4515 3117 Ahaziah reigns but one year. Joash or Jehoash born. Homer the Greek poet flourishes. Kings of Israel. B. C. Dr.H. 884 896 4515 3119 Samaria besieged by Ben-hadad king of Syria. 881 885 4516 3120 Ahaziah accompanies Jehoram king of Israel 879 895 4516 3120 Elisha, going to Damascus, foretells the death 880 884 to the siege of Ramoth Gilead. He is slain by Jehu. Athaliah kills all the royal family; usurps the kingdom. Jehoash is preserved and 4522 3126 Jehoiada the high-priest sets Jehoash on the 878 889 throne of Judah, and slays Athaliah. 4562 3164 Zechariah the high-priest, son of Jehoiada, 836 849 killed in the temple by order of Jehoash. Hazael king of Syria wars against Jehoash. of Ben-hadad, and the reign of Hazael. 4563 3165 Hazael returns against Jehoash; and forces 835 848 4561 3165 Jehoahaz dies. Joash, cr Jehoash, whom he 835 850 large sums from him. (2 Chron. xxiv. 23.) Jehoash dies; and is succeeded by Amaziah. had associated with himself on the throne A. M. 3162, succeeds him. 4579 3168 Hazael king of Syria dies; and Ben hadad 822 832| succeeds him. Jehoash wars against Ben-hadad. 4591 3178 Amaziah wars against Jehoash king of Israel; 822 820 4576 3178 Jehoash obtains a great victory over Amaziah 821 834 is defeated by him. 4602 3189 Amaziah dies; Uzziah or Azariah succeeds 810 809 him. Isaiah and Amos prophesy in Judah under king of Judah. 4577 3179 Jehoash king of Israel dies; Jeroboam II. succeeds him. Jonah, Hosea, and Amos in Israel, prophesy during this reign. 820 833 4654 3246 Uzziah dies; Jotham his son succeeds. 754 757 Isaiah sees the glory of the Lord. (Isa. vi.) Isaiah and Hosea continue to prophesy. 4669 3261 Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah king of Israel, 737 742 invade Judah. 4670 3262 Jotham dies; Ahaz succeeds him. Rezin king 736 741 Isaiah foretells to Ahaz the birth of the Mes-! 4671 3263 two kings his enemies. Nevertheless, the 735 740 Ahaz invites to his assistance Tiglath-pileser 4686 3278 Ahaz king of Judah dies, and is succeeded by 722 725 his son Hezekiah, who restores the worship of the Lord in Judæa, which Ahaz had almost entirely subverted. PART II. A Table of the PRINCIPAL EVENTS recorded in the New Testament, from the Birth of Christ to the Destruction of Jerusalem ana the Completion of the Canon of the New Testament. A. M. 1 4 or A.D. V. E. 12 8 29 30 2333 4034 SECOND PASSOVER.-The twelve apostles sent 34 31 forth. John the Baptist beheaded. 4035 THIRD PASSOVER.-Seventy disciples sent forth. Transfiguration of Jesus Christ. 35 32 4036 FOURTH PASSOVER.-The crucifixion, death, resur- 36 33 Y. of A. D. J. C. 4069 Cestius Gallus governor of Syria comes to Jerusa- 69 66 The Jews rise, and kill the Roman garrison at A massacre of the Jews at Cæsarea and Palestine. The Christians of Jerusalem, seeing a war about Vespasian appointed by Nero for the Jewish war. The Zealots seize the temple, commit violences in 70 67 4071 Vespasian takes all the places of strength in Judæa 71 68 about Jerusalem. Simon son of Gioras ravages Judæa and the south In this or the following year John writes his three 4073 Titus marches against Jerusalem to besiege it. Comes down before Jerusalem some days before the passover. The factions unite at first against the Romans, but afterwards divide again. The Romans take the first enclosure of Jerusalem; The Romans become masters of the court of the A Roman soldier sets the temple on fire, notwith- The Romans, being now masters of the city and temple, offer sacrifices to their gods. The last enclosure of the city taken. OF THE PRINCIPAL PERSONS, NATIONS, COUNTRIES, AND PLACES, MENTIONED IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. This Index is compiled from the works of Calmet, Reland, Wells, Chompré, Gesenius, Schleusner, Robinson (of Andover, N. A.), Serieys, Coquerel, Macbean, Drs. Whitby, Hales, and Parish, M. Anquetil, and various other writers and commentators, who have treated on Sacred History, Biography, and Geography; and also from the Travels in Palestine and Asia Minor, of Bishop Pococke, the Rev. Dr E. D. Clarke, Lieutenant-colonel Leake, the Hon. Capt. Keppel, Captains Irby and Mangles, the Rev. Messrs. W. Jowett, Connor, Hartley, and Arundell, Messrs. Buckingham and Carne, and of. Dr. Robert Richardson, who explored various parts of the East, in company with the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Belmore, in the years 1816-1818. Those names of persons and places only are omitted which occur but seldom in the Bible, and of which nothing more is known than appears in the passages where they occur. AB AARON, the son of Amram and Jochebed, of the tribe of Levi (Exod. vi. 20.), was born three years before his brother Moses. The Scripture is silent respecting every thing which preceded his call to be the spokesman or interpreter of Moses before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. From this time (the eighty-third year of his age), Aaron was the associate of Moses in all the transactions of the Israelites, until his death on Mount Hor, B. c. 1452, in the hundred and twenty-third year of his age, and in the fortieth year after the departure of the Israelites from Egypt. (Num. xxxiii. 38, 39.) Aaron was the first high-priest of the Jews; and was succeeded in the pontifical office and dignity by his son Eleazar. (Deut. x. 6.) For an account of Aaron's conduct in the affair of the golden calf, see p. 136. of this volume. AB, the eleventh month of the civil year of the Jews, and the fifth month of their ecclesiastical year. For the festivals and fasts observed by the Jews in this month, see p. 76. ABADDON (Heb.), or APOLLYON (Gr.), that is, the Destroyer: the name of the angel of the bottomless pit. (Rev. ix. 11.) ABANA and PHARPAR, two rivers of Damascus, mentioned in 2 Kings v. 12. The valley of Damascus, which lay between Libanus and Anti-Libanus, was watered by five rivers, of which these were the two principal. Both descended from Mount Hermon. The Pharpar flowed by the walls of Damascus: the Abana flowed through the city, and divided it into two parts. These rivers are not now to be distinguished. 3 E Vol.-II A B ABARIM, mountains of, notice of, 31. ABDON, one of the judges of Israel; he succeeded Elon, and governed the Israelites eight years. He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy asses. He was buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim. (Judg. xii. 13-15.) ABDON, the name of a Levitical city, situated in the canton allotted to the tribe of Asher, and given to the Levites of the family of Gershon. ABEDNEGO, a Chaldee name, given by the king of Babylon's officer to Azariah, one of Daniel's companions. He was thrown into a fiery furnace, with Shadrach and Meshach, for refusing to adore the statue erected by the command of Nebuchadnezzar ; but both he and his companions were miraculously preserved. (Dan. iii.) ABEL, the second son of Adam, and the first shepherd: he was murdered by his elder brother Cain, through envy, because his sacrifice, offered in faith, was accepted by God, being (it is supposed) consumed by celestial fire, while the offering of Cair was rejected. (Gen. iv. 2-8. Heb. xi t.) ABEL, the name of several cities in Palestine; viz. 1. ABEL-BETH-MAACHAH, or ABEL-MAIN, a city in the northen part of the canton allotted to the tribe of Naphtali. Hither fle Sheba the son of Bichri, when pursued by the forces of kine David; and the inhabitants, in order that they might escape th bums of a siege, cut off Sheba's head, which they threw ov 401 |