-born of four-footed Beasts allow'd for sacrifice if a male should de delivered to the Priests to sacrifice to the end they might be nourished with all their Family in D the sacred City of Jerusalem and that for those which the Law forbids to eat there should be paid by the owners in lieu of a firstling a Sicle and an half and for the first-born of a Man five Sicles He allotted them likewise the first-fruits of Sheep-shearing and those that bak'd Bread of new Corn were to give them Cakes But when they who are called Nazarites because they let their Hair grow and taste no Wine have accomplisht their vow Numb 6. 1 ad 13. and come to present themselves in the Temple to cause their Hair to be cut Of the Nazarites the Beasts which they offer in sacrifice belong to the Priests And as for those that have consecrated themselves to the service of God when they desire to be dismissed from that ministery whereunto by voluntary vow they bound themselves they must pay money to the Priests a Woman thirty Sicles a Man E fifty and those that have not so much money refer themselves to the discretion of the Priests And when any Man kills a Beast to eat in private and not to offer to God he ought to give the Priests the fat Gut the Breast and the right Shoulder This is the allowance which Moses assign'd to the Priests besides what the People offer for sins as we declared in the precedent Book and whatsoever is contributed by the People to the order of the Priests Numb 20. 14 ad 21. he commanded that both their Wives Children and Servants should be made partakers of the same Moses Embassage to the Idumaans except those things which are offered for sins of which onely the Men which are imploy'd in divine service may eat and that in the Tabernacle and the very same day that such sacrifices are offered After all these constitutions were made by Moses and the mutiny appeased he removed the F Camp to the borders of Idumaea where he sent Ambassadors to the King thereof desiring him to grant them free passage on condition to give him what assurance he would demand that no violence or injury should be offered to his Countrey and that he would pay for whatsoever victual or water either he or his Army should receive But the King setting light by the Ambassage denied them passage and with a well furnished Army marched forth against Moses to withstand him if contrary to his will he should attempt to pass thorow his Countrey C. 20. v. 1 Moses asked counsel of God who forbad him to begin the War first Mariam Moses sister dieth and commanded him to retire back again into the Desart Numb 19. per totum At that time died his Sister Mary the fortieth year after their departure out of Egypt The manner of Purification and the first Moon of the month Xantique she was Magnificently enterred G at the common charge on a certain Mountain called Sein And after the People had mourned for her thirty days Moses purified them after this manner The High-Priest kill'd near the Camp in a very clean place a young red Heifer without blemish which had never yet born the yoke and dipping his finger in the blood thereof he H seven times besprinkled the Tabernacle The year of the World 2493 before Christ's Nativity 1473. and then put into the fire the whole Heifer with the Skin and
passages of their Country by which they thought their Enemy might break in preparing themselves to repell them with force and valor Yet no sooner did Phinees with his Forces charge them Cap. 3. 8. ad 18. but upon the first encounter so great a multitude of the Madianites was slain Five Kings of the Madianites slain that the number of the Carcasses could hardly be reckoned Neither were their Kings saved from the Sword these were Och Sur Robeas Vbes and Rechem from whom the chiefest City of the Arabians deriveth its name Otherwise Aâ—â—â—eme or Arca. and at this day retaineth O the same and is call'd Receme and by the Grecians Petra The Hebrews having thus put their Enemies to flight ravaged the Region and carried away with them great A spoils The year of the World 2493. before Christ's Nativity 1471. and killing all the Inhabitants thereof both Men and Women they onely spared the Virgins according to the command Phinees had received from Moses who returning home with his Army in safety brought with him a memorable and glorious prey of Oxen 52067 of Asses 60000 of gold and silver Vessels an incredible number which the Madianites were wont to use for their domestick occasions A great prey gotten from the Madianites so great was their great Riches and Luxury There were also led Captives about 30000 Virgins But Moses dividing the prey gave the fiftieth part thereof to Eleazar and the Priests and to the Levites another fiftieth Num. 27. 18. the remainder he distributed amongst the People who after this Battel lived in great security Deut. 3. 22. having gotten Riches by their Valor Moses appointed Joshua for his Successor and Peace also to enjoy the same Now for that Moses was well stricken in years he appointed Joshua to B succeed him in the Offices both of a Prophet a Prince and a Governor for God had so commanded that he should make choice of him to be his Successor in the principality for he was most expert in all divine and humane knowledge Numb 32. 1 5 c. being therein instructed by his Master Moses The Tribes of Reuben Gad and the half of Manasses require the land of the Amorites About that time the two Tribes of Gad and Reuben with the half Tribe of Manasses being abundantly stored with Cattel and all other manner of Riches by common consent requested Moses to give and assign to them in particular the Country of the Amorites which not long since they had conquered by the Sword for that it was full of rich Pastures But he suspecting that through fear they sought to withdraw themselves from the War with the Canaanites under pretext of care of their Cattel sharply reproved them saying that they were fearful and that their desire was to possess C that Land which was conquered by the Valor of the whole People to the end they might lead their lives in idleness and pleasure and not to bear Arms with the rest of the Host to help them to posses the Land beyond Jordan which God had promised them by overcoming those Nations which he commanded them to account for their Enemies These Tribes lest he should seem to be deservedly incensed against them answered that neither through fear they fled danger neither through sloth shunned labour but onely design'd to leave their prey in commodious places to the end they might be more fit to follow the War saying that they were ready if so be they might receive Cities for the defence and receipt of their Wives Children and Substance to follow the rest of the Army whithersoever they were conducted and to adventure their lives with them D for the common interest Moses satisfi'd with their reason in the presence of Eleazar the High Priest and Joshua with the rest of the Magistrates granted them the Land of the Amorites with this condition that together with the rest of the People they should march against their common Enemies Numb 35. 34 c. till the War were accomplished according to their desire accordingly having received that which they demanded they built them walled Cities Deut. 4. 43. and left their Children Josh 20. 8 9. Wives and Substance in the same Moses also built ten Cities in that Region which are to be reckoned in the number of those 48 abovemention'd in three whereof he appointed Sanctuaries The Cities of refuge and places of refuge which they only might take benefit of who fled thither for Casual Homicide and he appointed them their term of Exile till the time of the death of the High Priest under whom the E Manslaughter was committed at which time they might safely return into their Countrey And during the time of their Exile it was lawful for any of the Kin to take revenge upon the Offender by killing him only at such time as he was found without the City of Refuge which right he gave onely to those that were akin but not to others Now the Cities of Refuge were these in the Confines of Arabia Bosora in the Region of Galadena Numb 36. 1 2. Arimanum in the Countrey of Bazan Gaul Moses also ordained that after the Conquest of Canaan The daughters of Salpades have their inheritance in their fathers place three more Cities of the Levites should be appointed to that end that they might give refuge and habitation to such sort of Offenders At that time when one of the Magistrates called Salphates of the Tribe of Manasses was dead and had onely left Daughters behind him the Governors of the Tribe came unto Moses F and asked his counsel The history of Deuteronomy Whether they should inherit the Lands of their Father Moses answered them Ruffin cap. 5. That if they married within their Tribe they should inherit but if they made choice to marry themselves into another Tribe Hedio cap. 8. then they should lose their Patrimony in their own Deut. 41 c. ad 43. and for this cause made he this Ordinance to the end that every Tribe should continually possess its proper inheritance But whereas now there remained but 30 days only to fulfill the number of 40 years since their departure out of Egypt Moses summoning an Assembly in that place near to Jordan where now the City of Abila is scituate environed with fields beset with Palm-trees as soon as he saw the People ready to hear him spake unto them after this manner G CHAP. VIII H Moses Laws and how he was taken out of this world from the company of Men Deut. 4. MY dear friends Moses oration unto the people before his death and companions in my long Travels with whom I have run through so many dangers since it is thought requisite by God and mine age amounting to the number of one hundred and twenty years requireth no less that I must depart out of this life and
could speak they would accuse you that without cause they are ill treated against all right and that if they had the power to depart from thence they would transplant themselves into L another Countrey But when the Battel is ended and the day is yours kill all those Enemies that resisted you in the Fight Deut. 20. 15 16 17. the rest reserve as your tributaries except the people of the Land of Canaan The Canaanites are wholly to be extinguished for they with all their Families are to be exterminated Beware also but especially in War that neither a Woman use a Mans apparel nor a Man that of a Womans These are the Laws which Moses left Deut. 30. 31 32 33 34. He gave them likewise certain Institutions which he had written forty years before whereof we will speak in another Treatise Some few dayes after for he assembled the people six days together he gave them his blessing and pronounced his maledictions against those which should not live according M to his Laws but should transgress the determinations thereof He read also unto them a Canticle of six measures which he had registred in the holy book containing a prediction of things to come according to which all things have and do fall out without varying any ways from the truth These Volumes and the Ark he gave to the Priests in which he also placed the ten Commandments written in the two Tables Deut. 25. 19. He committed also unto them the custody of the Tabernacle He likewise exhorted the people that when by force they had conquered the promised Countrey The Amalechites to be punished and were planted therein they should not forget the injury which the Amalechites had done them but that they should lead forth their Army against them and take vengeance of the wrongs they had done them at such time as they were in the Desart And N he commanded them that as soon as they had taken the Countrey of Canaan they should exterminate and extinguish all the people He commanded them also to erect an Altar towards the East not far from the City of Sichem between the two Mountains Garizim on the right hand and the other called Gebal on the left and that distributing the people into two parts six Tribes in every part they should place them on these Mountains And he commanded that the Levites and Priests should be with them and that they that were upon the Mountain of Garizim should pray to God to multiply his blessings upon them that are zealous of his service and careful of the conservation of his Laws which had been given them by Moses The six other also were appointed to answer them and when these six O last had prayed the six first were to answer them and confirm that which they had pronounced This done they pronounced maledictions against the transgressors each one A answering the other in ratification of that which had been spoken He reduced also into writing these blessings and curses to the intent that the memory thereof might never be suppressed or extinguished by time which he also being near his death caused to be written on the Altar on the two sides thereof and permitted the people to come near it onely that day and there to offer burnt offerings which is forbidden to them by the Law These ordinances did Moses establish and these the Hebrew Nation observe inviolably even unto this day On the next morning he re-assembled all the people with their Wives and Children he likewise commanded Deut. 29 1 ad 10. the slaves should be present binding them by an oath to maintain and keep the Laws Moses bindeth the Hebrews by an oath to keep the Law and that diligently tying themselves to the will of God they B should not so much esteem either their kindred or means or perils or any other cause whatsoever as thereby to be driven to neglect the Laws or depart from the ordinances thereof but whether any one of their kindred or any City whatsoever should seek to alter and disturb the same or strive to weaken the authority thereof that both in particular and publick they should expose themselves and endeavour to punish them and if they should fortune to take such a City they should raze and utterly deface the same and if it were possible not leave one stone upon another but destroy the foundation But if they were too feeble to take such a revenge yet that they should make it known that they were not consenting to their impiety Hereunto the whole multitude consented and promis'd with an oath He afterwards told them how the people should C know when the Sacrifices were agreeable unto God and how they ought to march out to Battel taking a sign from the stones of the High Priest's Rational of which I have fore-spoken Josua likewise during the life and in the presence of Moses Prophesied whatsoever he intended to perform for the profit of the people either abroad in the administration of War or at home in prescribing Laws and preparing them to that order of life which was newly prescribed them he told them that by instructions from God he Prophesied that if they violated their Countrey Religion they should not escape destruction their Countrey should be filled with Foreign Arms their Cities Sackt their Temple Burnt and themselves sold under the Spear and that they should serve a D Nation Deut. 33. 23. which would not be moved or touched with commiseration of their afflictions and miseries and at length they should too late and unprofitably repent of their error yet that God their establisher would restore the Cities to the ancient Citizens and the Temple to his people Deut. 34. 9. And that this should come to pass not onely once but also many times Moses exhorteth Josua Then did Moses also appoint Josua to lead his Army against the Canaanites promising him that God would be assisting to his actions and wishing all sort of happiness to the people Seeing that saith he I go unto mine Ancestors and God hath prefixed this day for my departure it is very just that living as yet and standing in your presence I give him thanks for the care and providence which he hath hitherto had of your affairs not onely in delivering E you from so many evils but also in largely imparting his blessings unto you and for that he hath alwayes favourably helpt me whilest I endeavoured by my labour and care to reduce your fortunes to a better state Deut. 3. 13. 23. for it is he which hath given both the beginning and the accomplishment Deut. 34. 9. making use of me but as his Minister and Servant in all that good which hath been done to his people For all which things I have thought requisite in departing from you to bless the goodness of God who in time to come shall have the care and charge of you
