SUBJECT INDEX
In the references below, bold numbers identify the volume; lightface numbers, the pages. References on heading lines lead to major discussions, and these often include aspects specified in subheads.
Aaron 1:9-11
golden calf: 1:393
high priest: 1:1110-1111, 1207-1208
Moses’ mouthpiece: 2:435-436
Abel 1:15
blood of Jesus and: 1:345
faith: 1:804
“founding of the world”: 1:858; 2:1207
Abihu 1:22
illegitimate fire: 1:1174
Abishag 1:26
Adonijah’s request for: 1:49-50; 2:988
Abraham 1:28-32
Bethel encampment: 1:295
burial place for family: 1:377; 2:290, 715
Canaanites’ relationship with: 1:400-401
circumcision covenant: 1:469, 523
concubines: 2:147
covenant: 1:460-461, 522-523
kept in force “one week” (Da 9:27): 2:901
passed on: 1:1217-1218, 1242-1243
covenants with others: 1:75, 106
declared righteous: 1:604-605
faith: 1:804-805
promise of seed: 1:1138-1139
resurrection: 2:785
father of nations: 2:473
Hebrew: 1:1065-1067
Isaac “sacrificed” by: 1:1217; 2:433
Jehovah’s relationship with: 2:161-162, 661-662
laughter about Isaac: 2:208
Lot rescued by: 2:1166
Sarah represented as sister: 2:863
seed of: 1:522, 524, 1066-1067; 2:362-363, 887-890
400-year affliction: 1:460-461, 776, 1216-1217
Satan fights: 2:867-868
travels: 1:330-331
wealth: 2:804
Absalom 1:32-35
usurpation attempt: 1:1163-1164; 2:103, 1191-1192
Abusive Speech 1:35
backbiting: 1:241
blasphemy: 1:337-339
gossip, slander: 1:989-991
reviling: 2:801-802
Abyss 1:35-36
Accident 1:38
compensation: 1:493-495
Accusation 1:39-40
self-justification: 2:83-84
slander: 1:990-991
suspicion of adultery: 1:1261; 2:234-235, 1094
Acts of Apostles 1:42-44
authenticity: 1:153-154, 476
Adam 1:44-46
bearded: 1:266-267
creation: 2:303-304, 1005-1006, 1024-1025
in God’s image: 1:1184; 2:247-248, 304, 962-963
Eve’s relationship with: 2:1182
complement: 2:1195
Jehovah’s name known by: 2:13
Jehovah’s relationship with: 2:160
long-suffering: 2:263
personality revealed to: 2:14-16
son of God: 2:997
Jesus a corresponding ransom: 2:735-736
knowledge of “good and bad”: 2:181, 1011
perfection and free moral agency: 2:604
effect on Adam: 1:479-480; 2:247, 964
effect on offspring: 2:979-980
not foreknown: 1:853-855
test of obedience: 1:676-677; 2:67, 304, 963
writing: 2:1212
Administration 1:48-49
(See also GOVERNMENT; RULER)
Christian congregation: 1:128-129; 2:549-551, 564-565
Israel: 1:1228-1229; 2:549, 564
wisdom in: 2:1193-1194
Adonijah 1:49-50
conspiracy for throne: 2:987-988
Adoption 1:50-51
anointed Christians: 1:605; 2:998-999
Adornment 1:51-52
ornaments: 2:559-561
Adultery 1:53-54, 807-808
suspicion of wife’s: 1:1261; 2:234-235, 1094
Affection 1:55
relationship to love: 2:273-274
Agabus 1:55-56
famine foretold: 1:476
Age 1:56-57
gray-headedness: 1:995
life span: 2:252
universe: 2:1032
Agriculture 1:57-59
(See also PLANTS; TREES; VINE; crops by name)
farming implements: 1:810-811
field: 1:829-830
grafting: 1:993
harvest: 1:1040-1041; 2:755-756
millstones: 2:953
plowing: 2:648-649
sowing: 1:1178; 2:1012-1015
threshing: 1:556; 2:953, 1096-1097
year’s beginning: 1:765
Ahab 1:59-60
events during reign: 2:845
palace: 1:948
Shalmaneser’s inscription: 1:454-455; 2:907-908
Ahasuerus (Husband of Queen Esther) 1:61
amnesty granted by: 1:95-96
banquet for officials: 1:763
identified: 1:762-763
picture: 2:330-331
reign: 2:613-616
Ahaz 1:61-62
alliance with Assyria: 2:1101
unfaithfulness: 1:1102-1103, 1171
Alcoholic Beverages
(See WINE AND STRONG DRINK)
Alexander the Great 1:70-71
Persia: 2:616
empire: 2:333-334
Alien Resident 1:72-75
proselyte: 2:699
unbled meat: 1:345
Altar 1:81-86
(See also TEMPLE)
horns: 1:1143-1144
of burnt offering:
blood at base and on horns: 1:345, 1207
fire: 1:833
water and wine at base: 1:823
of incense: 1:1195-1196; 2:686
to “Unknown God”: 2:1141
Ambassador 1:88-90
Christian: 2:761-762
Ammonites 1:92-95
religion: 1:430; 2:27, 424-425
Amon (Amon-Ra) 1:96-97, 976; 2:506, 554-555
Amos 1:99-100, 296
Amusements 1:101-102
Christian view: 1:888
dancing: 1:574-575
games: 1:887-889; 2:335
theater: 2:1089
Ananias (Husband of Sapphira) 1:104; 2:200, 862
Ancient of Days 1:105, 135
Angel 1:106-108
(See also DEMON)
cherubs: 1:431-432
Jacob wrestles with: 1:1245; 2:190
Jehovah represented by: 2:1161
Jehovah’s armies: 1:176; 2:21-22
Jehovah’s ministers: 2:407
language: 2:201
law: 2:211
names: 2:466
obeisance by: 2:524
seraphs: 2:896-897
sons of God: 2:996-997
spirit creatures: 2:1018-1019
voice of: 2:1160
Anger 1:108-110
avoiding: 2:706-707
leads to presumptuousness: 2:680
nose symbolic of: 2:510
rage: 2:292
slowness to: 2:262-264
Animals 1:110-112
(See also BEASTS, SYMBOLIC; BIRDS; FISH; HUNTING AND FISHING; INSECTS; OFFERINGS; REPTILES)
compensation for loss or injury: 1:494-495, 561
creeping thing: 1:547
fear of humans: 1:819
firstborn of: 1:835-836
kinds: 2:152-153
ark: 1:164-165, 327
life-force: 2:1025
list:
antelope: 1:115
ape: 1:119
ass: 1:195-196; 2:954-955
bat: 1:262
bear: 1:265-266
Behemoth: 1:280-281, 352
boar: 1:347
bull: 1:374-375
calf: 1:393-394
camel: 1:140-141, 394-396; 2:955
chamois: 1:426
dog: 1:644-645
fox: 1:869
frog: 1:874
gazelle: 1:901-902; 2:955
goat: 1:965-966; 2:955
greyhound: 1:1010
hare: 1:555-556, 1035
hind: 1:1119
horse: 1:1144-1146
jackal: 1:1242
leech: 2:232
leopard: 2:236-237
Leviathan: 2:240-241
lion: 2:256-257
mole rat: 2:425
mule: 2:449-450
newt: 2:497
pig: 2:1048-1049
porcupine: 2:655
rock badger: 2:816
roebuck: 2:819
seal: 2:884
shrewmice: 2:936-937
snail: 2:982
spider: 2:1016
sponge: 2:1031
stag: 2:1031
swine: 2:1048-1049
wolf: 2:1195
worm: 2:1210
zebra: 2:1221-1222
merciful treatment: 1:621; 2:378
muzzle: 2:454-455
Palestine: 2:571
saddle: 2:839
skin: 2:883-884, 976
scales: 2:874
writing material: 2:577-578
souls: 2:1005
swarming thing: 2:1047
symbolic: 1:267-271
Anointed, Anointing 1:113-114
anointing oil: 2:546-548
Cyrus: 1:566
“Holy of Holies” (Da 9:24): 2:902
holy spirit: 2:1023
Jesus Christ: 1:438-439, 463, 467; 2:59-60
kings: 1:439
Moses: 1:438-439; 2:435-436
ointment and perfumes: 2:548
Jesus anointed with oil: 2:348-349
prophets: 1:439
ways done: 1:218
Anointed Christians 1:497-500
144,000: 1:995-996, 1234; 2:687, 889
24 elders (Re 4:4): 2:513, 551
adoption: 1:51
baptism into Christ and his death: 1:252-253
bodies in heaven: 1:348, 841, 1197-1198
born again: 2:998-999
chosen by Jehovah: 1:253-254
Christ’s body: 1:349-350
Christ’s bride: 1:728; 2:344, 496-497
Christ’s headship over: 1:1051
Christ’s image reflected: 1:1185
Christ’s kingdom over: 2:169
declared righteous: 1:605-606
entrance into Kingdom: 2:168-169, 837-838
faithful and discreet slave: 1:805-806
foreordination: 1:859
Gentiles admitted: 2:762
heavenly calling: 1:1065
heavenly duties: 2:606-607
holy ones: 1:1130-1133
holy spirit’s operation on: 2:1022-1024
hope: 1:1139-1140
immortality: 1:1189-1190, 1197-1198
incorruption: 1:1197-1198
inheritance: 1:1201
interdependence: 2:253
judges: 2:137
Memorial partakers: 2:269-270
new birth: 2:890
new creation: 1:546
new heavens: 1:1062
new nation: 2:473-474
olive tree illustration (Ro 11): 1:993; 2:474
paradise in heaven: 2:576
priesthood: 1:983, 1117, 1134; 2:687-688
remnant: 2:770
resurrection: 2:786-787, 1014-1015
sanctification: 2:857-858
sealing: 1:253-254; 2:883
seed of God’s woman, of Abraham: 2:888-890
spiritual Israel: 1:1234; 2:513
temple:
anointed are a temple: 1:373; 2:1023, 1036
position in spiritual: 2:1081
treatment by others: 1:1131, 1151; 2:859
“virgins”: 2:1199
Antichrist 1:115-116
meaning of term: 1:439
Antioch (Pisidia) 1:117
photo of ruins: 2:748
Antioch (Syria) 1:116-117
Barnabas sent to: 1:257
early preaching activity: 1:565-566
term “Christians” first used: 1:440
Antonia, Tower of 1:118; 2:535
Paul’s experiences: 1:477
soldiers’ quarters: 1:892
Anxiety 1:118-119, 724-725
Apocrypha 1:120-125, 408
Apostasy 1:126-127
from Christianity: 1:972-973; 2:95-96, 206-207, 310-312
man of lawlessness: 2:656
preparations to combat: 2:984
restraint: 1:130; 2:311, 1106-1107
Hebrew word: 1:1164
Apostle 1:127-130
Matthias: 2:354-355, 590
miraculous powers: 1:614; 2:590, 665
Paul: 2:590
spiritually older men: 2:549-550
Appointment
laying on of hands: 1:218
waiting on Jehovah for: 1:1160
Approach to God 1:135-138
approachability of God: 1:969
prayer: 2:667-671
through Christ: 1:187, 860; 2:668
worship: 2:1210
Arabah 1:138-139; 2:570
Arabia 1:139-141
Cushite inhabitants: 1:559, 1045-1046
Hadhramaut region: 1:1048
Havilah: 1:1045-1046
Kedar tribe: 2:144
Paul’s trip into: 2:586
Sheba: 2:912-913
Aram 1:142-144
Mesopotamia: 2:384-385
Syria: 2:1052-1053
Aramaic 1:144-146
when distinct from Hebrew: 1:1069
when Israelites adopted: 1:1070-1071
whether Jesus used: 1:1071
Archaeology 1:147-156
Amurru people: 1:99
Assyria: 1:190, 201-205, 952, 955-958; 2:1109
Ashurnasirpal II: 1:955
Sargon II: 1:955, 960; 2:864-866
Sennacherib’s prisms: 1:190, 720, 957, 1105; 2:894-895
Shalmaneser III: 1:203, 454-455, 1047; 2:24-25, 907-908
Tiglath-pileser III: 2:595, 1101-1102
Babylon: 1:237, 239-240; 2:322-325
Babylonian Chronicle: 2:326
Nabonidus Chronicle: 1:283, 567-568, 581-582; 2:325, 458-460
Nebuchadnezzar: 1:952; 2:480-482
Ur: 2:322
benefits of: 1:959-960
dating: 1:449-457; 2:36
Amarna Tablets: 1:696
Hyksos: 1:694-696
fortifications: 1:866
Greece: 2:335-336
Gallio, proconsul of Achaia: 1:886
Habiru people: 1:1067-1068
“Hittites”: 1:1124-1125
Moabite Stone: 1:178, 208, 325, 430, 625, 946; 2:358, 382, 420
Palestine:
Ahab’s palace: 1:948
Ai: 1:67
Beth-shean: 1:959
calf worship: 1:948
Gezer calendar: 1:960
Gibeon: 1:930
Gozan: 1:283
Herod the Great: 2:538
Hezekiah’s water tunnel: 1:960, 1104
ivory: 1:948
Jerusalem: 1:306, 941-942, 1005, 1104; 2:40-41, 326, 943-944, 950-951
Lachish: 1:952
Lachish Letters: 1:226, 325; 2:188
Samaria: 1:100-101; 2:535
Uzziah: 1:960
Persia: 1:763-764; 2:612
Cyrus Cylinder: 1:566, 568-569; 2:328, 332
Darius Hystaspis: 2:615-616
potsherd: 2:657
Rome:
Caesars: 2:534
Syria:
Ben-hadad: 1:287
Lysanias ruled Abilene: 1:24; 2:285-286
Ras Shamra: 1:228-229, 405, 948, 976-977
teraphim (household gods): 2:727
Archangel 1:156
Jesus Christ: 2:1161
Michael: 2:393-394
Architecture 1:157-161
ark (Noah’s): 1:164
Assyria: 1:202
cornerstone: 1:513-514
Egypt: 1:692
house: 1:1154-1155
pillars: 2:642-643
porch: 2:654-655
Rome: 2:823
Areopagus 1:162
Ark (Baby Moses) 1:165; 2:646
Ark (Noah) 1:164-165
architecture: 1:157-158
bird families: 1:317
resting-place: 1:146
Ark of the Covenant 1:165-168
Abinadab’s home: 1:24-25
cherubs on: 1:432
disappearance: 2:441-442
names: 2:1085
Philistines capture: 1:189; 2:101-102, 632, 641-642
Philistines return: 1:304
propitiatory cover: 2:698-699
Shiloh: 2:929
Armageddon
(See HAR–MAGEDON)
Arms, Armor 1:168-172
battering ram: 1:264-265
war weapons: 2:1167-1168
Army 1:172-176
adjutant: 1:47-48
archer: 1:156-157
armor-bearer: 1:168
Carian bodyguard: 1:419
chariot: 1:427-428
conscription in Israel: 2:1167
David’s: 1:185
Egypt: 1:693-694
fortifications: 1:866
garrison: 1:892
horses: 1:1144-1145
Jehovah’s: 2:21-22
military camps: 1:398-399
military commander: 2:401-402
quartermaster: 2:720
registration: 2:764-767
Roman Empire: 1:175, 1010-1011
band of Augustus: 1:220-221
centurion: 1:176-177
Italian band: 1:1236
Praetorian Guard: 1:1011; 2:665-666
Saul’s: 2:871
slingers: 2:981
soldier: 2:985-986
spearmen: 2:1015
war strategy: 2:1167-1168
Artaxerxes (Longimanus) 1:182
reign: 2:614-616
20th year: 2:487-488, 616, 899-900
Artemis 1:182-183
image: 2:748
temple of: 1:732-734
Ashtoreth 1:193
moon-goddess: 2:430
relationship to Baal: 1:977
Assembly 1:197-199
convention: 1:503-504
festivals: 1:820-822
tithe to help attend: 2:1110
Association 1:199-200
(See also HOSPITALITY)
family: 1:808-809
guest’s responsibilities: 1:1151-1152
importance of wise: 2:1194
intimacy: 2:491
love feasts: 2:279-280
Assyria 1:200-205, 954-958
archaeology: 1:148, 188, 952, 955-958, 960; 2:503-505, 864-866, 893-895, 1101-1102, 1109
architecture: 1:160
chronology: 1:451-452, 454-455; 2:505, 1102
cities: 1:954
crime and punishment: 1:551
exile of Israelites: 1:414-415, 952, 993; 2:847, 1101
government officials:
Rabsaris: 2:725
Rabshakeh: 2:725-726
Tartan: 2:1068
Israel (northern kingdom) overthrown: 1:1149; 2:908
Judah (southern kingdom):
invasion: 1:487, 957, 1103-1105; 2:188, 725-726, 894-895, 1101
oppression: 2:463
kings: 1:203-205
Asenappar (Ashurbanipal): 1:188
Ashurnasirpal II: 1:955-956
Esar-haddon: 1:757-758
Sennacherib: 2:893-895
Shalmaneser III: 2:906-908
Shalmaneser V: 2:908
Tiglath-pileser III: 2:714, 1100-1102
reliability of records: 1:451-452; 2:865
religion: 1:199, 954, 956, 974-975; 2:480, 506, 529, 811-812
conquest policy: 1:414, 1233; 2:1100-1101
Egypt invaded: 1:697-698; 2:506
treatment of captives: 1:958; 2:463
Astrologers 1:206-207
Baal worship: 1:229
Jesus visited by: 1:1095; 2:1033
zodiac: 2:1240
Athaliah 1:209
usurpation and death: 1:1265, 1268
Athens 1:209-211; 2:333
altar “To an Unknown God” (Ac 17:23): 1:85; 2:1141
Areopagus: 1:162, 613; 2:634, 749
Epicureans: 1:755-756
Stoics: 2:1035-1036
Atonement 1:211-212
blood used for: 1:344-345
ransom: 2:733-736, 760-762
Atonement Day 1:213-214
Azazel: 1:225-226
high priest: 1:1112; 2:441-442
propitiatory cover: 2:698-699
Attitudes (Mental)
(See also EMOTIONS; QUALITIES)
complaining: 2:719
forgiveness: 1:861-862; 2:870
generosity: 1:918-919
haughtiness: 1:1044-1045
honor: 1:1135-1136, 1194
humility: 1:1157-1161
impartiality: 1:1192-1194
modesty: 2:422-424
neglect: 2:485
presumptuousness: 2:680-681
pride: 2:681-682
reasonableness: 2:756
rebelliousness: 2:757-758
repentance: 2:770-777
respect: 2:782-783
self-will: 2:893
soberness: 2:983-984
stubbornness: 2:1040-1041
submissiveness: 2:1041
toward persecution: 2:610-611
toward ridicule: 2:807-808
Attitudes and Gestures 1:215-220
fingers: 1:832
hands: 1:1028
kneeling: 2:179-180
oaths: 2:517
obeisance: 2:523-524, 1211
ripping of garments: 2:813-814
spit: 2:1030
use of dust: 1:660
washing of feet: 2:1170-1171
Baal 1:228-231, 739, 948
Elijah humiliates: 1:711
relationship to other Canaanite deities: 1:976-977; 2:835
sacred pillar: 2:835
worship:
Israel infected: 1:59
Jehu eradicates: 2:23-24
Jezebel promotes: 2:75
Babel 1:234-235
language confused: 2:201-203
name: 1:239
religion: 1:973-974, 1169
Tower of Babel: 1:239, 460, 973; 2:322-323, 503, 508, 660-661
Babylon 1:235-239; 2:321-326
Accad (Akkad): 1:36-37
Ammonites invaded by: 1:94-95
Amurru inhabitants: 1:99
archaeology: 1:147-148; 2:322-325, 458-460
Assyria conquered by: 1:205; 2:359
Chaldean dominance: 1:425
characteristics: 1:239-240
chronology: 1:452-456
city: 1:372-373; 2:321-325
Hanging Gardens: 1:890
Peter’s first letter written from: 2:621-622
ruins: 2:324
walls: 2:322-323, 481-482
conjurers: 1:500
conquest by Cyrus: 1:284, 453-454, 458, 566-568; 2:325, 458-459
conquest policy: 1:416-417
creation myth: 1:545-546, 922
Cushite rulers: 1:558-559
empire: 2:321
exile of Israelites (607 B.C.E.): 1:415-416, 463; 2:867-868
exile of Israelites (617 B.C.E.): 1:415, 452-453, 1267, 1269; 2:326
government officials:
Rabmag: 2:725
Rabsaris: 2:725
Hammurabi’s code: 1:551
Judah invaded by: 1:952
kings: 1:282-284, 452-453, 773; 2:380-381, 457-460, 480-482, 503
dynasty termed “shining one” (Isa 14:12): 2:868, 932
origin of—
astrology: 1:206
divination: 1:637
magic: 2:293-294
pictured by—
lion: 1:268-269, 1059; 2:323
relationship with Assyria: 1:200-201
reliability of records: 1:453-454
religion: 1:281, 974; 2:322-324, 380, 480, 493, 529, 701, 721, 1042
religious influence: 1:239-240, 973-974, 978-979
Sheshach a name for: 2:926
Babylon the Great 1:239-241
daughters: 1:809
destruction: 2:799
harlot: 1:864
ornamentation: 2:560-561
Bag 1:241-242
bag of life: 2:252
purse: 2:717
Bake, Baker 1:243-244
bread: 1:363
cake: 1:387-388
