NECHO, king of Egypt, first attempts to unite
the Mediterranean and Red Sea by a canal;
under him Africa was circumnavigated, 138.
NECKLACES, Egpytian, 178.
NECTABENO, king of Egypt, 440.
NECTABENO II., last of the Egyptian kings,

441.

NEHEMIAH, book of, 24; cup-bearer to the
Persian king; appointed governor of
Judæa, and commissioned to build the
walls of Jerusalem; organizes the temple
service, 435; declines to receive pay, 436;
returns to the Persian court; returns to
Judæa to correct abuses, 438.
NERGAL, an idol, 128.
NERO, emperor of Rome; a professed patron
of magicians; orders Peter and Paul to be
cast into prison; burns the city of Rome,
617;
returns from Greece, and enters
Rome in great triumph, 618; orders Peter
and Paul to be beheaded, 619.
NESTORIANS, or CHALDEANS, descendants of
the ancient Assyrians, 90.
NIBHAZ, an idol, 128.

NICANOR, one of the seven deacons, 564.
NICANOR, a Syrian general, invades Judæa,

and is defeated by Judas Maccabæus, 472;
invades Judæa again, is defeated and slain, |
476.

NICANOR, a Roman tribune; urges Josephus
to surrender, 663.

NICE, 623.

NICODEMUS, a delegate of Aristobulus, 492.
NICODEMUS, a ruler of the Jews, visits Jesus
by night, 527, 528.

NICOLAUS, of Damascus, confirms the sacred
history, 315.

NICOLAUS, one of the seven deacons, 564.
NICOMEDIA, 623.

NIGER, a Jewish general, defeated by the Ro-
mans, takes refuge in a castle in the village
of Bezedel, 658.

NILE, 180; summer parlor on the, 242.
NIMROD, grandson of Ham, commenced the
tower of Babel, established idolatry, 87.
NINEVEH, capital of the Assyrian empire; its
location; prophesied against by Nahum, B.C.
645; Sennacherib slain there; destroyed 600
B.C.; discoveries in its ruins by Mr. Rich,
Mr. Botta, and Mr. Layard; its ruins con-
firmatory of prophecy; explanatory of the
dress, arms, and modes of warfare of the
Jews and Ninevites; correspond to the de-
scription of Ezekiel; many biblical names
found on its ruins; important results to bib-
lical history, 88-90; Jonah's mission to, 800
B.C., 395; destroyed, 406.
NISROCH, an idol, 128.
NITOCRIS, daughter-in-law of Nebuchadnez-

zar, 84.

NOAH, birth of; three sons, 79; admonishes
the wicked, 80; commanded by God to
build an ark, 80; enters into the ark, 81;
leaves the ark, and builds an altar to God,

82; plants a vineyard, and becomes intoxi-
cated, 83; curses Ham, 84; dispersion of
the family of, 87.

NOB, town near Jerusalem, 295.

NOD, land of, dwelling-place of Cain, 78.
NUMBERS, great, of armies, &c., mentioned in
Scripture; method of explaining by Jahn
and Hales, 364, 365.
NUMBERS, book of, 22.

0.

OBADIAH, a good man, steward of Ahab,
saves a hundred prophets, 369.
OBADIAH, prophet; book of, 26.
OBED, son of Boaz and Ruth; grandfather
of David, progenitor of our Saviour, 245.
OBED, a prophet in the time of Asa, 367;
warns Pekah, 393.

OBED-EDOM, a Levite, in whose house the ark
was left, 313.

OBODAS, emir of the Arabs, 489.
OCHUS, son of Artaxerxes-Memnon; ascends
the Persian throne, 439; his conquests in
Egypt; return to Babylon, 441; death by
poison, 442.

OCTAVIUS, one of the triumvirs, 499; receives
Herod with favor, 499, 500; his battle at
Actium, 503; receives the overtures of
Herod, 504; receives from the senate the
title and name of Augustus, with imperial
power, 505.

OG, king of Bashan, defeated and slain by the
Israelites, 220.

OLD TESTAMENT, history of, 65; canon of,
closes 420 B.C., 439.

OLIVE-TREES in Gethsemane, 541.
OLIVES, Mount of, 541, 542.
OLYMPIAS, sister of Archelaus the ethnarch,

513.

OMAR, Caliph, captures Jerusalem, 539.
OMRI, proclaimed king of Israel by the army
after the death of Baasha; marches against
his rival, Zimri, 359; his idolatry; builds
Samaria, and makes it his capital, 360; dies,
931 B.C., 361.

ON, a city of Egypt, afterwards called Heli-
opolis; also prince or priest of, 146.
ONAN, son of Judah, 139.
ONESIMUS, a disciple of Paul, and servant to
Philemon, 612.

ONnias I., 455.

