Baal-hermon, border of Hivites' territory,

44

Baal-perazim, name explained, 132; po-
sition and history, 131, 132
Babylonish garment, 68; a product of the
Babylonish looms, 68

Balaam, killed among the Dukes of
Sihon, 118; reference to his history by
Joshua, 55, 207; similar magicians in
Eastern armies, 207. See Undesigned
Coincidences

Balak, king of Moab, 207

Bamoth-baal, meaning of, 117; situation
of, 117

Banias. See Jordan, sources of
Barada, river of Damascus, 32
Barley harvest. See Harvests
Bashan, pasture-downs and cattle of, 34;
bulls of, 34; extent of, 39, 40
Beer, or Bor, meaning of, 163
Beeroth, city of Benjamin, 81, 160;
situation of, 77, 81

Beersheba, city of, double meaning of
name, 137; wells of, 137, 138
Benjamin, tribe, territory of, 158, 159;
smallness of, 161; cities of, 160, 161
Benjamites, character and history of, 161
Beth-arabah, 129, 141, 161

Beth-aven, position of, 63, 64; play on
the word in Hosea, 64

Beth-baal-meon, meaning of, 117; po-
sition, 117

Beth-dagon, city of Judah, 139; city of
Asher, 169

Bethel, or Luz. See Luz

Beth-hogla, position and description of,

ferred to on Flax Harvest and Pass-
over, 46; capture of Lachish, 93; death
of Balaam, 119

Bohan, stone of, 130, 159

Book of the Law, importance of, 33; Cove.
nant written in, 212

Boundaries of Land of Promise, 32

Cabul, city and district of, 170
Caleb, his family and ancestors, 125;
first mention of, 125; connection with
Joshua, 125; speech of, to Joshua, 125
-127; Joshua's prayer for, 127; his
possession. See Hebron

Camp, at Gilgal, strength of, 49, 50; be-
came permanent, 53
Campaigns of Joshua, length of, 103, 104
Canaan, Father of the Amorites, 44
Canaan, Central, conquest of, 83-92

Eastern, partition of, 111-123
Northern, conquest of, 97-102
Southern, conquest of, 92-97
Canaanites, meaning of word, 44, 98;
position of, 44, 98; sometimes same
as Hittites, 33; extermination com-
manded, 15, 102

Captain of the Lord's host, appearance of
to Joshua, 54, 55; meaning and sig-
nificance of, 55; his interview with
Joshua resumed, 56

Carmel, Mount="the Park," 111; why
so called, 111; Scripture notices of, 111;
flank of, inhabited by Perizzites, 44;
a city of Judah, 141

Cattle, sometimes preserved in capture
of cities, 60, 70, 101

Caves, frequent in Palestine, 40, 41;
Scripture mention of, 90, 113, 114
Chariots of iron, 100, 152

Chephirah, 77; situation of, 81; identifi-
cation of, 81
Chesalon, 132
Chesulloth, 167

Chinneroth, city of Naphtali, 98, 173,
Chinneroth, sea of, 107, 121; names of, in
the New Testament, 107

Circumcision, discontinued in wilderness,
51; renewed by Joshua, 19, 20, 51; to
whom the rite was then administered, 51
Cities, Levitical, description of, 184-186;
of the descendants of Aaron, 186, 187;
of the Kohathites, 187, 188; of the
Gershonites, 188; of the Merarites, 189
Cities, of Gilead, 120;-of Judah, fourfold
division of, 136; (a) of the South, 137,
138; (6) in the Lowland, 138-140; (c) in
the mountains, 140, 141; (d) in the
wilderness, 141, 142;-of Palestine, 102
Cities of Refuge, 179-183; names of,
181; numbers of, 181; laws concerning,
180; Jewish traditions about, 183
Coasts, meaning and peculiar use of, 117
Coffin, the Egyptian, of Joseph, 77, 215;
deposited at Shechem, 77, 215

Congregation, or Church, 154
Countries, three, meaning of, 150
Courtesy, Eastern, observed towards
women, 38

Covenant of Sinai, how made by Moses,
211, 212; solemnly renewed by Joshua,
after taking of Ai, 74-77; and again
before his death, 211-213
Crocodiles in the Holy Land, 169; Cro-
codile brook, 169