methods: 1:843
oven: 2:563-564
Balaam 1:244-245
prophecies (proverbial utterances): 1:1067; 2:178, 206, 703
“teaching of” (Re 2:14): 2:608
Baptism 1:248-254
‘baptism into death’: 1:597
‘baptism into Moses’: 2:436-437
Jesus’ baptism in water: 2:59-60, 88, 1001
John’s baptism: 2:87-89
“name of” holy spirit: 2:1019-1020
water of: 2:1173
Barak 1:255
association with Deborah: 1:600
battle at Megiddo: 2:176
Bashan 1:259-260, 335
trees: 1:313-314
Beasts, Symbolic 1:267-271
bear: 2:803-804
goat: 1:966
wild beast:
image of: 1:1187
number of: 2:512
Beating 1:271-273
slaves: 2:978-979
Bee 1:275
honey, honeycomb: 1:1134-1135
wax: 2:1174
Belshazzar 1:282-284
handwriting on wall: 2:371, 601
kingship: 2:457-460
Benjamin 1:287-289
Jacob’s deathbed prophecy: 2:432
war against, for sex crime: 1:929-930, 1240; 2:417
Bestiality 1:292
Bethlehem 1:299-300; 2:537
Ephrathah: 1:755
Jesus’ birth: 2:346-347
Beth-shean 1:303-304
archaeology: 1:150-151, 959
Bible 1:307-313
Apocrypha: 1:120-125
Aramaic portions: 1:144-145
artfully written: 1:181
canon: 1:406-410, 442-444, 1080-1081, 1205
completed: 1:467
Christian Greek Scriptures: 1:442-444; 2:878-879
chronology: 1:447-450, 458-467
exerts power: 2:1202
Hebrew Scriptures: 1:1080-1082
inspiration and inerrancy: 1:1202-1206; 2:1072
“lamp”: 2:195
manuscripts: 1:321-323, 443; 2:312-318, 336, 877-879
perfection of: 2:603-604
reading: 2:754-755
Scripture: 2:879-880
source material: 1:355, 919-920; 2:132, 1212
translations: 2:1151-1154
Samaritan Pentateuch: 2:848
truthfulness: 2:1132
understanding of: 2:801, 1140-1141
Word of God: 2:1201-1202
writing styles: 1:1204
Bible Authenticity 1:311-313
accuracy of transmission: 1:1081-1082, 1206; 2:710, 878-879
manuscripts: 1:321-323; 2:313-318
archaeology: 1:147-156, 959
Babylon’s fall: 2:458-460
Belshazzar: 1:282-284; 2:457-460
chronology: 1:447-450, 458-467
circumcision: 1:469-470
city rulers: 1:476
cobra can hear: 1:485-486
creation account: 1:545-546
expanse: 1:785-787
Cyrus the Great: 1:566-569
Daniel in lions’ pit: 1:580-581
Darius the Mede: 1:581-583
Deluge: 1:111, 327-328, 609-612
“documentary theory”: 1:920-922, 1082, 1221-1223
eagles: 1:662-663
earth: 1:668
Eden: 2:304
Exodus: 1:777-780
flesh differs by creature: 1:840; 2:246
genealogy: 1:912-914
hare chews cud: 1:555-556, 1035
Hazael: 2:908
Jacob’s genetics lesson: 1:1244
Jordan stopped: 1:46
man’s fall: 2:303
medicine and health: 1:631-633
miracles: 2:411-413
Nebuchadnezzar dominates Jerusalem: 2:480-481
Nineveh in Jonah’s time: 2:504
Paul bitten by viper: 2:302-303
Persia dominates Medes: 2:359-360
Quirinius: 2:721-722, 766-767
Sargon II: 2:865
Sennacherib’s death: 1:155, 757
Sennacherib’s defeat: 2:894-895
stars: 2:1031-1032
water cycle: 1:483
Bible Translations
(See VERSIONS)
Birds 1:316-318, 869
ark: 1:164-165
birdcatcher: 1:315-316
list:
bulbul: 1:374
chicken: 1:1088
cock: 1:486
cormorant: 1:512-513
cuckoo: 1:554
dove: 1:647-648
eagle: 1:662-664
falcon: 1:806-807
glede: 1:963
gull: 1:1011-1012
heron: 1:1100-1101
hoopoe: 1:1137
kite: 2:177-178
nightjar: 2:499-500
osprey: 2:561
ostrich: 2:561-563
owl: 2:565-566
partridge: 2:579-580
peacock: 2:593
pelican: 2:596
pigeon: 2:638
quail: 2:718
raven: 2:753-754
sparrow: 2:1015
swallow: 2:1046-1047
swan: 2:1047
swift: 2:1048
tern: 1:1011-1012
turtledove: 2:1134
vulture: 2:1164
nest: 2:494
Birth 1:318-319
(See also CHILDBEARING)
birthday celebrations: 1:319
“born again”: 2:60, 998-999, 1001
ceremonial uncleanness: 1:479-480; 2:443
customs: 1:434
illegitimate: 1:1174
labor pains: 2:186-188
midwife: 2:397
“new birth” (1Pe 1:3): 2:890, 998-999
Birthright 1:320
(See also FIRSTBORN, FIRSTLING)
transfer to younger son: 1:1199
Blamelessness 1:337
imperfect servants of God: 2:604-605
integrity: 1:1209-1212
Blessing 1:340-342
Abrahamic covenant: 2:362-363
hospitality brings: 1:1151
Jacob obtains: 1:759-760, 1218, 1243; 2:757
Jehovah’s: 2:1013
Blood 1:344-346
altar base and horns: 1:1207
bloodguilt: 1:346-347
covenant validation: 2:360-361
earlobe, thumb, and toe of Aaron and sons: 1:1208; 2:1098, 1113
formation: 2:345
menstruation: 2:371-372
sin offerings: 2:527
Boasting
(See PRIDE)
Boaz (Father of Obed) 1:347-348
marriage to Ruth: 1:371; 2:828-830
Body 1:348-350
body of Christ: 2:253
dead bodies: 1:480
effects of—
anger: 1:110
anxiety: 1:118
parts:
arm: 1:168
beard: 1:266-267
belly: 1:282
blood: 1:344-346
bones: 1:352-353
breast: 1:364-365
cheek: 1:429
ear: 1:664-666
face: 1:801-802
finger: 1:831-832
foot: 1:846-848
forehead: 1:848-849
gall: 1:885-886
hand: 1:1028-1030
head: 1:1050-1051
heart: 1:1057
heel: 1:1084
hips: 1:1120-1121
intestines: 1:1214
kidneys: 2:150
knee: 2:179
leg: 2:233
ligaments: 2:253
lip: 2:258
liver: 2:258-259
loins: 2:262
marrow: 2:344-345
mouth: 2:448-449
muscle paralysis: 2:576-577
neck: 2:483
nose: 2:509-510
rib: 2:803-804
shoulder: 2:935-936
sinew: 2:973
skin: 2:976
stomach: 2:1036
sweat: 2:1047-1048
teeth: 2:1074
testicles: 2:1088-1089
thigh: 2:1093-1094
thumb: 2:1098
toe: 2:1113
tongue: 2:1113-1114
womb: 2:1199-1200
resurrection: 2:790
treatment at death: 1:378
Bond 1:350-352
prison: 2:689-690
Bones 1:352-353
marrow: 2:344-345
rib: 2:803-804
Book 1:353-356
(See also SCROLL, ROLL)
Bosom Position 1:356-357, 365
Bread 1:363-364
baking: 1:243-244
cake: 1:387-388
kneading trough: 2:179
loaves: 2:259
Memorial: 2:269-271
mill: 2:403
showbread: 2:936
sourdough: 2:1008
Breast, Bosom 1:364-365
nursing: 1:1217
Breastpiece 1:365
high priest: 1:1111-1112
Builder, Building 1:371-373
(See also ARCHITECTURE)
castle: 1:422
city gates: 1:892
cornerstone: 1:513-514
doorway: 1:645
figurative usage: 1:161
foundation: 1:867-868
governor’s palace: 1:992-993
house: 1:158-159, 1154-1156
inn: 1:1201
materials and methods: 1:159
brick: 1:366-367
mortar: 2:434
nails: 2:463
palace: 2:568
plummet used: 2:649-650
tower: 2:1117-1118
walls: 2:1165-1166
Bull 1:374-375
goad: 1:965
goring: 2:733-734
not muzzling: 2:454-455
Burial, Burial Places 1:377-380
caves: 1:423
cloth bindings: 1:482-483
embalming: 1:721-722
gardens: 1:890
graves: 1:994-995
Hebrews and Christians: 1:722
memorial tombs: 2:368-369
ointment: 2:547
Caesar 1:381-384
Augustus (Octavius): 1:220
registration decree: 2:766-767
Christians’ obligations toward: 1:991-992; 2:523
Nero’s persecution of Christians: 1:441
Caesarea 1:384-385; 2:535
Cain 1:386-387
lack of repentance: 2:773
offering: 1:15
Calendar 1:389-393
Gezer calendar: 1:960
Hebrew: 1:765; 2:505, 1214-1215
month: 2:429
Calf Worship 1:393-394, 948
Aaron: 1:10
astrological connections: 1:207
Bethel: 1:296-297
Jehu perpetuates: 2:24
Jeroboam introduces: 2:37
Camel 1:394-396
needle’s eye: 2:483-484, 955
Cana 1:399; 2:738
Jesus at wedding: 2:347-348
Canaan (Land) 1:400-402, 405
Abraham’s sojourn: 1:29-31, 75, 106
conquest by Israel: 1:98-99, 103, 696, 737, 1261-1262; 2:34-35, 114-115, 117, 1167
Canaan (Son of Ham) 1:399-400
cursed by Noah: 1:402-403, 557-558, 1023, 1123, 1125-1126; 2:508
Canaanites 1:400-406
detestable practices: 1:617-618, 738-739, 1123
effect on Israel: 1:850
Israel’s destruction of: 1:622-623, 738-739, 1124-1125
referred to as Amorite: 1:97-98
religion: 1:152-153, 193, 228-231, 739, 976-977; 2:430, 835-836
Canon 1:308, 310, 406-410
Apocrypha: 1:120-125
Christian Greek Scriptures: 1:442-444
Canon of Athanasius: 1:509-510
completion: 1:467
Hebrew Scriptures: 1:1080-1081
uninspired writings: 1:1205
Capernaum 1:410-412
Carmel 1:419-420, 950
Census 2:764-767
Chaldea, Chaldean 1:425
astrology: 1:206
Chariot 1:427-428
Egypt: 1:534
runners before: 2:827
Charts
(See also Bible books by name)
Alexander the Great and Bible prophecy: 1:70
animals as symbols: 1:268, 270-271
Bible books: 1:309-310
Isaiah’s prophecies: 1:1223
Jeremiah’s prophecies: 2:34
Jewish canon: 1:407
Job compared: 2:83
principles in Philippians: 2:631
Caesars of Rome: 1:382
chronology:
Adam’s creation to 1987: 1:459
Adam’s creation to the Flood: 1:459
Assyrian eponym list: 1:452
Exodus to the division of the kingdom: 1:461
Flood to Abrahamic covenant: 1:460
kings and prophets of Judah and of Israel: 1:464-466
lengths of life of the patriarchs: 2:252
seventy weeks: 2:901
creative days: 1:527
genealogy:
Abraham: 1:30
David: 1:589
Herods: 1:1094
Jesus Christ: 1:913-914
Saul: 1:20
geographic terms: 2:571
Greek alphabet: 1:1009
Israel:
calendar: 1:390-391
festivals: 1:820
high-priestly line: 1:1114-1116
judges and saviors: 2:134
Law covenant: 2:214-220
pasture grounds of Levite cities: 2:584
Jesus Christ:
earthly life: 2:63-66
genealogy: 1:913-914
prophecies about: 2:387
measurements: 2:1177
capacity: 2:1178
weights: 2:1178
Chemosh 1:430
Ammonite deity also: 1:93; 2:27
Mesha sacrifices son to: 2:382
Cherethites 1:431; 2:596
Child, Children 1:434-436
adoption: 1:50-51
baptism: 1:251
birth: 1:318-319
daughter: 1:584-585
education: 1:683
Hebrew word: 1:1225-1226
illegitimate: 1:1174
illustration of two children: 1:1182
inheritance: 1:1199-1201
love for: 2:276
naming: 2:465-466
orphan: 1:816
parents to be honored: 1:807
parents to be obeyed: 2:522
sacrifice of: 1:403, 739; 2:424-425, 1114-1115
sanctified by believing parent: 2:860
son: 2:993-994
weaning: 1:1217; 2:443, 1174-1175
Childbearing 1:436
(See also BIRTH; MOTHER; PREGNANCY)
abortion: 1:28
barrenness: 1:257-258
Jehovah’s respect for powers of: 2:1088-1089
pain: 2:186-187
pregnancy: 2:674-676
womb: 1:282; 2:1199-1200
Chorazin 1:438; 2:739
Christ 1:438-439
(See also JESUS CHRIST; MESSIAH)
false Christs: 2:388-389
Moses: 2:440
Christian 1:439-442
adornment: 1:51-52
“aliens”: 1:75
altars not used: 1:85-86
approach to God: 1:137-138
architecture: 1:161
artwork: 1:181
assemblies: 1:199
attitude toward—
anxieties: 1:118-119
blood: 1:345-346
cosmetics: 1:515
deity names for months: 2:1065
enemies: 1:726-727
hate: 1:1043-1044
mourning: 2:447-448
murmuring: 2:719
oaths in court: 2:517-518
riches: 2:805-806
rights: 2:780
superior authorities: 1:382, 991-992; 2:758
traditions: 2:1119
cleanness: 1:480-481
conscience: 1:501-502
disciples of Christ: 1:628-629
dress: 1:51-52, 655; 2:423-424
evangelizers: 1:770-771
fasting: 1:812-813
freedom: 1:871-872
incense not used in worship: 1:1196
inheritance: 1:1201
law of new covenant: 2:221, 224
life illustrated by athletic games: 1:888-889
light to shine: 2:254
love: 2:275-279
for enemies: 1:1043
ministry: 2:408-409, 672-674, 1173
neutrality: 1:175-176
no part of the world: 1:360; 2:1209-1210
peace enjoyed by: 2:592
persecution of: 1:386, 467, 1077; 2:610-611
retirement from ministry not for: 2:794
Sabbath not required: 2:832
settling personal difficulties: 1:817-818
slave-master relationship: 2:555-556, 979
soldiers: 2:986
spiritual armor: 1:172
spirituality: 2:305
spread of Christianity: 1:418; 2:744-745
superiority of Christian system: 1:1079-1080
teachers: 2:1072-1074
Ten Commandments not binding: 2:1087
tithing not required: 2:1110-1111
unity: 2:405-406
use of codex: 1:354-355
warfare: 2:1169-1170
Christian Congregation
administration: 1:48-49, 128-129
assignments of service within: 1:937, 1029
brotherhood: 1:369
cleanness maintained: 1:1259-1260
contributions: 1:503
disfellowshipping: 1:788, 1151; 2:225, 869-870, 1150
divisions rejected: 2:886
family the basic unit: 1:808-809
founded on Christ: 2:816-817
generosity within: 1:918-919
gifts of mercy: 2:377-378
gifts of the spirit: 1:937-939; 2:413-414
governing body: 1:128-129, 498-499; 2:549-550
head Jesus Christ: 1:1051; 2:1022-1023
headship within: 1:1052-1055
holy spirit guides: 2:1022-1023
humility within: 1:1160
judges within: 1:499, 519; 2:224-225
impartiality required: 1:1194
material assistance within: 1:1198; 2:410
relief measures: 1:939-940; 2:769
widows: 2:1182
meetings: 2:875-876, 1197
ministerial servants: 2:409, 1034
older men: 2:549-551, 1150
organization: 1:498-500
“pillar and support of the truth” (1Ti 3:15): 2:1132-1133
property rights recognized: 2:200
public reading: 2:714
separate from world: 1:360
synagogue arrangement similar: 2:1051-1052
teaching organization: 1:684-685
women’s privileges: 2:1196-1197
Christian Greek Scriptures 1:442-444
ancient translations: 2:1152-1153
archaeology corroborates: 1:153-154
canon: 1:409-410, 509-510
Apocryphal additions: 1:125
copyists: 2:878-879
Greek used: 1:1006-1007
Latin in: 2:208
manuscripts: 1:321, 323; 2:315-317, 878-879
master texts: 2:313-314
“New Testament”: 1:308-309
quotations from Hebrew Scriptures: 1:1206, 1213; 2:879-880
Chronology 1:447-467
(See also TIME PERIODS)
400-year affliction: 1:776, 1216-1217
430-year period: 1:776-777
Adam to Abraham: 1:908
archaeological dating: 1:155; 2:36
Babylon’s fall: 1:567-568; 2:459
Egypt: 1:694-695
Exodus: 1:776-777
genealogy’s contribution: 1:907-908
Herod the Great’s death: 1:1093-1095
Jesus’ birth: 2:56-58, 721-722
Jesus’ ministry: 2:57-58
final week: 2:742-743
Nineveh’s fall: 2:505
Persian kings: 2:613-616
“seven times”: 1:134-135
“seventy weeks”: 2:614-616, 899-904
Artaxerxes Longimanus’ 20th year: 2:487-488, 899-900
Circumcision 1:469-470
covenant with Abraham: 1:523
issue in first century: 2:587, 620-621, 1117
males born in wilderness: 2:779
Zipporah performs: 2:1237
Citizen, Citizenship 1:473
Roman: 1:476-477; 2:629, 819
City 1:473-475
(See also ENCLAVE CITIES; cities by name)
citadel: 1:865
cities of refuge: 1:471-472, 1118
“cities of the District”: 1:48, 636
cities promised for return by Ben-hadad II: 1:286
City of David: 1:591-592, 747; 2:41-42
Decapolis: 1:602-603
dependent towns: 1:614-615
Ezekiel’s vision: 1:433-434, 1132
fortifications: 1:864-867
gatekeeper: 1:898
gates: 1:865-866, 892-898
Greek city-states: 1:999-1000
Levite cities: 2:241
marketplace: 2:338-340
moat: 1:864-865
priests’ cities: 2:689
rampart: 1:864-865; 2:733
streets: 2:1039-1040
walls: 2:1165
Clay 1:477
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream image: 1:1187
potsherd: 2:657
potter’s use of: 2:657-658
Clean, Cleanness 1:478-481
(See also HOLINESS; SANCTIFICATION)
bathing: 1:263
Christian conduct: 1:1130
cleansers: 2:210-211
God’s word results in: 2:1173
menstruation: 2:371-372
priests: 2:685
required to carry utensils: 2:1144
Cloth 1:482-483
dyeing: 1:661-662
Phoenician dyeing: 2:636
embroidery: 1:722
materials: 1:652
linen: 2:256
sackcloth: 2:834-835
silk: 2:943
wool: 2:1200
spinning: 2:1017
weaving: 2:1175
Clothing
(See DRESS)
Cloud 1:483-484
pillar of: 2:643
Cobra 1:485-486
snake charming: 1:428
Colors 1:488-489
cloth: 1:482
dyes: 1:661-662; 2:636, 1099
henna plant: 1:1088
hyacinth: 1:1164
rainbow: 2:730
white: 1:483
Communication 1:492-493
Jehovah communicative: 1:970
Jehovah with Moses: 2:439-440
letters: 2:239
with the dead: 1:500; 2:1027-1030
Compensation 1:493-495, 550
Complaining
(See FAULT, FAULTFINDING; QUARREL; STRIFE)
Congregation 1:496-500
(See also ANOINTED CHRISTIANS; CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION)
apostles of: 1:129-130
Greek word: 1:197
Hebrew word: 1:197
meetings: 2:875-876
preaching within: 2:674
synagogue: 2:1050-1052
Conscience 1:500-502; 2:474-475
consideration for others’: 1:872; 2:780
law of: 2:220-221, 223-224, 965-966
Contention
Contribution 1:502-503
Corinthians: 1:487-488, 818
Ezekiel’s vision of holy: 1:1131-1132
generosity: 1:918-919
Philippians: 2:631
support for true worship: 2:1110-1111
Convention 1:503-504
holy conventions: 1:1129
different from weekly Sabbath: 2:831
Conversion
(See REPENTANCE)
Cooking, Cooking Utensils 1:504
(See also BAKE, BAKER; FOOD)
kneading trough: 2:179
mortar: 2:433-434
oven: 2:563-564
Copyist 1:505-506
accuracy: 2:313
Christian Greek Scriptures: 2:878-879
Masoretes: 2:313-314, 877
Sopherim: 2:877
emendations: 1:1081-1082; 2:877
Corinth 1:508-509; 2:336, 749
contribution: 1:487-488
customs regarding women: 1:1052
incestuous man: 2:869-870
Paul’s ministry: 1:467; 2:1003-1004
Cornelius 1:513
