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Spear, Joshua's, 72; various kinds of, 72
Spies, sent to view Jericho, 36-38; and
Ai, 64

Springs, country of the, described, 96,
107; of water, meaning of, 135; Upper
and Nether, given to Caleb's daughter,
135; meaning and position of them,
136

Stanley's (Dean) Lectures on Jewish
Church, on character of Joshua, 14;
his name, 22; bulls of Bashan, 34;
drying of the Jordan bed, 47; Jewish
fortified cities, 50; Battle at Waters of
Merom, 99; Machir, 122; request of
Caleb's daughter, 136; sacred lots, 158;
Land of Naphtali, 175; inheritance of
Dan, 177; ancient idolatries, 204; oak
of Shechem, 212; tomb of Eleazar, 215
Stanley's Sinai and Palestine, referred to
on windings of Jordan, 32; position of
Jericho, 36; scene of our Lord's
Temptation, 40, 41; ravines near Ai,
71; slow pace of Eastern armies, 81;
position of Jerusalem, 83, 84; Battle of
Bethhoron, 85; Second Part of Book of
Joshua, 112; history and character of
Reubenites, 120; Benjamites, 161;
Simeonites, 162, 163; Mountain of
Hebron, 127; gift of Hebron to Caleb,
127; Maaleh-akrabbim, 129; Adum-
mim, 130; Engedi, history and descrip-
tion of, 142; defeats of Gilboa and
Megiddo, 150; selection of Shiloh as
site for Tabernacle, 155; tribes of
Issachar, 168, Asher, 171, Naphtali,

174

Stone, Moabite, 116, 117; of Bohan,
130, 159; of Shechem, 212, 213

Stone-squarers. See Giblites
Stones, bevelled, of the Temple, 114
Stones, great, set up as memorials or
witnesses of past events, 47, 48, 50, 69,
74, 212, 213; set up by Jacob, 47, 212;
by Moses, 212; by Samuel, 47; by
Joshua in Gilgal, 48, 50, 212; in the bed
of the Jordan, 48; in the Valley of Achor,
69; on Mount Ebal, 74, 75; before the
cave at Makkedah, 92; under the Oak
of Shechem, 212, 213; sometimes be-
came causes of idolatry, 50

Stoning, a punishment for blasphemy and
idolatry, 69

Stood still, meaning of as applied to the
sun, 88; as applied to cities, 1οΙ
Straitly shut up, meaning of, 55, 56
Stranger that sojourneth = naturalized
foreigners, 182; variously accounted
for, 182

Subdue, meaning of, 156
Suburbs, of cities, explained, 124
Succoth = Booths, 121; where situated,

121; events famous for, 121
Sun and moon, standing still of, 88; an
answer to Joshua's prayer of faith.

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Tabernacle, set up at Gilgal, 48; at
Shiloh, 153-158; at Nob, 156; at
Gibeon, 156; lots cast by Eleazar
and Joshua at door of, 178; called
"The Tabernacle of the Congrega.
tion," 154, 155; or "Tabernacle," or
"Tent,' "of meeting," 155, 157;
meaning of, 155

Tabor, mountain and town of Zebulun,
167. See also 164

Tappuah in Judah, position of, 110;
modern name, 110; king of, slain, 110,
meaning of name, 140

Tel heap, 73; Palestine a land of Tels,
73; Ai made a Tel for ever, 73, 74

Teman, the South, 113
Temptation, our Lord's, supposed scene
of, 41

Terah, father of Abraham, 203; his
descendants, 204; idolatry of, 204;
tradition about, 204

Terebinth, of Mamre, 54; spreading,

174

This day, unto, force and frequency of
expression in Book of Joshua, 48;
places where it occurs, 48; proofs in
these historical allusions that the Book,
as we have it, was compiled after the
death of Joshua, 7, § 7

Thomson's Land and the Book, refer-
ences to windings of Jordan, 32;
ravines near Ai, 70; old writings on
stones, 75; Valley of Gerizim, 77;
Well of Enrogel, 130, 131; Bethshean,
149; Endor, 149; crocodiles in Pales-
tine, 169; capture of Laish, 177

Timnah, or Timnath, or Thimnathah, a
town of Dan, 132, 133, 175; another
town of Judah, 141

Timnath-serah, or Timnath-heres, the
city and home of Joshua, 178, 200;
meaning of, 178; position and beauty
of, 178; description by Lieut. Conder,
214; Joshua buried there, 214

Tirzah, a suburb of Samaria, 111; situation
of, 111; Scripture mention of, 111;
beauty of, 111; king of, slain by
Joshua, III; one of the five daughters
of Zelophehad, 147

Token, or sign, true, meaning of, 40
Treasury of the Lord, certain spoils in
war reserved for, 60
Trespass, committed a, significant mean-
ing of, 63

Tribes, Two and a Half, Joshua's exhor-
tations to, 34, 35; possessions of, 34,
106-109, 115-123; boundaries of, 115,
116; number of fighting men in, 35. See
Altar and Embassy

Tristram's Land of Israel, descriptions
of, Plains of Shittim, 36; overflowings
of Jordan, 45; Valley of Gerizim, 76;
Wilderness of Judæa, 142; Plain of
Esdraelon, 152; situation and ruins of
Shiloh, 155; city of Dan, 177

