595

4803 3394 Jehoahaz, son of Josiah.

Jehoiakim.

4816 3405 Jeconiah, Coniah, or Jehoiakim, son of Jehoiakim. Zedediah, uncle of Jeconiah, originally named Mat

taniah.

4823 3412 Zedekiah revolts against the Chaldeans.
4826 3415 The siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.-Ze-
dekiah's flight.-He is deprived of sight.-Jeru-
salem taken, and the temple burnt.
Beginning of the seventy years' captivity.-The de-
struction of the kingdom of Judah, after it had sub-
sisted four hundred and sixty-eight years from the
commencement of David's reign; and three hundred
and eighty-eight years from the separation between
Judah and the ten tribes.

590

588

From the Babylonish Captivity to Nehemiah's

Reform.

4827 3416 The beginning of the seventy years' captivity foretold
by Jeremiah.

Gedaliah made governor of the remains of the peo-
ple. He is slain.

4858 3447 Darius the Mede.

4860 3449 Cyrus the Persian.

4875 3464 Babylon taken by Cyrus, who restores the Jews to liberty, and permits them to return into Judea un

587

553

551

der Zorobabel.

536

4876 3465 The second temple begun.

535

4882 3471 Death of Cyrus.-Cambyses reigns.

529

4890 3479 Darius Hystaspes reigns.

521

4895 3484 The temple finished.

516

4926 3515 Death of Darius.-Xerxes succeeds to the throne.

485

4928 3517 Jehoiakim high priest.

483

4947 3536 Artaxerxes succeeds Darius.

464

4948 3537 He causes the rebuilding of Jerusalem to cease.

463

4951 3540 Artaxerxes marries Esther.

460

4954 3543 He sends Ezra to Jerusalem with several priests and

4991 3580 Nehemiah's reform among the Jews.

End of the Old Testament Canon.

420

II. NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY.

From the Birth of Jesus Christ to the Completion of the Canon of the New Testament.

A.M.

4000 The Nativity of Christ.

John the Baptist was born six months before the birth
of Christ; which took place A. M. 4000, according to
the vulgar æra; but its true date, according to Calmet, is
A. M. 4004, or A. M. 5411, according to Dr. Hales.

The circumcision, purification, and presentation of Christ in
the temple.

Archelaus, ethnarch of Judæa.

4012 Christ visits the temple.

4032 Ministry of John the Baptist.

4033 The Baptism and temptation of Christ.

First Passover.-Christ purges the temple, and preaches in
Judæa.-Imprisonment of John the Baptist.

4034 Second Passover.-The twelve apostles sent forth.-John the
Baptist beheaded.

4035 Third Passover.-The seventy disciples sent forth.-The transfiguration of Christ.

4036 Fourth Passover.-The crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ.

Feast of Pentecost.-Descent of the Holy Spirit.

4037 Seven deacons chosen.

4039 Stephen martyred.--Saul persecutes the church. 4040 Conversion of Saul.

4064 Paul a prisoner at Rome.

4066 Paul set at liberty.

4068 Paul's second imprisonment at Rome.

4069 Paul and Peter put to death there.

4070 The Emperor Vespasian enters Judæa.

4073 Jerusalem taken by Titus, and the temple burnt. 4098 John banished to Patmos.

4100 John, being liberated, writes his Gospel and Revelation.

100

1st day of the week, Sunday.

2d day.

3d day

4th day

5th day

6th day

7th or Sabbath

Hours of the Day.

Watches.

The day reckoning The 1st watch, from sun-set Monday. from sun-rise,and to the 3d hour of the night. Tuesday. the night, from The 2d, or middle watch, from Wed. sun-set,were each the 3d hour to the 6th. Thursday. divided into 12 The 3d watch, or cock-crowFriday. equal parts, call- ing, from the 6th to the 9th. Saturday. ed,The 1st,2d,3d, The 4th, or morning watch, 4th, &c. Hours. from the 9th hour to sun-rise.

EXPLANATORY INDEX

OF THE

PROPER NAMES OF THE HOLY BIBLE.

AA'-RON (a mountain or teacher), the son of Amram and Jochebed, born
three years before his brother Moses, and died æt. 123.

A-BAD'-DON (the destroyer), Rev. ix. 11.

A-BAG-THA father of the wine-press); Esth. i. 10.

A-BA-NA (stony), a river of Damascus, in Syria, probably one of the branches
of the Baradi or Chrysorrous, which, rising at the foot of Mount Libanus,
divides into several streams near Damascus; 2 Kings v. 12.

AB'-A-RIM (passages or passengers), a ridge of mountains running north and
south on the east of the river Jordan, and of which the mountains Nebo,
Pisgah, and Peor were parts.

AB'-DA (a servant), and AB'-DI, my servant.

AB'-DI-EL (servant of God); 1 Chron. v. 15.

AB'-DON (a servant), a judge of Israel; also a city in the tribe of Asher.
A-BED-NE-GO (servant of light, or of celerity); Dan. i. 7.

A-BEL (mourning, vanity, vapour), the second son of Adam: also the name
of several places, as ABEL-BETH-MA'-A-CAH (mourning in the house of Ma-
acah), in the tribe of Naphtali; ABEL-MA'-IM (mourning of waters); ABEL-
KE-RA-MIM (mourning in the vineyards), a village of the Ammonites;
ABEL-ME-HO'-LATH, or -ME-A (mourning of sickness), a region near the
river Jordan; ABEL-MIZ-RA-IM (mourning of the Egyptians), the floor of
Atad, Gen. 1. 11; and ABEL-SHIT'-TIM (mourning of thorns), a city in the
plains of Moab.

A-BEZ (an egg), muddy, a town in the tribe of Issachar. Josh. xix. 20.
A'-BI (my father); 2 Kings xviii. 2.

A-BI-A, or -AH (the father, or the desire of the Lord): so in composition,
ABI-AL-BON (father of understanding, or father over the building); ABI'-A-
SAPH (a gathering father); ABI'-A-THAR (excellent, or surviving father);
A-BI-DAH (father of knowledge); A'-BI-DAN (father of judgment); AB'-I-EL
(my father is God, or the father of strength); ABI-E-ZER (the father of help);
AB-I-GAIL (father's joy); ABI-HA'-IL (father of strength); A-BI-HU (he is
my father, or father himself); A-BI-HUD (father of praise); A-BI'-JAH (the
will of the Lord); AB-1'-JAM (father of the sea); A-BIM'-A-EL (my father is
God); A-BIM-E-LECH (my father the king); A-BIN'-A-DAB (father of a row,
or my father the prince); A-BIN'-O-AM (father of beauty, or of delight);
A-BI-RAM (high father, father of elevation); A'-BI-SHAG (father of error);
A-BI-SHAI (father of a gift or reward); A-BISH'-A-LOM (father of peace);
ABI-SHU-A (futher of salvation); A'-BI-SHUR (father of song); A-BI-TAL
(father of the dew); "A'-BI-TUB (father of goodness); A-BI'-HUD (father of
praise).