Italian band: 1:1236
year of conversion: 2:901
Correction
(See COUNSEL, COUNSELOR)
Corruption 1:1196-1197
Counsel, Counselor 1:515-516
(See also DISCIPLINE)
Jehovah: 2:704-706
Jesus Christ: 2:69-70
Courage 1:516
Jesus Christ: 2:68-69
Moses: 2:436
Court, Judicial 1:516-519
(See also CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; CUSTODY; LEGAL CASE)
accusations: 1:39-40
judges:
had latitude: 2:220
impartiality: 1:343, 1193-1194
priests’ role: 2:685
scribes: 2:878
oaths: 2:517-518
synagogues and Christian congregation: 2:1052
tribunal: 2:1127-1128
Covenant 1:520-525
Abrahamic: 1:29-31, 460-461; 2:887-890
kept in force “one week” (Da 9:27): 2:901
passed on: 1:1217-1218, 1242-1243
alliances: 1:76
circumcision covenant: 1:469
covenant of salt: 2:842
Davidic: 1:588-589; 2:164
Gibeonites with Israel: 1:930-931
Jacob and Laban: 1:882-883; 2:186
Law covenant: 2:213-220, 223-224
rainbow: 2:507-508, 730
validation by blood: 2:360-361
Covetousness
(See EMOTIONS)
Creation 1:526-528, 545-547
two (expanse): 1:785-787, 1059
three (land, plants): 2:886, 1148
four (luminaries): 2:284
earth: 1:667
evidence of: 1:316-317, 1134
Genesis account superior: 1:922
holy spirit used in: 2:1020-1021
Jehovah’s personality revealed: 2:14-16
Jehovah’s power in: 2:659-660
Jesus’ role: 2:52
“kinds” created: 2:152-153, 881-882
laws of: 2:15-16, 211-212, 222, 411-412
living things: 2:246
mankind: 1:44-45, 179; 2:303-304, 1005-1006, 1024-1025, 1195
vastness of universe: 2:1031-1032
Crime and Punishment 1:548-552
(See also COURT, JUDICIAL; EXECUTION, EXECUTIONER; LAW; LAW COVENANT; LEGAL CASE; MORALS)
avenger of blood: 1:221-222
crime:
abortion: 1:28
accidental manslaughter: 1:472
fraud: 1:870
kidnapping: 2:149
murder: 1:344, 1084-1085; 2:450-451
rape: 2:753
thievery: 2:1093
punishment:
beating: 1:271-273
beheading: 1:280
compensation: 1:493-495
“cutting off”: 1:497, 549-550, 562-563
execution: 1:774-775
hanging: 1:1030-1031
impalement: 1:1190-1192
prison: 2:689-690
stocks: 2:1035
stoning: 2:1037
Curse 1:557-558
black race not cursed: 1:558
ground: 2:1095
malediction: 2:300-301
Noah’s, on Canaan: 1:399-400, 402-403, 558, 1023, 1123
oath: 2:516-517
of the Law: 2:300-301, 1117
Peter ‘cursed and swore’ (Mt 26:74): 2:518
Cush 1:558-560, 766
Custody 1:561-562, 1250; 2:213, 689-690
Cutting Off 1:562-563
offenses meriting: 1:497, 549-550
Cyrus 1:566-569
administration: 2:870
anointed of Jehovah: 1:439
Babylon conquered by: 1:236-237, 284, 453-454, 458; 2:325, 458-459
Cyrus Cylinder: 1:148; 2:328, 332
Darius the Mede’s relationship to: 1:568, 581-582
decree releasing Jews: 1:458-459, 800
growth of empire: 2:611-612
Damascus 1:571-573
Paul’s preaching in: 2:586
street called Straight: 2:748, 1039
Dan (Tribe) 1:573-574
Jacob’s deathbed prophecy: 2:1157
Levite made priest for: 2:101-102, 391
Daniel (Prophet) 1:576-577
Belteshazzar: 1:284
in lions’ pit: 1:580-581, 583; 2:257-258, 870
interpreter of divine revelations: 1:1214
Daniel, Book of 1:577-579
Apocryphal additions: 1:124
beasts: 1:267
out of sea: 1:267-269
ram and goat: 1:269, 1003; 2:333-334
‘disgusting things leading to desolation’: 1:635
handwriting on wall: 2:371, 601
Jehovah’s sovereignty stressed: 2:165
kings of north and south: 2:509, 616-617, 1103
Nebuchadnezzar’s dreams:
image: 1:1186-1187
tree: 1:133-135
Darius Hystaspis (Darius I) 1:583-584
cylinder seal impression: 2:328
reign: 2:613
accession year: 1:463
coregency with Xerxes: 2:615-616
Shushan palace: 2:939
Darius the Mede 1:580-583
joint rule with Cyrus: 1:568
Dates (Calendar)
(See CHRONOLOGY)
David 1:585-591, 745-747
Absalom’s rebellion: 1:33-34, 259, 301, 1163-1164; 2:103
Adonijah’s usurpation attempt: 1:49-50; 2:987
booth of: 1:356
burial place: 1:379
cave stronghold: 1:53
covenant for kingdom: 1:524; 2:164
dynasty:
“lamp”: 2:195
“stars”: 2:932
genealogy: 1:912
Gibeonites permitted to kill Saul’s “sons”: 1:932, 1030
God’s “son”: 2:998
Goliath killed by: 1:701, 745, 984; 2:981
government: 1:1230-1231
humility: 1:1158-1159
Jebusites taunt: 2:190-191
Jebus taken by: 2:41-42
Jehovah not partial toward: 1:1193
Jonathan’s friendship with: 1:873; 2:102-103
“key of David” (Re 3:7): 2:148
kingship: 1:745-747; 2:125-126, 163-164
Levites organized by: 1:1263; 2:241, 451-452
Nabal’s ingratitude to: 1:20-21; 2:457
registration: 2:765-766
Saul’s relationship with: 2:872
asks about father of: 2:855
sin with Bath-sheba: 1:263-264; 2:892
temple site: 1:146-147; 2:715
victories:
Edomites: 1:680
Hadadezer: 1:1015
Moabites: 2:420
David, City of 1:591-592, 747; 2:41
water tunnels and canal: 1:941-942
Zion: 2:1236
Day 1:592-594
banquets of Job’s sons: 1:319
birthday: 1:319
creative days: 1:527-528, 545
divisions: 1:1152-1153
God’s rest day: 1:545, 668; 2:832-833, 859
holy days: 1:1129
Lord’s day: 2:268
sunrising to sunset: 2:1044-1045
Day of Jehovah 1:594-595
examples: 2:136-137
“presence of” (2Pe 3:12): 2:679
Death 1:596-599
(See also BURIAL, BURIAL PLACES; CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; EXECUTION, EXECUTIONER; HELL)
baptism into Christ’s: 1:252-253
cause: 2:247
communication with the dead: 1:500; 2:1027-1030
compared to sleep: 2:980-981
effect on wise: 2:209
embalming: 1:721-722
Enoch “transferred”: 1:729
everlasting death: 1:616-617
‘lying down with forefathers’: 1:377
mourning: 2:446-448
murder: 2:450-451
pangs of: 2:568
‘passing over from death to life’ (Joh 5:24; 1Jo 3:14): 2:790-791
process: 2:246-247
second death: 2:189-190
uncleanness from dead bodies: 1:480
Debt, Debtor 1:600-602
illustrations:
two debtors: 1:1178
unmerciful slave: 1:1179
pledge as collateral: 2:648
Sabbath year: 2:833
surety for: 2:1046
Declare Righteous 1:603-607
basis: 2:760
Jehovah’s righteousness maintained: 2:810
Jesus Christ: 2:72
pre-Christian witnesses: 2:18-19, 760-761
self-justification: 2:83-84
Dedication 1:607-608
festival: 1:824-825
gold plate on high priest: 1:552
Deluge 1:609-612
animal kinds preserved: 1:317, 327; 2:153
animal migration after: 1:111
authenticity: 1:327-328
Jehovah’s sovereignty demonstrated: 2:160-161
month of start and end: 1:374
preservation through: 2:507
rainbow: 2:730
Demon 1:612-613; 2:867
before the Deluge: 2:996-997
Nephilim were offspring: 2:491-492
demon possession and expelling: 1:613-614; 2:235-236, 291
expelling by man not accompanying Jesus: 2:802
swine entered: 2:1049
goat-shaped demon: 1:966-968
Jesus’ power over: 2:1028-1029
no forgiveness for: 2:970
rulers: 2:826
spiritism: 2:1027
“spirits in prison”: 2:492, 674
Tartarus: 2:1068-1069
Denarius 1:614; 2:544
illustration of workers paid a: 1:1182
Desire
(See EMOTIONS)
Destruction 1:616-617
baptism with fire: 1:254
‘devoted thing’: 1:247, 622-623
fire symbolic of: 1:834
smoke symbolic of: 2:981-982
Devoted Thing 1:247, 622-623
land devoted to sanctuary: 1:1200
Devotion
(See DEVOTED THING; EXCLUSIVE DEVOTION)
Dew 1:623-624
Mount Hermon: 1:1090
Palestine: 2:571
Disciple 1:628-629
(See also CHRISTIAN)
Christian requirements: 1:440-441
closest to Jesus: 2:89
family ties: 2:649
preaching work: 2:672-674, 712-713
teaching disciples: 2:1072-1073
Discipline 1:629
benefiting from: 2:400-401, 1141
Jehovah’s: 2:777
kindness in: 2:277
love shown by: 2:276
parental authority: 1:683; 2:818
purpose: 2:649
rebuke: 2:758-759
reproof: 2:780-781
value: 2:706
Diseases and Treatment 1:629-634
diseases:
blindness: 1:342-344
boil: 1:350
deafness: 1:595-596
epilepsy: 1:756-757
gangrene: 1:889
lameness: 2:190-192
leprosy: 2:237-239
madness: 2:291-292
paralysis: 2:576-577
pestilence: 2:617-618
piles, hemorrhoids: 2:641-642
ringworm: 2:813
running discharge: 1:628
ulcer: 2:1137
Egypt: 1:693
healing: 1:1055-1056
Law covenant: 1:829
sin’s relationship to disease: 2:965
treatment:
balsam: 1:246-247
eyesalve: 1:791
pool of Bethzatha: 1:305-306
wine: 2:1188
Disfellowshipping
(See EXPELLING)
District of the Jordan 1:636
“cities of the District”: 1:48, 985
Divination 1:636-638
(See also MAGIC AND SORCERY; SPIRITISM)
conjurer: 1:500
foretelling events: 1:861
magic differs: 2:293
omen: 2:553
Divorce 1:639-643
Christian congregation: 2:342
Law covenant: 1:1163; 2:342-343
Dragnet 1:648-649
Kingdom illustration: 1:1179
Dragon 1:649
seven heads: 1:1051
wars against remnant: 2:770
Dress 1:652-656
bosom: 1:364-365
breastband: 1:365
bride and groom: 2:341
Christians: 1:51-52; 2:423-424
cloth mixtures prohibited under Law: 1:483
headdress: 1:1053-1054
official garment: 2:545
ripping of garments: 2:813-814
Dyes, Dyeing 1:661-662
colors in cloth: 1:482
henna plant: 1:1088
Phoenicia: 2:636
Thyatira: 2:1099
Earth 1:666-669
(See also geographic features by name)
atmosphere: 1:785-787, 1059-1060; 2:977
creation: 1:526-528, 545
curse on: 2:1095
effect of Deluge: 1:610
foundation: 1:867
hope of life on: 1:1139-1140; 2:248-249, 576, 606-607, 687-688
perfection: 2:607
population: 2:792-793
rain cycle: 2:728-729
seasons: 2:884-885
Ecclesiastes 1:674-675
vanity of human wisdom: 2:1192
view of life: 2:250
Eden 1:676-677
covenant in: 1:521-522
garden: 1:890-891; 2:575
Jehovah’s personality: 2:14-16
location: 2:304
rebellion in: 2:16, 963-964, 1010-1011, 1190
Jehovah’s response: 2:263
not foreknown: 1:853-855
pattern for hearings: 2:233
sanctuary: 2:858
test of obedience: 2:15, 67, 304, 963
tree of knowledge of good and bad: 2:1011, 1123-1124
Education 1:682-685
(See also INSTRUCTION)
children: 1:434-435
reading of the Law: 2:713
school: 2:875-876
Egypt, Egyptian 1:531-534, 686-699
(See also EXODUS; NILE; PHARAOH; PLAGUE)
archaeology: 1:149-150, 530, 532-534; 2:657
architecture: 1:158
brick: 1:366-367, 535
chronology: 1:450-451
customs: 1:785
circumcision: 1:469
embalming: 1:721-722
hair: 1:1020
male grooming: 1:246
earrings: 1:666
Israel’s dwelling in: 1:451, 460, 535, 776-780, 785; 2:434
Jacob’s move to Egypt: 1:1246; 2:109
why Israelites were detested: 1:617
medical treatment: 1:630-631
papyrus paper: 2:573-574
religion: 1:96-97, 531-533, 806-807, 946, 966-967, 975-976, 1169; 2:430, 502, 506, 529-530, 582, 624-625
cross: 2:530
priesthood no model for Israel’s: 2:688
ships: 2:932
Elijah 1:710-713, 949
ascent “to the heavens”: 1:1064
contest with Baal worshipers: 1:949-950; 2:191
flight from Jezebel: 1:949-950
official garment: 2:545
Elisha 1:714-718, 949
children jeer: 1:245-246
delivered at Dothan: 1:286-287, 647, 949-950
Syrians blinded: 1:343
poisonous stew healed: 1:991
Shunammite woman blessed: 1:905
where anointed: 1:16
Emotions
(See also ATTITUDES [MENTAL]; QUALITIES)
heart: 1:1057-1058
list:
affection: 1:55
anger: 1:108-110; 2:510
anxiety: 1:118-119
awe: 1:222-223
compassion: 1:493
desire of the eyes: 1:790
dread: 1:649-650
envy: 1:730-731
fear: 1:818-819
gladness: 1:101-102
greed: 1:1005-1006
happiness: 1:1032-1034
hate: 1:1042-1044
jealousy: 1:1258-1261
joy: 2:119-121
love: 2:273-279
mourning: 2:446-448
pity: 2:646-647
repentance: 2:770-777
weeping: 2:1177
Employment
(See WORK)
Enclave Cities 1:723-724
Simeon: 1:947; 2:913, 961, 1235
Endurance 1:724-725
persecution: 2:610-611
provocation: 2:262-264
suffering: 2:623
tribulation: 2:1126
Enemy 1:725-727
adversary: 1:54
Israel’s enemies: 1:951-952
mankind at enmity with Jehovah: 2:760-762
of good news: 1:988
proper treatment of: 1:1051
Engagement 1:727-728
binding nature of: 1:815; 2:341
Entertainment
(See AMUSEMENTS; ASSOCIATION; HOSPITALITY)
Envy 1:730-731, 1260-1261
rivalry: 1:1261
Ephesus 1:734-736; 2:945
Artemis: 1:182-183, 732-733; 2:748
Paul’s ministry: 1:194, 612; 2:875
theater: 2:748
Ephod 1:736, 753
Gideon: 1:934
high priest: 1:1111
Esau 1:759-760
Edom: 1:678
Jehovah’s foreordination: 1:856
Esther, Book of 1:762-764; 2:330-331, 431-432
Apocryphal additions: 1:123
authenticity: 1:148-149; 2:431, 716-717
deliverance of Jews: 2:716
possible account by Greeks: 2:614
Ethiopia 1:766-767
Cush: 1:559-561
relations with Egypt: 1:560
Eunuch 1:767-768
Ebed-melech: 1:672-673
Evangelizer 1:770-771
work of: 2:628
house to house: 2:673-674
Eve 1:771-772
creation: 1:45, 352; 2:803, 1195
pain of pregnancy: 2:186-187
relationship with Adam: 2:1182
sex organs covered: 1:479-480
temptation: 2:866-867, 963
Exclusive Devotion 1:773-774
(See also GODLY DEVOTION)
Jehovah requires: 1:970-971, 1258-1259; 2:1086
Execution, Executioner 1:774-775
appointed by Jehovah: 1:404; 2:1150
avenger of blood: 1:221-222
beheading: 1:280
hanging: 1:1030-1031
impalement: 1:1190-1192
Jewish tradition: 1:550-551
Law covenant: 1:549-550
stoning: 2:1037
Exile 1:414-418, 775-776
(See also ISRAEL [ANCIENT PEOPLE]; RESTORATION)
Israel:
by Babylon (617 B.C.E.): 1:415, 452-453, 1267, 1269; 2:480-481
by Babylon (607 B.C.E.): 1:415-416, 463; 2:481
by Babylon (after 607 B.C.E.): 2:481
dispersion from: 1:417-418
Exodus 1:776-784
(See also PLAGUE)
chronology: 1:460-461
effects: 1:695-696
Egyptian pursuit force: 1:173
Egyptians “stripped”: 1:278-279
legality: 2:212
mixed company: 2:417
Moses’ role: 2:435-437
number of Israelites: 1:911-912
orderly: 1:397
Passover celebration: 2:580-582
pillar of cloud and fire: 2:643
Red Sea crossing: 1:537; 2:436-437, 638-639
not sea of reeds: 2:763
route: 1:234, 536-537, 764-765
starting point: 2:723, 1238-1239
Expanse 1:785-787
sky: 2:977
Expelling 1:787-788
demons: 2:235-236, 802, 1028-1029
disfellowshipping:
authority of elders: 2:1150
propriety of: 2:225
purpose: 2:869-870
treatment of those expelled: 1:1151
Eye 1:789-791
eye for eye: 1:342
eyesalve: 1:791
pupil: 2:714-715
Ezekiel 1:791-793
mimic siege of Jerusalem: 1:462-463
visions:
cherubs: 1:432
dry bones: 2:1024-1025
holy contribution: 1:433, 1131-1132
Jehovah: 1:222-223; 2:1180
Ezekiel, Book of 1:793-795
Gog of Magog: 1:980-981; 2:295
Ezekiel’s Temple 2:1082-1083
altars: 1:83-84
land allotment: 1:1131-1132
porches: 2:655
Ezion-geber 1:795-796
copper smelting: 1:151
Ezra 1:796-798
personal genealogy: 1:910
quality of writings: 1:444-447
trip to Jerusalem: 1:182, 1158
Faith 1:803-805
Abel: 2:525
evildoer: 2:575
in Jehovah’s purpose: 2:1056-1057
prophecy strengthens: 2:692-693
relationship to—
Bible understanding: 2:603-604
healing: 1:937-938, 1056
hope: 1:1138-1139
obedience: 2:521
works: 2:1205
Family 1:807-809; 2:707
(See also MARRIAGE)
education responsibility: 1:682-683
family merit: 1:1131
fatherless boy: 1:816
father’s house: 1:816-817
godly devotion in: 1:971
headship within: 1:1054-1055
illegitimate offspring: 1:1174
inheritance: 1:1199-1201
marriage consent by: 2:757
members:
aunt: 1:221
brother: 1:368-370, 561-562
brother-in-law: 1:370-371
children: 1:434-436
cousin: 1:520
daughter: 1:584-585
daughter-in-law: 1:585
father: 1:815
father-in-law: 1:815-816
grandparents: 1:993-994
mother: 2:442-443
relatives: 2:152
sister: 2:975
son: 2:993-994
uncle: 2:1137-1138
relative importance: 2:649
respect within: 2:782-783
wisdom builds up: 2:1195
Famine 1:809-810
prophecy of Agabus: 1:476
Father 1:814-815
authority: 1:435-436
father’s house: 1:816-817
founder or chief settler: 1:214-215
Jehovah: 1:13; 2:962-963, 997-1001
Jesus Christ: 2:736
responsibilities: 1:434-435
Fault, Faultfinding 1:817-818
(See also DISCIPLINE)
backbiting: 1:241
gossip, slander: 1:989-991
murmuring: 2:719
quarrel: 2:718-719
Fear 1:818-819
awe: 1:222-223
dread: 1:649-650
godly fear: 1:649-650; 2:1190
“love throws fear outside” (1Jo 4:18): 2:605
respect: 2:782-783
Festivals 1:820-822
attendance: 1:198-199
tithe to help family attend: 2:1110
Booths (Tabernacles) (Ingathering): 1:822-824
Dedication: 1:824-825
holy convention: 1:503-504
Jubilee: 2:121-123
New Moon: 1:825-826
Pentecost (Weeks) (Harvest): 2:597-599
Purim: 2:716-717
Sabbaths on: 2:831
Trumpet Blast: 1:826
Unfermented Cakes: 1:826-828
“first day of” (Mt 26:17): 2:583
preparation day: 2:676
Festus 1:828
Paul’s trial: 1:383
Field 1:829-830
bought by Judas’ betrayal money: 1:68; 2:130-131, 658-659
sanctifying to God: 2:859-860