and to acquit my self of that debt I leave you this in remembrance which is that you ought to serve and honour him and reverence the Ordinances which he hath given you whereby continuing his favour towards you he will grant you grace to preserve and keep this excellent gift Truly a Law-giver that were no more than a man would be greatly displeased with F those who should violate his Ordinances and set them at nought do not you therefore tempt God who is provoked unto anger when those Laws which he himself hath established and given you shall be contemned and neglected Whilst Moses pronounced these his last words and fore-told to the Tribes their several destinies Deut. 34. 8. and wish'd them a thousand blessings The Hebrews lamentation at Moses death the whole Multitude brake into tears and the women beating their Breasts shewed the sorrow they resented for his death The Children likewise lamented because that in their tender years they had understood the virtue and famous acts of Moses and betwixt the elder and younger sort there was as it were a conflict who should weep most bitterly for the one understanding of how worthy a Governor they were deprived lamented the time to come and the G other were perplexed because they should then lose him they before had sufficiently tasted and made tryal how great his virtue was But how great the compassion and complaint of the people was may be conjectured by this that then befell the Prophet For although he were assuredly persuaded that a man is not to lament at the instant of his H death because it happens to him both according to the Will of God and the Law of Nature yet beholding the affection of the People he could not restrain himself from tears After which he walkt towards the place where he was to dye and they all followed him weeping Then did Moses beckning with his hand warn them from afar off that they should stand still and keep their places and he desir'd them that were nearest him by word of mouth not to afflict him any longer by following him with so many testimonies of affection Accordingly to obey him they stood still and all together bewailed their calamity in so great and so general a loss only the Senators xEleazar the High Priest and the chief Captain Joshua accompanied him And when he was arrived on the Mountain called Abarim which is very high and scituate near Jericho I from whence he might discover the greater part of the Land of Canaan he dismissed the Elders and whil'st with mutual embraces he took his last leave of Eleazar and Joshua and discoursed with them a Cloud suddenly environed him and he was carried away into a certain Valley but the Holy Books which he left us say that he dyed fearing lest for the excellency of his virtue they might report that he was taken up into Heaven The whole time of his Life was 120 years the third part whereof wanting a month he spent in government of this great People Moses when he dyed was 120 years old Amongst the Hebrews Adar is the 12 month but amongst us it is called March He dyed the last month of the year and the first day of that month which the Macedonians call Dystros and our Countreymen Adar He was of all Men that ever liv'd the wisest and who in execution of his good counsels had no man to equal him Moreover in eloquence he was incomparable and K in dexterity and grace to entertain and persuade the People he had no second and so were his passions always govern'd by his wisdom that he seemed utterly to want them and only to know the names of those passions of which he saw the effects in other men Ver. 10. His skill in War may give him a rank amongst the greatest Captains Moses was a good Governor and a great Prophet and no man ever had the gift of Prophecy in so high a degree for his words seem'd so many Oracles and that as inspir'd to him by God himself The People mourned for him 30 days nor were they ever seized with so extreme grief as they were at this time when the Prophet dyed neither did he only leave behind him a present desire of him but a great estimation amongst all men who have ever chanced to read and examine his Writings and by them estimated his virtues And these are the things which I thought good to say of the L death of Moses M N O A The Fifth Book of the Antiquities of the JEWS Written by FLAVIVS JOSEPHV'S The Contents of the Chapters of the Fifth Book 1. How Joshua General of the Hebrews having overcome and slain the Canaanites divided their Land amongst the Tribes by lot 2. How after the death of the General the Israelites neglecting the Ordinances of their Forefathers fell into extreme Calamities and through a Civil War that was raised B amongst them there were but 600 of the Tribe of Benjamin left alive 3. How for their impiety the People of Israel were delivered by God into Captivity under the Assyrians 4. Their Liberty by Cenez 5. How the People were once more overcome by the Moabites and exempt from servitude by Jodes otherwise called Ehud 6. How they were brought under the subjection of the Canaanites and restored to their liberty by Barac 7. How the Amalekites having entred the Countrey of the Israelites and conquered them possessed and spoiled the same for the space of seven years C 8. How Gideon delivered the People 9. How some Successors of Gideon waged War against the Neighbor Nations round about them 10. Of Samsâ—â—'s strength and what mischiefs he did in Palestine 11. How the Sons of Eli the Prophet were slain in Battel by the Palestines 12. How Eli hearing of the death of his Sons and the loss of the Ark fell down from his Seat and dyed CHAP. I. D How Joshua General of the Hebrews having overcome and slain the Canaanites divided their Land amongst the Tribes by lot Josh 2. AFter Moses was taken from amongst Men in the manner which I have declared the last duties were paid to him The year of the World 2494. before Christ's Nativity 1470. and the time of mourning was pass'd Joshua commanded the People to prepare themselves and to march forward to Battel He sent Spies likewise to Jericho who might both sound their minds Joshua sendeth Spies into Jericho and discover their Forces Soon after he dislodged and encamped in the open field intending with all expedition to pass the River of Jordan as soon as any opportunity offered it self Josh 2. 1 2 3. Then assembled he the Princes of the Tribes of Reuben E and Gad Joshua calleth to memory and reckoneth up what the Tribes of Gad Reuben and Manasses had promised Moses and of the half Tribe of Manasses for to this half Tribe the Countrey of the
City and the Elders and Magistrates and as many of the People as might commodiously be present and spake unto them First he called unto their remembrance the many benefits which God had bestowed upon them by means whereof from a poor and afflicted condition they had attained great riches and glory Then he exhorted them to observe his Commandments most Religiously to the end God might continue his merciful hand over them since they knew that his favour could be kept to them N by no other means but by their obedience He further told them that he thought himself oblig'd before he departed out of this life to admonish them of their duty Last of all Josh 24. 39. he desired them to accept well of that his good admonition and to be perpetually mindful of the same Joshuah's death As he ended these words he gave up the Ghost and dyed in the 110 year of his age whereof he spent 40 as Minister under Moses their chief Magistrate and after his death governed the Commonwealth 25 years A Man of incomparable prudence and eloquence wise and diligent in matters of Government and equally capable of the most important affairs of Peace and War in a word the most excellent Captain Governor of his time Ver. 33. He was buried in a City called Thamna belonging to the Tribe of Ephraim Eleazar's death About the same time likewise dyed Eleazar the High O Priest leaving the Priesthood to Phinees's Son his Sepulchre is seen at this day in the City Gabatha After their deaths Phinees being demanded by the People what God's A pleasure was The year of the World 2525. before Christ's Nativity 1439. and to whose charge the Wars against the Canaanites should be committed answered them that God commanded to give the Government to the Tribe of Judah which choosing that of Simeon for their Associates undertook the War with this condition that when they had utterly rooted out the remnant of the Canaanites out of their own Tribe Judg. 1. they should likewise employ themselves to extinguish all the Reliques of that Race amongst the other Tribes CHAP. II. How the Israelites after the death of their Emperor forgetting the Religion of their Forefathers fell into extreme Calamities and how through a Civil War raised amongst B them there were only 600 of the Tribe of Benjamin left alive BUt the Canaanites whose estate at that time was very potent expected them with a great Host about the City of Bezec Hedio Ruffinus cap. 5. al. 2. having their Army conducted by the King of that place Judg. 1. 1 2 ad 5. called Adoni-Bezec which name signifieth Lord of the Bezecenities for Adoni in the Hebrew Tongue is Lord and these Men promised themselves the Victory by reason that Joshua was deceased Ten thousand Canaanites slain and Adoni-Bezec taken ver 6 7. Against these the two Tribes of Judah and Simâ—on fought very valiantly and slaying 10000 of them in the pursuit they took Adoni-Bezec Captive who having his hands and feet cut off acknowledged the divine justice for he confessed that he had used 72 Kings before times after the same manner In this condition C they conducted him near Jerusalem where departing out of this life they buried him Then they over-run the Countrey sacking and taking the Cities and after they had divers of them in their possession they besieged Jerusalem and entring the lower City they put all the Inhabitants to the Sword But the higher Town was very hard to be assaulted by reason of the Fortresses and strength of the Walls and the naturally strong situation of the place which was the cause that they rais'd their Camp to go and besiege Hebron which they took and slew all that were therein Amongst whom there were some of the Race of the Gyants whose stature was so prodigious their aspect so terrible and their voice so dreadful that it can scarce be believ'd their Bones are still to be seen at this day This City being very considerable was given to the Levites with 2000 D Cubits of Land round about the rest of the Countrey was freely given to Caleb according as Moses had commanded he having been one of those Spies which Moses sent to view the Land of Canaan Jethro's posterity who was the Father of Moses possessed of Lands They gave lands and possessions likewise to the posterity of Jethro the Madianite who was Father-in-law to Moses for that they had forsaken their own Territories and join'd themselves to the Israelites and been with them in the Desart The Tribes of Judah and Simeon took those Cities of the mountainous Countrey of Canaan and also those that were in the Plain near the Sea-coast namely Ascalon and Azoth But they could not take Gaza and Accaron for those Cities being in the Plain and defended with a great number of Chariots repelled those that assaulted the same to their disadvantage So these two Tribes having had good success in Wars retired E to their Cities to enjoy in peace the spoils which they had taken As for the Benjamites Ver. 16. to whom Jerusalem appertained The Israelites overcame not the Canaanites at one time they received the Inhabitants thereof as their Tributaries so that all being in peace and the one ceasing from slaughter and the other assured from danger they employed themselves in manuring the Countrey The rest of the Tribes did the like conforming themselves according to the example of the Benjamites Av. 22. ad 26. and contenting themselves to receive their Tributes they suffered the Canaanites to live in peace The Ephraimites recover Bethel by a stratagem The Tribe of Ephraim having long besieged the City of Bethel could not see such an end of their design as the length of time and the Travels they had taken in the Siege required and although they were very much toyled and wearied with the same yet they continued the Siege At last one of the Inhabitants F who was carrying Provisions thither fell into their hands whom they promis'd that if he would let them into the City they would save him and grant life and liberty likewise to all his Family He was persuaded and by his means they became Masters of the place he and his were spared but all the rest of the Inhabitants were put to the Sword From that time forwards the Israelites ceas'd to make War and employed themselves in Tillage of their Lands and husbanding their Fruits and being grown rich they followed the delights and pleasures of the World in such sort as they became dissolute and had no regard either of their ancient Discipline or the Laws of their Forefathers Whereupon God was highly incensed against them Hedio Ruffinus cap. 6. â—l 3. and he gave them to understand that contrary to his Command they had spared the Canaanites and that those Canaanites in G time to come Judg. 2. 1 ad
limitted the weight of those vessels that were to be fashioned either of Gold or of Silver M exhorting him to imploy all his care and diligence in performing the same He incouraged likewise the governors and the Tribe of Levi to assist him both because his years were not yet come to maturity as also because by Gods divine providence he was elected King and appointed to build the Temple assuring them that the building would be very easie and no wayes laborious considering that he had prepared a great number of talents of Gold and far more of Silver and Wood besides a great multitude of Carpenters and hewers of Sone a great quantity likewise of Emeraulds and other sort of precious Stones Lastly he told them that now also for the present he would bestow on them to that use other three thousand talents of pure Gold 1 Chron. 29. 5 ad 9. out of his own treasury to adorn the holy place and the chariot of God and the Cherubins that should stand upon the Ark and cover it with their wings N This speech of the Kings was received with great joy by all the Governours The Princes of the people gave a huge summe of Gold Silver Brass and precious Stone towards the building of the Temple Priests aud Levits who shewed a greater readiness and voluntarily proffered to contribute towards the carrying on of this holy work five thousand talents of Gold and ten thousand stateres of Silver an hundred thousand and of Iron many thousand talents and if any one of them had a precious Stone he brought it and delivered it into the Treasurers custody who was called Jalus being one of Moses posterity This thing pleased all the people and David seeing the affection and readiness of the Governours and Priests and in general of all the rest began to bless God with a loud voyce calling him the Creator and Father of this whole World the fashioner both of divine and humane things and the President and Governour of the Hebrews whose Kingdom he had committed O into his hands After this he prayed for all the people that God would be pleased to continue his favors unto them and to inrich the heart of his Son Solomon with all Princly virtues He commanded the people likewise to sing praises unto God which they performed and prostrated themselves upon the earth and afterwards gave thanks A unto David for all those benefits they had received during the time of his Government The next day as a sacrifice to God they offered up a thousand Calves a thousand Rams and a thousand Lambs for a burnt-offering and for peace-offerings they slew many thousand other Beasts 1 Paral. 29. The King celebrated a feast all that day with the whole people and Solomon was anointed with Oyl the second time The sacrifices and festival solemnized upon Solomons Coronation and proclaimed King Sadoc also was established High Priest of all the people and Solomon was conducted into the Kings house and placed in his Fathers Throne and from that day forward they obeyed him CHAP. XII The last instructions of David to Solomon his death and the magnificence of his funeral B NOT long after this Hedio Ruffinus cap. 16. David failing through age and knowing that he should depart out of this world he called for Solomon his Son and spake unto him after this manner 1 King 2. 