Cubits, 2000, Sabbath day's journey, 43, 46
Curse pronounced on city of Jericho, 59;
on builder of Jericho, 62; classical in-
stances of curses pronounced on other
cities, 59, 62, 63

Curses of the Law, the, 76; read in ears
of the people, 76

Dabbasheth Camel's hump, 164
Dan, city of, 170, 177. See Laish
Dan, tribe of, 175; territory of, 175-
177; extent of, 177; Jacob's prophecy

concerning, 177

Darkness, suddenness after sunset in
the East, 38

Day, miraculously prolonged, 89

Dead Sea, Southern portion or tongue of,
129; West of, occupied by Amorites,
44; called Sea of the Plain, 46
Debir, (a) a town of Judah, ancient names
of, 95, 134; position of, 95; taken by
Joshua, 95; and by Othniel, 134

Another town of Judah, 130
Another town of Gad, 120, 121
(d) One of the five kings hanged by
Joshua, 92

Dibon, Dibon-gad, or Dimon, 115; posi-
tion of, 115; scene of the discovery of
the Moabite stone, 116

Dor, city of, 98; position, 98; district of,
various names of, 98, 149; history of,
98

Dukes of Sihon vassals, 118; their his-
tory, 118

Dust on head, symbol of mourning, 65;
Scripture and classical references to, 65

Eastern Palestine, conquered kings of,
106-109

Eating together, a symbol of friendship
among Orientals, 80

Ebal, mount, 74, 75; situation of, 74, 75;
events connected with, 76; valley
between it and Gerizim, 76; the recital
of the blessings and cursings there, 76;
altar built on, 75, 203, 212
Ed, the altar, explanation of name, 199
Edersheim's Israel in Canaan, his remark
on, the stoning of Achan, 69; sun
standing still, 89; an undesigned evi-
dence of antiquity of Book of Joshua,
105; sons of Joseph, 154

Edrei, meaning of, 108; battle of, 108;

peculiarities of situation, 108; one of
the capitals of Og, 122

Eglon, position of, 84, 139; modern name,
84; taken by Joshua, 94; king of,
slain by him, 94, 109

Egypt, the Brook of, 113, 129
Ekron, city of Beelzebub, 113, 133; one
of five Philistine towns, 113

Eleazar, the priest, presides over the
division of the land, 123; events of his
life, 215; death of, 215; tomb of, 215;
its modern name, 215

Embassy, of Gibeonites to Joshua, 77; of
Israelites to the two tribes and a half, 194
Emims, 104

Endor, position of, 149; incidents con-
nected with subsequently, 149
Engannim, meaning of, 167; village and
fountain of, 167; Scripture incident
connected with, 167

Engedi "spring of the gazelle,” 142;
events connected with, 9c, 142
Enrogel, supposed position of, 130;
Biblical mention of it elsewhere, 130
En shemesh, waters of, 130; present
name of, 130

Ephraim and Manasseh, comparative
numbers of, 150; boundaries of, 148;
blessings of Jacob on, 151

Ephraim, mountain of, position, 151;
description of, 151, 153; referred to in
Scripture, 151

Ephraim, tribe of, 144; position, 144;
"separate" cities of, 145, 148; territory
of, 144, 145.

Esdraelon, plain of, 152; anciently in-
habited by the Canaanites proper, 44;
called "Plain of Jezreel," 152; events
of which it was the scene, 152; suitable
for "chariot-cavalry," 152

Eshkalonites, the, people of Ashkelon,
113. See Ashkelon

Espy, meaning and uses of word, 125, 126
Euphrates river, origin and meaning of
the word, 33; E. boundary of Land of
Promise, 32; called "the flood," 33,

208

Ewald's History of Israel, remarks on
extermination of Canaanites, 17; ex-
tent of the country beyond Jordan,
116; long independence of the Geshur-
ites and Maachathites, 116; the half
tribe of Manasseh, 122

Exodus, the, season of, 45; description
of, 205, 206

Explanation of the two tribes and a half,
of their "great altar," 196-199

Farewell, Joshua's, to the two and a half
tribes, 191, 192

Farewell address, Joshua's first, to all

Israel, 200, 202; his second, 25, 202-209
Father of Gilead, peculiar meaning of,
146

Feet upon necks of captives, 91; meaning
of symbol, 91; Scripture references to
it in Old and New Testament, 91
Fenced cities, nature of fortifications of
in Palestine, 90, 91; value of, 49, 50, 173
Five lords, cities of Philistines governed
by, 113.