Fig 1:742, 830-831, 844
illustration of unproductive tree: 1:1180
nipping figs: 2:1050
sycamore fig: 2:1049-1050
Fire 1:832-834
ashes: 1:191
baptism with: 1:254
brazier: 1:363
extinguishers: 1:788
fuel: 1:875
charcoal: 1:426-427
sulfur: 2:1042
furnace: 1:875
Gehenna: 1:905-906
illegitimate, offered by Aaron’s sons: 1:22, 1174
lake of: 2:189-190
pillar of: 2:643
signal fires: 1:297-298
smoke: 2:981-982
snuffers: 2:983
Firstborn, Firstling 1:835-836
Jacob obtains: 1:320, 759, 1242-1243
Jesus Christ: 1:527
Firstfruits 1:836-837
anointed Christians: 2:528, 599, 786-787, 999-1000
Jesus Christ: 1:828; 2:528, 786-787
Fish 1:837-838
dragnet: 1:648-649
fishing: 1:1161-1162
food item: 1:844
Jonah: 2:99-100
scales: 2:874
Sea of Galilee: 1:885
Flesh 1:840-842
conflict within Christian: 2:305
“destruction of” (1Co 5:5): 2:869-870
food: 1:829, 843-844; 2:916, 1088
offered to idols: 1:1172-1173
Flood
(See DELUGE)
Food 1:843-845
(See also BAKE, BAKER; COOKING, COOKING UTENSILS)
baked or roasted: 2:563-564
barley: 1:256-257
bitter greens: 1:320
blood prohibited: 1:345-346
bread: 1:363-364; 2:259
broad beans: 1:367-368
butter: 1:380
cake: 1:387-388
carob: 1:420-421
cheese: 1:429-430
cuckoo: 1:554
cucumber: 1:555
famine: 1:809-810
fasting: 1:811-813
fat: 1:813-814
fish: 1:838
garlic: 1:891
gluttony: 1:964
honey: 1:1134-1135
Jehovah sanctifies: 2:859
leek: 2:232
lentils: 2:236
locust: 2:260
manna: 2:309-310
marrow: 2:345
meals: 2:356-357
lamb: 2:916
offered to idols: 1:1172-1173
pork: 2:1048-1049
milk: 2:402-403
olive: 2:551-552
onion: 2:556
pistachio nut: 2:645
salt herb: 2:843
wheat: 2:1179
Foot 1:846-848
heel: 1:1084
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream image: 1:1187
toe: 2:1113
washing of feet: 1:220; 2:1170-1171
Forehead 1:848-849
frontlet band: 1:874-875; 2:880
mark on: 2:320
Foreigner 1:849-851
alien resident: 1:72-75
Foreknowledge, Foreordination 1:851-860
prophecy: 2:690-694
Forgiveness 1:861-862
mercy: 2:376
repentant ones: 2:870
serious sin: 1:1158
when not possible: 2:968-969
Fornication 1:862-864
bestiality: 1:292
consequences: 2:701-702
ground for divorce: 1:642-643
homosexuality: 1:642; 2:223, 475
sin against one’s own body: 1:349; 2:970
Foundation 1:867-868
cornerstone: 1:513-514
“founding of the world”: 1:858; 2:1207
houses: 1:1154
Jesus Christ: 1:514
Fountain, Spring 1:868-869
(See also GIHON [SPRING])
Hebrew word: 1:68
Jacob’s fountain: 1:1247
Freedom 1:871-872
“children of God” (Ro 8:21): 2:785, 999-1000
Jubilee arrangement: 2:121-123
Friend 1:872-874
affection for: 1:55
David and Jonathan: 2:102-103
gestures denoting friendship: 1:219
illustration of persistent: 1:1180
intimacy: 2:491
Furnace 1:875
bellows: 1:282
kiln: 2:151
refining: 2:764
Galatia 1:879
people of: 1:881-882
Galilee 1:883-885; 2:737-740
(See also SEA OF GALILEE)
Gate, Gateway 1:892-898
Babylon: 2:322
court, local: 1:518
Ezekiel’s temple: 2:655
gatekeeper: 1:898-899
Hazor, Megiddo, Gezer: 1:158, 866, 928, 1049-1050; 2:365
Gatherings
(See ASSOCIATION; HOSPITALITY)
Gedaliah (Governor) 1:903-904
Genealogy 1:907-915
1 Chronicles: 1:446
Abraham: 1:30
David: 1:589
Herods: 1:1094
Jesus Christ: 1:815, 913-917; 2:346
names of places in: 1:214-215
Nehemiah and Ezra: 2:489
preservation: 1:808
Generation 1:917-918
meaning of term: 1:911-912, 917
Generosity 1:918-919
not dependent on amount: 1:503
reasons for: 2:1013-1014
Genesis, Book of 1:919-923
authenticity: 1:149
sources used: 2:1212
table of nations: 1:329, 907, 909-910, 913-914; 2:472-473
Gennesaret 1:923; 2:739
Gentiles
accepted as Christians: 1:250-251, 513
olive tree illustration (Ro 11): 1:362, 993; 2:474
Gentile Times: 1:132-135
Jehovah’s mercy toward: 2:377
reconciliation to God: 2:762
Gethsemane 1:890, 927-928; 2:950
Gibeon, Gibeonites 1:930-932
covenant with Israel: 1:599, 1125
Saul’s “sons” killed by: 1:1030
Gideon 1:932-934
encampment at Harod: 1:1038
horns blown by 300: 1:1143
Gifts, Presents 1:934-936
bribe: 1:365-366
contributions: 1:502-503
generosity: 1:918-919
misconception that almsgiving atones for sin: 1:279, 939
relative importance: 1:940
to God: 1:506-507
Gifts From God 1:936-939
(See also MIRACLES)
gifts of the spirit: 1:128
healing: 1:1055-1056
prophecy: 2:693
tongues: 1:1212-1213; 2:204
Gifts of Mercy 1:939-940
material and spiritual: 2:377-378
Gihon (River) 1:940
“Cush” encircled (Ge 2:13): 1:559
Gihon (Spring) 1:940-942
water canals: 2:40, 651-652, 928
water tunnels: 1:151, 591-592; 2:40-41
Hezekiah’s tunnel: 1:960, 1104; 2:43
Gilead 1:942-944
balsam of: 1:246-247
Glory 1:963-964
(See also HONOR)
Goat 1:965-966
Atonement Day: 1:213-214
goat for Azazel: 1:225-226
boiling kid in mother’s milk: 2:402
goat-shaped demons: 1:966-968
God 1:968-971
(See also GODS AND GODDESSES; JEHOVAH)
Almighty: 1:77-79
approach to: 1:135-138
body parts attributed: 2:13-14
fingers: 1:832
divine: 1:638-639
gifts from: 1:936-939
Jesus a god: 2:53-56, 1202-1203
not a personal name: 2:8
not a trinity: 1:639, 968, 1188; 2:511, 556-557
perfection: 1:852-853
seeing God: 1:790
Godly Devotion 1:971-973
(See also EXCLUSIVE DEVOTION)
sacred secret of: 2:838
Gods and Goddesses 1:973-980; 2:529-530
(See also TRIADS)
Ammon: 1:93
Malcam: 2:298
Molech: 2:424-425
Assyria: 1:201-202, 956
Nebo: 2:480
Nisroch: 2:506
Ramman (Rimmon): 2:811-812
Avvites: 2:1068
Babylon: 1:237, 545-546; 2:529
Bel: 1:281
Ishtar: 2:721
Nebo: 2:480
Nergal: 2:493
Succoth-benoth: 2:1042
Canaan: 1:152-153, 403, 618, 739
Asherah: 2:835-836
Baal: 1:228-231, 739, 948
contrast with Jehovah: 1:970; 2:729
Crete: 1:548
Egypt: 1:531-533, 689-691, 1169; 2:370, 430, 529-530
Amon-Ra: 1:96-97, 533-534, 689; 2:506, 530
Anubis: 1:946
Astarte: 2:721
Bastet: 2:637
Horus: 1:532, 806-807; 2:529, 624
humiliated through Moses: 2:436, 530, 582, 662
Isis: 2:529
Ptah: 2:370
Ephesus: 1:182-183, 732-734
fish: 1:837
god of good luck, god of destiny: 1:973
Greece: 1:209-210, 859, 966-967, 1001-1002
altars to unknown gods: 1:85; 2:1141
Aphrodite: 1:509
Artemis: 1:182
Asklepios: 1:509
Hermes: 1:1089
Hamath: 1:192
Moab:
Baal of Peor: 1:232-233
moon: 2:429-430
nature gods: 2:661-662
Persia: 2:613
Philistia: 1:570
Phoenicia: 1:739, 946; 2:636, 940
queen of the heavens: 2:721
Roman Empire: 2:824
Satan: 2:867-868
Sumer: 1:281; 2:429, 721, 1064-1065
sun: 2:1043
Syria: 1:152-153; 2:811-812
teraphim (household gods): 1:1245; 2:186, 726-727, 1087-1088
Tyre: 2:531-532
war gods: 2:663
Gog 1:980-981
(See also MAGOG)
burial of, and crowd: 1:1026
Gold 1:982-983
Ophir: 2:558
refining of: 2:764
Goliath 1:984
David kills: 1:701
Goodness 1:986
righteousness contrasted with: 2:809-810
Good News 1:986-988
declaring: 2:671
house to house: 2:673-674
evangelizer: 1:770-771
“good news of peace”: 2:591-592
legally establishing: 1:273; 2:630
women proclaim: 2:1196-1197
Gossip, Slander 1:989-991
(See also ABUSIVE SPEECH)
backbiting: 1:241
revealing faults: 1:817-818
trouble caused by: 2:707
Government 1:991-992
(See also KINGDOM; KINGDOM OF GOD; RULER)
beasts symbolic of: 1:267
Daniel: 1:267-269
Revelation: 1:267, 269-271, 1187
citizenship: 1:473
city recorder: 1:475-476
court official: 1:519-520
cupbearer: 1:557
deputy: 1:615
envoy: 1:89-90
God’s permission: 2:409-410, 1009
heavens symbolic of: 1:1061-1062
herald: 1:1089
history: 1:48
after exile: 1:1061, 1231-1232
jurisdictional district: 2:139-140
magistrate: 2:294
mountains symbolic of: 2:444-445
new earth: 1:433-434
older men: 2:548-549
Persia: 2:612-613
prefect: 2:674
principles of good: 2:707
Rabmag: 2:725
Rabsaris: 2:725
Rabshakeh: 2:725-726
recorder: 2:762-763
registration: 2:764-767
respect for rulers: 1:1194
sovereignty: 2:1008-1012
“superior authorities”: 2:1045
Tartan: 2:1068
taxes: 2:1069-1070
world powers in prophecy: 1:267-271, 1186-1187
Grafting 1:993
olive trees: 2:552
Grave 1:377-380, 994-995
caves: 1:423
Hades: 1:1015-1016
hell: 1:1086-1087
memorial tomb: 2:368-369
Sheol: 2:922-923
Great Crowd 1:995-997
baptism necessary: 1:254
‘come out of great tribulation’ (Re 7:14): 2:788, 1127
declared righteous: 1:606
in spiritual temple: 2:1081
Memorial observers: 2:270
ministers of God: 2:408-409
Greece, Greeks 1:998-1005
(See also GREEK [LANGUAGE]; cities by name)
Achaia: 1:40
architecture: 1:160
games: 1:887-888; 2:335
Ionia: 1:1257-1258
Macedonia: 2:288-289
philosophy: 2:634
Epicureans: 1:755-756
Stoics: 2:1035-1036
pictured by—
leopard: 1:268-269
religion: 1:182, 209-210, 509, 966-967, 978-979, 1089; 2:335-336, 1233
settlements in Israel: 1:602
Greek (Language) 1:1006-1010
term “barbarian”: 1:255-256
Hades 1:1015-1016
gates of: 1:897-898
hell: 1:1086-1087
not a single grave: 1:994-995
Hagar 1:1017-1018
Abraham dismisses: 1:1225
Hair 1:1020-1021
baldness: 1:245-246
beard: 1:266-267
gray-headedness: 1:995
men: 2:475
Nazirite: 2:477
women: 1:1052-1054
shorn or shaved: 1:246
Hallelujah 1:1022, 1248
Haman 1:1023-1024
Agagite: 1:56
divination used by: 1:638
Mordecai refuses to bow to: 2:431
Hand 1:1028-1030
fill with power: 1:831, 1207-1208
laying on of: 1:218
washing of hands: 2:1171
Happiness 1:1032-1034
contributing factors: 1:503; 2:706
joy: 2:119-121
laughter: 2:208-210
resurrection essential to: 2:784
under persecution: 2:610-611
Hare 1:555-556, 1035
Harlot 1:1036-1037; 2:700-702
Babylon the Great: 1:240-241
hire paid to: 1:1122-1123
Har–Magedon 1:1037-1038
meaning of term: 1:953
Harvest 1:1040-1041
(See also AGRICULTURE)
barley: 1:256
gleaning: 1:962-963
illustration of wheat and weeds: 2:207
olive trees: 2:551-552
reaping: 2:755-756
Sabbath years: 2:122
Hate 1:1042-1044
abhor: 1:17
detest: 1:617-618
equated to murder: 2:450-451
of God’s servants: 2:1150-1151
Hazael 1:1046-1047
king of Syria: 1:572
inscription of Shalmaneser III: 2:908
Head 1:1050-1052
baldness: 1:245-246
beheading: 1:280
gray-headedness: 1:995
head covering:
women: 1:1052-1054; 2:1197
Headdress 1:1053-1054
crown, diadem: 1:552-553
garland: 1:891
high priest: 1:552, 607, 849, 1111
Headship 1:1054-1055
Christian congregation: 1:1052-1054
man: 2:304
Healing 1:1055-1056
(See also DISEASES AND TREATMENT)
gift of spirit: 1:805, 937-938
spiritual: 1:633
Heart 1:1057-1059
circumcision of: 1:470
haughtiness: 1:1044
relationship to spirit: 2:1026
repentance dependent on: 2:772-773
safeguarding: 2:249-250, 811, 992
training: 2:706
wisdom dependent on: 2:1194
Heaven 1:1059-1065
creation:
expanse: 1:785-787
universe: 1:526-527
hope of life in: 1:1139-1140
anointed Christians: 1:1189-1190, 1197-1198; 2:474
evildoer not promised: 2:575
heavenly resurrection: 2:785-787
way to life in: 1:187
Jesus’ ascension to: 1:186-188
Most Holy pictures: 2:442
orderly arrangement: 2:1032
paradise in: 2:576
sky: 2:977
Hebrew (Language) 1:1068-1077
Aramaic connections: 1:144-146
name changes for false gods: 1:233
numbers: 2:510-511
writing: 1:960
Hebrews, Letter to the 1:1077-1080
canonicity: 1:409
Hebrew Scriptures 1:1080-1082
accuracy of transmission: 2:710
ancient translations: 2:1151-1152
copyists: 2:877
grouping of books: 1:308
manuscripts: 1:321-322, 324; 2:314-317
master texts: 2:313
“Old Testament”: 1:308-309
Pentateuch: 2:597
poetry: 1:683-684
references in Christian Greek Scriptures: 1:443, 512; 2:338, 354, 879-880
translation comparatively easy: 1:1072-1073
value for Christians: 2:692-693
Hell 1:1086-1087
Gehenna: 1:905-906
Hades: 1:1015-1016
Sheol: 2:922-923
Hermon 1:332, 1089-1090; 2:893
Herod, Party Followers of 1:1096, 1099-1100
Herodias 1:1095-1097, 1100
Herodotus 1:457, 698
Babylon’s fall: 1:567
Herod’s Temple 2:538, 542-543, 745, 1079-1081
altars: 1:83
Ark missing: 2:441-442
construction: 1:373, 1091-1092; 2:45
Court of Women: 2:1122-1123
gates: 1:897
Jesus used whip on animals: 2:1180
lampstand: 2:198
Solomon’s Colonnade: 1:488; 2:745
treasury: 2:1122-1123
wall fencing off Gentiles: 2:1080
watchman: 1:898
Herod the Great 1:1091-1095
coin: 2:538
hippodrome: 2:535
palace: 1:992-993; 2:538
Tower of Antonia: 1:118
introduction of pagan amusements: 1:888
slaughter of children: 2:727
Hezekiah 1:1102-1105
Festival of Unfermented Cakes: 1:827, 837
haughtiness: 1:1044
Merodach-baladan’s delegation: 2:380-381
Sennacherib’s threats: 2:43, 725-726, 894-895
shadow reverses: 2:1043-1044
water tunnel: 1:151, 942, 960; 2:43
High Places 1:1107-1109
true and false worship: 1:183-184
High Priest 1:1109-1117
Atonement Day: 1:213
breastpiece: 1:365
ephod: 1:736
gold plate on turban: 1:552, 607, 849
Jesus Christ: 1:187, 214, 539, 1079; 2:362-363, 366-367, 378, 442, 1144
precious stones on garments: 2:74
prophetic significance: 1:9
responsibilities: 1:9-10
sin offering for: 1:1132; 2:526-527
Highway, Road 1:1117-1118
Beer-sheba crossroads: 1:277
Bethel crossroads: 1:295
Colossae crossroads: 1:489
Damascus routes: 1:571
Jerusalem crossroads: 2:39
maritime plain to hill country: 1:298
Hinnom, Valley of 1:1119-1120; 2:949
ashes: 1:191
Gehenna: 1:905-906
Topheth: 2:1114-1115
Hiram (King of Tyre) 1:1121
relationship with Solomon: 1:76
cities Hiram received: 1:381
Hire, Wages 1:1122-1123
purchasing power: 2:427
Hittites 1:1123-1125
language: 1:156
Hobab 1:1126; 2:73
Holiness 1:1127-1131
high priest: 1:849
holy ones: 1:1132-1133
holy places: 1:1133-1134
Jehovah: 2:897
priests: 2:685
sanctification: 2:856-860
Holy Place (room) 1:1133-1134
Holy Spirit 2:1019-1024
begotten by: 2:890
gift from God: 1:936
gifts of: 1:937-939; 2:665
“grieving”: 1:1128; 2:1023-1024
holiness: 1:1128
inspiration of Bible: 1:1203-1206
Jesus anointed by: 2:59-60, 407-408
prayer assisted by: 2:405, 670
teacher and remembrancer: 2:1072
Honor 1:1135-1136
(See also GLORY)
from men: 2:279
older men: 1:1194
respect: 2:782-783
Hope 1:1137-1140
everlasting life: 2:247-252
heavenly life: 1:1065, 1189-1190
love’s relationship to: 2:278
Horse 1:1144-1146
bridle: 1:367
hamstringing: 1:1026
military use: 1:174
Hospitality 1:1149-1152
Christian quality: 1:74-75
love feasts: 2:279-280
washing of feet: 2:1170-1171
Hour 1:593, 1152-1154
origin of use: 1:593
House 1:1154-1156
doorkeeper: 1:898
doorway: 1:645
father’s house: 1:816-817
Israel: 1:158-159
lattice: 2:208
preaching from house to house: 2:673-674
Humility 1:1157-1161
modesty: 2:422-424
Moses: 2:438
showing: 1:216-217
Hunting and Fishing 1:1161-1162
birdcatcher: 1:315-316
dragnet: 1:648-649
harpoon: 1:1039
Nimrod: 2:503
pits: 2:645
traps: 2:1121
Husband 1:1162-1163
bridegroom: 2:341
headship: 1:1054-1055; 2:221-222
Hushai 1:34, 1163-1164
Idol, Idolatry 1:1167-1172; 2:529-530
(See also IMAGE)
calf worship: 1:393-394, 948
copper serpent: 1:505
disgusting: 1:634-635
gold on idols: 1:982-983
Israel: 1:379-380; 2:117-118, 126-127
meats offered to idols: 1:1172-1173
Roman emperor: 1:1196
teraphim: 1:1245; 2:186, 1087-1088
Illustrations 1:1174-1184
athletic games and Christian course: 1:888-889
camel and needle’s eye: 1:396; 2:483-484
neighborly Samaritan: 1:54; 2:490-491
rich man and Lazarus: 1:1016; 2:226
wheat and weeds: 2:207, 1056, 1176
Image 1:1184-1187
(See also IDOL, IDOLATRY)
mankind in God’s: 2:304, 962-963
not all are idols: 1:1167-1168
scarlet-colored wild beast: 1:271
Immortality 1:1189-1190; 2:248-249
anointed Christians: 1:1197-1198
belief in, of soul: 1:691, 1002; 2:625, 1004-1005
Impalement 1:1190-1192
hanging: 1:1030-1031
Jesus Christ: 2:300-301, 1116-1117
Incense 1:1195-1196
ingredients: 1:869-870, 882; 2:557, 1031
manufacture: 2:548
offering: 1:1153-1154; 2:686
Industriousness 1:1198-1199
ant: 1:115
reasons for: 2:1013-1014
Inheritance 1:1199-1201
land in Israel: 2:199-200, 859-860
brotherless daughters: 2:297
Jubilee: 2:122
sin inherited: 2:964
Insects 1:1201-1202
dye from: 1:661-662
Hebrew term: 1:869
larva: 2:293
list:
ant: 1:114-115
bee: 1:275, 1134-1135; 2:1174
caterpillar: 1:422-423
coccus: 1:661-662
cockroach: 1:487
cricket: 1:548
flea: 1:840
fly: 1:842-843
gadfly: 1:878
gnat: 1:964-965