1. ad 4. My Son I must now depart and sleep with my Fathers and enter the common way which both they that now live Davids last counsel to Solomon and those which come after shall tract from whence we shall not return nor behold and revisit those things that are done in this life For which cause whilest I yet live and draw onward to my death I earnestly exhort thee as heretofore I have counselled thee that thou behave thy self justly towards thy Subjects and piously towards God that hath honoured thee with this kingdom charging thee to keep his precepts and laws which he hath given us by Moses and to take heed lest either surprized by flattery or mis-led by favour or seduced by covetousness or any other sinister affection thou be drawn to neglect C and forsake the same for thou canst by no means continue in Gods favour except thou keep his laws for otherwise he will withdraw his providence from thee But if according to the obligation which lieth on you you shall follow my counsel and diligently perform your duty thou shalt establish the Kingdom in our family and no other house at any time but our own shall obtain the dominion over the Hebrews Remember likewise the iniquity of Joab who through emulation v. 5. slew two good and just Generals Abner the Son of Ner and Amasa the Son of Jethram David willeth Solomon to punish Joab punish him as thou thinkest meet for hitherto he hath escaped punishment because he was stronger and more powerful than my self I commend also unto thee the Sons of Berzillai the Galaadite v. 7. whom for my sake advance to honour and dignity Nor would I have thee esteem the kindness which thou shalt shew them to be any courtesie David commendeth Berzellai's Sons to Solomon but only a recompence and D requital of the obligations which I have received from their Father in the time of my banishment and for which he made us indebted to him As touching Simei the Son of Gera of the Tribe of Benjamin v. 8. who during the time of my flight How Simei should be punished and at such time as I retired my self into my Camp injured and reviled me and afterwards came out to me near unto Jordan and took assurance of me that for that time I should not punish him I leave him to you to be punished according as you shall find an opportunity After he had thus exhorted his Son and had communicated with him all his affairs both touching his friends v. 10 11. and those whom he thought worthy of punishment he gave up the ghost after he had lived seventy years The years of the age and Raign together with the vertues of David and Reigned in Hebron a City of Juda for the space of seven years and an half and thirty three in Jerusalem over the whole Nation E He was a just man adorned with all vertue requisite in a King that should govern so many Nations For he was valiant beyond comparison and in those battels which he fought for his Subjects he was the first that thrust himself into danger and exhorted his Souldiers to behave themselves valiantly not commanding them like their Governour but fighting with them as their fellow-soldier He was very well qualified by his knowledg and experience to make the best use of the present and to manage his future occasions he was moderate and just courteous and favourable to those that were afflicted which are those ornaments which are
which hapned to the Israelites according to the prophecy of Elizeus which he foretold unto Azael at such time as he prophecied unto him that he should reign over the Syrians and them of Damascus after that he had murthered his master Ioachas being in this extremity had his recourse to God in prayer and supplication beseeching him that it might please him to deliver him from the hands of Azael and not suffer him to be under subjection and thraldom unto him God that regardeth the penitent as if they had been innocent and that gently chastiseth those whom he might utterly exterminate if he so pleased gave him assurance against the War and danger so that the Countrey having obtained peace recovered her former state and prosperity When Ioachas was dead his Son succeeded him in the G government and began to reign over the Israelites in Samaria in the 37 year of Joas King of Juda. For this King of Israel was called Joas as well as he that reigned in H Jerusalem The year of the World 3089 before Christ's Nativity 875. he governed the Kingdom sixteen years He was a good man and was not like unto Ioachas his Father About this time Elizeus the Prophet was very old and fell sick the King of Israel came to visit him and finding him in the extremity and past hope of recovery he began to weep and lament calling him his Father and his armour because that during his life he had never occasion to use the sword against the Enemy Joas King of Israel and Samaria but that by means of his predictions he had alwayes the upper hand of them without fighting that now he departed this life and left him disarmed to the mercy of the Syrians and other his enemies so that he was not secure of liberty nor life but that he rather wished to die with him than live in those dangers Elizeus being moved with these complaints Elizeus foretelleth that Joas should overcome the Syrians thrice comforted the King that lamented in this I sort and commanding him to draw his Bow that he brought with him for the King had bent the same Elizeus said unto him 2 King 13. 20 21. Draw and he shot three Arrowes and gave over at the fourth Oh said Elizeus if thou hadst shot more Arrows thou hadst utterly ruined the Kingdom of the Syrians Elizeus death and the raising of a dead man to life that was cast into his Tombe and since thou hast contented thy self with shooting thrice only thou shalt overthrow the Syrians in three battels which thou shalt fight against them and shalt recover the Countrey they have taken from thy Father After the King understood these things he departed and not long after the Prophet died who was renowned for his justice and beloved of God who shewed miraculous and incredible works by his prophecies and such as the Hebrews ought to keep in perpetual remembrance and was buried magnificently according as it behoved a man who was so highly favoured K by God It chanced about that time 2 Chron. 25. 18 ad 25. that certain thieves having cast the body of a man that was murthered by them Joas trâ—bble victory upon the body of the Prophet where he lay buried the dead body returned to life Which made it appear that God had given him a power of working miracles not only in his life time but also after his death After the death of Azael King of Syria Adad his Son obtained the Kingdom against whom Joas King of Israel made War and having overcome him three times he recovered all that Countrey and those Cities and Towns that Azael his Father had conquered before him All which came to pass according as Elizeus had prophecied After that Joas was dead the Kingdom fell to Jeroboam his Son L CHAP. X. Amasias making War against Joas King of Israel is overcome THe tenth year of the reign of Joas King of Israel Hedio Ruffiâ—â—s chap. 9. Amasias reigned over the Tribe of Juda in Jerusalem his mother was called Judah and was a Citizen of Jerusalem Amasias King of Jerusalem He was very careful to maintaine justice notwithstanding he was very young 2 King 14 1 2. And having taken upon him the Government of the Kingdom he resolved with himself that he ought first of all to revenge the death of his father Joas who was traiterously slain by his friends he therefore laid hands on them and put them M all to the sword yet extended he not his displeasure to their children but conformed his actions according to the Laws of Moses 2 King 14. which faith that it is not lawful to punish their children for their Fathers offences Deut. 24. 16. He afterwards levied an Army of the Tribes of Juda and Benjamin and chose such as were in the flower of their years and about twenty years of age the number of which amounted to three hundred thousand men whom he divided into Centuries He sent also to the King of Israel and hired an hundred thousand of his armed men for an hundred talents of Silver because he intended to make War upon the Amalechites Idumaeans and Gabelites Now whilest he made this preparation and was in a readiness to undertake this exploit a certain Prophet counseled him to dismiss the Israelites that he had with him because they were wicked men N signifying unto him from God that if he were followed by them in that War he should be overcome and on the other side that he should have the upper hand over his Enemies if he fought with a few men according to Gods direction Hereupon the King was moved because he had already paid the Israelites their wages but the Prophet ceased not to exhort him to do that which was pleasing in Gods sight The dismission of the Isâ—aelites who would give him silver in abundance Hereupon he dismissed them telling them that he freely gave them their pay and he with the forces of his owne Kingdom marched out against those Nations 2 Chron. 25. 11 12 13. and fought with them and overcame them and slew ten thousand of them and took no less number of Prisoners whom he afterwards caused to be led to a high Rock that bounded upon Arabia Amasias vâ—ctory over the â—malechites and from thence cast them down headlong and O from all these Nations he recovered a great booty and brought home much riches Whilest Amasias stood upon these terms the Israelites that had taken wages of him and were cashiered by him conceived a displeasure against him supposing themselves to be injured by him The year of the World 3106. before Christ's Nativity 858. as if he had dismissed them for want of courage For which A cause they invaded his Country and spoiled it as far as Bethsemer and carried away a great quantity of Cattel and slew three thousand men But the victory
offering up Sacrifices unto God they besought him to shew himself favourable and merciful towards them The King likewise commanded the High-Priest that if there were any vessels in the Temple which were made by his Predecessors in honour of Idols and strange gods he should cast them out and after that a great number were found therein all of them were gather'd together and burnt and the ashes afterwards were scatter'd abroad And as touching the Priests that appertained to Idols that were not of the Race of Aaron he put them to death The truth of the divine oracles When these things were thus executed in Jerusalem he came afterwards to the plain Countrey and all that which Jeroboam had erected there in honour of Idols 1 Kings 13. 1. ad 4. he utterly defaced it and the bones of N the false Prophets were burnt upon the Altar that Jeroboam had built This had the Prophet foretold that came to Jeroboam at such time as he offered Sacrifice and told him in the presence of all the people all that which should happen namely That one of Davids posterity called Josias should do thâ—se things which Prophecy took effect 361 years after After this King Josias applied himself to the Israelites who had avoided the captivity and servitude of the Assyrians and persuaded them to forsake their impieties and the services they had performed to strange gods and to honour the sovereign and true God of their fathers and to cleave unto him He made a search also thorow every house borough and city fearing lest as yet there should be an Idol hidden He likewise sought out the Chariots that were made by his ancestors in honour of the Sun O and all that which was adored whatsoever it were and utterly abolished the same After he had in this sort purged the Countrey he assembled all the people in Jerusalem where he celebrated the Feast of unleavened bread which we call Easter Towards the performance whereof The year of the World 23â—â— before Christ's Nativity 643. he gave the people young kids and lambs to the number of 30000 A and 3000 Bullocks for burnt-offerings and the chief among the Levites distributed amongst the other Levites 500 Lambs and 500 Bullocks Having therefore such an abundance of Beasts they sacrificed according to the Law of Moses the Priests taking charge thereof 2 Kings 23. â— 11. and confirming the rest of the people by their example Neither was there ever such a solemnity kept by the Hebrews since the time of Samuel the Prophet because all things were done according to the Laws and the ancient Customs Tâ—e celebration of the Pâ—sseover which were observed in the time of their Fathers After this Josias lived in peace riches honour and estimation amongst all men Ver. 21 c. and thus ended his life Hedio Ruffinus cap. 9. 〈◊〉 cap. 5. CHAP. V. B Divers Exploits of Nechao Nechao The Eâ—yptians 〈…〉 King of Egypt having gathered great Forces conducted his Army towards the River Euphrates to war against the Medes and Babylonians who had destroyed the Empire of Assyria for Nechao affected the government of all Asia Now when he drew near unto the City of Mende which was under Josias subjection King Josias denied him passage and would not suffer his Army to march thorow his Countrey For which cause Nechao sent an Herald unto him to let him understand That it was not against him that he made War 〈…〉 but that he bent his course towards Euphrates for which cause C he wished him in no sort to hinder his intended journey 2 Chrâ—n â—5 22 23 24. lest thereby he should be constrained to make War upon him An Epitâ—ph written by Jeremy on Josiâ—â— But Josias regarded not this demand of his but resolved himself to hinder his passage thorow his Countrey And I am persuaded that his evil Genius put him upon making this resistance to the end that he might have some occasion to do something against Nechao Ver. 25. For whil'st he set in order his Army and rode from one Band to another Which was the 〈…〉 being mounted upon his Chariot he was strucken with an Arrow that was shot by a certain Egyptian which put a stop to his proceedings For feeling himself oppressed with pain 〈…〉 by reason of his wound he commanded his Army to retire and returned himself to Jerusalem where he dyed of his wound and was buried with his Fathers with great magnificence after he had lived 39 years and reigned 31. For him D the people mourned with great heaviness 〈…〉 lamenting for many days The Prophet Jeremy also made an Elegy upon him in verse 〈…〉 which is as yet extant even in these days This Prophet foretold in writing those evils which should afterwards happen unto the City and the Captivity wherewith we are intangled at this present 〈…〉 and the surprisal of Babylon 〈…〉 Neither hath he alone foretold the same but the Prophet Ezekiel hath likewise done the like who first left two Books written of the same Argument These two Prophets were of the race of the Priests â—span â— But Jeremy kept in Jerusalem from the 14th year of the Reign of Josias 〈…〉 until the destruction of the City and Temple as in time and place convenient we will declare setting down those occurrences that hapned to this Prophet After the death of Josias hitherto mentioned his son Joaz succeeded him E in the Kingdom at such time as he was 23 years old he reigned in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Ametala he was a man full of impiety and of a malignant and perverse nature The King of Egypt returning from the War sent unto Joaz commanding him to meet him in Samath a City of Syria where he was no sooner arrived but he kept him Prisoner committing the Kingdom to Eliachim his brother on the Fathers side who was his elder brother likewise He changed his name likewise and call'd him Joachim he impos'd a Tribute also on Judea of 100 Talents of silver and a Talent of gold which Joachim paid and as touching Joaz he led him into Egypt where he finished his days after he had been King three months and ten days Now Joachims mother was called Zâ—buda of the City of Abuma He was a wicked person and of a malignant nature F having neither piety towards God nor respect towards men CHAP. VI. Nabuchodonosors Army cometh into Syria IN the fourth year of the Reign of Joachim 〈…〉 a certain man called Nabuchodonosor possessed the Kingdom of Babylon who at that time went out with a great Army against 〈◊〉 a City scituate near unto Euphrates resolving with himself to fight against Nechao King of Egypt under whose power all Syria was subject Nechao understanding G of the Babylonians intent and how great his Army was made very little account thereof but with a huge Army
