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,
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,
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-
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,
Villages = farm premises, 119; where built, Ziklag, position, 162; meaning of, 138;
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
(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
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
Entering of the gate, 180 Espy, 125, 126
Father of Gilead, 146
Fear of, 197
Fenced cities, 90
Fetched a compass, 129
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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