grasshopper: 1:994
locust: 2:260-261
mosquito: 2:441
moth: 2:442
scorpion: 2:876
Inspiration 1:1202-1207
Bible: 1:309-310; 2:879-880
divination different: 1:638
prophets: 2:695-696
sacred pronouncements: 2:836
Installation 1:1207-1208
high priest: 1:1110-1111
priests: 1:831; 2:361-362, 1098, 1113
Instruction 1:1208-1209
(See also TEACHER, TEACHING)
public instructor: 2:712-713
school: 2:875-876
spiritual, at home: 1:1156
tutor: 2:1134-1135
Integrity 1:1209-1212
blamelessness: 1:337
issue of: 2:160, 784, 867-869, 1011-1012
settled in Christ: 2:67-68, 838
Meshach: 2:382-383
Interest 1:1212
investments and loans: 1:248; 2:259-260
Isaac 1:1216-1218
Abraham “offers”: 2:433
covenant with Abimelech: 1:75, 277-278; 2:927
Jacob blessed by: 1:759-760, 1218, 1243; 2:757
laughter about birth: 2:208, 863
name: 2:208
only-begotten son: 2:557
weaning: 2:1174-1175
Ishmael ‘pokes fun at’: 1:460-461, 776, 1017, 1225
Island, Isle 1:1227-1228
Mediterranean:
Cauda: 1:423
Cos: 1:514
Crete: 1:547-548
Cyprus: 1:564-565
Malta: 2:302-303
Patmos: 2:585
population origin: 1:1257
Rhodes: 2:803
Israel (Ancient Land)
(See PALESTINE)
Israel (Ancient People) 1:1228-1232
(See also EXODUS; JEW[ESS]; JUDAISM; LAW COVENANT)
administration: 1:48
chieftains: 1:433
older men: 2:549
overseers: 2:564
alien resident: 1:72-74
foreigners: 1:849-851
alliances with other nations: 1:76-77
apostasy: 1:126-127; 2:49
astrology: 1:207
calf worship: 1:296-297, 393-394
child sacrifice: 2:424
copper serpent: 1:505
Egyptian religion: 1:690
idolatry: 1:379-380, 1169-1172; 2:117-118, 126-127
influence of neighbor nations: 1:945-946
Korah, Dathan, Abiram: 1:25; 2:184
moon worship: 2:430
queen of the heavens: 2:721
spiritism: 2:1027-1028
spiritual adultery: 1:1147
architecture: 1:158-160, 1156-1157
army: 1:173-175
art: 1:179-181, 421
assemblies: 1:197-199, 820-822
calendar: 1:390-392, 765; 2:505, 1214-1215
Canaan conquered by: 1:98-99, 103, 401-402, 696, 737-739, 1083, 1261-1262; 2:114-115, 117, 306, 1167
Canaanites to be destroyed by: 1:402-404, 622-623, 738-739, 1124-1125
chosen people: 1:1192-1193
chronology: 1:448-449, 460-467
complaining: 2:350-351, 719
congregation of: 1:496-497
contributions: 1:502-503
courts of law: 1:517-519, 1182
crime and punishment: 1:549-551, 787-788
detestable practices infect: 1:618
disease prevention: 1:632-633, 829; 2:617
dress: 1:652-655
economy: 2:122-123
Egyptian sojourn: 1:460, 535, 694-696, 776-780, 785, 1246-1247
Hyksos theory: 1:694-696
Israel’s population increases: 1:778-780
everyday life: 2:952-954
exile: 1:414-418, 775-776
Babylon: 1:452-453, 463, 791-792, 1267, 1269; 2:867-868
dispersion after: 1:417-418
festivals: 1:820-828; 2:597-599
games: 1:887
genealogical lists: 1:908-909
Greek influence: 1:1003-1004
hair grooming: 1:1020-1021
Hebrews: 1:1065-1067
not the Habiru: 1:1067-1068
holiness: 1:1128-1129
houses: 1:158-159; 2:952
Jehovah’s relationship with:
foreknowledge of course: 1:855
Israel as executioners: 1:404; 2:1166-1167
Israel not entirely rejected: 1:1260
Israel’s disrespect: 1:338
Jehovah’s “son”: 2:997-998
Jehovah’s “wife”: 2:344
Jehovah’s “woman”: 2:1198
kingship over: 2:162-165, 213
long-suffering: 2:263
name of Jehovah used: 2:5-6
not a tribal god: 2:8-9
not partial toward: 1:945, 1192-1193
proves to be God of: 2:662-663
Repurchaser: 2:734-735
Jews: 2:73-74
Jordan crossed by: 1:46
Judges: 1:743
kingdom: 2:158-159, 163-164
division: 1:947
“kingdom of priests” (Ex 19:6): 2:242
kings: 1:462-466; 2:156-157
crowns: 1:552-553
language: 1:1068-1072
literacy: 2:754-755, 1213
Maccabees: 1:124-125
meals: 2:356
Messianic expectations: 2:386, 388-389
money, borrowing and lending: 1:600-601; 2:259-260
mourning: 2:446-447
music: 2:451-454
nation formed: 2:162
nations surrounding: 1:945-946, 951-952
night watches: 2:499
Passover: 2:580-583
poor persons: 1:939, 962-963; 2:652
priesthood: 2:683-688
high priest: 1:1109-1117
non-Levites excluded: 1:74
proselytes: 2:699-700
prosperity: 2:804-805
rebelliousness: 2:758
registrations: 2:764-766
restoration from exile: 1:417-418, 445-446, 568-569, 797-799; 2:44, 332, 769-770, 1013
date: 1:458-459
prophecies: 1:306-307, 1061, 1219-1220; 2:257, 576, 1024-1025
Roman influence: 2:535
Sabbath unique to: 2:830-831
synagogues: 2:1050-1052
tithing: 1:821; 2:1109-1110
war: 1:174-175, 951-952; 2:1166-1168
civil wars: 1:929-930; 2:126, 846
wilderness trek: 1:140, 401, 540-542; 2:577, 1185
attempt to enter Canaan: 1:1142
beginning: 2:141-142
bitter water sweetened: 2:318-319
camp: 1:397-398
commemoration: 1:823
manna: 2:309-310
mixed company: 2:417
Passover celebrations: 2:582
pillar of cloud and fire: 2:643
route: 1:285, 541, 795-796; 2:778-779
water from rock at Massah: 2:350-351
Israel (Northern Kingdom) 1:947-948, 1232-1233
apostasy:
Baal worship: 1:230-231, 948
calf worship: 1:393-394, 948; 2:24, 37
high places for worship: 1:1108
idolatry: 1:1170
capital Samaria: 1:948; 2:845-847
Ephraim dominant: 1:754
exile by Assyria: 1:62, 204, 414-415, 758, 775, 993; 2:847
Judah compared: 2:127
kings: 1:464-466; 2:157
no distinction from Judah after exile: 1:417
Israel (Spiritual)
(See also ANOINTED CHRISTIANS)
Abraham’s seed: 2:888-889
boundaries: 1:360
“certain firstfruits” to God: 1:837; 2:599
congregation of God: 1:498
“Israel of God”: 1:1234
new birth: 2:890
new covenant: 1:524
new nation: 2:473-474
olive tree illustration: 1:362
tribes: 2:1125
Jachin
pillar of Solomon’s temple: 1:412, 1241
Jacob 1:529-530, 1242-1247
angel wrestles with: 1:1228; 2:190, 973
birthright acquired: 1:320, 759
blesses Joseph’s sons: 2:110
blessing acquired: 1:759-760, 1218; 2:757
covenant with Laban: 1:882-883
dream ladder: 2:189
embalming: 1:721-722
funeral procession: 1:208
love for Rachel: 2:726-727
move to Egypt: 2:109
worship involving staff: 1:1168
Jailer 1:1250
“tormentor”: 2:1115
Jealous, Jealousy 1:1258-1261
envy: 1:730-731
Joseph’s half brothers: 2:106, 109
love not jealous: 2:277
Miriam and Aaron: 2:414-415
Jebus, Jebusites 1:1261-1262
David conquers: 1:941; 2:41-42, 951
David taunted by: 2:190-191
Jehoash (King of Judah) 1:1265-1266
Jehoiada preserves: 1:1268, 1272
Jehoshaphat (King of Judah) 1:1271-1272
alliance with Ahaziah for ships: 1:62-63
victory over Moab: 1:715
Jehovah 1:969-971; 2:5-20
Alpha and Omega: 1:80-81
anger: 1:108-109
‘appoints the blind’: 1:342-343
approach to: 1:135-138; 2:399
attributes: 1:969-970
awesome: 1:222-223
blessing humans: 1:340
blessing Jehovah: 1:340-341
body parts attributed to: 1:348
eyes: 1:789
fingers: 1:832
heart: 1:1059
boundaries set by: 1:358; 2:858
contrast with other gods: 1:970, 979-980; 2:661-663, 729
counsel of: 1:515-516
Creator: 1:526-528, 545
of evil: 1:772-773
day of: 1:594-595; 2:679
discipline from: 2:649
disrespect for: 2:681
earth owned by: 2:200-201
enemies of: 1:725-726
exclusive devotion to: 1:773-774, 970-971; 2:1086
Executioner: 1:403-404
expels wrongdoers: 1:787
Father: 1:13; 2:997-1001
to Israel: 2:997-998
fear of: 1:649-650, 818-819; 2:1190
foreknowledge: 1:851-860
friendship with: 1:873
God Almighty: 1:78-79
God of truth: 2:1130-1131
good name with: 2:209
hated things: 1:17
honor to: 1:1135-1136
humility pleases: 1:1158
Israel preserved by: 2:663
Israel’s central authority: 1:1228-1229
Judge: 1:516-517
knowing Jehovah: 2:704-706
laughs at opposers: 2:210
Lawgiver: 2:222-224
law not violated by: 2:412
Lord: 2:265-267
modesty before: 2:422-424
Most High: 2:441
abuse of: 1:337-338
Enosh’s time: 1:729-730, 1169
in Greek translation of Hebrew Scriptures: 1:1072
in Lachish Letters: 1:152, 325
Jah: 1:1248
knowledge of: 2:466-467
not taking up in worthless way: 2:1086
replaced: 1:324; 2:266-267, 877
zeal for own: 1:1258
not omnipresent: 1:1060
not part of a trinity: 1:639, 968, 1188; 2:511, 556-557
oaths involving: 2:516-518
obedience required: 2:521-522
obeisance to: 2:523
Overseer: 2:565
plagues from: 2:647
position: 1:1060-1061
praise to: 2:666-667
prayer to: 2:667-671
presence: 2:677
Ark: 1:166-167
cloud: 1:483-484
makes a place holy: 1:1129; 2:858-859
pillar of cloud and fire: 2:643
purpose: 1:546-547, 854-855, 970; 2:60-62, 691-693, 784, 962-963, 1056-1057, 1190
qualities: 2:711-712
compassion: 1:493
glory: 1:963
goodness: 1:986
goodwill: 1:988-989
happiness: 1:1032
holiness: 1:1127-1128; 2:897
humility: 1:1159
immortality: 1:1189
impartiality: 1:1192-1193
jealousy: 1:1258-1259
joy: 2:119-120
justice: 2:140, 263-264, 733-736
long-suffering: 2:263-264
love: 2:275
loving-kindness: 2:153-154
loyalty: 2:280-281
mercy: 2:375-377, 760-762
perfection: 1:852-853; 2:602
pity: 2:646-647
righteousness: 1:606; 2:704, 809-811
trust in servants: 2:83
undeserved kindness: 2:155-156
wisdom: 2:1190
regret felt by: 2:776-777
relationship with: 1:1032-1033; 2:591-592, 687-688, 704-706, 760-762, 771, 774, 997-1001, 1009-1010
Moses: 2:435-436, 439-440
Repurchaser: 2:734-735, 781
respect for: 2:782
rest day: 1:545, 1129; 2:832-833, 859
Rewarder: 1:1138
sanctification of: 2:856
Savior: 2:873
sins against: 2:969-970
Source of—
hope: 1:1137-1138
life: 2:246
light: 2:253-254
understanding: 2:1138-1139
sovereignty: 2:1008-1009
based on love: 2:275
challenged: 1:1210; 2:160, 264, 838, 867-869, 1009-1012, 1181
exercised: 2:159-170, 660
symbolized by tree: 1:134
Spirit Person: 2:1018
throne: 2:730-731, 1097-1098
vengeance belongs to: 2:1149-1150
victory given by: 1:168, 174-175
view of nations: 2:473
view of wrongdoing: 2:968-969
visions of: 1:970; 2:862, 896-897, 1180
why wickedness permitted: 2:263-264, 1181
willing subjects sought: 2:164, 168-169, 1009-1010
word of: 2:1201-1202
worker: 2:1204
worship by non-Israelites: 1:710; 2:72-73, 81
Jehu (King of Israel) 2:22-25
Ahab’s house executed by: 1:717
Ahaziah executed by: 1:63
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser: 2:908
start of reign: 1:454-455
Jephthah 2:26-29
not illegitimate: 1:1174
Jeremiah (Prophet) 2:30-32
Euphrates visited by: 1:769-770
prophecies:
during Jehoiakim’s reign: 1:1268-1269
regarding Topheth: 1:1120
purchase of field: 1:608
Jericho 2:34-36
Jesus’ day: 1:258
Jeroboam 2:37-38
Ahijah’s prophecies: 1:64
calf worship: 1:393-394
Jerusalem 1:752; 2:39-49, 542-544, 742, 947-951
Cestius Gallus besieges: 1:1232
“City of David” within: 1:591-592, 747
desolation (607-537 B.C.E.): 1:463
destruction (607 B.C.E.): 1:11, 163; 2:326, 481-482, 1227-1228
destruction (70 C.E.): 1:866; 2:675, 751-752, 902, 1126-1127
Arch of Titus: 2:536
Ezekiel’s mimic siege: 1:462-463
Ezra’s day: 1:797
Fountain of the Big Snake: 1:868
gates: 1:893-897, 1120
Hippodrome: 2:535
illumination during—
Festival of Booths: 1:823-824
Festival of Dedication: 1:824-825
Jebus: 1:1261-1262
Jehovah beautifies: 1:1124
“Jerusalem above”: 1:872; 2:864, 1198
Jesus enters as king: 1:196, 302
Mound in: 2:443
“New Jerusalem”: 1:867, 898; 2:496-497
pools of: 1:305-306; 2:651-652, 943-944, 949-950
Salem: 2:840
Sennacherib threatens: 1:957, 1103-1105; 2:725-726, 894-895
siege ending 617 B.C.E.: 1:1267, 1269; 2:326, 480-481
towers: 2:1118
Tower of Antonia: 1:118; 2:535
trampled on: 1:132-133
wall rebuilt: 2:486
water shaft: 2:951
water tunnels: 1:151, 941-942, 960, 1104
Zion: 2:1236
Jesus Christ 2:52-72
(See also APOSTLE; CHRISTIAN; DISCIPLE; MESSIAH; SEED)
“a god” (Joh 1:1): 2:1202-1203
angelic support: 1:107-108
anointing: 1:114
“born again”: 2:1001
anointing with oil: 2:348-349
apostle: 1:127
approach to God through: 1:137-138, 860
ascension: 1:186-188; 2:977
authority: 2:148-149
baptism: 1:249-250, 458; 2:88, 1173
location: 1:293
baptism into death: 1:252
bearded: 1:267
betrayal and arrest: 2:129-130
foretold: 1:857-858
Peter’s denials: 1:486-487; 2:518, 619
sword used as illustration: 1:169
birth: 1:300, 467, 1094-1095; 2:346-347, 537, 663
registration at: 2:766-767
blessing Jesus Christ: 1:341
body (congregation): 1:349-350, 439; 2:253
body (fleshly): 1:348-349, 841, 1197
bride of: 1:728; 2:49, 344, 496-497, 787, 1158
childhood: 2:537-539
astrologers visit: 1:206-207, 1095; 2:1033
temple visit when 12: 2:347, 538, 1001
Christ Jesus: 1:438
coming in the clouds: 1:484; 2:678
covenants:
to be priest like Melchizedek: 1:524; 2:366-367
with followers for a kingdom: 1:524-525
death: 1:598-599; 2:868-869, 985
burial: 1:983-984; 2:112, 368, 948, 985-986
day of: 2:676
drink offered to: 2:650
earthquake at: 1:669
events leading up to: 2:741-743
evildoer promised Paradise: 2:575-576, 776, 787-788
impalement: 1:1190-1192; 2:1116-1117
location: 1:983-984
Memorial: 2:268-271
mother entrusted to John: 1:370
sunlight fails: 2:1043
time of: 1:1153
tombs opened: 2:368-369
why on stake: 2:300-301, 1117
declared righteous: 1:604-605
demons subject to: 1:614; 2:1028-1029
enter swine: 2:1049
divine: 1:639
endured ridicule: 2:807-808
enemies of: 1:726
everlasting life through: 2:249-251
family: 1:808
half brothers: 1:369-370, 1251-1252; 2:131-132
relatives: 1:1251; 2:89, 346, 841
friendship with Martha, Mary, Lazarus: 2:345-346
genealogy: 1:907-908, 913-917
Hades opens for: 1:1016
head of congregation: 1:1051, 1054-1055; 2:1022-1023
High Priest: 1:187, 1079, 1113, 1117; 2:362-363, 366-367, 378, 687, 1144
home in Judea: 1:292-293
honor to: 1:1136
illustrations: 1:1177-1184
needle’s eye: 1:396; 2:483-484
issue of sovereignty and integrity settled: 2:838, 1012
Jerusalem entry as king: 1:302
ass ridden: 1:196
Jerusalem experiences: 2:45-46
Judge: 2:137
Kingdom:
draws near in: 2:166-168
handed over to Jehovah: 2:170
kingship: 1:134, 491-492; 2:166-170, 875, 1009, 1098, 1168-1169
over spiritual Israel: 2:169
Lamb’s scroll of life: 2:468
language spoken: 1:145-146, 1071
“last Adam” (1Co 15:45): 2:736
Lord’s day: 2:268
manifestation: 2:308-309, 312
“marriage”: 2:787
“messenger of the covenant”: 2:385
Michael: 2:393-394
minister of Jehovah: 2:407-408
ministry: 2:540-541
Capernaum: 1:410-412
Decapolis: 1:603
final week: 1:292-293; 2:742-743
Galilee: 1:884-885; 2:737-740
Jerusalem: 2:45-46
length: 2:901-902
money changers condemned by: 2:428
poor helped by: 2:653
preaching and teaching: 2:672
scribes and Pharisees condemned by: 2:877-878
Scriptures used as inerrant: 2:879-880
Sermon on the Mount: 1:1033
signs performed by: 2:941
similar to Ezekiel’s: 1:792-793
theme: 1:988
miracles: 2:663-665
fig tree cursed: 1:830-831
heals: 1:343, 1055-1056; 2:238-239
multiplies food: 1:262
prophetic: 2:664
resurrects Jairus’ daughter: 1:1250
resurrects Lazarus: 2:225-226
resurrects widow’s son: 2:463-464
walks on water: 1:131
why said not to advertise: 1:878
model prayer: 2:668-669
mother loved and respected by: 2:347-348
name: 1:438
not Alpha and Omega: 1:80-81
not God: 1:639; 2:556-557, 1202-1203
not Jehovah: 2:21
obedience to: 2:522
obeisance to: 1:216-217; 2:523-524
“only-begotten”: 2:556-557, 1000
“Perfecter of our faith” (Heb 12:2): 2:606
Pharisees oppose: 2:625-626
pictured by—
atonement sacrifices: 1:212
copper serpent: 1:505
goat for Azazel: 1:226
high priest: 1:9, 214, 539, 1113, 1117; 2:442
Melchizedek: 1:1113; 2:366-367
Moses: 2:440
Solomon: 2:992-993
prayer through: 2:668
preaches to “spirits in prison” (1Pe 3:19): 2:674
presence as King: 2:676-679
represented in transfiguration: 2:1121
prophecies about: 1:37; 2:386-388
70 weeks: 2:899-904
not predestination: 1:858-859
Psalms: 2:710-711
prophecies by: 1:855-856
prophecy all points to: 2:691-692, 798, 880
prophet: 2:697
qualities:
glory: 1:964
godly devotion: 1:774, 971-972; 2:838
holiness: 1:1128
humility: 1:1159-1160
immortality: 1:1189
incorruption: 1:1197
joy: 2:119-120
long-suffering: 2:264
love: 2:275-276
meekness: 2:364
modesty: 2:423
perfection: 2:605-606
pity: 2:646-647
righteousness: 1:604-605
self-control: 1:110
zeal: 1:1259
ransom: 1:597-598; 2:735-736, 760-762
remnant in Israel accepts: 2:770
resurrection: 1:828; 2:665, 785-786, 1001
abyss he was raised from: 1:35-36