ONIAS II., high-priest, 457.
ONIAS III., successor to the office of high-
priest; prosperous administration, 457; de-
posed by intrigue, 465; put to death, 467.
ONIAS, Son of Onias III., establishes a priest-
hood for the Jews in Egypt, 475.
OOROOMIYAH, a lake in Persia, 90.
OPHIR, 348.

OPHRAH, residence of Joseph, father of Gid-
eon, 231; Gideon built here an altar, 252.
ORBO, town of, 369.

PENIEL, place where Jacob wrestled with the
angel, 131; the people of, refuse food to
Gideon; its chief men put to death, 252.
PENTATEUCH, books of, 22; authorship, 23;
called The Law, 13; division of, by the
Jews, 30; Samaritan, 42; translated into
Arabic, 50.

PENTECOST, when observed, 558, note.

PEOR, Mount, idolatry practised upon, 223;
Baal-peor, an idol, 223.

PERAKIM, the division of the Scriptures into
chapters, 31.

163; refuses to let the people go, 168;
suffers the plagues, and at last suffers the
Israelites to depart, 171-178; musters six
hundred war-chariots, and pursues them;
his design in taking the sacred animals,
184; his plan of attack, 184; destruction
in the sea, 187.

PHARAOH, daughter of, given in marriage to
Solomon, 339.

PHARAOH-HOPHRA, or APRIES, takes Cyprus,
Gaza, and Tyre, 408; reduced to vassalage
by Nebuchadnezzar, 411.

of Alexander; slain by his own soldiers, 448.
PERFUMING THE GARMENTS, custom, 121.
PERSEPOLIS, 247.

PERGA, in Pamphylia, visited by Paul, 577.
PERGAMOS, church of, 639; view of, 640.
PERSIA, Scarlet the color of the nobility in,
419, note; governed by Peucestes after the
death of Alexander, 448.

PERSIAN translation of the Bible, 51; cus-
toms in regard to pillars of stone, and vows,

123.

PERSIANS lose the battle of Marathon, 431;
driven out of Egypt, 440; hated and de-
spised image and animal worship, 445.
PESUKIM, the division of the Scriptures into
verses, 31.
PETER joins Jesus, 525; denies Christ, 542;
heals a cripple at the temple; vindicates
from Scripture the claims of Jesus; arraigned
before the Sanhedrim; his boldness; dis-
charged, 560, 561; sent to Samaria; reproof
of Simon, the magician, 568; visits Joppa,
571; his miracle, 572; his vision; goes to
Cæsarea; interview with Cornelius; preach-
ing and success, 573, 574; arrested by
Herod Agrippa; miraculous deliverance,
575; goes to the house of Mary, and meets
the disciples, 576; preaches in Babylon,
592; carries the gospel into Africa, Sicily,
and Italy; goes to Rome, where he meets
Paul; opposed by Simon Magus, 616;
offends Nero and is imprisoned, 617; cruci-
fied, 619; his character as a disciple and as
an apostle, 620, 621.

PETHOR, a city in Mesopotamia, residence of
Balaam, 220.

PETRA, 450.

PETREA, capital of Midian, 164.

PETUCHOTH, 31.

mish; opposed by Josiah, 404.

PHAREZ, son of Tamar, by her father-in-law,
Judah, 141.

PHARISEES recover influence under Queen
Alexandra; their demands acceded to, 471.
PHARNABAGUS, a Persian general, 440.
PHAROS, island of, 446.

PHARPAR, a river of Damascus, 377.
PHASAEL, son of Herod and Pallas, 513.
PHASAEL, son of Antipater, and brother of
Herod, 497; dashes his brains out against a
prison-wall, 499.

PHASAELIS, a city in the plains of Jericho,
built by Herod, 506.

PHASIS, the River Pison, 68.
PHERECYDES, who foretold an earthquake,

598.

PHERORAS, brother of Herod, 503.
PHICOL, Abimelech's general, 81.
PHILADELPHIA, fortified and named after
himself by Ptolemy Philadelphus, 459.
PHILADELPHIA, church of, 641, 642.
PHILEMON, Paul's epistle to, 613.
PHILIP, the deacon, 564; flight to Samaria;
success of his labors, 567; instructs the
eunuch, 568, 569.

PHILIP, the apostle, joins Jesus, 525; labors
in Upper Asia, then in Phrygia; demolishes

the deity of the idolatrous people; success
of his preaching; imprisonment; death, 629.
PHILIP, a Phrygian governor, oppresses the
Jews, 469.

PHILIP the tetrarch, 513.

PHILIP governs Bactria and Logdiana after
the death of Alexander, 448.
PHILIPPI, 584, note.

PHILISTIM, Son of Caslubim, father of the
Philistines, lived between the borders of
Canaan and the Mediterranean, 90.

Alexander, 448.

PHABI, 601.

PHABIET, 507.

PHÆDRA, wife of Herod, 513.

PHARAOH, a name common to the Egyptian
kings, 94, note.