Epistle to the Prefects of Syria Sisin and his Associates being certified of the Kings pleasure resolved to conform themselves unto it and taking the care of the sacred buildings upon them they assisted the Princes and Magistrates of the Jews Ezra 6. 17. in such sort as the building of the Temple was finished I with great diligence The finishing of the Temple by the instigation of the Prophets Aggeus and Zachary according to Gods commandment and by the directions of the Kings Cyrus and Darius so that it was finish'd within seven years In the ninth year of the Reign of Darius and the three and twenty of the eleventh month call'd by us Adar and by the Macedonians Distre the Priests and Levites and all the rest of the people offer'd sacrifices and gave thanks for the renovation of their former felicity after their captivity and for their new Temple also sacrificing 100 Bulls 200 Sheep 400 Lambs 12 Goats according to the number of the 12 Tribes of Israel and for the sins of each of them The Priests and Levites also according to the laws of Moses appointed Porters to every gate For the Jews had built Galleries round about and within the Temple K Now when the Feast of unleavened bread which is the feast of Easter drew near Ver. 15. in the first month called Xanthicus by the Macedonians The Temple dedicated 23 of March or as it is in the 1 of Esdras 6. dedicated the third of March Ver. 16 c. and Nisan by the Hebrews all the people of the Towns round about Jerusalem resorted thither and celebrated the Feast purifying themselves their wives and children according to the ordinance of their Forefathers And after they had solemniz'd the Feast call'd Easter or the Passeover in the 14th Moon they rejoyced for seven days space sparing no cost how great soever They offer'd burnt-offerings also and sacrifices of thanksgiving The Passeover celebrated acknowledging Gods goodness that had brought them home into their native Countrey to live according to the laws of their Forefathers The form of Commonweal in Jerusalem and had caused them to find favor in the eyes of the King of Persia Thus dwelt they in Jerusalem sacrificing unto and serving God and living under L the Government of their Nobility For they set up a kind of Aristocratical Government and the chief authority remain'd in the High-Priests until the Asmonaeans obtained the Kingdom for before the captivity of Babylon they were under the Government of Kings who began from Saul and Davids times about some 532 years six months and ten days and before their Kings certain Governors call'd Judges reigned and under this sort of Polity liv'd they more than 500 years The Samaritans mighty enemies of the Jews from the death of Moses and Joshua And this was the state of the Jews after their captivity during the days of Cyrus and Darius True it is that the Samaritans were their mighty and malicious adversaries and did them many mischiefs trusting in their riches and pretending to be the Persians kinsmen because their original proceeded from thence For they refused to pay M that Tribute which the King had commanded them to disburse unto the Jews to make their sacrifices and the Governors of Syria and Phoenicia lost no opportunity which might promote their design For which cause the Jews determined to send Ambassadors unto King Darius The Embassage of the Jews to Darius to accuse the Samaritans and to that intent Zorobabel and four others were sent As soon therefore as the King understood by these Ambassadors what crimes and accusations they had brought against the Samaritans he dispatched his letters and addressed them to the Governors and Council of Samaria the tenour of which letters was to this effect King Darius to Tangara and Sambaba Governors of Samaria to Sadrach and Bobelon N and to their companions our servants being in Samaria health Zorobabel Ananias and Mardocheus Ambassadors in the behalf of the Jews accuse you to be disturbers of the building of their Temple C. 7. v. 11 12. alledging that you refuse to discharge that which by my decree you ought to furnish them with A commandment to supply the charge of the building of the Temple and Sacrifices for the charge of the Sacrifices My will is therefore that upon the sight of these Letters you deliver out of the Royal Treasury in Samaria appointed for the Tributes all that which shall be necessary for them to perform their Sacrifices upon the requests of the Priests to the intent they let pass no day without sacrifice and prayer unto O God for me and for the Persians This was the contents of his Letters CHAP. V. The year of the World 3506. before Christ's Nativity 458. A Xerxes succeeds his Father Darius in the Kingdom he permitteth Esdras to return with a great number of Jews to Jerusalem Esdras obligeth those that had taken strangers to Wife to send them back His Praise and his Death Nehemiah obtains leave to build the walls of Jerusalem and finisheth that great work AFter Darius death his son Xerxes succeeded him not only as Heir in the government of his Kingdom but also as Successor unto his piety and devotion towards God for he changed not those institutions of his Father that concern'd religious service Hedio Ruffinus cap. 5. but B but with great benevolence favoured all the Jews 1 Esdras 7. During his Reign Joacim the son of Jesus was High-Priest Xerxes King of Persia amongst them also that remained in Babylon there lived a Priest with the Jews in that place called Esdras Esdras learned in the law a just man and one of great reputation amongst the people and whereas he was very skilful in the laws of Moses he was much esteem'd by the King This man intending with certain other Jews of Babylon to return to Jerusalem besought the King that he would vouchsafe to bestow his letters of commendations to the Governors of Syria in his behalf Nehem. 2. 1. ad 11. Whereupon the King gave him letters of recommendation to the Governors Xerxes favoureth the Jews certifying them of his favor towards Esdras and to the Princes in those parts to this effect C Xerxes King of Kings to Esdras the Priest and Reader of the Divine Law health It is decreed by me and seven other of my Council that whosoever in my kingdom of the Israelites their Priests or Levites will repair with thee unto Jerusalem may freely do it with my licence and may settle themselves in Judea there to serve the God of their Fathers bearing with them those Presents unto the God of Israel which I had my friends have vowed to offer unto him I likewise give thee licence to take with thee all the gold and silver which any of thy Nation living here in Babylon will offer up unto God to buy
The strife between the High Priests and the Priests to seize the Tenths that were due unto the Priests whereby it came to pass that some poor Priests died for want so much did the violence of the Seditious at that time prevail ahove all right CHAP. VII I Festus succeeds Foelix in the Government of Judaea The Inhabitants of Caesarea obtain of Nero to have the Jews Freedom recalled King Agrippa causeth an Apartment to be built from whence all that was done about the Temple might be seen the people of Jerusalem cause a high Wall to be built to hinder it by the Emperour's Authority AFter that Portius Festus had been sent by Nero to succeed Foelix in the Government K of Judaea Alias 19. the chiefest of those Jews that inhabited Caesarea Foelix accused repaired to Rome to accuse Foelix and without all doubt he had been punished for the injuries he had committed against the Jews if Nero had not pardoned him upon his Brother Palas's submission and entreaty who importuned him and was at that time in great reputation with him Hedio Rufffinus cap. 14. Furthermore two of the chiefest amongst the Syrians wrought Berillus who had sometimes been Nero's Master and at that time was Secretary of Estate in the Greek Tongue by mighty Bribes to beg of Nero the revocation of the Right and Title which the Jews enjoyed in the Government and Administration of the Commonweal For which cause Berillus solicited the Emperour and obtained a Letter from him which was the cause of those mischiefs that afterwards happened in our Nation for the Jews of Caesarea understanding what Commission the Syrians had gotten L were so much the more encouraged to make War Therefore The Cut-throats among the Jews as soon as Festus was arrived in Judaea he found the Countrey grievously afflicted with Robberies and the whole Countrey was ruined with Fire and Sword The Thieves likewise at that time encreased mightily they used short Swords after the manner of a Persian Cymetre and crooked like the Roman Faulchion with which they killed divers For thrusting themselves into the press of the people that came in great multitudes on the Festival days to celebrate God's service they killed those very easily whom they pleased and oftentimes repairing to their enemies Villages Festus discomfiteth a great deceiver with all his followers they spoiled and burnt them But Festus sent divers Forces M both of Horse and Foot against certain Jews that were seduced by an Enchanter who had promised them to free them from all their troubles if they would follow him into the Desart they killed both the deceiver and the deceived that followed him At that time King Agrippa erected a stately Building within the Palace at Jerusalem Hedio Ruffinus chap. 15. near unto the Porch alias chap. 10. This Palace in times past appertained to the Asmoneans and was scituate in a high place with a fine Prospect from whence they might with pleasure behold the City of Jerusalem wherein the King took great delight and beheld from thence that which was done in the Temple The chiefest men of Jerusalem stop up the Prospect of Agrippa's house The chiefest men of Jerusalem seeing this Building were very much displeased for neither doth our Custom or Law permit that any one should look on that which is done in the Temple and especially N forbiddeth that any man should behold the Sacrifices and Oblations They therefore builded a high Wall upon the Gallery which was within the Temple on the West side which did not only hinder the sight of the Royal Chamber but also that of the Gallery without the Temple on the West side where the Romans kept Guard near unto the Temple on the Festival days Herewith was King Agrippa highly displeased and the Governour Festus far more than he who commanded them to pull down the Wall But they besought him that he would give them Licence to send their Ambassadours to Nero to this intent alledging that it was impossible for them to live if any part of their Temple should be beaten down Which being granted them they sent ten of their chiefest Nobility and with them Ismael the High O Priest and Chelcias the Treasurer of the Temple unto Nero who no sooner heard their suit but he pardoned them not only for that they had done but he commanded A that the building should remain as it was All which he did in favour of his Wife Poppea who was entreated by the Jews she being a devout Princess to sue for them She therefore commanded the ten Ambassadours to return and kept Chelcias and Ismael for Pledges with her The King understanding how all things had past gave the High Priesthood to Joseph Joseph Cabi the Son of Simon made High Priest surnamed Cabi which was the Son of Simon who in times past had been High Priest CHAP. VIII B Albinus succeeds Festus in the Government of Judaea and King Agrippa giveth and taketh away often the High Priesthood Ananus the High Priest causeth Saint James to be put to death Agrippa enlargeth the City of Caesarea and calleth it Neronias The Favours he granted to the Levites The List of the High Priests since Aaron CAesar being advertised of Festus's death Albinus Governour of Judaea sent Albinus to govern Judaea But King Agrippa commanded Joseph to lead a private life and advanced in his stead a certain man called Ananus Ananus the Son of Ananus High Priest the Son of Ananus who was reported to have been most happy for he had five Sons all which supplied the place of the High Priest after himself C had long time before them enjoyed it the like whereof hath never happened to any of our Priests Hedio Ruffinus chap 16. The younger Ananus who as we said was advanced to this place was a rash and head-strong man that followed the Sect of the Saducees who as we have already declared were amongst all other the Jews Alias 21. the most severe in executing Justice Ananus had five Sons that succeeded him in the Priesthood Whereas therefore Ananus was of this disposition he thought that he had a fit occasion offered him to do what he pleased after Festus's death and whilst Albinus was as yet upon his way He therefore ascended and sat down in the Tribunal assisted by the Judges and caused James the Brother of JESUS who was called CHRIST The year of the World 4025. after Christ's Nativity 63. to appear before him with certain others and accused them for transgressing the Law and Blasphemy against God and caused him to be stoned to death They D that were men of upright Conscience within the City and diligent observers of the Law were very much displeased with this Act and sent secretly to the King beseeching him to prohibit Ananus James the Brother of our Lord stoned that hereafter he
them We ought indeed to grant the Superiority to the Grecians in all that concerneth Eloquence and the Ornament of Language but not in that which appertaineth to Antiquity or Truth of History and especially in what concerneth the truth of ancient History and what hath passed in every Country Wherefore as the Egyptians and Babylonians long since used all diligence in writing because their Priests were hereunto enjoyned who did most curiously treat of all such matters the same also did the Chaldees amongst the Babylonians and the Phoenicians also inhabiting amongst the Greeks taught them to use Registers both concerning publick K and private affairs which because all men confess I will omit to speak off I let pass also to recount what care our Nation hath had of this point no doubt greater than those Nations above mentioned had charging our High Priests and Prophets to execute this Office which Custom hath been observed even until this Age and if I may presume so far will be observed in all succeeding Ages as by my ensuing discourse I will endeavour to make manifest For our Nation did not only depute this Office to the most virtuous and religious men amongst them in the beginning and to such as were consecrated to the Service of God but they also provided to preserve the Line and Descent of Priests from all impurity and from being intermingled with others For no man amongst us can be a Priest who is not born of a Woman descended from the same L Line Neither in this case is any respect made either of Riches or Honours but the party who claimeth the dignity of Priesthood must by many Witnesses prove his Genealogy and that he is descended from Priests This Custom is not only of force in Judea but wheresoever else any of our Nation inhabit A custom which the Priests observed as in Egypt and Babylon and in any other place where continually the Priests in their Marriages have this respect not to marry with any Woman that is not of their own Line they send to Jerusalem the Name and Pedigree of the Woman whom they have married and all the Testimony hereof which they can deduce from her Ancestors Now if War molest our Nation as often it hath in the time of Antiochus sirnamed Epiphanes of Pompey the Great Quintilius Varus and especially in this our Age then M those Priests who survive make new Genealogies and Pedigrees out of the ancient Registers for those that remain of the Sacerdotal Race And they marry none that have been Captives for fear they may have had commerce with strangers What more evident token can there be of the Priests integrity than that every Priest during the revolution of two thousand years is Registred together with the Names of their Fathers The Priests amongst the Jews are every one registred with the name of their Fathers and this custom contiuued two thousand years and if any one do erre or falsify any of the things before-said he is then interdicted from the Altar and from exercising any Priestly function So that in the Writings of such men all things must of necessity be true and as they ought to be for that neither all men are permitted to write nor yet any dissonance and disagreement is found in their Writings For such things as past in ancient times beyond the memory of men were only written by N our Prophets who had the knowledge thereof by inspiration from God himself but other things of latter time are only recorded by those who lived in the Age wherein the things they writ of were done The Books amongst us containing the Histories of all Ages are neither infinite nor one repugnant to another Two and twenty Books of holy Writ for all our Chronicle is contained in 22 Books to which Books it is impiety to deny credit Five of these Books were written by Moses comprehending Genealogies and the beginning of mankind with such notable events as hapned even from the beginning of the World til his death which is little less than three thousand years After the death of Moses till the time wherein Artaxerxes lived who was King of the O Persians and Son to Xerxes every one of the Prophets of our Nation wrote the History A of his time wherein be lived so that of these mens Writings we have thirteen Books the four other Books which make up the Number already mentioned are known to contain holy Hymns made to the praise of God and wholsome Precepts for mans life and conversation All things which from Artaxerxes until our time have hapned are also set down in writing yet the Books wherein they are registred do not deserve so much credit as the former of ancient times for that there was no certain succession of Prophets in that Age. Moreover it is evident that to the former works we give as great credit as to things which we our selves write and notwithstanding they have been so long written yet in all that time no man durst presume either to alter or to blot out any thing therein contained For all Jews even from their Cradle do believe these B Books to be sacred and divine and therefore give all credit possible unto them yea and would willingly suffer death rather than do the contrary Many Captives of our Nation have been cruelly tormented and divers ways put to death in open Theaters The Jews and Grecians are compared together only for that they would not commit any thing either in word or deed against their Laws nor violate the writings of their fore-fathers Now who amongst the Greeks did ever sustain the like Nay they are so far from doing it that none can be found among them who would suffer any loss in his goods or fortunes to preserve all the writings of their Nation from destruction and the reason hereof is because every one esteemeth the verity of their Histories to depend upon the will of the Writer And this they do also concerning their most ancient Historians and not C without cause for they every day see men of their own times writing Histories of matters long before past in former ages Some others have written of â—he Wars of the Jews wherein neither themselves were present neither yet do they vouchsafe to credit the writings of such as were then eye-witnesses thereof yea some among them have divulged Histories of such things as of late befel our Nation when themselves never have been in the place where such matters past as they writ of nor have lived in any neighbour place where they might have probable report how matters past but only compiling a few broken stories they most impudently arrogate to their patcht stuff the name of a History I my self have composed a most true History of the last War Joseph was present in all the Wars of the Jews and of every particular thing there done as well I might having been present