Flax, stalks of, on Rahab's roof, 39; im-
portance of crops of it in Palestine, 39;
allusions to this by Hosea, 39; flax
harvest, see Blunt's Undesigned Co-
incidences

Flood, other side of, meaning of expres-
sion, 203, 204

Forests of Israel, ancient, 151, 153
Fuller, his reference to windings of the
Jordan, 32, 129

Gebal, maritime town, 114; different
names of its inhabitants, 114; same as
Byblus, 114; its celebrity, 114
Geder, probable position of, 109; king
of, slain, 109

Gehenna Ge-Hinnom, 131

Gennesareth, Lake of, 107; East of, in-
habited by Girgashites, 44
Gerizim, Mount, 75; situation of, 75;
valley between it and Ebal, 76; cove-
nant renewed there, 76; acoustic pro-
perties of the valley of, 76

Gershonites, descendants of eldest son of
Levi, duties of, 185; cities of, 188; po-
sition in march through the wilder-
ness, 185

Geshurites, "of Bashan," 108; their situa-
tion, 108; independence of, 116; "of
the Desert," 112

Gezer, position of, 93, 94, 144: recent
remarkable identification of, 94, 109;
its connection with Pharaoh

and

Gibeah = hill, 160; name of several
towns, 160; "of Saul," 161
Gibeah-haaraloth, meaning of, 51

Gibeon, one of four towns of the Hi-
vites, 77; peculiar government of, 78;
meaning of name, 78, 161; position of,
78, 83, 96; modern name, 78; sun stands
still over, 88

Gibeonites, stratagem by which they im-

pose on Joshua, 78, 79; massacre of
by Saul, 41; their fidelity to Israel, 83
Giblites, the land of, 114. See Gebal.
Translated "stone-squarers," 114
Gilead, inheritance of Manasseh, 120,
146; meaning of word, 146; different
applications of name, 107, 146, 193;
extent and size of, 146

Gilead, grandson of Manasseh, 147
Gilgal, fortified by Joshua, 49; its site,

50, 53; its modern name, 53; other
mention of, 50; meaning of word,
53; history under Saul and Samuel, 53:
other towns of same name, 79, 111, 130,
159

Giloh, city of Judah, 140

Girgashites, family of the Hivites, 44:
omitted in all enumerations of the
"Seven Nations" except one, 44; sup-
posed position of, 44

Gittites, the, 113; meaning of word, 113.
See Gath

Golan in Bashan, 182; a city of refuge, 181
Goshen, town and district in S. Judah,
96, 102

Hai, name in Genesis for Ai. See Ai
Hailstones, fall of, from heaven, at battle
of Beth-horon, 86; other instances,
86, 87

Halak, meaning of, 102; situation of, 102
Hamath, northern boundary point of

Palestine under Solomon, 11, 12, 114;
importance of its position, 114; called
"Hamath the Great," 114

Hammath, or Hammon, 173; hot springs
of, 173

Hanging, a punishment, 18, 74, 92; only
till eventide, 74, 92

Hannathon, meaning of, 165; position, 165
Haran, Terah died at, 204

Harden the heart, God said to, 103;
meaning of this, 103; Scripture in-
stances of, 103

Harith, the Wady of, 71, 143
Harlot. See Rahab

Harvests in Palestine, times of, 45, 46
Havoth-Jair, sixty cities captured by
Jair, 122; position, 122; to whom given,

122

Hazar-susah, meaning and significance
of, 162
Hazor, meaning of, 97; position, 97, 173,
174 subsequent mention of, 97; taken
and burned by Joshua, 101. See Jabin
Heap of stones, two words used for, 74;
memorial of punishment, 69; raised on
graves, 69, 74. See Tel

Hebron, in Judah, original name of, 84,
127 great antiquity of, 84; situation
of, 84; taken by Joshua, 94; its great
elevation, 126, 127; given by Joshua
to Caleb, 127, 133; its name twice
changed, 104, 127; ceded by Caleb to
the Levites, 186; a city of refuge, 181;
town of same name in Asher, 170, 188
Heeren's Asiatic Nations, remarks in
on Babylonian looms, 68