appearances: 1:131, 349, 352; 2:349
resurrection through: 2:783-784
revelation of: 2:797
“rock-mass”: 2:816-817
role in God’s purposes: 2:94, 467, 1190
sacred secret centers on: 2:837
sanctified: 2:856
Seed of Abraham: 2:888-890
Seed of the woman: 1:521-522; 2:887-890
Satan’s enmity: 2:868-869
sweat as blood: 2:1047-1048
titles:
Amen: 1:90
Christ: 1:438
Immanuel: 1:1188-1189
Leader: 2:228
Lord: 2:265-266
“Lord of the sabbath”: 2:833
Messiah: 2:389
Nazarene: 2:475-476
not multiplied: 1:438
Prince of Peace: 2:592-593
Savior: 2:873
Shiloh: 2:928-929
Son of God: 2:1000-1001
Son of man: 2:1001-1003
Sprout: 1:362
Teacher: 1:684; 2:1071-1072
transfiguration: 2:1061, 1120-1121
trial: 1:382-383; 2:46, 235, 640-641
before Herod Antipas: 1:1096
before Pilate: 2:1037
before Sanhedrin: 1:518
color of cloak: 1:489
location: 1:992-993
truth personified: 2:1131
washes disciples’ feet: 1:220, 847; 2:1171
when ‘comes’ or ‘is sent’ into world: 2:1208
yoke: 1:376
Jew(ess) 2:73-74
(See also JUDAISM)
last days of Jewish system: 2:206
mezuzah on doorpost: 2:390
opposition to Christianity: 1:1077-1079; 2:626-627
proselyte: 2:699-700
Jewels and Precious Stones 2:74-75
agate: 1:56
amethyst: 1:91
beryl: 1:291
breastpiece of high priest: 1:365
chrysolite: 1:467-468
chrysoprase: 1:468
coral: 1:506
crystal: 1:554
diamond: 1:624-625
emerald: 1:723
hyacinth: 1:1164
jade: 1:1247
jasper: 1:1257
leshem stone: 2:239
onyx: 2:557
ruby: 2:825
sapphire: 2:862
sardius: 2:864
sardonyx: 2:864
topaz: 2:1114
turquoise: 2:1134
wall of New Jerusalem: 2:497
Job 2:81
integrity: 1:1210-1211; 2:867
issue of selfishness: 2:1011
malignant boil: 1:350
sons banquet on own day: 1:319
John (Apostle) 2:89-91
age and experience: 2:93
completes Bible canon: 1:467
John, Good News According to 2:91-94, 316
John the Baptizer 2:87-89
baptism: 1:248-249
Jesus’ baptism: 1:249-250, 293
birth: 2:1224
death: 1:1095-1096
forerunner of Christ: 1:860
“friend of the bridegroom”: 1:874
start of ministry: 1:458; 2:57, 1100
Jonah 2:98-99
bottle-gourd plant: 1:357-358
Nineveh in time of: 2:504
swallowed by fish: 1:838
in Sheol: 2:923
Jonathan (Son of Saul) 2:102-103
Philistines struck down by, at Michmash: 2:395
Joppa 2:104, 745
Jordan 2:105-106
descent: 2:570
District of the Jordan: 1:636
headwaters: 1:332
Jordan Valley: 1:334
miraculous crossing by Israelites: 1:46
Joseph (Husband of Mary) 2:111-112
contemplates divorce: 1:641
Joseph (Son of Jacob) 2:106-111
burial place: 2:914-915
Egypt: 1:694
half brothers come: 2:124
silver cup for omens: 2:553
term “Avrékh” used in honoring: 1:222
firstborn’s rights received: 1:1028, 1246
sold into slavery: 2:123
Josephus
comments on—
Christians: 1:441-442
Herod’s temple: 2:1079-1081
retreat of Cestius Gallus: 1:1232
Joshua (Son of Nun) 2:113-115
apportioning of Promised Land: 1:358-359
conquest of Canaan: 1:599, 1261-1262
Joy 2:119-121
Festival of Booths: 1:823
Jubilee 2:121-123
property previously sanctified: 2:859-860
property restored to owner: 2:199-200
Judah (Son of Jacob) 2:123-124
Jacob’s deathbed prophecy: 1:491-492; 2:875, 928-929, 1156
relations with Tamar: 1:371, 1036
Judah (Southern Kingdom) 2:126-128
Baal worship: 1:231
chart of kings: 1:464-466
exile by Babylon: 1:415-417, 775
high places for worship: 1:1108-1109
idolatry: 1:1170-1171
Nebuchadnezzar invades: 1:952
no distinction from Israel after exile: 1:417
Sennacherib invades: 1:1103-1105; 2:725-726, 894-895
Judaism 2:128
arguments against Christianity: 1:1077-1079
Atonement Day: 1:214
fable about tablets having the Ten Words: 1:800-801
traditions: 2:1119
execution methods: 1:550-551
four annual fasts: 1:812
hatred for enemies: 1:1043
Sabbath: 2:832
view of—
70 weeks (Da 9:24-27): 2:902-904
Jehovah’s name: 1:338; 2:5-7, 267
paradise: 2:575-576
Shiloh: 2:929
Judas Iscariot 2:129-131
remorse: 2:773
replacement: 1:129
traitor: 2:1119
not foreordained to be: 1:857-858
Judea 2:132-134
Judeans contrasted with Galileans: 1:883-885
Judge 2:134
Christian congregation: 1:519; 2:224-225
illustration of widow and: 1:1182
Jehovah: 1:516-517
Jesus Christ: 2:71
judges and saviors of Israel: 1:743
chronology: 1:461-462
Law covenant: 1:517-518
Moses: 1:517
patriarchal society: 1:517
priests’ role: 2:685
Judgment Day 2:136-138
“day of Jehovah”: 1:594-595; 2:679
mercy triumphs: 2:378
resurrection: 2:788-789, 792-793
Judgment Seat 1:508-509; 2:138
Justice 2:140-141
compensation: 1:493-495
impartiality: 1:517, 1192-1194
legal case: 1:517-518; 2:233-235
ransom: 2:733-736
relationship to mercy: 2:376
retribution: 2:794-795
satisfied by Christ’s sacrifice: 1:212
vengeance: 2:1149-1151
Justification
(See DECLARE RIGHTEOUS)
Key 2:148-149
keys of the Kingdom: 2:620
Kindness 2:153-156
relationship to—
loyalty: 2:280
mercy: 2:378-379
under provocation: 2:277
Kinds (Genesis) 2:152-153
Noah’s ark: 1:164-165
King 2:156-158
anointing: 1:113-114, 439
burial places: 1:379
counting years of rule: 1:461; 2:1215
friend of: 1:873-874
Israel’s kings:
chart: 1:464-466
chronology: 1:462-466
crowns: 1:552-553
idolatry: 1:1170-1171
Jehovah: 2:162-165, 213
northern kingdom: 1:1233
southern kingdom: 1:1108-1109; 2:126-127
Jesus Christ: 2:61-62, 72, 1009
“king of the north” (Da 11): 2:509, 1103
origin of term: 2:159-160
sin a king: 2:964-965
“standing up”: 1:219
throne: 2:1097-1098
Kingdom 2:158-159
development in society: 2:161
Jesus’, over the congregation: 2:169
Kingdom of God 2:159-170
Messianic:
birth: 2:187
earthly seat: 1:433-434
good news of: 1:986-988
illustrations: 1:1178-1180, 1182-1184
Jesus’ covenant with followers: 1:524-525
Jesus’ miracles prophetic of: 2:664
“keys of”: 2:148-149, 620
“kingdom of priests” (Ex 19:6): 2:242, 687
“new heavens”: 1:1061-1062
new system of things: 2:1056
peace: 2:592-593
princes: 2:229
sacred secret of: 2:837-838
“son of man” obtains (Da 7:13, 14): 2:1002-1003
“new song” about: 2:994
typical:
Davidic covenant: 1:356, 524, 588-589
Jerusalem represented: 2:48
Solomon’s rule: 2:992-993
Knowledge 2:180-182
foreknowledge: 1:851-860
knowing Jehovah: 2:704-706
relationship to—
love: 2:276
understanding: 2:1139-1140
wisdom: 2:1189-1190
tree of knowledge of good and bad: 1:676-677; 2:963, 1011, 1123-1124
Korah 2:184
rebellion: 1:25
Lachish 2:188-189
Assyrian exile: 1:952
Lachish Letters: 1:152, 226, 325
Lake of Fire 2:189-190
not literal torment: 2:1115
second death: 1:598
Lampstand 2:196-199
Festival of Booths: 1:823-824
knobs: 2:180
Landowner 2:199-201, 213
boundary mark: 1:360-361
Language 2:201-204, 258
Aramaic: 1:144-146
Canaan: 1:405-406
deciphering: 1:155-156
Egypt: 1:688
Elam: 1:702
Hebrew: 1:1068-1077
Jesus Christ: 1:145-146, 1071
Latin: 2:207-208
translating: 1:1212-1213
Laodicea 2:204-205, 946
Last Days 2:205-207
(See also PRESENCE; SIGN; SYSTEMS OF THINGS; TIME OF THE END)
Christ’s presence: 2:676-679
generation: 1:918
great tribulation: 2:1126-1127
earthquakes: 1:670
since 1914: 1:134-135
Law 2:211-222
(See also COURT, JUDICIAL; CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; LEGAL CASE)
Babylon:
Hammurabi’s code: 1:551
Israel: 1:549
Jehovah’s adherence to: 2:412
Jehovah’s law before Law covenant: 2:222-223
lawgiver: 2:222-225
‘law of the mind’: 2:404-405
legally establishing the good news: 1:273
miracles and natural law: 2:411-412
“overstepping” God’s: 2:967-968
patriarchal society: 1:549
Persia: 1:551-552; 2:612-613
Roman Empire: 1:552
sin’s law: 2:964-965
Law Covenant 1:523-524; 2:213-220, 223-224
abolished: 1:250-251; 2:300-301, 1117
Christians not under: 2:1087
fulfilled in Christ: 1:212, 1080; 2:1131
accusation: 1:39
alien residents: 1:72-74
animals:
care for: 1:111-112
clean and unclean: 1:111; 2:884, 1048-1049
approach to God: 1:136-137
atonement: 1:211-212; 2:733-734
Atonement Day: 1:213-214
beating as punishment: 1:271-272
birth: 1:318-319
blasphemy: 1:338
blood: 1:344-345
boiling kid in mother’s milk: 2:402
capability limited: 1:817
life not possible through: 2:248
“weak through the flesh” (Ro 8:3): 1:841; 2:602-603
chart of features: 2:214-220
circumcision: 1:469-470
cleanness required: 1:263, 478-480
compensation for loss and injury: 1:493-495
concubinage: 1:495-496
courts of law: 1:517-518
creditors and debtors: 1:601
pledge as collateral: 2:648
crime and punishment: 1:549-551
curse from: 2:1117
divorce: 1:640-641, 1163
elementary: 2:1208-1209
eye for eye: 1:342
family: 1:807-808
fat: 1:813-814
fatherless boy: 1:816
festivals: 1:820-828; 2:597-599
foreigners: 1:850
fornication: 1:863
genealogical records essential to operation: 1:907-908
governmental structure: 1:1228-1229
Hammurabi’s code not source: 1:551
health measures: 1:632-633, 829; 2:617
hope provided: 1:1139
validation by blood: 2:361
inheritance rights: 1:1199-1200
Israel elevated by: 2:138
Jubilee: 2:121-123
judges: 1:517-518
land sanctification: 2:859-860
legal case: 2:233-235
leprosy: 1:478-479
magic condemned: 2:294
menstruation: 2:372
Moses as mediator: 2:361-362, 437-438
murder: 1:344, 480, 1084-1085; 2:450
neighbor love: 2:490
oaths: 2:517
offerings: 2:525-528
perfection: 2:602-603
poor persons: 1:939, 962-963; 2:652
priesthood: 2:683-686
not borrowed from Egypt: 2:688
property rights: 1:1155-1156
prostitution: 2:700-701
public instructors of: 2:713
purpose: 1:549-550, 945; 2:213, 220, 224, 242-243
tutor: 2:1134
Mts. Ebal and Gerizim: 1:672, 925-926
repurchasing: 2:734
righteous: 2:810-811
Sabbath: 2:830-834
scribes teach: 2:877-878
sexual organs: 2:1088-1089
sin defined by: 2:965-967
slave-master relationship: 2:978-979
sowing seed: 2:1013
stoning: 2:1037
symbolic wall: 2:1165
system of things based on: 2:1055
Ten Words the basis for: 2:1085-1086
tithe: 2:1109-1110
trees protected: 2:1123
women: 1:584-585; 2:1181-1183, 1196
Lawlessness
(See CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; LAW; MAN OF LAWLESSNESS; SIN)
Lazarus (Jesus’ Friend) 2:225-226
Jesus resurrects: 2:345-346, 348
Lazarus (of Parable) 1:1181; 2:226
Abraham’s bosom: 1:356-357
Leaven 2:229-231
sourdough: 2:1008
symbolic: 1:827-828
Kingdom illustration: 1:1179
“leaven of Herod” (Mr 8:15): 1:1096, 1099
Lebanon 2:231-232
juniper tree: 2:139
Legal Case 2:233-235
(See also COURT, JUDICIAL; CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; LAW)
accusations: 1:39-40
custody of accused persons: 1:562
eye for eye: 1:342
impartiality: 1:343, 1193-1194
Jesus’ trial: 1:382-383, 1096; 2:46, 640-641
judges had latitude: 2:220
manslaughter: 1:472
Paul before Felix, Festus, Agrippa: 1:385, 467, 819, 828, 1098-1099
two witnesses: 2:511
Letters 2:239
Bible times: 1:492-493
Levites 2:241-242
age for service: 1:56-57
covenant with tribe: 1:523
disappearance as a tribe: 1:214
education responsibility: 1:683
Gershonites: 1:926
Kohathites: 2:183
maintenance: 2:684
Merarites: 2:374
musicians: 2:451-454
non-Levites termed “strangers”: 1:74
property rights: 2:200
registration: 2:765-766
retirement: 2:793-794
substitute for firstborn of Israel: 1:835-836; 2:683
Life 2:245-252
as a soul: 2:1006-1007
book or scroll of: 1:356; 2:251, 468, 881
Lamb’s scroll: 2:468
breath or force of: 2:1024-1026
hope of everlasting: 1:1139-1140
immortality: 1:1189-1190; 2:248-249
Jesus as Chief Agent: 2:60-61
life span: 2:252
‘passing over from death to life’: 2:790-791
water of: 2:1173
Light 2:253-255
creation account: 1:527-528
Festival of Booths, Dedication: 1:823-825
Linen 2:256
mixture with wool: 1:483
white: 1:483
Lion 2:256-257
Babylon symbolized by: 1:268-269, 1059; 2:323
bees in corpse: 1:275
Liver 2:258-259
divination using: 1:207, 637; 2:324
Loan 2:259-260
pledge as collateral: 2:648
surety for: 2:1046
Logos
(See WORD, THE)
Lord 2:265-267
Sovereign Lord: 2:1008
Lord’s Evening Meal 2:268-271, 505-506
blessing upon bread and wine: 1:341
communion meal: 2:526
time of night: 2:581
Lot (Nephew of Abraham) 2:272-273
drunkenness: 1:657
Love 2:273-279
affection: 1:55
enemies to be shown: 1:726-727
for Jehovah: 2:1009-1010
for neighbor: 2:490-491
Greek words: 1:55
how love acts: 2:96
Jesus Christ: 2:71-72
loving-kindness (loyal love): 2:153-155
mind’s role in: 2:405
“throws fear outside”: 2:605
Loving-Kindness
(See KINDNESS)
Lowliness of Mind
(See HUMILITY)
Loyalty 2:280-281
loyal love: 2:153-155
Luke 2:282
accuracy: 1:153-154; 2:722
Luke, Good News According to 2:282-284
genealogy of Jesus Christ: 1:915-917; 2:346
Luminary 2:284
creation account: 1:528
Lystra 2:286
worship of Zeus and Hermes: 1:1089; 2:1233
Magic and Sorcery 2:293-294
(See also DIVINATION; SPIRITISM)
charms: 1:428
Ephesus: 1:733-734
medicine: 1:631
Magog 1:981; 2:294-295
Maher-shalal-hash-baz 1:1219; 2:296-297
Malcam 2:298
Man 2:303-305
(See also MANKIND)
hair: 2:475
headship of: 1:1052-1055
husband: 1:1162-1163
physical versus spiritual: 2:404-405
Manasseh (King) 1:758
Manetho 1:450-451, 695-696
Mankind 2:303-305
atonement needed: 1:211-212; 2:735-736
conscience: 2:965-966
creation: 1:44-45, 179, 528; 2:303-304, 1024-1025
Jehovah’s image: 1:1184; 2:247-248, 304, 962-963, 1005
enemies of: 1:726
free moral agency: 1:852, 856-857, 859-860; 2:304, 604
hope of life: 1:1139-1140; 2:247-252
imperfection: 1:841-842
perfection restored: 2:606-607
integrity to God: 1:1210-1212
life-force impersonal: 2:1025-1026
nations of: 2:472-473
need for divine government: 2:160-161
not sons of God by birth: 2:997
reconciliation to God: 2:760-762
relative importance: 2:17-18
sin’s effects: 2:964-965
“sold under sin”: 2:979-980
“son of man”: 2:1001
souls: 2:1005-1007
spirituality: 2:247-248, 404-405
world of: 2:1206-1210
Man of Lawlessness 2:310-312
godly devotion a guise: 1:972-973
Jesus ‘brings to nothing’: 2:309
portents: 2:656
Manuscripts 2:312-318
(See also SCROLL, ROLL)
contrast with Homer’s works: 1:1000-1001
Christian Greek Scriptures: 1:321, 323, 443; 2:878-879, 1152-1153
Acts of Apostles: 1:44
codex development: 1:354-355
copyists: 1:505-506; 2:877-879
entire Bible: 2:1153-1154
Alexandrine Manuscript: 2:336
Hebrew Scriptures: 1:321-322, 324, 1082; 2:1151-1152
Dead Sea Scrolls: 1:322, 1221-1222; 2:710
Masoretic text: 1:459
Samaritan Pentateuch: 2:848
importance of Egyptian finds: 1:699
ink: 1:1201
Jehovah’s name: 1:324, 326, 1072; 2:7, 9-10
palimpsests: 1:355
papyrus: 2:573-574
parchment: 2:577-578
scroll construction: 1:353-354
Marketplace 2:338-340
Athens: 1:210
meat market: 1:508
Marriage 2:340-344
(See also DIVORCE; FAMILY; HUSBAND; SINGLENESS; WIFE)
alliances: 1:75-76
brother-in-law marriage: 1:370-371
concubinage: 1:495-496
engagement: 1:727-728, 815
friend of the bridegroom: 1:874
illustrations using: 1:1183
jealousy in: 1:1261
Jesus Christ: 2:787
monogamy, Jehovah’s standard: 1:807
restored: 1:643
patriarchal society: 2:212-213, 340-341, 756-757
procession: 1:1183
restrictions under Law: 1:95, 808
remarriage of divorced mates: 1:640-641
separation discouraged: 1:808
tribulation in the flesh: 2:1126
unbelieving mate: 1:1131; 2:860
Mary (Mother of Jesus) 2:346-348
children: 1:369-370
Jesus’ birth: 2:56
Matthew, Good News According to 2:352-354
genealogy of Jesus Christ: 1:907, 915-917
written in Hebrew: 1:146, 1213
Matthias 2:354-355
apostle: 1:129-130; 2:590
Maturity 2:355
older men: 2:550
Meal 2:356-357
bosom position at: 1:356-357
communion meal: 2:526
illustrations:
grand evening meal: 1:1180
wedding feast for king’s son: 1:1183
love feasts: 2:279-280
Medes, Media 2:358-360
archaeology: 2:328
capital city: 1:674; 2:327-328
Darius the Mede: 1:568, 580-583
Medo-Persian Empire: 2:327-331
Persia united with: 1:566, 583; 2:611-612
progenitor: 2:290
Mediator 2:360-363
Abrahamic covenant: 1:522
Moses: 2:437-438
Meekness 2:364
Moses: 2:438
Meetings
(See ASSEMBLY; CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION; CONGREGATION; CONVENTION; SCHOOL)
Megiddo 1:953; 2:364-366
battles: 1:1037
Melchizedek 2:366-367, 840