us he speaketh ill of them to gratifie whom he took all this pains For the Egyptians do not only use those customs which Appion in us disalloweth Appions death but also do teach others to circumcise themselves as Herodotus reporteth So that I verily think that Appion was justly punished for blaspheming his Country-Laws and Religion For being forced to circumcise himself to avoid a great disease The defence of Moses against Appollonius and Lysimachus he was hereby nothing helped but for all this his privy member rotting he in extream grief and misery L gave up the Ghost For wise men ought to persevere in their Country-Laws in all piety and not to deride and detract others but Appion forsook his own Religion and slandered and belied ours And this was Appions end and here also should end this Book but that Appollonius Molon and Lysimachus and certain others partly for ignorance partly for madness have most injuriously belied our Law-maker Moses and the Laws he made detracting him as a deceitful Magician and Author of all the malice and impiety amongst us and for such as teacheth no vertue nor goodness at all I will therefore as far as in me lieth declare both our Conversation in general M and in particular For if my Judgment be any thing our Laws are most forcible both to piety and to all humanity in general as also to Justice pains-taking and contempt of death I only request this favour of the Reader that he will not with a prejudicate or malicious opinion peruse these Writings for I do not write this as a praise and vain ostentation of our Nation but as a just Apology refuting the slanderous reports that some have used against us Appollonius doth not continually inveigh against us as Appion doth Wherein Apollonius accuseth the Jews but only here and there sometimes affirming us to be hated both of God and man sometimes to be Cowards sometimes contrariwise complaining of our Nations Boldness Saying moreover that we are more sottish than any barbarous Nation and that therefore we only have had none of our Nation founders of Arts or Sciences which N are profitable for mans life all which objections are easily refuted if we shew the contrary to all these by him reported both that we have obeyed our Laws and lived in all integrity If therefore I be forced to shew that other Nations have made contrary Laws The lovers of order and common laws are excellent in meekness and vertue not I but they are to be blamed who comparing ours with them of other Nations affirm ours to be the worse neither of which can charge us eitheir that these Laws which I will briefly set down are not ours or else that we have not persisted in them as we ought Making therefore this beginning I affirm that they who have framed themselves to live together under certain Rules and Ordinances and kept them inviolate and were the first founders of them were more to be commended O for humanity and vertue than they who live under no Rule nor Ordinance A at all and every Law-maker endeavoureth so to attribute Antiquity to their own Ordinances as that they may not be thought to imitate others but to be themselves the first Authors thereof and guides to direct other mens lives Which being so it is the duty of a good Law-maker to make choice of that which is best and most convenient for them who are to obey their Laws and to satisfie them as much as may be Moses more ancient than all other Law-makers in proving their Laws to be good and right and both in wealth and wo calamity and felicity to remain in them neuer changing nor altering them I therefore aver 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This word Law is not in Homer that our Law-maker is more ancient than any Law maker mentioned For Lycurgus and Solon and Seleuchus of Locris and those the Greeks admire are modern and of late times in in respect of him as is well known For the Greeks B themselves confess that in times past they wanted the name of Law This Homer can witness who in his whole Works never mentioneth this word Law for the people of those times were not governed by Laws but by indefinite sentences and the Princes pleasure The life of Moses using customs but not written and altering and changing them also as occasion served But our Law-maker being very ancient for this is every way manifest even by our adversaries own confessions shewed himself both a good Prince and Counsellor unto his people for making Laws to direct and govern mens lives he perswaded them voluntarily to imbrace them and firmly to persist in them with all wisdom C And first of all let us consider the works of his greatness For he undertaking the conduct of many thousand of our fore-Fathers out of Egypt into our own Country delivered them from many calamities almost impossible to be avoided for they being to pass through a place wherein was no Water and a very sandy ground being also to War and preserve their Wives and Children and goods from the variable event of Wars he in all these shewed himself a most wise and prudent Counsellor and a true Patron and Guide unto them all For he made all the multitude so to depend upon him Moses maketh God his guide and Counsellor that he might perswade them to what he pleased and yet in none of all these did he usurp any Authority over them and in that time and place wherein all men of Authority assume D power unto themselves and exercise tyranny at such time as the people do oftentimes offend and live in all manner of impiety at the same time he being in Authority did contrariwise use all lenity and mildness to the intent that he might be a pattern of vertue and justice to all the rest giving all those that willingly followed him most assured safety using in all accidents most strange works For which cause he rightly deemed God to be his Captain and Counsellor and first examining himself and finding all the Laws he had set down were agreeable to the will and pleasure of God the chiefest care he had was how to perswade his people to the same which he himself now knew for they who direct their Lives according to the will of God avoid all sins as our Law-maker did being neither Magician E nor deceiver The origin of Laws amongst the Greeks as his Enemies injuriously report but such a one as the Greeks do boast Minos and others after him to have been for some of them affirmed their Laws to be made by Jupiter others by Apollo and Delphos Oracle either so believing themselves or else thinking that the people would be easily so perswaded Now who of all the Law-makers made the best Law and who did most rightly think of God he that compareth all their Laws together may easily
men for if that I command you to commit a sin yet do not you offend in doing it The young mens constancy seeing you commit it only upon compulsion But the young Youths inflamed with a divine Spirit and Sense contemned so many kinds of torments L and despised the Tyrants threats and flatteries and their constancy for they gave him no just occasion put the Tyrant into a great rage By this it is evident how much Reason is master over Passion for if any slothful man not before trained up to it should of a sudden come to such a push at the very sight of such torments his mind would be troubled his countenance appalled his Legs under him would have trembled and he with fear have been confounded so that he would presently have retracted and professed himself unable to bear up against so many and so grievous torments saying My self being unwise what should I have made choice of Whether to endure these torments or accept of their promised benefits Whether I should have been moved to pity mine M own age or to compassionate my mother God would not have denied pardon for this deed I being forced thereunto and by doing it though against my will I shall get the Kings favour But where Reason and advice taketh place and hath well trained the mind to perfection the other consequently followeth As by the example of these brethren I will declare who as it were all with one voice denied to eat the sacrificed Swines flesh as they were commanded Wherefore said they O Tyrant dost thou persecute us that are innocent The seven brethren reply to Antiochus We both desire and wish to die and will until such time as death expelleth life firmly keep that which God commanded and Moses taught us And thou Tyrant do not seek to seduce us by pretending love towards us thou lover of injustice master of cruelty deviser of iniquity the N pardon which thou doest offer is to us more painful than punishment we contemn death and esteem not thy words as being by our late master Eleazar taught to despise them Why then doest thou suppose such pusillanimity to be in us young men seeing of late thou foundest such courage in an old man We follow him thou canst not try and know our minds except by tearing our bodies thou search them out We will safely and securely suffer for our God any thing and leaving this Earth we shall be entertained into Heaven and thou for so Tyrannizing most cruelly upon innocent Souls shalt be reserved to eternal fire The Tyrant enraged Antiochus commanded Maccabâ—us to be racked that he could neither prevail by fair promises nor by threatnings caused them to be beaten with Bulls pizzles and first of all he commanded Maccabeus the eldest of the seven brethren to be stript and stretched out upon a O Rack and his hands to be bound behind him and then to be most cruelly beaten A who wearied his tormenters by his suffering so great the force of vertue is in such manner that they desired more to leave beating him than he requested they should leave This done he was put upon a wheel and a weight hanged at his feet and so stretched round about it that his sinews and entrails brake and his pains increased yet being overcome with pain his mouth was not for all this stopped or hindred from calling upon God who beheld all and reproving the Tyrant for devising those torments for the Innocent he took strength and is said to have cried out after this manner Bloody Tyrant who persecutest the Majesty of God I whom thou thus tormentest am no Witch nor one who have murthered and killed another man but one who dies for justice observing B the Law and for Charity Then when the torturers overcome with compassion perswaded him to submit to the Kings pleasure he answered O ye wicked ministers of Tyranny your wheels are not so sharp and cruel that I thereby will be forced to forsake Heaven whereon my mind is fixed tear my flesh yea if you so please rost it at the fire torture and torment each parcel of my body with several cruelty you shall for all this find your selves unable to force us young men to impiety The death of the eldest brother As he thus spake a fire was kindled and he as he was upon the Wheel racked was so thrown into the fire and thus he was by flames and torments so burned that C his bowels appeared his mind nothing moved when his flesh yielded to the tortures who amidst his pangs cryed thus unto his brethren O beloved brethren learn of me an example of vertue consider the strength of an invincible courage contemn and despise the alluring baits of this world and rather obey God than this Tyrant who can if be please humble the proud and mighty and exalt the lowly and dejected As thus he spake he was taken out of the flame and flaid alive his tongue was pulled out of his mouth and he put into a frying pan and so he departed out of this life to the great admiration of all that beheld him and the joy of his brethren and mother and went before them to Heaven there to prepare a Kingdom for himself and them The second brother brought D After him the second brother called Aber was haled by the Souldiers and before the Tyrant asked him whether he would relent he caused all those torments to be shewed him thereby to terrifie him but he nothing thereat moved and denying to eat of that foresaid Sacrifice his hands were bound with Iron chains and he being hanged up by them the skin of his body was flain off from the Crown of his head unto his knees so that the entrails in his brest appeared naked yet in such manner as he might abide greater torments For he was cast before a cruel Libard thirsting most extremely after blood to the intent that he might devour with his teeth the rest of his body but the beast smelling of him no doubt by the great handy work of Almighty God forgot his cruelty and turning away his face did no hurt to the E Martyr But hereat the Tyrants rage increased and the Martyr by suffering such-torments was made more constant crying aloud O how pleasant is that death unto me which is caused by all sorts of torments for Gods sake yea so much the more pleasant for that I assuredly hope to find reward for it in heaven Let these torments inflicted upon me O Tyrant satisfie thy cruelty for my paâ—n is not by thy tortures increased but rather my pleasure as thou shalt find by my patience in this Agony More willing am I to suffer than thou to punish yet my pain in suffering is less than thine by inflicting the same upon me I am tormented for vertue and observing the Law and the justice of God shall banish thee from thy Regal seat Thou by
