Abel-beth-Maachah, 188

Abel-meholah, 194

Abiathar, 111, 155, 178
Abigal, 168

Abimelech, 125

Abishai, 63, 160, 180, 218

Abner, 59 ff; relationship to Saul, 59;
mainstay of Saul's family, 67; kills
Asahel, 63; negotiations with David,
69; great influence, 71; murdered by
Joab, 72; David's lament for, 74
Absalom, meaning of name, 66; murder

of Amnon, 138; flight, 139; David's
feelings towards, 141; recall, 146; per-
son and family, 147

his rebellion, 148 ff; choice of Hebron
as its centre, 151; reasons for its tem-
porary success, 36; its progress, 168;
suppression, 169 ff.; death, 171; monu-
ment, 173; David's grief for, 176
Adonai, 101

Adonijah, 67

Adoram, 191

Adullam, 86, 217

adultery, punishable with death, 122,

130

advise, 228

Ahimaaz, 158, 166, 174 ff.
Ahimelech, III

Ahithophel, supposed relationship to
Bath-sheba, 122; joins Absalom, 151;
type of Judas, 151; counsel of, 162;
suicide, 167
Ahohite, 215
Ain Arik, 157
Ain Sareh, 72
Almit, 70, 166

Amasa, relationship to David, 168; joins
Absalom, 168; made general in place
of Joab, 179; murdered by Joab, 186
ambassadors, insults to, 116
Amman, 132

Ammiel, meaning of, 122
Ammonites, war with the, 114 ff.

Amnon, David's eldest son, 66; his out-

33, 208; periods of reign, 33; thrice
anointed, 58; family, 66, 85
reign at Hebron, 34, 57 ff; message to
the Gileadites, 58; war with Ish-
bosheth, 59 ff; negotiations with Ab-
ner, 69; demand for restoration of
Michal, 69; lament for Abner, 74;
punishment of Ish-bosheth's mur-
derers, 78

reign at Jerusalem, 34, 79 ff; capture of
Jebus, 81; palace, 84; wars, 35; with
Philistines, 86, 104, 215; Moabites, 104,
218; Syrians, 105; Edom, 109; Ammo-
nites and Syrians, 114 ff; capture of
Rabbah, 132

kindness to Mephibosheth, 112; burial
of the bones of Saul and his sons, 195
translation of the ark to Zion, 35, 88 ff;
desire to build a Temple, 35, 97; why
not allowed, 97; promise of perpetual
dominion to his house, 97 ff

his fall, 36, 121 ff; why not mentioned
in Chronicles, 24; confession and re-
pentance, 129; punishment, 129, 130
flight from Absalom, 152 ff; full account
of day of, 152; mourning for Absalom,
176; restoration, 178 ff; not guilty of
neglecting his duties, 36, 149; reasons
for temporary success of Absalom's
rebellion, 36, 151

numbering of the people, 223, 238; the
plague, 228, 238

organization of kingdom, military, 37;
civil, 38; religious, 39; administration
and officers, 110, 190; corps of mighty
men, 153

general prosperity of end of his reign,

37

results of his reign, 39

character, 40; breadth of sympathy, 44;
generosity to enemies, 53; impetuous-
ness, 159; power of inspiring enthu
siasm, 217; sincerity of repentance,
129, 227; cruelties not to be judged by
a Christian standard, 134
prophet, 44; priest, 43, 94
Psalm of thanksgiving, 199ff
Last Words, 211 ff

Psalms illustrative of his reign, 45-48
typical significance of his reign and
life, 42-45, 110

David a name for the Messiah, 44
deal, 95,

demand, 123

discomfit, 203

discover, 203
Dodo, 215

dogs in the East, 68

Dryden's Absalom and Achithophel,

149

Edom, conquest of, 109

Eglah, 67

El God, 207

Hebrew MSS., 14

Hebrew text of Samuel, 16, 235; ap-
parent errors of, 60, 66, 88, 90, 91, 100,
103, 109, 111, 114, 119, 137, 150, 178,
197, 215, 221, 225

confusion of similar letters in, 105,
202, 220, 222

comparison of text of ch. xxii. and
Ps. xviii., 235

Hebron, why chosen by David for
capital, 57; why chosen by Absalom
for centre of his rebellion, 151
Helam, 119

Heleb, 222

Helez, 220

Helkath-hazzurim, 62
hell, 200

Hezrai, 222

Hierarchy, period of the, 30
high places, worship at, 157

high-priesthood, reasons for double, 89
Hiram, 84

Hivites, 226

horn, symbol of strength, 199

household, arrangements of the royal,

Jabesh-Gilead, 58, 195

Facob, God of, 212

Jashar, Book of, 53

Jashobeam, 215

Jazer, 225

Jebus, 81

Jedidiah, 132

JEHOVAH, when represented by GOD in
E. V., 101

Jerome, translator of the Vulgate, 16;
quoted, 67, 133, 197, 229
Jerubbesheth, 125

Jerusalem: religious as well as political
centre, 35; early history, 82; reasons
for choice of as capital, 82; the habita-
tion of Jehovah, 155; topography, 239
Jezreel of Judah, 57
El-jib, 61

Joab: life and character of, 61; murder
of Abner, 72; hardheartedness, 75;
stratagem to procure Absalom's re-
call, 141; service to David, 75, 177;
sagacity, 224
Jonadab, 135

Jonathan: David's lamentation for, 53 ff;
supposed to have been called the
Gazelle," 54; David's oath to, 112, 193
Jonathan, son of Shimea, 198
Joseph, house of, 180

birthright of, 185

Josephus quoted, 84, 239

Judas, Ahíthophel a type of, 151
Judges, period of the, its character, 29;
reference to history of, 125

Medeba, 118

men = citizens, 195

Mephibosheth, change of name, 77;
David's kindness to, 112, 193; meets
David, 181; not a traitor, 182
Merab, 194
Merib-baal, 77

Messiah, explanation of word, 42; ex-
pectation of, how developed by the
monarchy, 30; kings of Israel a type
of, 42-44; David a type of, 42-45;
called David, 44; blessings of his
advent, 213; characteristics of, 213;
Nathan's prophecy of, 99, 233
Metheg-ammah, 105

Michal, David's demand for restoration
of, 69; traditionally supposed to be
Eglah, 67; her pride rebuked, 95
mighty men, David's, 153

military organization of David's reign, 37
Millo, 83, 241

mo, 85

Moabites, war with, 105; special reasons
for vengeance inflicted on, 105

Moloch, idol of the Ammonites, 133;
human sacrifices to, 134

monarchy, period of the, 30

monarchy, limitations of in Israel, 80

moral difficulties of the execution of

Saul's sons discussed, 234; of the
plague, 238

More, Sir Thomas, 96

Moriah, 229, 240

Morland, Sir Samuel, 157

most High, a title of God, 203

mourning, duration of, 126; signs of, 50,
51, 75, 131, 137, 156, 181
mulberry trees, 87

mules, use of, 139, 171

murder, blood-revenge for, 143; money
compensation for, 193; abiding guilt
of, 79, 234

music at feasts, 183

Naharai, 222

Nahash, 168

the Ammonite, 115

Name of God, 100

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Name, the God, 90

Nathan, the prophet, 97; chronicler of
David's reign, 10, 11, 152; his pro-