Christ to be priest like: 1:524, 1113
possibly Shem: 2:920
priesthood: 1:341, 1113; 2:683
Memorial
(See LORD’S EVENING MEAL)
Menstruation 2:371-372
uncleanness under Law: 1:479-480
Mercy 2:375-379
gifts of mercy: 1:939-940
Jehovah: 2:760-762, 810
pity: 2:646-647
Merodach (Marduk) 2:380
Babylonian deity: 1:974; 2:482
Mesopotamia 2:384-385
Amurru: 1:99
Aramaeans: 1:142-143
Habiru: 1:1067-1068
Messiah 2:385-389
(See also CHRIST)
“called a Nazarene”: 2:476
genealogy: 1:907-908, 912
pictured by—
Aaron: 1:9
David: 1:591
prophecies about: 2:354, 992-993
70 weeks: 2:899-904
not predestination: 1:858-859
Psalms: 2:710-711
Shiloh: 2:928-929
“Son of man”: 2:1001-1003
Metals 2:389
list:
copper: 1:504-505
electrum: 1:706
gold: 1:982-983; 2:558
iron, steel: 1:1215-1216
lead: 2:228
silver: 2:944
tin: 2:1108
mining: 2:406
rust: 2:828
Mezuzah 2:390
Mind 2:404-406
(See also ATTITUDES [MENTAL])
lowliness of: 1:1157-1161; 2:364
meditation: 2:363-364
mental inclination: 2:1026-1027
thinking ability: 2:1094-1095
Minister 2:406-410
ministerial servants: 2:1034
women not: 2:1197
Phoebe: 2:635
Ministry 2:410
avoiding laziness: 2:228
house to house: 2:673-674
material support: 2:649
no retirement from: 2:794
sacred service: 2:838-839
Miracles 2:411-414
(See also GIFTS FROM GOD)
gifts of the spirit: 1:937-939; 2:665
healing: 1:1055-1056
prophecy: 2:693
tongues: 1:1212-1213; 2:204
Jesus Christ: 2:663-665
fig tree cursed: 1:830-831
fish controlled: 1:838
food multiplied: 1:262
heals: 1:343, 805, 1055-1056; 2:238-239
resurrections: 1:1250; 2:225-226, 463-464
walks on water: 1:131
Jordan crossed by Israel: 1:46
natural forces controlled: 2:661
portent: 2:655-656
Red Sea crossing: 1:781-783
relative importance: 2:664
shadow recedes ten steps: 2:1043-1044
sun and moon stand still: 2:662
Miriam 2:414-415
complaint against Moses: 1:10-11; 2:438
prophetess: 2:698
Moab, Moabites 1:946; 2:418-422
capitals: 1:138, 625; 2:175-176
defeat by Jehoshaphat: 1:715; 2:381-382
Israel camps on plains: 1:298-299
Moabite Stone: 1:152, 208, 325, 430, 946; 2:382, 420
religion: 1:232-233, 430; 2:382
Molech 2:424-425
astrology in worship: 1:207
child sacrifice: 1:1120
Money 2:426-428
(See also CONTRIBUTION; RICHES; TAXATION)
bank, banker: 1:248
hire, wages: 1:1122-1123
list:
daric: 1:580
denarius: 1:614
didrachma: 1:626
drachma: 1:648
mina: 2:404
pim: 2:643
shekel: 2:918
stater: 2:1034
talent: 2:1063
love of: 1:55
tribute: 2:1128
“unrighteous riches”: 2:806
weights: 2:1178
Morals
(See also ATTITUDES [MENTAL]; CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; QUALITIES)
abortion: 1:28
abusive speech: 1:35
adultery: 1:53-54
anger: 1:109-110
bestiality: 1:292
blamelessness: 1:337
blasphemy: 1:337-339
bloodguilt: 1:346-347
bribery: 1:365-366
cleanness: 1:481
conscience: 1:500-502
drunkenness: 1:656-657
fornication: 1:862-864, 1036-1037; 2:700-702
gluttony: 1:964
goodness: 1:986
gossip, slander: 1:989-991
greed: 1:1005-1006
holiness: 1:1130-1131
impartiality: 1:1192-1194
integrity: 1:1209-1212
Jehovah: 2:15-16, 222-223, 412
loose conduct: 2:264-265
loyalty: 2:280-281
lying: 2:244-245
rebelliousness: 2:757-758
righteousness: 2:809-811
sin: 2:962-971
truthfulness: 2:1130-1133
wickedness: 2:1180-1181
Moriah 2:432-433
relationship to Zion: 1:591
Moses 2:434-440
70 older men to assist: 1:704
Aaron represents: 1:9
burning bush: 1:380
“Christ” (Heb 11:26): 1:438-439; 2:440
copper serpent: 1:505
Jehovah’s name explained to: 2:11-13
Jehovah speaks face to face with: 1:801
judges to assist: 1:517
Law received at Sinai: 2:972-973
location of meetings with Pharaoh: 2:723, 1238-1239
mediator of Law covenant: 2:361-362
meekness: 2:364
Miriam and Aaron speak against: 1:10-11; 2:414-415
mother: 2:84
Promised Land viewed by: 1:13
prophet: 2:695
rebellion of Korah, Dathan, Abiram: 1:25; 2:184
relatives: 2:145-146
tent: 2:1085
writings: 1:406-407; 2:597
sources: 1:919-920
Most Holy (room) 1:1133; 2:441-442
antitypical: 1:187
Jehovah’s presence: 1:484
Mother 2:442-443
birth: 1:318-319
uncleanness due to: 1:479-480
nursing: 1:1217
pregnancy: 2:674-676
responsibilities: 1:434-435
Mount, Mountain 2:443-446, 569-570
of Olives: 2:552-553
Mourning 2:446-448
attitudes and gestures: 1:217-218
‘better than laughter’: 2:209
care of beard: 1:266
cuttings of the flesh: 1:563
dirge: 1:627-628
ripping of garments: 2:813-814
sackcloth: 2:834-835
weeping: 2:1177
Murder 2:450-451
accidental manslaughter: 1:472
avenger of blood: 1:221-222
bloodguilt for: 1:344, 346-347
murderer unknown: 1:480, 1084-1085
Music 2:451-454
Alamoth: 1:69
Asaph: 1:185-186
bagpipe: 1:242
cymbals: 1:563
dancing: 1:574-575
dirge: 1:627-628; 2:446-447
flute: 1:842
Gittith: 1:962
harp: 1:1039
Higgaion: 1:1107
horn: 1:1143
Jeduthun: 1:1263-1264
lute: 2:284
Mahalath: 2:295
maskil: 2:350
miktam: 2:399
Muth-labben: 2:454
Nehiloth: 2:489
pipe: 2:643-644
Selah: 2:891
sistrum: 2:975-976
songs: 2:994
of praise: 2:666-667
stringed instrument: 2:1040
tambourine: 2:1064
trumpets: 2:1130
zither: 2:1237
Mustard 2:454
illustration of mustard grain: 1:1179
Naaman 2:456
Elisha cures leprosy: 1:715-716; 2:238
gift to Gehazi: 1:242
Nabonidus 2:457-460
Nabonidus Chronicle: 1:283, 567-568, 581-582
“Verse Account of Nabonidus”: 1:283
Naboth 2:460
Nain 2:463-464, 738
Name 2:464-468
(See also JEHOVAH)
angels: 1:106-107
importance to Hebrews: 2:8, 12
Jehovah: 2:5-13, 16-18, 266-267
months: 1:392
weekdays: 1:593
Nations 2:472-474
(See also GENTILES)
appointed times of: 1:132-135
Genesis history: 1:329, 907, 909-910, 913-914, 922
Ham’s descendants: 1:1023
Japheth’s descendants: 1:985, 1255, 1257
Shem’s descendants: 2:919-920
Israel’s attackers: 1:951-952
Israel’s neighbors: 1:945-946; 2:490
Nazareth 2:476-477, 539
Nebo, Mount 1:13; 2:479
Nebuchadnezzar 2:480-482
Belshazzar’s “father”: 1:282-283; 2:457-458
building projects: 1:235, 372-373, 890; 2:323
dream image: 1:267-268, 1186-1187; 2:481
dream tree: 1:133-135
Egypt conquered by: 1:698
gold image: 1:576, 579, 659, 1187, 1195; 2:383, 482
insanity: 2:291
Judah invaded by: 1:952
king of Babylon: 1:238-239
Tyre conquered by: 2:531
Necho(h) 2:482-483
military campaigns: 1:205, 418, 698
Needle’s Eye 2:483-484
Nehemiah 2:486-487
Jerusalem governed by: 2:44
Nehemiah, Book of 2:487-489
calendar year used in: 2:900
genealogies: 1:912-913
Jerusalem’s gates: 1:893-897
“trustworthy arrangement” (Ne 9:38): 1:910
Neighbor 2:489-491
illustration of neighborly Samaritan: 1:1180
Nephilim 2:491-493
reflection in Greek mythology: 1:1001
sons of Anak called: 1:929
Nest 2:494
birds in temple: 2:1046
eagle: 1:663
New Covenant 1:524
approach to God: 1:137-138
blessings to mankind: 2:362-363
Mediator: 2:362
priesthood: 2:687-688
separation between Jew and Gentile ended: 1:250-251, 851; 2:762
system of things based on: 2:1055
validation by blood: 2:361
New Jerusalem 1:867, 898; 2:49, 496-497
foundation stones: 1:130; 2:590
temple of: 2:1083
Nile 1:686-687; 2:500-502
Shihor branch: 2:927-928
Nineveh 1:958; 2:503-505
Jonah’s preaching: 2:98-99
Noah 2:506-508
construction compared to baptism: 1:251
blood prohibition: 1:345-346
Canaan cursed by: 1:399-400, 402-403, 557-558, 1023, 1123
covenant before Deluge: 1:522
Deluge: 1:609-612
firstborn of: 2:919
preaching work: 2:671
rainbow covenant: 1:522; 2:730
Oath 2:516-518
bound legally with “Amen”: 1:90
curse: 1:557-558
gestures: 1:217
King Saul’s rash oath: 2:871
vow similar: 2:1162
Obedience 2:520-523
“hearing”: 1:664-666
how perfect creatures can fail: 2:604
Israel’s prosperity dependent on: 1:58-59
Moses: 2:438
respect shown by: 2:782
superior authorities: 2:1045
test in Eden: 1:676-677; 2:304, 963
understanding enhances: 2:1190
willing, sought by Jehovah: 2:164, 168-169, 1009-1010
Obeisance 2:523-524
meaning of term: 2:1211
to Jesus Christ: 1:216-217
Offerings 2:525-528
ashes of: 1:191
Atonement Day: 1:211-214
bull: 1:374-375, 1207-1208
children to false gods: 1:403, 739; 2:424-425, 1114-1115
communion: 2:269-270
fat: 1:813
Festival of Booths: 1:822
firstborn: 1:835-836
firstfruits: 1:836-837; 2:597-599
goat: 1:965-966
for Azazel: 1:225-226
high places in Israel: 1:1107-1109
holy to Jehovah: 1:1130
honey of fruit: 1:1135
incense: 1:1153-1154; 2:686
Jesus fulfills and terminates animal: 1:212, 344-345; 2:901-902
kidneys: 2:150
leaven: 2:230
leper who is cured: 1:478-479
liver portions: 2:258
meat, to idols: 1:1172-1173
Pentecost: 2:597-599
pigeon or turtledove: 2:638
priesthood installation: 1:1207-1208
prophetic significance: 1:211-212, 214, 226, 539, 837; 2:230, 528, 599
blood: 1:344-345
fire: 1:834
purpose: 1:211-212
relative importance: 1:137
sin offerings: 1:211-212
Oil 2:546-547
anointing: 1:113-114
body treatment: 1:113
use in sanctuary: 2:433
Ointment and Perfumes 2:547-548
aloe: 1:79-80
balsam: 1:246
calamus, cane: 1:388
cosmetics: 1:514-515
nard: 2:471
perfume receptacles: 1:69, 1157
Older Man 2:548-551
disfellowshipping by: 2:1150
“double honor”: 1:1194
mercy shown by: 2:377-378
reproof given by: 2:781
teachers: 2:1073
Olive 1:844; 2:551-552
illustration of tree (Ro 11): 1:362, 993; 2:474
press: 2:679
value: 1:543
Only-Begotten 2:556-557
Jesus Christ: 2:1000
Ornaments 2:559-561
adornment: 1:51-52
anklet: 1:112
beads: 1:265
bracelet: 1:361
brooch: 1:368
charms: 1:428
crown: 1:552-554
earrings: 1:666
garland: 1:891
jewels and precious stones: 2:74-75
necklace: 2:483
nose ring: 2:510
ring: 2:812
Orphan 1:816
Other Sheep
baptism necessary: 1:254
freedom: 2:999-1000
great crowd: 1:995-997
Memorial observers: 2:270
Overseer 2:564-565
(See also OLDER MAN)
mildness: 2:400
not to be neglectful: 2:485
soberness: 2:983-984
women not included: 2:1197
Palace 2:568
Ahab: 1:948
Ashurnasirpal II: 1:955
Sennacherib: 1:148; 2:188, 895
Jerusalem:
Herod the Great: 1:992-993
Mari: 1:149
Persia:
Ecbatana: 2:328
Shushan: 1:148-149, 764; 2:330-331, 939
Palestine 1:332-336, 740-742, 1234; 2:568-571
Arabah: 1:138-139
archaeology: 1:150-153
Bashan: 1:259-260, 335
birds: 1:317
boundaries: 1:358
tribes: 1:358-359
Carmel: 1:419-420
cisterns: 1:470-471
forests: 1:860
Gilead: 1:942-943
hereditary lands: 1:744, 1200; 2:122, 199-200, 859-860
Jordan River and Valley: 1:332, 334; 2:105-106, 570
Lebanon: 2:231
location strategic: 1:405
mountains: 2:444
Negeb: 2:484-485
plants: 1:543-544, 741-742
rainfall: 2:729
roads: 1:1117-1118
Salt Sea: 2:843-845
Shephelah: 2:923-924
springs: 1:868
wilderness areas: 2:1184
winds: 2:1186-1187
Papyrus 1:544; 2:573-574
manuscripts of Christian Scriptures: 2:315-316
Paradise 2:574-576, 578
Parchment 2:577-578
Bible manuscripts: 2:312, 316-317
Passover 2:580-583
“between the two evenings” (Ex 12:6): 1:592-593; 2:581
bitter greens: 1:320
four in Jesus’ ministry: 2:57-58
Hezekiah’s day: 1:1103
“preparation of”: 2:676
Psalms sung during: 1:1022
Patriarchal Society 2:212-213
ancient Greece: 1:999
birthright: 1:320
brother-in-law marriage: 1:370-371; 2:555
childbearing: 2:726
chronology of pre-Flood: 1:459-460
circumcision: 1:469
contacts with others: 1:400-401
false worship: 1:1169
purchases: 2:715
court, judicial: 1:517
covenants: 1:521-523
education: 1:682-683
gift customs: 1:934-935
hope of life: 2:248
inheritance: 1:709, 1199, 1245; 2:186, 727, 1087-1088
Jehovah’s dealings with: 2:161-162, 694-695
law: 1:549, 561-562; 2:222-223
marriage: 2:340-341, 756-757
oaths: 1:217
problems: 2:161
sin recognized by: 2:966
surety or pledges: 2:1046
tribal arrangement: 1:1228
wealth of patriarchs: 2:804
Paul 2:585-590
ambassador for Christ: 1:89
apostle: 1:130
appeal to Caesar: 1:383
Areopagus: 1:85, 162, 209-210; 2:1141
cleansing at temple: 1:481; 2:478
collection for Judean Christians: 1:487-488
conversion:
blinded: 2:874
first recorded miracle: 1:256
gentleness: 1:923-924
house-to-house ministry: 2:673-674
imprisonments in Rome: 1:351, 383-384, 1010-1011; 2:666, 750, 825
legally establishes good news: 1:273
letter to Laodiceans: 2:205
love: 2:821
ministry: 2:746-750
Antioch (Syria): 1:117
Asia: 1:194
Athens: 1:210, 756; 2:1035-1036
Crete: 1:548
Ephesus elders at Miletus: 2:401
Macedonia: 2:289
Philippi: 1:273; 2:285, 294, 629-631, 749
Spain possibly: 2:1015
Troas: 2:1129-1130
missionary journeys: 1:117, 1005; 2:746-747
first: 1:564-565
second: 1:291; 2:289, 629-630, 637, 943, 1129
third: 1:200, 510-511; 2:289, 637, 803, 849, 1129
mobbed in Jerusalem: 1:176-177, 477
paradise vision: 2:576
personal opinions part of God’s Word: 1:1204-1205
relied on godly wisdom: 2:1193
shipwreck: 2:302-303
“superfine apostles” criticize: 1:818; 2:292, 1127-1128
synagogue preaching: 2:1051
tentmaker: 2:1085
trial before Sanhedrin: 1:104
trials before Felix, Festus, Agrippa: 1:385, 467, 819, 828, 1098-1099
viper bites, on Malta: 2:302-303
vow: 2:1163-1164
voyage to Rome: 1:130-131, 423, 467, 484-485, 548, 565, 802-803, 1236-1237; 2:455, 717, 750, 803, 986, 1052, 1054, 1096, 1233-1234
Peace 2:591-593
communion offerings: 2:526
humility promotes: 1:1160
Pearl 2:593-594
Kingdom illustration: 1:1179
Pentateuch 2:597
Samaritan Pentateuch: 2:848, 1151
Pentecost 2:597-599
33 C.E.:
baptism of new ones: 1:250
disciples not drunk: 1:657
gift of tongues: 1:1212; 2:204
relief measures: 1:939-940
women received holy spirit: 2:1196-1197
wheat loaves offered: 2:230
Perfection 2:602-607
Jehovah: 1:852-853
Jesus born perfect: 2:56
Perfume
(See OINTMENT AND PERFUMES)
Pergamum 2:607-608
altar to Zeus: 2:945
Persecution 2:608-611
blessing persecutors: 1:342
endurance needed: 1:724-725
Isaac by Ishmael: 1:1216, 1225
of Christians:
Caiaphas: 1:386
first century: 1:467
Jerusalem: 1:1077
Roman Empire: 1:383-384, 441-442, 1196
reproach: 2:779-780
ridicule: 2:807-808
tribulation: 2:1126
Persia, Persians 2:611-617
archaeology: 1:148-149, 763-764; 2:328-330
architecture: 1:160
attempts to conquer Greece: 1:1002-1003
capital cities: 2:327-330
crime and punishment: 1:551-552
Daniel’s service in: 1:576-577; 2:870
Artaxerxes (Bardiya or Gaumata): 1:181-182
Artaxerxes Longimanus: 1:182, 463; 2:487-488, 899-900
Cyrus: 1:566-569
Darius Hystaspis: 1:583-584
Darius Ochus: 1:584
Xerxes I (Ahasuerus): 1:61
Medes dominated by: 2:359-360
Medo-Persian Empire: 2:327-331
pictured by—
bear: 1:268-269; 2:803-804
ram: 1:269
silver in dream image: 1:1186
religion: 1:977-978
satraps: 2:870
Peter 2:618-621
authority equal to that of other apostles: 1:129
Jesus denied by: 1:486-487; 2:518
“keys of the kingdom”: 2:148-149
never in Rome: 2:621-622
not “rock-mass”: 2:815-817
Pharaoh 2:624-625
crown: 1:553
Exodus: 1:155, 696, 777; 2:723
decree to destroy male children: 1:779
heart hardened: 1:857; 2:1041, 1181
Jehovah opposed by: 1:780; 2:12
Jehovah shows power to: 2:12, 662, 1181
Moses before: 2:436, 1238-1239
Hophra: 1:1140
Ramses II: 1:692, 696; 2:723, 1239
Tirhakah (Taharqa): 1:532; 2:1109
Pharisees 2:625-626
beliefs about life after death: 2:226
contempt for common people: 2:600-601
hypocrisy: 1:1165
illustration of tax collector and: 1:1182
oaths: 2:518
washing hands: 2:1171
unforgivable sin: 2:968-969
Philistia, Philistines 2:631-634
ark of the covenant captured: 1:166-167; 2:641-642
connection with Cherethites: 1:431
David defeats: 1:233
government: 1:223-224
religion: 1:570
Philosophy 2:634
Greece: 1:1000
Epicureans: 1:755-756
soul: 1:1002; 2:336, 1004-1005
Stoics: 2:1035-1036
Phoenicia 2:635-636
(See also TYRE)
religion: 1:945-946
ships: 2:932-933
Sidon: 2:940-941
Pilate 2:639-641
inscription of name: 1:153; 2:741
Jesus’ trial: 1:382-383, 1096
Pity 2:646-647
mercy: 2:375-379
Plague 2:647
(See also EXODUS)
locust plagues: 2:261
Ten Plagues: 1:976; 2:436, 530, 662, 1041
sixth (boils): 1:350
tenth (firstborn die): 1:835, 976; 2:581-582
Plants 2:1148-1149
(See also TREES)
balsam-producing: 1:246-247, 544
list:
baca: 1:241
barley: 1:256-257, 741
bitter greens: 1:320
bottle-gourd plant: 1:357-358