Tristram's Land of Moab, descriptions of,
River Arnon, 106; ruins of Heshbon,
107; Kirjathaim, 117; Zareth-shahar,
117, 118; shore of Dead Sea, 128;
Engedi, 142

Trumpets of rams' horns, description of,
56; elsewhere referred to, 57
Truthfulness, low standard of, in ancient
times, 38

Tyre, city of, in Asher, 170; conquest of
not attempted by Israelites, 170, 190

Upper and Nether Springs. See Springs
Urim and Thummim, neglect of by
Joshua, 80, 81

Vale, country of the, described, 96
Valley, "The," division of Palestine,
102; of Achor, 69; of Ajalon, 88; of
Elah, 139; of Gerizim, 74, 75, 76; of
the Giants, or Valley of Rephaim,
131, 132, 152 (see Baal-Perazim); of
Hinnom, 131; of Jiphthah-el, 165; of
Jezreel, 152; of the Jordan, 42, 121;
of Israel, 102; of Mizpeh, for; of
Nazareth, 165; of the Orontes, 12, 114;
of Salt, 142

Van de Velde, his narrative referred to,
46, 130, 149

Vaughan's Heroes of Faith, Faith of
Rahab, 38; of the army encompassing
Jericho, 56, 60

Vehicles, not used in Palestine at the
present day, 152

Victuals, meaning of word, 34; of the
Gibeonites partaken of, by the Israel-

ites, 180

View = to review, 64

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214

Wilderness, or Midbah, or Arabah, 137;
position of, 137, 143; of Judæa de-
scribed, 142; upon the Plain, 182
Window, escape of spies from, 40; sımilar
instance in New Testament, 40
Wine-bottles of Gibeonites, 78; allusion

to such in New Testament, 78
Wist, derivation and meaning of, 38
Wordsworth's (Bishop) Commentary, on
Curse pronounced on Jericho, 62; con-
fession of Achan, 67, 69; apparent
discrepancy in numbers of troops at Ai,

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Villages = farm premises, 119; where built, Ziklag, position, 162; meaning of, 138;

152

Walls of Jericho, fall of, attributed to
faith of the army, 60, 61, 62, 63
Water of Jericho, the, meaning of, 143
Wedge of gold, a, meaning of. 68

Zabdi, or Zimri, grandfather of Achan, 63
Zaretan, or Zarthan, 46; situation of, 46;
Adam, that is beside, meaning of, 46;
modern name, 46
Zareth-shahar = "splendour of the dawn,"
117; position of, 117; description of, 118
Zarhites, the, house of, 67

Zebulun, territory of, 164-166; numbers
of, 164; subsequent history and cha-
racter of tribe, 166

Zelah, burial-place of Saul, 161
Zelophehad, second son of Hepher, 147;
request of daughters of, to Joshua, 147;
their inheritance, 147

Zephath, or Hormah, 109

Zidon, the great metropolis of Phoenicia,
100, 170; included in Asher, but not
conquered by him, 170, 190

events connected with, 138, 162

Zin, desert of, 129; spot in desert of, 129
Ziph, city of Judah, 141; events con-
nected with, 141; another town of
Judah, 137

Zoreah, city of, 138
Zuzims, or Zamzummims, 104

About a whole day, 89

INDEX II.

(Words and Phrases explained.)

Accursed, 59, 63
Allon to Zaanannim, 172

Altar Ed, 199
Ambush, 70

Anathema, 59, 66

Any good thing, 191
Appointed cities, 181, 182
Asked not counsel, 80, 81
At the passage, 194

Babylonish garment, 68

Before the Lord, 68

Blessed or blessing, 127, 135, 192, 199

Blood, bloodguilty, 41

Book of the Law, 33, 212

Buildeth Jericho, 62

Cast lots, 67

Cherem, 62, 66, 67

Circles, 112, 193

City in the midst of the river, 117

Clouted, 78

Coast, 117

Committed a trespass, 63
Compass, 129

Compassed, 132, 159, 165
Congregation, 154

Copy of the Law, 75
Counted to the Canaanite, 113
Deo dati, or donati, 82
Devoted, 40, 59, 62
Discomfited, 85, 86

Dukes, 118

Entering of the gate, 180
Espy, 125, 126

Father of Gilead, 146

Fear of, 197

Fenced cities, 90

Fetched a compass, 129

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Mouldy, 79

Napheth, 98

Negeb, 95

Nether, 136

Nethinim, 82
Neviim Rishonim, 5

Numbered, 71

Officers, 34, 42

Old, 53, 70, 78
Parched corn, 54

Pleased, 198, 199

Quarantania, 41
Reproach of Egypt, 52
Rereward, 56, 58

Rested, 105, 127
Sabbath day's journey, 43
Sanctify, 43, 66
Second, 51, 93
Sharp knives, 51
Sincerity, 208
See to, 193, 194
Separate cities, 145

Slack, 85, 156

Snares, 201

Solaria, 39
South, 135

Springs, 95, 135

Stood still, 88, 101

Straitly, 55, 56

Stranger that sojourneth, 182

Subdue, 156

Suburbs, 124

Swear, 57

Tel, 73, 74

Three countries, 150

Time appointed, 72

Token, 40

Took of, 80

Trespass, 63

Use of the bow, 89

Utterly destroyed, 40, 60

Victuals, 34

View, 64

Villages, 119, 152

Wedge, 68

Wine bottles, 78

Wist, 38, 72

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