PHARAOH, dreams of, 145; bestows high
honors on Joseph, 146.

PHARAOH, a new king after Joseph's death,
oppresses the Israelites, 162; his inhuman
order for the death of the Hebrew children,

most powerful and warlike people in Pales-
tine at the time of the Exodus, 181; sub-
jection of the Hebrews to them, 260; enmity
against Samson, 261; great numbers de-
stroyed by Samson, 264; defeated in the
time of Samuel with great slaughter, 270;
Israelites disarmed by, 282; gather an im-
mense army against Saul, 283; routed by
Jonathan, 284; invade the territory of
Judah, 288; at war with Israel, 301; defeat
Saul, and slay his sons, 303; defeated by

347.

PIRS, the seven, 427.

;

PISGAH, Mount, Balaam blesses Israel there,
220; same as Mount Nebo, 227; death of
Moses there, 228.

PISIDIA, a province north of Pamphylia,
443; visited by Paul, 577.
PISON River, the Phasis, 68.

PITTACUS, one of the seven wise men of
Greece, 598.

PLACIDUS, Commander of Roman troops in
Judæa, 659, 660.

PLUTARCH attributes political motives to
Alexander in being worshipped as the son
of Jupiter Ammon, 446.
POLISH Bibles, 31.

POLLIO, a member of the Sanhedrim, 501.
POLLUX, an idol, 128.
POLYBIUS, 472.

POLYGAMY, introduced by Lamech, 78;
neither sanctioned nor forbidden, 300.
POMPEY, comes to Syria, B. C., 65; twelve
kings pay him homage; claims of Hyrcanus
and Aristobulus urged before him; designs
of Aristobulus defeated; marches into Jeru-
salem, and received by Hyrcanus and party;
the adherents of Aristobulus withdraw to
the temple fortress; the siege successfully
prosecuted; Roman rule established in
Judæa; violates the sanctity of the temple;
returns in triumph to Rome, 492, 493.
PONTIUS PILATE, governor of Judæa, 524.
Pope GregoRY II., 510.

POPILIUS LÆNAS, an ambassador, 469.
PORTIUS FESTUS, governor of Judæa, 605.

PoSTERITY of Adam in the line of Seth, 79.
POTIPHAR, captain of the guards to the king
of Egypt, 139.

POTIPHERAH, father-in-law of Joseph, prince
of On, 146.

POTTERS at work, 526.

POUSSIN'S picture of the Deluge, 81.
PRAXITELES, the famous artificer, 607.
PRAYER of Manasses, book of, in the Apocry-
pha, 61.

PRIESTS, laws respecting, 204.
PRINCIPLES developed in the history of the
Hebrews up to the captivity, 411-414.
PRIMITIVE LONGEVITY, 104, note.
PROCHORUS, one of the seven deacons, 564.
157-159; concerning Christ, 514.
PROPHECIES, dates of, 26; Jacob's to his sons,
157-159; concerning Christ, 514.
PROPHECY, illustrated in the history of Egypt,

189.

PROPHETICAL books of the Bible, list of, 26.
PROPHETS, greater and lesser, 26; line of,
commences after the revolt of the ten
tribes, 355.

PROVERBS, book of, 25.

PSALMS, book of, 25; number of, 30; how com-
posed and used, 287; public singing of, by
Hezekiah, 398.

PSALTERY, invented by Jubal, 78.
PSAMMETICUS, opens Lower Egypt to the
Phoenicians and Greeks, 658 B.C., 138.
PTHAH, 399.

PTOLEMAIS, afterwards Cæsaræa, 459.
PrOLEMY AULETES, father of Cleopatra, 497.
PTOLEMY EPIPHANES, heir of the throne,
461; marries Cleopatra, daughter of Anti-
ochus the Great; poisoned; leaves three
children, 467.

PTOLEMY III., EUERGETES, murdered by his
son; the last good king of Egypt; prosper-
ity of the Jews under the last three Ptole-
mies, 458.

PTOLEMY KERAUNUS, eldest son of Ptolemy
Lagus, displeases his father, and is debarred
from the throne; takes refuge at the court
of Seleucus, is kindly treated, and destroys
his benefactor; seats himself upon the
Macedonian throne, but is taken prisoner
by the Gauls, and cut to pieces, 455.
PTOLEMY LAGUS takes possession of Pales-
tine; carries a colony of Jews to Egypt,
449; war with Antigonus, subsequent dis-
asters; withdraws to Egypt; makes Alex-
andria his capital; shows favor to the Jews,
452-453.

PTOLEMY LATHYRUS, son of Ptolemy Phy-
scon, comes to the throne, 487.
PTOLEMY MACRON, 467.
PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS, king of Egypt;
the Septuagint translated under him, 278
B.C.; his war with Antiochus II. and re-
sults; marriage of his daughter, Berenice,
with Antiochus; his death, 456.