Cow brings forth a Lamb 753. B. Cow-dung the Jews food 738. N. Craft of a Boy 754. L. Crassus warreth against the Parthians 368. B. robs the treasury in Jerusalem ibid. B. slain 368. G. Creation of the World 27. E. Creatures made 27. F. and first named 28. H. Cry of seditious Chore and his accomplices 99. F. Cries of women and children 665. K. of the Jews 752. I. Crown of Gold 378. E. Crows fed Elias 226. C. Cruelty of Azael foretold 240. G. effected 245. M. of Athalia 244. D. of Manahem 250. D. of Manasses 258. B. C. of Nabuchadnezzar 261. M. of Bacchides 558. K. of Alexander 354. F. of Antigonus 577. G. of Cleopatra 580. I. of Herod 590. L. of the Damascens 637. F. G. of the thieves 636. H. of the Idumaeans and Zealous 695. E. of the seditious 711. B. of the thieves 736. H. of Simon 736. L. Cumanus spoileth villages 533. G. feareth the peoples rage 618. O. corrupted 534. M. banished 535. B. Cunning of David in playing on the Harp 159. A. Cups of Gold 210. B. 302. I. Curse against him that builds Jericho 123. D. Custom of the Country 46. M. Custom observed in Sacrifices 91. E. Custom of the War 118. H. I. Custom in Samaria 239. N. Custom laudable in a King 289. N. Custom to punish slayers of themselves 672. N. Custom of the Romans 725. F. Custom of the Priests 782. L. M. Cut-throats among the Jews 538. L. Cyprus a Castle 584. N. Cyrenaeus taxeth Judaea 474. I. Cyrus King of Persia 271. O. overthroweth Baltazar and taketh Babylon 271. O. dismisseth the Jews 274. E. c. permitteth to build City and Temple 274. G. his decree touching the Temple 280. F. G. Cyzicenâ—â— King of Syria See Antiochâ—s D. DAgon fell down 146. L. Days of Creation six 27. F. G. the seventh sanctified ibid. G. the day lengthened 125. C. Dalila soundeth Sampson 141. G. betrayeth him 142. H. Damascens kill ten thousand Jews 637. F. N. Damascenus testimony of Abraham 36. I. Damasco Country of Abraham 36. I. Damsels entice the Hebrews to Idolatry 107. D. Dan the son of Jacob 46. N. what it signifieth ibid. N. his issue 61. B. Daniels austere life 268. A. expoundeth Nabuchadonosors dream 268. G. advanced to honour ibid. 269. K. L. his fellows cast into the furnace 269. M. interpreteth the writing 271. N. cast into the Lyons den 272. D. his vision of the Ram and Goat 273. K. L. his predictions of the Roman Empire 273. N. Darius King of the Medes 270. G. surprizeth Babylon 271. O. causeth Daniels enemies to be cast to the Lyons 272. E. Darius son of Hystaspis maketh a vow 276. E. performeth it 278. B. propounds three questions 276. E. his Letters for building the Temple c. 278. D. 281. I. he restores the vessels c. ibid. B. his Epistle to the Prefects of Syria 281. I. Darius King of Persia overthrown 294. C. Darkness separated c. 27. E. Darkness of Egypt 69. G. Dart of Saul 69. G. Darts profit not the Jews 723. E. Dathan rebellious 102. H. he with his company were swallowed up ibid. Daughters of Salpades inheritance 109. F. Daughters of the Midianites 107. B. allure the Hebrews to Idolatry 107. D. David anointed King 158. N. seized with Gods Spirit ibid. causeth Sauls vexation ibid O. killeth a Lyon and a Bear 160. H. overcometh Goliab 160. M. killeth six hundred Philistines and marrieth Michol 161 D. vanquisheth the Palestines 163. B. discovereth Sauls affection towards him 163. E. complaineth to Jonathan ibid. G. receiveth Goliahs sword 165. C. counterfeiteth madness and why 165. D. his care of his parents ibid. E. defendeth Cilla 167. B. flieth to the Ziphians ibid. C. escapeth Sauls hands and how ibid. E. twice saveth Sauls life 167. G. and 169. G. testifieth his innocency 170. B. spareth Nabals flock 169. G. incensed against Nabal and why 168. N. is appeased 169. G. upbraids Abner 170. H. dwelleth at Siceleg and spoileth the Sarrites c. ibid. M. recovers his wives and slays the Amalechites 173. B. C. lamenteth Saul and Jonathan c. 175. E. F. chosen King by one Tribe ibid. F. requireth Michol 176. N. purgeth himself of Abners death 177. G. H. surprizeth Jerusalem 179. D. vanquisheth the Philistines 160. L. transporteth the Ark and how ibid. O. intended to build a Temple 181. H. gave God thanks ibid. D. revengeth his Embassadours 183. F. marrieth Bethsabe 185. B. repenteth his sin ibid. D mourneth for his son ibid. E. expelleth his Kingdom 188. M. his entertainment at Mahanaim 177. C. commandeth to spare his son 191. B. bewaileth Absalons death 192. K. granteth Amasa pardon 193. B. his concubines sequestred 194. L. distributeth offices 195. L. delivered out of peril ibid. N. perswaded to abstain from war 196. A. his Champions ibid. D. c. sends Joab to muster the people 197. C. of three punishments offered chuseth the plague ibid. E. prayeth for the innocent people ibid. G. commanded to build an Altar 198. I. gathereth store of Iron c. ibid. M. counselleth Solomon to honour God ibid. O. groweth old and numb 199. C. numbereth the Levites 200. N. confirmeth the Kingdom to Solomon ibid. I. commendeth Solomon to the Tribes 201. I. his counsel to Solomon 202. C. willeth Solomon to punish Joab ibid. D. commendeth Berzillais sons to Solomon ibid. his age reign and virtues ibid. E. Dancing of the Maidens of Israel 160. N. of Davids before the Ark 180. O. Danger of the Israelites 710. E. 721. K. of David 162. K. 163. B. 167. C. D. E. 167. F. of the Sephorites 3. A. of Jacims Son 3. G. of Joseph 9. D. 188. K. 639. F. G. of Herod 603. B. of Titus 712. Dead lye unburied 735. F. Dead body raised 247. K. Dealing of Laban with Jacob 47. F. G. Dealing of Saul with David colourable 161. A. B. C. Death of the Fathers 30. L. 31. A. Death of the seven brethren 815. D 820. L. 821. C. D. Death of Abraham 43. D. of Isaac 49. F. of Racbel ibid. D. of Jacob 62. I. of Joseph 62. K. of Moses 120. I. K of Samuel 168. L. of Solomon 218. C. Death of the first begotten 70. K. Death of the Leader discomfort to the Soldier 233. K. Dearth of Victuals prophesied 226. B. Debate compromitted 173. D. Debate of the Jews and Samaritans 333. I. Debate of Herod with his Sons 587. A. Debate betwixt the Ladies 595. D. Debora a Prophetess 134 L. encouraged Barach ibid. M. Decease of Herod 603. A. B. Declamation of Sentius 514. H. I. Deceit of Florus 622. K. of John 689. F. of the Jews 714. N. O. Deciding of hard controversies referred to Moses 78. H. Decree of the Romans 225. L. of Cyrus 280. F. G. Decree of Destiny 728. K. Dedication of the Tabernacle and Priests 89. D. E. Defence of Moses c. 806. L. Defence of Nicholaus 607. B. 610. M. 471. B. Defy of the Enemy 159. D. 162. L. Deflouring of Dina 49.
Father 104. I. dies 128. O. Eleazar kills an Elephant 322. D. slain 558. N. Eleazar upbraideth Hircanus 348. E. Eleazar an arch thief surprized 620. K. Eleazar exerciseth cruelty 619. C. Eleazar one of the Zealous 690. L. causeth the Idumaeans to be sent for ibid. L. Eleazar kills himself 704. K. Eleazar taken 768. M. whipt ibid. exhorts the Jews to submit 768. O. Eleazar Captain of the Sicarians 771. C. besieged in Massada 772. A. shews the Romans tyranny 776. H. Eleazar brought to Antiochus 817. F. whipt 818. M. his answer to Antiochus 818. I. his death 819. A. B. Election of a King 113. B. C. Eli High Priest 142. L. had wicked sons 143. E. his and their end foretold 144. L. hearing of the Ark lost died 145. B. Genealogy 145. C. Eliab a Workman of the Tabernacle 80. L. 89. C. Elias fed by Crows 226. C. entertained by the widow of Sareptha ibid. D. restores the widows son ibid. G. prophesieth rain to Achab 228. B. reproveth the superstition of the people 227. L. confirms his doctrine and slays Baals Priests 228. A. B. flees from Jezabel ibid. B. prophesieth revenge to Achab and Jezabel 229. B. reproves Ochozias messengers 335. O. prayeth that fire consume his Captains 236. B. and foreshows his death ibid. B. is taken from men ibid. D. Elimelech goes to Moab and why 142. M. his and his sons death ibid. M. his heritage seized 143. D. E. Elizaeus calling 228. E. foretelleth of water and of victory 235. I. relieveth a poor widow and how 237. O. adviseth Joram to beware of Adad 238. A. B. discovereth his ambush ibid. B. leadeth the Syrians into Samaria 238. E. foretells plenty of victuals 239. L. also Adads death and Azaels cruelty 240. G. visited by Joas 247. H. foresheweth his treble victory ibid. I. his death and event thereof 247. I. K. Eloquence of Moses 67. B. 74. K. Embassadours of David abused 183. C. of Ezechiâ—s ill intreated 252. F. G. of Jonathan to Demetrius 337. K. of Herod 602. N. Embassadours to Pompey 363. E. Embassadours send to Joseph 12. K. 14. I. hope to get Tiberias 16. L. their false accusations 17. B. Embassage of Moses to the Idumaeans 103. E. to Sebon 104. L. Balacks to the Midianites 105. E. his and their first and second to Balaam ibid. E. Embassage of the nine Tribes to the other two 127. I. of the Galaadites to Saul 152. K. of the Syrians to Achab 229. L. Embassage of Balad 257. L. of the Jews 281. M. of the Jews to Rome 470. K. Emmor King of the Sichemites slain 49. C. Emperours of Rome why called Caesars 214. M. Emperours strife to be at peace with the Jews 729. C. 729. C. D. Empire of Rome in an uproar 705. D. Empire of the Persians 788. O. End of captivity 274. E. End of Antiochus Epiphan miserable 321. K. End of the Jews answerable to their lives 771. F. Engines 666. N. fired 666. N. 734. H. 740. M. Enemies of the Israelites to be destroyed 111. A. and why ibid. Enemies how to be used 810. O. Enemies to be buried 116. I. Endeavour of Agrippa c. 626. H. Enlargement of the Kingdom of Israel 248. G. Enneus Abrahams friend 37. F. Enoch son of Jared 31. C. taken up to God ibid. D. 236. D. Enos Cains first son 29. F. Enosa the first City builded 29. F. Enquiry for Jonathans kindred 182. N. Ensign of the Romans 662. M. N. Entertainment given to Antipater 599. D. to Vespasian at Rome 763. C. Enumeration of the Countries subjected to the Romans 626 N. 627. B. 628. I. Envy of the Serpent 28. L. of Abimelech 43. F. of Leas to Rachel 46. M. of her to Leas ibid N. of Josephs brethren 50. O. of the Egyptians towards the Israelites 62. M. of Saul against David 160. N. of Herodias 492. O. of John 640. M. Ephod 87. B. Ephraim son of Joseph 56. 1. Ephramites get Bethel 129. E. displeased with Jeptha are appeased 139. B. slain by Jeptha ibid. D. Epicrates sells Scythopolis c. 348. A. Epilogue of the Antiquities 542. N. Epitaphs 135. F. and 178. H. 260. D. Erection of the Tabernacle 81. B. Errour of Epicures confuted 273. O. Esay the Prophet 256. B. comforts Ezechias 256. B. foretold Senacheribs overthrow and death ibid. B. assureth Ezechias of life 257. I. K. foreshews the captivity ibid. M. Esau son of Isaac 43. E. called Seir and why ibid. E. foretold to be author of a Nation 43. E. his wives 44. I. went a hunting ibid. K. denied the blessing and why 44. N. foretold to be mighty yet his brothers vassal ibid. N. wept for loss of the blessing ibid. D. selleth his birth-right 50. L. Eschol Abrahams friend 37. F. Esdras the Lawyer 282. B. assembled the Jews in Babylon 283. E. repairs to Jerusalem c. 283. H. his prayers for the Levites 283. K. reads the Law 284. B. Esseans a sect 239. M. 477. E. 612. L. swear not 613. C. have their goods common 612. M. their religion and labour 613. A. in compassion and helping their choice 613. C. observe the Sabbath 616. H. live long ibid. I. they prophesie 610. M. their opinion of the soul 614. K. believe not the resurrection ibid. marriage 612. L. apparel 612. N. obey Governours 613. C. just 613. E. Essen what it is 87. C. D. Esther made Queen 287. H. resorteth to the King and why 289. I. accuseth Aman and why 290. F. Estate of Solomon declined and why 217. I. K. Ethnarch a Governour 610. I. Ethnicks punished and why 304. D. E. Eve created 28. I. tempted transgresseth ibid. L. her punishment 28. N. cast out of Paradise 29. A. her children ibid. B. Evening what 27. E. Event of the battel foretold 171. E. Event of battel changeth 746. I. Evilmerodach releaseth Jechonias 270. F. dies ibid. F. Evidence against Antipater 598. L. M. Eunuchs of what gift deprived 117. E. Euphrates a River of Paradise 28. K. called also Phora ibid. Euricles wins Herods favour 440. M. relates Alexanders words to Herod 441. B. 592. I. K. gets money by craft 441. B. 592. H. plays the Ambodexter 591. F. G. 592. H. I. Of Exactions a mitigation craved 405. B. C. denied ibid. Example to do evil 157. A. 221. C. Example of the Athenians c. 626. M. Excursions See Incursions Excuse of Davids absence 164. O. of Malchâ—s 574. H. of the two brethren 589. D. of Antipater 600. L. M. Execration of Saul 155. D. E. Exercise of the Romans 660. M. N. Exhortation of Moses to the people 71. F. 74. M. Exhortation to maintain liberty 511. N. to contemn death 775. B. Exhortation to be obedient to Gods will 110. K. Exhortation of Saul to War 152. M. Exhortation of Solomon to the people 212. C. of Azarias 214. M. of Josaphat to his Subjects 234. E. of Ezechias to the Priests 252. F. G. of Matthias to his Sons 316. A. of the Princes to the people 624. K. of Samuel to the
E. 263. H. L. c. 264. D. E. c. 265. H. I. Imprecation for building Jericho 123. D. Imprecation of Saul 155. D. Incest 94. H. of Lot 39. D. of Ammon 183. C. Inchanters banished 171. B. Inclosure before the Temple 210. D. Inconstancy of fortune 682. I. Inconveniences under a King 149. F. G. Incouragement of Moses 67. C. of Joshuah 119. D. Incredulity punished 240. E. Incursions of the Amalechites 135. B. of the Philistines H. of Adar 217. M. Indebted acts and devices 763. B. Indulgence cause of sin 157. D. Industry of the Romans 660. N. Ingratitude of the Sichemites 137. B. of the Israelites 153. D. of Nabal 168. N. of Demetriâ—â— 336. B. of Malchâ—â— 574. H. Inhabitants of Nob slain 166. K. Inhabitants of Countries 33. F. 34. L. Inheritance of Jacob and Esau 50. L. M. of Salpades dauthters 113. E. Inhibition of Cambyses 276. B. Iniquity 577. B. of the Jews 740. H. Injuries of Florus 477. F. Injury to Davids Embassadours 183. C. to Thamar 186. L. Injustice of Law-makers 814. I. Innocency of David 168. I. 170. L. Insolence 248 A. B. 250. B. 250. D. 733. D. Institution of Circumcision 38. L. 70. L. of the Passover Instruments of Musick 210. C. Interpretation of Josephs dream 51. C. of the Butlers 24. M. of the Bakers 24. O. of Pharaoâ—s ibid. E. F. of Nebucâ—odonosors 269. O. of the hand-writing 271. N. Interpreters royally entertained 302. O. Intent of Florus manifested 624 M. Intention of Saul against David 160. I. M. 163. B. 164. M. Intestine discord 686. I. Invective against murtherers 178. M. against the Zealous 687. F. of Joseph against the Jews 730. K. Inventor of Musick who 29. G. Inventor of the Art of Forging ibid. First Inventors of Letters 781. A. Invocation of God in trouble 74. O. Joab General of Davids Army 176. H. discomfiteth Abâ—er ibid. I. slayeth Abâ—er 177. D. discomfiteth the Syrians 189. F. reconcileth Absalon to his father 188. H. â— Joab and the Army enter the City mournfully 192. M. his Oration unto David c. ibid. C. sent out against Siba 194. M. killeth Amaza ibid. N. rebuked proposeth conditions of peace 194. L. one of Adoâ—iâ—â— coadjutors 199. D. slain 204. L. Joachas King of Israel subdued 246. F. G. and why ibid. his repentance and prayer ibid. Joachim King of Juda 260. E. paid tribute ibid. 261. I. revolteth and is slain 261. I. not buried 261. M. Joachin King of Juda 261. N. See Jechonias Joas King of Israel 247. H. called Elizaeus his father ibid. H. his treble victory ibid. K. Joas saved and how 244. D. created King of Juda 244. E. his piety during Joiadas time 245. L. repaireth the Temple ibid. N. his impiety after Joiadas decease 246. E. stoneth Zacharias ibid. G. bought his peace 246. D. dieth ibid. Joatham his works about the Temple 250. F. acts of War ibid. K. 251. I. Joaz King of Juda taken prisoner 260. E. his impiety and death ibid. F. Jobel a Maker of Tents 29. F. Jochabel Moses Mother 63. E. secretly hid him three months ibid. F. appointed to be his Nurse by Pharaohs daughter 64. K. Jodes killeth Eglon 133. F. subdueth the Moabites and ruleth Israel ibid. 134. I. K. Joel and Abia govern the Commonweal 149. B. Joiada High Priest 240. C. createth Joas King 240. D. sweareth King and people to serve God ibid. L. deceaseth 246. B. John releaseth Ismaels captives 267. R. refuseth counsel ibid. I. John High Priest slayeth his brother 293. I. punished 293. K. John Jonathans brother slain 328. D. John Baptist slain 485. B. Johns acts in Gischalis 5. M. his treason 6. I. seeketh to murther Joseph 5. M. he and the Embassadours resort to Jesus 15. A his followers forsake him 21. F. a trecher and murderer 639. B. flieth into Gischala 641 A. perswadeth the Tyberians to revolt 641. N. moveth to rebellion 684. I. reserved to be at the siege of Jerusalem 685. A. sweareth to the people c. 689. E. breaketh his oath ibid. G. assaulted on both sides 712. M. putteth the Zealous to flight 714. I. seizeth the Temple ibid. raileth upon Joseph 744. I. apprehended 759. E. is condemned to perpetual prison ibid. F. John Captain of the Idumaeans 724. M. slain ibid. M. Jonas cause of a tempest and why 249. I. devoured of a whale and cast out 249. K. preacheth to the Ninevites ibid. K. Jonathan Sauls son 154. I. entred the enemies camp and slew them 155. B. C. breaketh the Edict ibid. D. counselleth David to flie 162. I. pacifieth Sauls displeasure and certifieth David thereof 162. L. M. discovereth Sauls hatred to David and how 164. L. reneweth his covenant 167. C. Jonathan Governour of the Jews 328. B. revengeth his brothers death 328. K. assaileth Bacchides by night 329. I. putteth Apollonius to flight 334. E. appeaseth Demetrius 336. C. putteth Demetrius to flight 339. H. reneweth friendship with the Romans ibid. I. c. fighteth with Demetrius 340. A. repaireth Jerusalem c. ibid. G. taken by Triphon 340. F. 559. B. slain 342. C. 559. C. Jonathans letters to Joseph 13. C. Jonathan challengeth a combat 747. B. slayeth Pudens 747. C. Joppe a retreat for thieves 674. K. taken ibid. N. Joram King of Juda 237. N. served Idols 241. I. murdereth his brethren ibid. I. dieth miserably 241. M. Joram King of Israel an impious man 236. D. asketh aid ibid. E. in distress with two other Kings ibid. E. F. relieved and how 237. H. overcame the Moabites ibid. L. besieged 238. F. threatneth Elizaeus 239. K. certified of the enemies flight 239. O. his expedition to recover Ramath 241. O. Jordan yieldeth the Israelites passage 190. N. his fountain 680. L. Jehosophat King of Juda his piety 311. M. his expedition with Achab 232. B. M. reproved 234. E. reneweth the true service of God ibid. E. prayeth and why 235. I. obtaineth victory and how 235. K. L. his ships cast away ibid. M. aideth Joram 236. E. dieth 237. M. Joseph son of Jacob 47. A. envied of his brethren 50. O. dreamed a dream 51. O. sold by his brethren 52. L. resisted his mistriss twofold temptation 53. A. E. accused and cast into prison 54. H. K. expounded dreams 54. M. O. counselled the King how to prevent famine 55. F. advanced to honour and married a wife ibid. G. sounded his brethren and why 56. M. sent them away but detained Simeon 57. B. C. banqueteth them and Benjamin 58. H. slayeth their journey and accuseth them ibid. I. K. I attacheth Benjamin ibid. N. maketh himself known to his brethren 60. I. K. resorteth to Pharaoh with his brethren c. 60. burieth his father 62. I. giveth charge concerning his bones ibid. dieth ibid. I. Joseph preventeth calamity and how 308. I. c. Embassadour to Ptolomy ibid. N. tributes of Coelosyria committed to him 399. I. his wealth and children ibid. N. sendeth his son Hircanus to Ptolomy 310. C. his death 311. F. Joseph Herods brother slain 388. C. D.