Hell, meaning and derivation of word, 206
Hengstenberg on word Elohim, 210
Hepher, father of Zelophehad, 147; city
of, 110; king of, slain, 110
Hermon, anciently possessed by the Hi-
vites, 44; meaning of word, 106; why
so called, 106

Heshbon, capital of the Amorites, 106;
position of, 106; ruins of, 107

Heth, or Cheth, father of the Hittites, 33,
44

Hewers of wood, 82; called Nethinim,
82; duties of, 82; Scripture references
to, 82

Hiel, the builder of Jericho, 62
Hills of Judah, country of, 95, 136
Hinnom, nothing known of him, 131;
valley of, described, 131; events con-
nected with, 131

Hittites, origin of, 33, 44; first mention
of, 33, 44: relation to other nations of
Canaan, 44; sometimes used for Ca-
naanites. 33. See Kirjath-arba
Hivites, omitted in first enumeration of
the "Seven Nations," 44; and in re-
port of the spies, 44; when first men-
tioned, 44; character of, 44; geogra-
phical position, 44, 98

Hoham, one of the five confederate
kings, 84, 92: meaning of name, 84
Holy Place, first so called in the Pro-
mised Land, 48

Homicide, laws regarding, 179

Horam, king of Gezer, 93; slain by
Joshua, 94

Horites, aboriginal inhabitants of Seir,
205; dispossessed by Edomites, 205;
how governed, 205

Hormah, situation of, 109; king of, slain,
109; defeat of Israelites at, 109; called
Zephath, 109, 138, 162
Hornets, reference to, 208

Horses, first use of, in Canaanite warfare,

91

Hough, meaning of, 99, 100; reason of
the command to, IOI

House, Rahab's, preserved from falling, 61
Houses, sometimes built on walls in old
towns, 40

Jaazer, city of Gad, position of, 120;
taken by Israel from Amorites, 120
Jabbok, meaning of, 107; a boundary of
the Amorites, 44

Jabin, official title of kings of Hazor,
97; title explained, 97; joins northern
confederacy against Joshua, 97; slain
by him, 101, 110

Jabneel, name of two towns (a) in bound-
ary of Judah, 133; (6) in boundary of
Naphtali, 172

Jacob and Esau, meaning of names ex-
plained, 204

Jahaza, scene of victory over Sihon, 117;
different names for, 117; given to
Reuben, 117

Jair, son of Manasseh, 122, 146; con-
queror of the Argob, 122, 146
Japhia (a)" glancing," a town of Zebu-
lun, 165; position and neighbourhood
of, 165: its history under the Romans,
165; (6) king of Lachish, 84; joins
southern league against Joshua, 84;
slain by him, 92, 109

Japho (="beauty") or Joppa, 176; events
in Scripture connected with, 176; gar-
dens and groves of, 176; its connection
with the Crusaders, 176

Jarmuth, town of Judah, position and
importance of, 84, 139; modern name
of, 84, 139

Jasher, Book of, 89; quotations from,
86-89; composition of, 89; meaning
of word, 89

Ibleam, town of W. Manasseh, 149, 188;
event connected with, 149
Idolatry, incurable proneness of the
nation to, in Mesopotamia, Egypt and
Palestine, 10, 208, 209; various kinds
of, in the ancient world, 10, 204, 209
Jealous, meaning and force of the word,

Jebusites, always placed last among the
"Seven Nations," 44; the old inhabi-
tants of Jebus, or Jerusalem, 44, 98,
161; their "Lower City" taken by the
Israelites, 142

Jephunneh, father of Caleb, 125; doubt
as to his nationality, 125
Jericho, meaning of word, 36; position.
36; importance to Israelites of its early
capture, 36, 37; its wealth, 37; strength
of fortifications, 36; its siege, 56, 58;
capture and destruction. 57-61; given
to the Benjamites, 62, 160; incidents in
our Lord's life connected with it, 62.
See also "Jordan by Jericho," "Water
of Jericho," and "Curse."
Jerusalem, anciently possessed by the
Jebusites, 44; and called Jebus, 83;

meaning of word, 83; five different
names by which called, 83; its latitude
and longitude, 83; its great elevation,
83; and military strength, 83, 84; given
to Benjamin, 161