the Israelites 135. C. kill one another 136. K. Madus and his Progeny 33. G. Magicians could not expound the dream 268. E. F. 269. N. Magicians deceive many 537. C. work much mischief 620. N. Magistrates to be obeyed 110. L. M. to be honoured and reverenced 112. L. M. 626. K. 882. N. their duty 234. E. Magog another of the Scythians 33. G. Magnanimity of Herod 430. N. of the Romans 802. M. Magnificence of Solomon 215. D. 216. M. of Ezechias 253. H. I. of Herod 585. C. of Vespasians triumph 766. I. Maidens of Israel sing and dance 160. N. Malchus King of Arabia 574. H. repelled Herod ibid. A. repented him of that dealing 575. B. Male children put to death and why 62. O. Maledictions of Moses 118. M. N. Malefactors executed 540. I. Malice of Pharaoh 62. O. of Daeg and Saul 166. K. L. of the Ziphians 169. D. of the Egyptians to the Jews 792. I. Malichus layeth wait for Antipater 376. F. poysoneth him 377. H. slain ibid. N Mambres Abrahams Friend 37. F. Man created 27. G. called Adam and why 28. H. imposed names on the creatures 28. I. placed in Paradise 28. I. transgresseth ibid. H. cast out of Paradise 29. A. author of his own death 32. K. Manahem foretels Herods reign 417. N. Manahem King of Israels acts 250. D. bought his peace ibid. E. dieth 250. E. Manahemus chief of the rebels 631. A. slain 631. E. Manasses marrieth Senaballats daughter 293. K. retaineth his wife ibid. K. L. enjoyeth his desire 294. F. Manasses Josephs son 56. I. King Manasses impiety 258. B. led away prisoner 258. C. repenting is restored ibid. C. his acts 258. D. dieth ibid. Mandate of Cyrus 275. K. Manethon an Egyptian Writer 784. N. sheweth the coming and departure of the Jews c. 786. K. his fabulous reports 792. L. his lies confuted 793. E. his words repeated 798. K. Manna what 75. B. food of the Israelites 75. C. how much to be gathered ibid. C. when it ceased 122. O. Manner of Purification 103. G. Manners of the Egyptians 62. N. of the Esseans 612. M. 613. C. of the Idumaeans 690. M. of the Athenians 813. D. of the Persians 813. G. Manoachs wife saw an Angel 139. F. foretold of a son and instructed ibid. F. is seen of both 140. H. I. Man-slaughter 109. E. Mara what 73. E. March of the Romans 662. L. M. Mariam Moses sister 63. G. watch him ibid. G. fetched his mother 64. K. her death 103. G. Mardochaeus Esthers Uncle 286. G. discovered the traitors 287. I. K. his lamenting and why 288. A. B. honoured 290. D. Marriage when to be contracted 114. M. Marriage with an harlot forbidden ibid. M. Marriage with a bond-woman 115. D. Marriages made 594. N. broken 595. C. Mariamne wife of Herod 378. C. committed to Joseph 397. C. accused excused her self 398. D. E. displeased with Herod 496. E. coldly entertained Herod 407. I. upbraided Herod 586. K. accused and put to death 408. M. 586. N. Marphad sacked Syria 37. B. killed Giants ibid. B. Marsus Governour of Syria 522. H. displeased ibid. Martial Discipline 638. L. M. 660. M. N. Masons how employed 207. D. E. Massacre of the Jews 632. I. c. 633. C. c. 634. K. c. 736. M. N. c. Massada a strong Castle 771. C. for what occasion builded 773. A. battered with the Ram 773. C. Matter for the building of the Tabernacle 80. L. M. Matter committed in trust 117. C. Matthias refuseth to commit Idolatry 315. K. â—layeth an Apostate ibid. rooteth out Idolatry 313. N. his death 316. D. maketh war against Antiochus 558. K. Matthias raiseth sedition 460. I. burned ibid. L. Matthias cruelly handled 736. M. Measures found out and by whom 29. F. Medimnus a certain measure 97. E. Meeting of the Hebrews thrice a year 111. F. Melancholy of Herod 602. M. Melchisedech King of Solyma 47. E. entertaineth Abraham c. ibid. praiseth God and receiveth the tenths 47. E. Men thronged to death 618. O. Menelaus High Priest 313. I. warreth against Jason ibid. Mephiboseth obtains the possession of Saul 182. O. purgeth himself of Sibas slanders 193. E. restored to the half of his possessions 194. I. Merchandise brought to Solomon 216. K. Merchants of Arabia buy Joseph 52. K. sold him to Putiphar ibid. N. of Tharsis 235. M. Mercy hurtful in War 726. N. Mercy of Varus 609. F. of Titus towards Joseph 673. E. to his enemies 685. E. Meroe a strong City of Aethiopia 65. F. Messengers sent to David 163. C. to Nabal 168. N. Mesopotamia troublesom to travellers 42. K. Mesopotamians submit themselves 184 i. Method of morality and discipline 808 i. Methusala Enoch's son 30. how long he lived 31 c. Mice devour the fruit c. 146 m. Micheaâ— reproveth Achab and why 231 i. how rewarded ib. i. foretelleth Achab's death and Sedechiah's punishment 232 d e. his allowance 233 h. Michol daughter of Saul 162 i. given to David in marriage ib. i. conveyeth David away 163 c. deceiveth Saul's messengers 163 0. restored to David 175 o. mocked at him 181 a. Midwives of Egypt 62 o. Mildness of David 168 i. Military Discipline 638 l m. 660 m n. A Mind furnished with virtues 158 l. Ministeries of the Gabeonites 125 a. Miracles 681 k l. 220 b. 227 n. 226 d. 226 n. 237 o. Miracle of the Sun 's going back 257 l. Miracle of Elias 701 e. Misa King a Moab 237 l. put to flight ibid. l. sacrificeth his son ibid. m. Misdemeanour of the wicked 30 n. of Samuel's sons 149 d. of a soldier 618 n. 619 h. Misery of the Israelites 62 m. 63 e. 68 h. 74 o. fore-prophesied 222 e. of the Jews fore-told 259 k. of Judea 476 m. of the Jews prophesied 628 n. of the people 732 m. 739 g. Three Miseries assail Jerusalem 698 o. Mithridates King of Parthia 35â— i. Mithridates King of Pontâ—s slain 363 m. Mithridates warreth with the Egyptians 370 b. commendeth Antipater to Caesar ibid. b. Moabites put to flight 134 i. war against Josaphat 234 g. kill one another 235 l. Module of the Temple 201 m. Module of the Tabernacle proposed to Moses 80 m. Moderation of Saul 151 e. of David 170 i. Moderation in abundance hardly kept 248 b. Monarchy of the Assyrians destroyed 257 l. Money taken out of David's tomb 345 n. distributed 728 i. Monobazus King of Adiabena 528 l. Moon made 27 f. her end and motion ibid f. Monument of the Priesthood confirmed 102 l. Monument of Jonathan 343 d. of David 345 n. of John the high Priest 723 c. Morning whaâ— 27 e. Moses the son of Amrem 63 b. foretold to afflict the Egyptians estate and advanceth the Israelites 62 n. cast into the flood 63 g. taken out thereof ibid. h. called Moses 64 k. adopted by Pharaoh's daughter spurned the Crown ib. m. conducted the Egyptians against the Aethiopians 65 c. his victory ib. the Jews law-maker 26 n. more ancient than other law-makers 791
a. fleeth to Raguel and why 66 k. marrieth his daughter ib. sent to deliver the Israelites 67 d. confirmed in his calling ibid. a b perswadeth Pharaoh to dismiss the Israelites 68 i. worketh miracles ibid. k l m. instituteth the Passover 70 i k. conducteth the Israelites 71 b c. exhorteth them ib. f. prayeth to God 72 i. leadeth them thorow the red sea ib. k. praises God ib. n. sacrificed to God in Sinai ib. o beseecheth God to sweeten the waters 73 g. putteth the people in mind of God's benefits â—4 m. imploreth God's help ibid. o. striketh the Rock bringeth out water 75 f. encourageth the Israelites 76 l. lifting up his hands c. 77 a. ascendeth Sinai 78 m. how long remaineth there 80 h. fasted ib. asketh counsel of God c. 90 o. numbreth the people 94 o. sendeth spies to search the land 96 i. retires the people into the desart 99 a. sendeth forces against the Madianites 108 m. appointeth to Joshuah his successor 109 b. exhorteth the people to obedience 110 l. sweareth them to keep the law 119 b. exhorteth Josuah ibid. d. dieth 119 f g. Mother eateth her child 239 i. 748 o. Mother of the seven brethren 824 n. 825 b. 826 h i c. Mourning of Ruben for Joseph 52 l. of the Romans 637 b. of them in Jerusalem 711 a. Mourning for thirty days 115 e. Mourning for Moses's death 119 g. for Saul and his sons 174 f. for Abner's 177 g. for Herod's 462 n o. Mountain of Sinai 66 n. 77 e. Mounts builded lost 734 h. Mounts raised near the Temple 746 k. Multiplication of Jacob's posterity 63 d. Multitude of business 77 g. of dead carcasses 740 h. Mundus deâ—ileth Paulina 481 d c. banished ibid. Murmure of the Israelites 74 i. 96 m. Murther of Simeon and Levi 49 c. Murther of Azael 176 k. of Abner 177 e. of Joram's brethren 241 l. of infants foretold 240 g. Murther of Saul punished 175 e. of Isboseth 178 l. Musick by whom invented 29 g. Mutability of fortune 682 h i. Mutiny in Chore and his complices 99 d e c. Mutiny about the golden Eagle 460 h. Mutiny against Archelaus 463 f g c. N. Nahas King of the Ammonites 152 i. his outrages offered the Israelites ib. 1. proposed hard conditions of peace 151 i k granteth to the Inhabitants of Jabes a truce ib. k. is slain 152 o. Nabal's flock spared 168 m. his currish answer to David's men ibid. n. died for grief 169 â— Nabathaea the countrey of Ismael's posterity 40 l. Nabathaeans spoiled 3â—0 b. Naboth falsly accused 228 f. stoned to death ibid g. Nabuchadonosor King of Babylon 260 g. vanquisheth Nechao ib. 261 h. exacteth tribute and slayeth Joachim 261 h. establisheth Joachin King ib. n. besiegeth and destroyeth Jerusalem 264 d. 265 h. dreameth a dream 268 d. erecteth an Idol 269 m. conversed with beasts ib. o. conquereth the rebels 78â— e. builded a palace 788 i. besiegeth Tyre ibid. n. his death 270 a. Nadab Aaron's son burned and why 90 i. Nadab Jeroboam's son 224 h. his impiety and death ibid. i. Name of Saul famous 152 o. Naming of the creatures 28 h. Names of Regions and Nations 33 f. Naomi her sorrow 142 n. returneth into her countrey 143 n. her counsel to Ruth 143 b. Norbanus for the Jews 432 l. Narration of the Arabian wars 443 a. Nathan the Prophet 18â— b. forbiddeth David to build the Temple ibid. c. reproved David 185 â— Nativity of Jacob and Esau 43 i. two Nations proceed of them ibid. â— Nation of the Jews mixed with all people 747 b. Nations whence descended 33 g c. Nature forbids a man to kill himself 672 l. Nature of the Idumaeans 690 m. Navy of Solomon 215 b. Naum the Prophet 250 g. foretelleth the overthrow of the Assyrians ibid. g. Nazarites 103 e. Nechao his exploits 260 c. is overcome ibid. g. 261 h. 262 f. Necessity a sharp weapon 663 f. Neglect of God's service cause of all evil 219 n. Negligence of Saul's guard 169 f g. Nehemiah his sadness and why 284 e. inciteth the people to build the walls 285 i. his ardent care in building them 285 k. his death ibid n. Nemrod 33 a b. son of Chus 34 m. Nephanes and Sabach David's Captains 196 b c. Nephews of Jacob 61 b. of Herod 594 m. Nephthalim the son of Jacob 46 n. his sons 61 b. Nero proclaimed Emperour 536 k. his murthers ibid. l. 620 h. amazed at the acts of the Jews 657 â— sendeth Vespasian to govern Syria 657 f. Nicanor laboureth to surprise Judas 324 â— slain 325 i. Nicanor known to Joseph 671 m. Nicanor wounded 723 c. Nicaule Queen of Aethiopia 215 c. resorteth to Solomon ibid. d. wondereth and praiseth Solomon's wisdom 215 d e. giveth him presents ibid. f. Nicholaus's Oration 424 i. Nicholaus the Historiographer reproved 433 c Nicholaus accuseth Syllaeus excuseth Herod 442 n. prosecuteth the King's accusation 456 m. excuseth Archelaus 466 k. 607 b. defendeth Herod and Archelaus 459 b. 607 b. Nicon the Romans great Ram 725 c. Nigar slain c. â—97 b. Nilâ—s 28 k. maketh Egypt fertile 61 f. how far navigable 694 k. Nineveh admonished 249 k. her destruction prophesied 250 f. effected 251 h. Nisan a month with the Hebrews 70 i. Noah the son of Lamech 30 o. admonisheth the wicked ibid. l. buildeth the Ark n. saved with all his houshold ibid. o. sendeth out a Crow and a Dove 31 e. the tenth from Adam 30 o. sacrificeth to God 31 e. prayeth to God 32 i. is heard ib. k. God's covenant with him ib. k. his age 31 l. his three sons 32 o. his kind of life 34 o. was drunken and derided 34 o. Nob a City of the Priests burnt 169 c d Nobility slain by the thieves 686 m. 12000 slain 695 f. Nobility of the Jews fly to the Romans 744 n. Nobles repair to David 178 o. Nobles shut up by Herod 460 n. 602 n. released 462 m. 603 b. Nothing attempted by the Romans rashly 661 d 682 k. Number of the children of Israel 70 l. from twenty to fifty years of age 89 b. of David's souldiers 179 a. of workmen 207 d e. of Jews that returned from captivity 275 f l. of high Priests 540 n. of the captives and slain in Jerusalem 759 b c. Nuptial feast 46 l. O Obed-Edom's felicity 180 n. Obed begat Jesse 143 eâ— Obed a King of Arabia 354 b. discomfits Alexander ibid. Obediah hideth the Prophets 227 i. Obedience of Abraham 40 o. Obedience to Magistrates 110 l m. Obedience of the Roman soldier 661 a b. Obimes Jeroboams son 222 d. falleth sick and dyeth ibid. g. Obodas King of Arabia 435 b. given to idleness ibid. â— 438 o. Obsequies of Herod 462 n Observers of God's Laws rewarded 26 i. Occasion of the Jews war 623 a. Occasion of victory what 661 f. Occasion of violences 687 e f. Occurrences of Kingdoms and Commonweals 25 f. and 106 m. Occurrences of Jeremy 260 d