Jeshurun, meaning of, 89; name of the
Jewish nation, 89

Jezreel, 166; meaning of, 167; position,
167; events connected with, 167;
modern naine of, 167

Jobab, king of Madon, 97; joins northern
confederacy against Joshua, 97; slain
by him, 101, 110

Jokneam of Carmel, 111; city of Zebu-
lun, 111, 164; given to Levites, 189;
river before, see Kishon

Jordan, river, meaning of word, 31; its
sources, 31; its windings, 32; its
course, 32; its threefold bank, 42;
periodical inundation of, 45; passage
of by Israelites, 45, 46; typical signi-
ficance of passage, 24, 26, 47; four
descriptions of the passage, 49
Jordan, borders, or circles, of, 193; Ghôr
of, 193; "Judah upon," 173; Plain of,
terrace on, 48

Jordan by Jericho, meaning of ex-
plained, 123, 143, 182

Joseph, bones of, buried in Shechem,
77, 215

Joseph, house of, inheritance, 143, 144;
size of his territory, 144

Joseph, sons of, 124; their complaint to
Joshua, 150; subsequent discontent, 153
Josephus, his remarks on

Age of Joshua when he assumed the
command, 13

Alleged cruelties against Canaanites, 15
Site of Gilgal, 53
Sun standing still, 89

Hailstorm at Battle of Beth-horon,
86, 87, 89

Situations of Chesulloth, 166, 167;
Baalath, 175

Joshua, book of, why so called, 5; its
authority confirmed by allusions in (a)
the Psalms, 5; (b) the Prophets, 6; (c)
the New Testament, 6; enquiry as to
its authorship, 6; the object for which
it was written, 8; its style, 8; analysis
of its contents, 8

Joshua, his original name, 9; meaning of,
9; change of, 9; triple division of his
life, 9;

(a) In Egypt, 9; idolatry there prac-
tised, 10; bondage of the Israelites,

witnessed by Joshua during the
wanderings, 12;

(c) His career in Canaan, 13; capture
of Jericho, 13; campaign against
the southern kings, 13; campaign
against the northern kings, 13;
division of the land, 13; retirement to
Timnath-serah, 14; his last charge,

14; his death, 14; his character, 15
Joshua, as a type of Christ, 22; sug-
gested by Holy Scripture, 22; ex-
hibited in (a) the name common to
both, 23; and its purport, 23; in (b)
the idea of a conqueror exhibited by
both, 23; in (c) community of suffering
with the people rescued, 23; in (d)
succession to Moses and the Law, 24;
in (e) the incidents at the Jordan, 24;
in (f) the closing scenes of the life of
the leader of Israel and the Ascension
of our Lord and His session at the
right hand of God, 25

Joshua, the work of, 15; extermina-
tion of the Canaanites, 15; enjoined
by Moses, 15; necessitated by their
moral degeneracy, 16; not inflicted
summarily, 17; but after (a) repeated
warnings, 17; and (b, repeated post-
ponements, 17; when inflicted, accom-
panied by (a) the most unique arrange-
ments, 18; (b) unheard-of restrictions
on all natural impulses to plunder and
lust, 18, 19; (c) every possible pro-
vision for enforcing the lesson that it
was the Divine Judgment they were
inflicting on idolatry and sin, 18

Isaac, meaning of name, 204; birthplace
of, 204

Issachar, territory of, 166-168; prophe-
cies of, characteristics of, 168; richness
and desolation of inheritance, 168
Jubilee, trumpets of, 56
Judah, tribe of, boundaries and territory
of, 128-133; length and breadth of,
136; fourfold division of, 136; cities of,
grouped and enumerated, 136
Juttah, a city of Judah, 141, 187; con-
nection of, with David, 141

Kadesh-barnea, position, 96; events con-
nected with, 96; most important en-
campment next to Sinai, 125
Kanah "brook of reeds," 145, 148
Kedesh in Naphtali,="the Holy Place
of Naphtali," 174; a city of refuge,
181; called Kedesh in Galilee, 181;
king of, slain by Joshua, 110, 111; a
town of Issachar, 111, 167, 188
Kedemoth, city of Reuben, 117, 189
Keil's Commentary, references to his
remarks on

Authorship of Book of Joshua, 7;
design of the writer, 8; milk and honey
of Holy Land, 52; defenders of the