Jews of Caesar's threats 616 n. writeth to Caius 496 i. receiveth Letters of Caius's death 497 â— 617 d. his Letter to the Dorâ—res 521 c. Phaceias King of Israel 250 â— his impiety and wickedness ibid. e. slew 120000 Jews 251 l. took Achaz's son Prisoner ib. m. was slain 252 c. Pharao enamoured of Sara 36 l. plagâ—ed ib. m. Pharao his dreams 55 b c. delivereth Joseph from bonds ib. c. advanceth him to great honour 55 g. rejoyceth at the arrival of Joseph's brethren 60 m. enquireth Jacob's age 61 e. restored the profits of his subject's lands 62 h. Pharao killeth the male children 62 o. would have killed Moses 64 n. and 66 k. his death 67 f. Pharao counselled to dismiss the Hebrews 68 i. not moved with miracles layeth heavier tasks on them ib. l. advised once more ibid. â— driveth away Moses 70 h. dismisseth the Israelites ib. k. his host drowned 72 k. Pharisees a sect 339 m. 477 a. greedy of revenge 357 i. exempt from swearing 417 l. would not swear obedience 451 c. 463 d. their opinion 614 n. Pharos a tower 708 m. Phasaelus his government 372 c. vanquisheth Foelix 377 o. 571 b. made Tetrarch 380 c. 571 e. taken prisoner 371 n. dasheth out his brains 383 i. Phasaelus Tower and City 530 n. 584 n. Pheroras made Tetrarch 416 g. accuseth Alexander and Aristobulus 426 l. refuseth the Kings daughter 433 g. blamed for Alexanders offence 438 l. pardoned ibid. deceived 450 m. refuseth to put away his wife 451 f. banished 596 m. falleth sick and dieth 452 m. 596 n. his wise accused 452 o. she confesseth the poyson 453 f. Philip rebelleth against Antiochus 322 f. is slain 323 k. Philip King of Syria 355 i. besiegeth Demetrius 355 h. Philip Herod's son 471 d. hath part of the Kingdom 471 d. repaireth Cities 478 â— Philo Judaeus's defence c. 494 i. Philistines overcame the Israelites 139 f. exacted tribute of them 139 f. put to flight 1â—8 m. invade the Israelâ—ites 154 k. are overcome 155 b c. and 160 m. discomfit Sauls army 173 f. overcome by David 180 i. k. by Ozias 249 l. by Ezechias 253 k. Phineas the son of Eleazar 108 k. slayeth Zambrias and Chosbi ib. l. overthrew the Madianites 108 l m. his Oration to the two tribes and half 127 g. succeeded Eleazar 128 o. foretold the Israelites their victory c. 131 d. Phineas Elies son 143 e his wickedness and impiety ib. e. is slain 144 n. his wife then bare Ichabod 145 c. Phison a flood of Paradise 28 k. called also Ganges ib. k. Phora 28 k. Phraates King of Parthia slain 478 o. Phul King of the Syrians 250 d. for money made a peace ibid. d. Piety profitable 224 n o. Piety of Ancestors remembred 63 b. Piety contemned cause of calamities 132 n. 133 d. 144 k c. 168 i. 252 c d. Piety of Asa 224 i. of Josaphat 231 m. of Jotham 250 f. of Ezechias 252 d. of Josias 258 〈◊〉 and 259 h i. c. of Matthias c. 315 i. Pigeons dung sold 23â— g. Pilate succeedeth Gratus 480 i. bringeth Caesar's statues to Jerusalem 480 i. not admitted 480 k. crucifieth Christ 480 m. putteth Samaritans to flight 482 l. accused ib. sendeth the statues from Jerusalem 480 k. beateth the seditious 615 f. Pillage taken 255 l. Pillars raised 30 k. A Pillar called Galaad 48 i. Pitcher of water 169 g. Pit to be senced 117 c. Pit of swearing 40 h. Pits bituminous 37 b. Pity of Joseph towards his brethren 60 i. Placidus repulsed at Jotapata 692 i. his victory 682 o. burneth Bethenabris â—00 i. Placing of the vessels c. in the Temple 250 b c. and 21â— d. 211 h l. Plagues of Egypt 68 o. 69 a b c d e f g. 70 k. Plague in David's time 19â— f. Plague invadeth Judea 409 k. 412 g. Plat-forms erected 669 a. Plants sprang at first out of the earth 27 f. Plants not of four years growth 113 c. Plato admired 811 d. permitteth not Poets c. 813 b. Pledge to be restored to the poor 116 k. Plenty fore-signified 55 e f. Plotting of Antipater 433 e. The Plough found out and by whom 29 b. Poem of Homer 781 b. Poets cause multitudes of gods 813 a. Poyson tryed c. 458 k l. 601 b. Policy of Rebecca c. for her son 44 l. of Jacob to pacifie his brother 48 m. of the Gabeonites 124 m. of Joseph 9 e. â—0 k. 1â— e. of Jonathan 16 m. of Joseph 642 h. 665 c. 668 h. 10 l m. Politianus meets with Agrippa c. 625 c. inciteth the people to peace ib. e. Pompey Governour of Syria 362 d. marcheth against Aristobulus 363 l. 36â— h. besiegeth Jerusalem 36â— l. committeth Aristobulus to prison ib. 565 g. taketh the Temple 365 k. bestoweth the Priesthood on Hircanus ib. 366 o. spoileth not the Temple ib. d. 566 m. carrieth Aristobulus to Rome 567 a. beheadeth conspirators 56â— n o. Popedius accused 5â—5 f. Popularity of Alcimus 324 b c. Porch of the Temple 208 m. â—ired 747 a. Port of Caesarea 415 i. Port made by Herod 584 i k. Portion of Salpades daughters 109 f. Portion of Judea 659 f. Possession of Canaan prophecâ—ed of 62 i. Posterity of Ismael 40 l. Posterity of Giants extinguished 37 b. Posterity of Jethro possessed of Land 129 d. Posterity of Noah replenished the world 32 o. Posterity of Esau 50 l. of Jacob 61 b. Poyson not to be used 1â—7 a. Power given to save 59 f. Power of God every where 230 f. Power of Kings Wine and Women 277 i k l. Power of the soul â—74 l. Power of David and Solomon 805 f. Practice of Simeon and Levi 49 c. Prey that the Israelites got in war 77 b c. 109 a. 123 â— 124 l. Prayer of Noah 32 â— of Amram 63 b. of Moses 72 i. 101 d c. of Joshuah 123 f. of Samson 142 k of Solomon 211 k. of Samuel and the Israelites 148 k l. Praise of Abraham 43 d. of Jacob 62 i. of Joseph 62 k. of Joshua 77 c. and 128 n of Moses 120 k. of Samuel 16â— l. of Saul 172 k. of David 202 e. of Solomon 218 c. of Josaphat 235 m. of Nehemias 285 k. of Ananus 694 n. of Eleazar 819 d. Praise given to God 70 k l. Prediction of things to come â—18 m. Preparations for war burned 322 b. Presents of Abraham 42 k. of Jacob 57 e. of the Egyptians 70 k. of Abigail 169 b. of the Mesopotamians 184 i. of the Queen of Aethiopia and of Kings 215 f. 216 l. of Ptolomy to the Interpreters 392 o. of Herod 591 d. Preservation of Moses 63 g. 64 n. of Daniel and his companions 269 n. Preservation from blood-shed 169 b. Presidents in every City 112 k. and what manner of men they ought to be ibid. k. Pride of Amasias 248 a. of Ozias 249 o. of Senacherib 255 n. of Nebuchodonosor 269 n. of Balthasar 271 h. of John 698 m. Priest's
l. marrieth a wife ib. m. propoundeth a riddle ib. m. his acts against the Philistines 141 d e f. prayeth and why 141 d. betrayed by Dalila 142 h. the slaughter of the Philistines and of himself ibid. k. Samuel his parents 144 i. consecrated to God ibid. i God called him thrice ibid. k. fore-shewed the death of Eli and his sons 144 l. offereth sacrifice 148 l. comforteth the people ibid. his victory and recovery of lands 148 n. committeth the Common weal to his sons 149 b. troubled and why 149 e. bidden to create a King ib. f. sheweth the people's estate under a King ibid. anointeth Saul King 150 o. justifieth himself and why 153 b. striveth to reconcile Saul to God 157 c. killeth Agag 158 i. telleth Saul of God's displeasure 157 f. anointeth David King 158 n. his death burial and praise 168 l. Sanballat Governour of the Samaritans 293 k. followeth Alexander 294 b. buildeth a Temple ibid. f. Sanctuary 93 b. 209 h. 211 i. Sanctuaries or places of refuge for whom 109 â— Sand like glass 616 m. Sara daughter of Aram 35 o. Abraham's wife ibid. d. her beauty 36 l. King of Egypt enamoured on her ibid b. bringeth Agar to Abraham 38 i her age when she conceived Isaac 38 o preserved from Abimelech and how 39 e. brought forth Isaac ib. caused Ismael to be expelled c. 40 k l. affecteth Isaac ib. m. her death 41 f. Saraeus high Priest took Prisoner 265 l. Saturninus President of Syria 438 o. 4â—9 a. permitteth Herod to enter Arabia ib. b. his indifferent sentence 444 m Saul seeketh the lost Asses 150 k anointed King by God's commandment ib. o. confirmed therein 15 b. hideth himself ibid. f. saluted by the people for their King ib. f. promiseth the Jabesites assistance 152 l. killeth King Naas ib. n. sacrificeth and is reproved 154 l. overcometh the Philistines 155 e. would have slain Jonathan 156 h. always a conqueror ib. k. taketh and spareth Agag 157 b. slayeth the Amalekites and razeth their Cities 156 o. offendeth God 157 b. loseth his Kingdom and why ib. f. denied pardon renteth Samuel's garment ib. g. slew the Philistines 160 m. resolveth to kill David 162 i. darteth his Javelin at David 163 b. prophesieth 163 f. questioneth about David's absence c. 164 n. maketh an Oration to his Captains 165 f. pursueth David 167 e. condemneth himself and justifieth David 168 k. pursueth David again and his life saved 169 f. banisheth diviners 171 a. by a sorceress is foretold the event of the battel ib. c d. praised 172 k. is slain 173 f g. Scarcity fore-signified 55 e. how to be prevented 55 f. among the Israelites 95 e. very great in Claudius his time 97 d e. in Samaria 238 g h. Scarcity of corn 413 i k. Scaurus maketh peace with Aristobulus 362 b. Presidenâ— of Coelosyria 363 n. his war against Aretas 364 h. 5â—5 a. bribed ibid. Science of the celestial bodies 30 k. Schisar King of the Assyrians 133 b. oppressed the Israelites ibid. b. Scopas General of Ptolomy's Army 306 a. discomfited ib. overcometh the Jews 306 a b. Scythopolitans kill 3000 Jews 634 l. Sea of Pamphilia divided it self 72 n. Red Sea divided at the stroke of Moses's rod 72 k. returning to his course drowneth the Egyptians ibid. l. Brazen Sea 209 l. Sebas 196 e. Sebaste a haven 455 a. Secretary or Priest fore-telleth Moses's greatness 62 n. willeth him to be killed 64 n. Security promised to Rahab and hers 122 i. Sects of the Jews 339 m. 477 a. 612 l. Secrets of Syllaeus disclosed 599 d. Sedechias a false Prophet 231 e. contradicteth Micheas ib. e f. Sedechias King of Juda 262 d. revolteth ib. seduced ib. 263 h c. neglecteth the Prophet's counsel ib. o. surprised 264 f his eyes put out 265 h. his death ib. n. Sedition against Moses 95 e. 99 b. and 100 i. of Chore for the Priesthood 99 d. Sedition against Roboam 219 h. of the Samaritans against the Jews 298 b. among the people 312 k. of the Jews 494 h. betwixt Senate and people 516 h. Sedition at the Passover 464 l. between the Jews and Samaritans 534 l. for the golden Eagle 605 d. in Jerusalem 607 e. 621 d. between Greeks and Jews 634 h. threefold sedition 711 f. took the City 723 b. Seditious more impious than the Sodomites 724 h. Seditious 620 k l. beaten 615 f. bribe Albinus 621 d. fly to the Temple and why 624 n. gave not ear to those in authority 629 f put the Romans to flight 675 e. agree among themselves 712 o. 724 i. challenge the sodden child 749 a. summon Titus to parley 754 m. take away the King's Treasure 756 i. their utmost hope 756 m. kept in Acra and in Vaults 757 f. Seed of the Woman 28 n. shall bruise the Serpent's head ib Seeds at first grew out of the earth 27 f. Seeds not to be mixed together 113 d. Sehon King of the Amorites denieth passage to the Hebrews 104 m. overthrown by them ib. o. is slain ib. Seir what it signifies 43 e. Seir Esau's dwelling place 49 a. Seleucus Nicanor privilegeth the Jews 305 b. Seleucus Soâ—er reigneth in Asia 31â— f. Sem Noah's third son 32 o. covereth his father's shame 35 a. his progeny ib. b Semochonitis a lake 680 m. Semiramis built not Babylon 788 k. Senaar a plain 32 o. Senabarus one of the five Kings of Assyria 37 a. Senacherib surpriseth the Cities of Judah 255 l besiegeth Jerusalem ib. m. his Army stricken with the Pestilence 256 f. himself slain ib Senate perswadeth Claudius to resign 516 i. Senate's decree c. 378 f. Senate's answer to Agrippa 617 f. their repair to Claudius ddd 618 i. Senselesness of Achaz 252 b. Sentence against Herod's sons 593 e. Sephora Moses's wife 66 n. Sephoris walled 478 i. spoiled 22 h. entertaineth the Romans 635 b. Sepâ—lchre of David 202 o. of Memnon 618 l. Serpents tempting of Eve 28 l. his subtilty ib. l. his punishment ib. o. enemy to man ib. o. wherein his strength lyeth and how easily killed 29 a. Serpents very hurtful destroyed 65 d e. Servant of Elizeus 238 c. Servants of Solomon happy and why 215 e. Servant of Abraham taketh his oath 42 k. his prayer and care in discharge of his message ib. k. and 43 a b. Service of God neglected 252 b. Service of forreign gods 216 o. 248 b. 252 b. Service of Antipater 574 m. Services of the Gabeonites 125 a. Servitude of the Egyptians great 61 o. of the Hebrews insupportable 62 n. 67 a. and 68 i. Servitude of the Israelites 133 b. and why ibid. 134 k. 729 e. c. Seth son of Adam 30 i. a virtuous man ib. i. left a godly issue ib. k. his age and death 31 b. Sethosis King of Egypt 786 h. Seven men of Saul's kindred punished 195 n. Seventy Jews with John and Simon sent into Italy 765 f Seventy Interpreters 302 o. 801 a. Severity of Herod 416 e Sextus
and arrows 767 f. Storm 693 b. Stratagem of Moses 65 d. of the Ephraimites 129 e. of Joab 183 e. of Ptolomy 297 n. of Joseph 9 d. of Cestius 637 b. of Joseph 640 l. 641 e. 665 b. of the Jews 747 e. Straton's tower or Caesarea 412 c. 414 g. Streights of Engaddi 167 f. Strength of Sampson 141 e. and 142 k. Strength of Eleazar 666 o. of Netiras c. ib. Strife among the Priests 538 h. Stripes thirty nine 114 i. Stuff to build the Tabernacle of 80 l m. Subjection of the Israelites to the Moabites 133 d. to the Canaanites 134 k. to the Palestines 139 f. to the Assyrians 252 a. Subtilty of the Serpent 28 l. Subtilty of Jacob 44 k. of Lea and Rachel 46 o. of Laban 46 l. of Phara 62 o. of King Naas 151 g. of Michol 163 c. of Saul 168 i. of a woman 187 c. of the false Prophet 220 d. of Silo 578 l m. of Florus 624 i. Succession of the high Priests 540 n. Successor of Moses who 109 b. Successors of Alexander 297 m n. Successors of David 181 d. Successors of Nabuchodonosor 220 f. Sum of the Israelites taken 197 c. Sum of gold silver c. towards the building of the Temple 199 b. Sun made 23 e. the end course and motion thereof ib. e. Sun stood still 225 c. goes back 157 l. Superstition of the people reproved 223 k l. Supplication of Moses to God 74 o. Supplication of Joachas 246 f. Supplication of the Jews sent to Caius 617 c d. Supplication of the Israelites 148 k l. Supplies sent to Titus 677 c. Surprisal of the Ark 144 n. of Rabatha 180 i. Susac invadeth Judea 221 e. spoileth Jerusalem and the Temple ibid g. Sustenance faileth the Israelites 74 i. Swearing amongst the ancient Jews 42 k. and the manner thereof ibid. imposed and why 259 l. Sword of Goliah 160 m. 165 c. Sycophants of Agrippa 524 h. Syllaeus governeth the King's affairs 435 b. desireth Salome to wife 435 c d. accuseth Herod to Caesar 439 e. deferreth the payment of Herod's money ib. condemned to die 443 d. Symoborus one of the five Kings of Assyria 37 a. Syrians war against Achab 229 l. discomfitted 239 c. ib. f. led away captive 252 a. Syrians against David 181 g. T. Tabernacle builded 81 b. erected in the desart ib. d c. dedicated 89 d. and when ib. d. placed in Siloe 125 e. Table set in the Tabernacle 84 m. Tables of the ten Commandments 79f 80k placed in the Ark 84 h. Table of gold 211 i. 301 â— Talents 565 a. 568 l m. Talents of Gold 216 i. Talent how much 813 e. Tales credited 436 i. Talions law or law of like for like 117 b. Talk betwixt God and Cain 29 c. Talk of Jacob with Rachel 45 f. Talk of Laban with Jacob 46 h. Talk of David with Goliah 160 l. Tapsians put to the sword 250 e. and why ib. e. Tarichea besieged 676 k. taken 677 e f. Taricheans vanquished by Sea 679 h i. Task of the workmen of Solomon 207 d e. Task more grievous imposed c. 68 l. Taxation of the Jews 476 k. Tears of Esau 44 n. Tediousness of the Hebrews Journey 73 d e f. Teglaphalassar King of Assyria 251 o. led away the Israelites captive 252 a. slayeth Rasis and taketh the Syrians prisoners 252 a. gold and silver given him ibid. b. Temperance of Saul 151 f. Tempest after Samuel's prayer 153 f. Tempest caused by Jonas 249 i. Tempest drowned those of Joppe 674 m. Tempest of miseries assails Jerusalem 698 o. Temple when builded 207 f. height length and breadth thereof 208 m. with all the other things belonging thereunto 209. when consecrated 210 g. spoiled 221 g cleansed 252 e. repaired 249 h. burned 265 i k. began to be builded 279 k. finished 281 i. dedicated ib. g. desolate three years 318 f. repurged ib. burned 476 m the strongest fortress of the City 688 h. builded on a strong hill 719 f. consumed with fire 750 m. One Temple to be builded and why 111 e. Temples of Idolaters to be destroyed 111 a. Temple on mount Garizim 296 a. laid desolate 346 c. Temples builded by Herod 417 h. Temple of Apollo 431 a. Temple of Isis pulled down and why 481 f. Temple builded by Vespasian 767 c. Temple of Onias shut up 778 k. Tempting of the Serpent 24 i. of Josephs mistress 53 ab c. Ten Commandments 79 e. Tenths of the fruits 111 g. Tenths for the poor Levites and Festivals 114 k. Term of man's life 35 e. Term of exile for chance medley 109 d. Terror among the enemies 235 l. 239 o. Testament of Herod 459 d. altered 601 e. Testimonies of the Jews antiquity 786 o. 787 d. 788 n. 789 b c d. 791 c. Thanksgiving of the Israelites for their deliverance 72 n Tharbis the King's daughter of Aethiopia 65 g. enamoured of Moses ibid. g. yieldeth the City of Saba and is Married to Moses ibid. i. Thares Abraham's Father 35 c. went out of Chaldea to Charran ibid. d. his age and death ibid. Thargal a Captain of the Assyrians 37 b. sacked Syria and extinguished the Gyants 37 b. Theatre built by Herod 410 g. Theft committed how punished 116 l. Thermuthis Pharaoh's daughter 64 i. taketh Moses out of the water ib. i. adopteth him for her son and preserveth him from death 64 m. Theudas the Magician 532 o. his perswasion to the people ibid. Thieves confident 636 m. Thieves apprehend Ananias's kindred 539 f. Thieves taken by Herod 438 n. Thieves murder in the day 620 l. work much mischief ib. n. Thieves spoil the Country 686 k. make a high Priest 686 n. Thievery punished 416 b. 438 m n. Things unclean 93 b. Thirst oppressed the Israelites 75 e. Thirst of the Arabians 403 k. Thirst of Sampson 141 d. of David 816 m. Thobel a warrier 29 c. invented the Art of Forging ibid. g. Thola a Judg of Israel 138 i. Tholomaeus the Arch-Thief 527 d. Ten thousand thronged to death 618 o. Thraldom of the Canaanites 215 b. Three admirable works 721 b. Three valiant Jews 733 g. Threefold sedition divided into two parts 714 k. Thrice in the year the Hebrews ought to meet 111 f. Throne of Solomon 213 d. Thucidides History 781 e. Tiberians meet Joseph 6 k. their Letters to Agrippa 10 i. intend war against Joseph 18 o. submit themselves to Vespasian 675 f. 676 b. Tiberias builded 478 n. in danger of ruiue 22 i. recovered 641 e. Tiberius Emperour 478 m. rejecteth Venones suit 479 e. punished Isis Priests 481 f. thrusteth the Jews out of Rome 482 k. his league with Artabanus 483 f. his death 485 c. why he deferred to give audience to Embassadors and Prisoners 488 n. c. why changed not Governours ibid. k. addicted to the Mathematicks 491 l. recommendeth the Empire to Caius ibid. d. his Funeral 492 l. Tiberius a Governour of Judaea 533 b. crucifieth the Sons of Judas ibid. c. Tiberius a Governour