bramble: 1:361-362
brier: 1:367
broad bean: 1:367-368
broom tree: 1:368
bush: 1:380
calamus, cane: 1:388
coriander: 1:508
cotton: 1:515
cucumber: 1:555
cumin, black cumin: 1:543, 556-557
dill: 1:626
garlic: 1:891
gourd: 1:991
grape: 1:742; 2:1155-1156
grass: 1:994
hedge: 1:1084
henna: 1:1088
hyssop: 1:1165
leek: 2:232
lentil: 2:236
lily: 2:255-256
marshmallow: 2:345
millet: 2:403
mint: 2:411
myrrh: 2:455
myrtle: 2:455
nettle: 2:496
onion: 2:556
reed: 2:763
rue: 2:826
rush: 2:827-828
saffron: 2:839-840
salt herb: 2:843
sorrel: 2:1003
spelt: 2:1016
spikenard: 2:1017
thistle: 2:1095
thorn: 2:1095-1096
vine: 1:742; 2:1155-1156
watermelon: 2:1174
weeds: 2:1175-1176
wheat: 1:741, 1178-1179; 2:1179-1180
wormwood: 2:1210
Palestine: 1:543-544, 741-742; 2:571, 1123
poisonous: 2:650
spice: 2:1016
straw: 2:1039
stubble: 2:1040
Poor 2:652-653
begging: 1:278-279
offerings of the: 2:638
provisions under Law: 1:939, 962-963
spiritually: 1:279
Power, Powerful Works 2:659-665
(See also GIFTS FROM GOD; MIRACLES)
‘active force’ more than power: 2:1020
arm symbolizes: 1:168
bull symbolizes: 1:375
gifts of the spirit: 1:937-939
God’s Word exerts: 2:1202
miracles: 2:411-414
portent: 2:655-656
Praise 2:666-667
blessing others: 1:340-342
flattery: 1:839
songs of: 1:1022
Prayer 2:667-671
Amen at close: 1:91
blessings said in: 1:341
freeness of speech: 2:605
illustrations:
Pharisee and tax collector: 1:1182
widow and judge: 1:1182
images not to be used: 1:1168
in behalf of others: 1:862; 2:774
incense symbolic of: 1:1196
postures: 1:215-216
kneeling: 2:179
proper subjects: 2:711
‘spirit pleads for us’: 2:405
Preacher, Preaching 2:671-674
evangelizer: 1:770-771
good news: 1:986-988
Greek word: 1:1089
Jews’ activity: 2:699-700
Jews preached to first: 2:700
women: 2:1196-1197
Word of God: 2:1201-1202
Predestination
(See FOREKNOWLEDGE, FOREORDINATION)
Pregnancy 2:674-676
(See also CHILDBEARING)
prenatal influence: 1:1244
womb: 2:1199-1200
Preparation 2:676
“of the passover”: 2:583
Presence 2:676-679
Jehovah: 2:13-14
Ark: 1:166-167
cloud: 1:483-484; 2:1085
personal presence: 1:135
Jesus Christ:
manifestation during: 2:308-309, 312
sign: 2:941-942
transfiguration vision: 2:1121
Press 2:679-680
wine: 2:1187
Pride 2:681-682
haughtiness: 1:1044-1045
leads to presumptuousness: 2:680
Priest 2:682-689
(See also HIGH PRIEST)
anointed Christians: 1:1134
Egypt: 1:96-97, 689; 2:554-555
Israel:
alcoholic beverages: 1:22, 1174
approach to God: 1:136-137
duties: 2:606
ephod: 1:736
freedom from physical defects: 1:339; 2:1088
installation of priesthood: 1:22, 831, 1207-1208; 2:361-362
Malachi’s day: 2:298
non-Levite “strangers” excluded: 1:74
Sabbath duties: 2:831
patriarchal society: 1:136; 2:72-73
Prison 2:689-690
bonds: 1:350-352
dungeon: 1:659
jailer: 1:1250
torment: 2:1115
Prophecy 2:690-694
(See also PROPHETIC PATTERNS)
beasts of Daniel and Revelation: 1:267-271
by Christians: 1:938; 2:697-698
“day” in prophecy: 1:593
“day of Jehovah”: 1:594-595; 2:679
foreknowledge and foreordination: 1:851-860
Messianic: 1:1223-1224; 2:354, 386-388, 710-711, 899-904, 992-993, 1002-1003
multiple fulfillment: 1:37
understanding of: 1:1213-1214; 2:1141
visions: 2:1159
“year” in prophecy: 2:1215
Prophet 2:694-698
“behaving like a”: 2:872
chart of Israel’s: 1:464-466
Jesus Christ: 2:71
official garment: 2:545
prophetess: 2:698
seer: 2:890-891
strategically located: 1:791
visionary: 2:1160
Prophetic Patterns 2:693-694
Aaron: 1:9
Aaronic priesthood: 1:1117, 1134; 2:606, 687-688
altar: 1:85
Atonement Day: 1:214
atonement sacrifices: 1:211-212
Babylon: 1:239-241
David: 1:591
Elijah: 1:712-713
Exodus: 1:783-784
Festival of Unfermented Cakes: 1:827-828
firstfruit offerings: 1:837; 2:528
Hagar and Ishmael: 1:1018
high priest: 1:9, 539, 1080, 1113, 1117; 2:1144
Isaac: 1:1217-1218
Jesus fulfills: 1:539; 2:62, 691
Jesus’ blood: 1:344-345
Jubilee: 2:123
king of Tyre: 2:604
Law covenant: 2:220, 1131, 1208-1209
Lot’s day: 2:273
manna: 2:310
Melchizedek: 1:1113; 2:366-367
molten sea (copper sea): 2:426
multiple fulfillment: 2:693
new heavens and a new earth: 1:1061-1062
Noah’s day: 2:508
offerings: 1:211-212, 214, 226, 344-345, 539
Sarah: 2:864
Sodom: 2:985
Solomon: 2:992-993
tabernacle: 1:187, 538-539, 983, 1134; 2:1060
temple: 2:1081-1082
true worship exalted: 2:445
Proselyte 2:699-700
Cornelius not: 1:513
Prostitute 1:1036-1037; 2:700-702
hire paid to: 1:1122-1123
Rahab: 2:727-728
Samson lodges with: 2:850
Proverbs, Book of 2:703-707
purpose: 2:1094
Psalms, Book of 2:708-712
(See also MUSIC)
acrostics: 2:193-194
David’s Psalms: 1:586
Hallel Psalms: 1:1022
Selah: 2:891
Songs of Ascents: 1:188
Ptolemy (Astronomer)
reliability: 1:455-456
Purim 1:46; 2:716-717
Quail 2:718
Israelites’ greed: 2:149
Qualities
(See also ATTITUDES [MENTAL]; EMOTIONS)
list:
blamelessness: 1:337
charm: 1:428
cleanness: 1:478-481
conscience: 1:500-502
courage: 1:516
earnestness: 1:1198
endurance: 1:724-725
exclusive devotion: 1:773-774
faith: 1:803-805
generosity: 1:918-919
gentleness: 1:923-924
godly devotion: 1:971-973
goodness: 1:986
haughtiness: 1:1044-1045
holiness: 1:1127-1131
hope: 1:1137-1140
hospitality: 1:74-75, 1149-1152
humility: 1:1157-1161
hypocrisy: 1:1164-1165
industriousness: 1:1198-1199
insight: 1:1202
integrity: 1:1209-1212
justice: 2:140-141
kindness: 2:153-156
laziness: 2:227-228
long-suffering: 2:262-264
love: 2:273-279
loyalty: 2:280-281
meekness: 2:364
mercy: 2:375-379
mildness: 2:399-401
modesty: 2:422-424
obedience: 2:520-523
peace: 2:591-593
presumptuousness: 2:680-681
pride: 2:681-682
reasonableness: 2:756
respect: 2:782-783
self-control: 2:892-893
self-will: 2:893
soberness: 2:983-984
stubbornness: 2:1040-1041
submissiveness: 2:1041
wisdom: 2:1189-1195
Moses: 2:435-438
Nehemiah: 2:487
older men: 2:550
overseers: 2:400, 565, 983-984
symbolized by animals: 1:267-268, 270-271
Quarrel 2:718-719
strife: 2:1040
Queen 2:720-721
of Sheba: 2:805, 912-913, 990-991
Quirinius 2:721-722
registrations under: 2:766-767
Raamses, Rameses 2:723
Exodus starting point: 1:780-782; 2:1238-1239
Rachel 2:726-727
Laban’s teraphim stolen: 1:1245; 2:186, 1087-1088
mandrakes purchased: 2:308
Rahab 2:727-728
prostitution forsaken: 2:702
Rain 2:728-730
Palestine: 1:483; 2:570-571, 1186-1187
Rainbow 2:730-731
Ransom 2:733-736
basis for reconciliation: 2:760-762
beneficiaries: 1:597-598, 854; 2:788, 790-792
Jesus Christ: 1:212; 2:868-869
justice satisfied: 1:212; 2:412
repurchase: 2:781
Reading 2:713-714, 754-755
Rebelliousness 2:757-758
Absalom: 1:33-34
apostasy: 1:126-127
children: 1:435
Korah, Dathan, Abiram: 1:25; 2:184
loose conduct: 2:264-265
“man of lawlessness” (2Th 2:3): 2:310-312
Satan: 2:866-867
Reconciliation 2:760-762
man with God: 1:212
Re-Creation
(See CREATION)
Red Sea 2:763
Israel crosses: 1:537; 2:436-437, 638-639
waters “congealed”: 1:783
not ‘sea of reeds’: 1:781
Relief 2:769
(See also CONTRIBUTION; WIDOW)
Jerusalem after Pentecost: 1:939-940
Judean Christians: 1:487-488; 2:631
Repentance 2:770-777
Jehovah sincere in exhorting: 1:854
John’s baptism: 1:249; 2:87-88
Reproof 2:780-781
rebuke: 2:758-759
Reptiles 2:781
(See also SERPENT, SNAKE)
dragon: 1:649
chameleon: 1:426
gecko: 1:903
Repurchase, Repurchaser 2:734-735, 781
Boaz: 1:347-348, 371; 2:828-830
brother-in-law marriage: 1:370-371
Jehovah: 2:734-735, 873
Jesus Christ: 2:735-736
Respect 2:782-783
obeisance: 2:523
showing: 1:216-217
Restoration 2:783
Israel: 1:417-418, 568-569, 797-799, 1231; 2:44, 332, 769-770
date of beginning: 1:463
needs after: 1:445-446
prophecies: 1:37, 306-307, 1219-1220; 2:257, 576, 769-770, 1024-1025
Resurrection 2:783-793
earthly:
purpose: 2:137-138, 775-776
examples:
Eutychus: 1:770
Jairus’ daughter: 1:1250
Lazarus, Jesus’ friend: 2:225-226
widow of Nain’s son: 2:463-464
heavenly: 1:252-254, 1189-1190, 1197-1198; 2:890, 1014-1015
Jesus Christ: 1:828, 1189, 1197; 2:665, 1001
appearances after: 1:131, 349, 352; 2:349
pre-Christian belief: 1:579; 2:369
who do not receive: 1:616-617
Retribution 2:794-795
vengeance: 2:1149-1151
Revelation 2:797
“man of lawlessness” (2Th 2:3): 2:312
“sons of God” (Ro 8:19): 2:999
Revelation to John 2:798-801
144,000 (Re 7:4; 14:1, 3): 1:995-996; 2:687, 889
beasts of: 1:267
image of the wild beast: 1:1187
out of earth: 1:270-271
out of sea: 1:269-270
scarlet-colored wild beast: 1:271
“glassy sea” (Re 4:6; 15:2): 2:426
“great crowd” (Re 7:9): 1:995-997
“new heaven and a new earth” (Re 21:1): 1:1062
“New Jerusalem” (Re 21:2): 2:496-497
seven congregations: 2:945-946
“twenty-four elders” (Re 4:4): 2:513
“two witnesses” (Re 11:3-12): 2:730
Reviling 2:801-802
associated with rebellion: 1:991
Riches 2:804-806
proper use: 2:828
rich man and Lazarus: 1:1016, 1181; 2:226
spiritual: 1:732
Righteousness 2:809-811
attempts to prove own: 1:606-607
blamelessness: 1:337
declare righteous: 1:603-607
justice: 2:140-141
symbolized by white linen: 1:483
River 2:814-815
Abanah: 1:12-13
Chebar: 1:428-429
Eden’s: 1:677
Euphrates: 1:331, 768-770; 2:1141-1142
Gozan: 1:993
Hiddekel (Tigris): 1:1106
Nile: 1:531, 534, 686-687; 2:500-502
Pharpar: 2:626
Pishon: 2:644
river of Egypt: 2:815, 927-928
Rod, Staff 2:817-819
commander’s staff: 1:491-492
scepter: 2:875
Roman Empire 2:533-536, 822
architecture: 1:160-161
army: 1:175-177, 220-221, 1010-1011, 1236
Praetorian Guard: 1:1011; 2:665-666
Caesars: 1:381-384; 2:534, 822
Christians persecuted by: 1:383-384, 441-442, 467, 1196
citizenship: 1:473, 476-477; 2:819
communications: 1:492-493
crime and punishment: 1:552
beating: 1:272
impalement: 1:1190-1191
lèse-majesté: 1:382-383
sedition: 2:886
gladiatorial games: 1:888
government:
city recorder: 1:475-476
constable: 1:502
different from previous empires: 1:269
governor: 1:992-993
magistrate: 2:294
proconsul: 2:690
province: 2:707-708
Greece taken over: 1:1004
Israel taken over: 1:1232; 2:45
Jerusalem destroyed by: 1:1232; 2:751-752
night watches: 2:499
pictured by—
iron in dream image: 1:1186
emperor worship: 1:1196; 2:533, 536, 608, 824
roads: 1:1118
slavery: 1:870-871
tax collectors: 2:1070
theaters: 2:1089
Rome 2:533, 822-825
Arch of Titus: 2:197-198, 536, 752
congregation in: 2:820-821
early history: 1:457
fire: 1:383-384
Jews banished from: 1:467, 476
not Babylon the Great: 1:240
Ruler 2:826
(See also GOVERNMENT; KINGDOM)
commander’s staff: 1:491-492
crown: 1:552-553
God’s ministers: 2:409-410
God’s permission: 2:1009
lawgivers: 2:224
list:
axis lords: 1:223-224
Caesars: 1:381-384; 2:534
chieftain: 1:433-434
city rulers: 1:476
deputy: 1:615
duke: 1:658
Herods: 1:1090-1099
king: 2:156-158
leader, noble, prince: 2:228-229
Pharaohs: 2:624-625
proconsul: 2:690
queen: 2:720-721
Satan: 2:867-869
satrap: 2:870
sheik: 2:917-918
prayer for: 2:669
respect for: 1:1194; 2:401, 783
scepter: 2:875
Ruth (Moabitess) 2:828-830
gleaning: 1:963
marriage to Boaz: 1:371
Sabbath Day 2:830-833
holy conventions: 1:503-504, 821, 1129
Jehovah’s great: 1:545, 668, 1129
Preparation: 2:676
reading in synagogue on: 2:713
“sabbath day’s journey”: 2:119
when instituted: 2:1176
Sabbath Year 2:833-834
debts during: 1:601
holiness: 1:1129
Jubilee included: 1:1129; 2:122
Sacred Secret 2:836-838
Edenic promise: 2:887-890
godly devotion (1Ti 3:16): 1:971-972
revelation of: 2:797
in Jesus Christ: 1:734; 2:60, 160, 691, 1190
Sacrifices
(See OFFERINGS)
Salt 2:842-843
covenant of: 1:521
Salt Sea 2:843-845
fish: 1:838
salt: 1:336
Sodom and Gomorrah: 1:48, 153, 636
Samaria 2:845-847
(See also ISRAEL [NORTHERN KINGDOM])
Ahab’s palace: 1:948
ivory pieces: 1:100-101, 948
Samaritan 2:847-848
illustration of neighborly: 1:1180; 2:490-491
origin: 1:562
religion: 1:926
Samaritan Pentateuch: 2:1151
Samson 2:849-850
Dagon’s temple: 1:159
Delilah betrays: 1:608
gates of Gaza carried off: 1:892, 900
honey from lion’s corpse: 1:275
Nazirite: 2:478
Samuel 2:850-853
demon impersonates: 1:861; 2:1027-1028
Sanctification 2:856-860
(See also HOLINESS)
Jehovah’s name: 2:16-18
land: 1:1200; 2:200, 1162-1163
warfare: 2:1166-1167
Sanctuary 2:858, 860-861
(See also MOST HOLY [ROOM]; TABERNACLE; TEMPLE)
anointed Christians: 1:1134
taxes for, in Israel: 2:1069
Sandal 2:861-862
Sanhedrin 1:518-519
Sarah 2:862-864
laughter about Isaac: 2:208
Sardis 2:864, 946
Sargon 1:204, 960; 2:864-866
Satan 2:866-870
Beelzebub: 1:275
Belial: 1:281-282
issue of sovereignty: 1:1210; 2:16, 1010-1012, 1181
reasoning contradictory: 2:1011
liar: 2:245
Serpent: 2:784-785, 898
enmity with woman’s Seed: 2:609
similarity to “king of Tyre” (Eze 28): 2:604
Saul 2:870-873
anointed as king: 2:851-852
army: 1:173-174
David seemingly unknown to: 2:855
David’s relationship with: 1:586-588
Jabesh-gilead returns rescue: 1:1240-1241
Gibeonites kill “sons” of: 1:932, 1030
Jehovah’s regret over: 2:776-777
spirit medium consulted by: 1:861; 2:1027-1028
war against Philistines: 2:395-396
Saul of Tarsus
(See PAUL)
Scepter 2:875
different from commander’s staff: 1:491-492
School 2:875-876
tutor: 2:1134-1135
Scribe 2:876-879
Bible copyists: 1:505-506; 2:313
Masoretes: 2:314
Sopherim: 1:1081-1082; 2:267
Scroll, Roll 2:880-881
(See also BOOK; MANUSCRIPTS; WRITING)
construction: 1:353-354
opened during Millennium: 2:788
papyrus: 2:573-574
parchment: 2:577-578
scroll of life: 2:468
God’s: 2:251
Scythian 2:295, 881
Sea 2:881-882
(See also RED SEA; SALT SEA; SEA OF GALILEE; SHIP)
beasts out of:
Daniel: 1:267-269
Revelation: 1:269-270
dead given up by: 1:1016
Great Sea: 1:997-998
molten sea: 2:425-426
sand of: 2:861
Sea of Adria: 1:52
Sea of Galilee 1:336, 885
area around: 2:740
boats: 2:933
names: 1:437
Secretary 2:885
Seed 2:886-890
(See also AGRICULTURE)
Abraham’s: 1:30-31, 522, 524, 1066-1067; 2:362-363
blessings from: 2:362-363
Serpent’s: 2:963
woman’s: 1:310-311, 521-522; 2:160, 162, 164-165, 869, 1198
descent: 1:907-908, 912, 1067
distortions in false worship: 1:974-975, 978
remnant: 2:770
Self-Control 2:892-893
anger: 1:109-110
wisdom of: 2:1026-1027
Selfishness
(See also ENVY; JEALOUS, JEALOUSY)
greed: 1:1005-1006
Sennacherib 1:204; 2:893-895
archaeological finds: 1:148, 952
Lachish besieged: 2:188
Jerusalem threatened: 1:957, 1103-1105; 2:725-726
Senses
keeping one’s: 2:983-984
Serpent, Snake 2:897-898
arrow snake: 1:179
asp: 1:195
cobra: 1:485-486
copper serpent: 1:505
fiery snake: 1:830
horned viper: 2:1157
sense of hearing: 1:485-486
snake charming: 1:428
venom: 2:1151
viper: 2:1157
Paul bitten by: 2:302-303
worship of: 2:530
Seth 2:899
Eve’s comment at birth of: 1:772
Seventy Weeks 1:463; 2:899-904
beginning: 2:614-616
Sex
(See also CHILDBEARING; MORALS)
bestiality: 1:292
during menstruation: 2:372
fornication: 1:862-864
Jehovah’s respect for: 2:1088-1089
not original sin: 1:676
prostitution: 1:1036-1037; 2:700-702
rape: 2:753
sex crime at Gibeah: 1:929-930
sexually transmitted disease: 2:258-259
uncleanness under Law: 1:479-480
unnatural sex: 2:475
Shear-jashub 1:1219; 2:912
Sheba 2:912-913
queen of: 2:990-991
Shechem (City) 1:530, 1245; 2:914-915
Sheep 2:915-917
(See also SHEPHERD)
illustrations:
lost sheep: 1:1180-1181
sheep and goats: 1:606, 1183-1184
Jacob’s agreement with Laban: 1:1244
know voice of shepherd: 2:924-925
ram’s horn: 1:1143
sheepfold: 1:898-899
Shem 2:919-920
possibly Melchizedek: 2:367
Sheol 2:922-923
Hades equivalent: 1:1016
“hell” a poor translation: 1:1086-1087
Jewish belief of paradise in: 2:575-576
not a single grave: 1:994-995
“pit”: 2:645
Shepherd 2:924-925
(See also SHEEP)
binding house of the shepherds: 1:315
David: 1:586
Jehovah: 2:565
sheep listen to voice: 2:915
staff: 2:817
Shiloh 2:928-929
rulership: 1:491-492
tribe of Judah: 2:127
Shining One 2:932
Babylonian dynasty: 2:867-868
Ship 2:932-934
Ahaziah and Jehoshaphat: 1:62-63, 796
Corinth Isthmus: 1:508
galley: 1:886
Paul’s travels: 1:484-485, 514
“Sons of Zeus”: 2:1233-1234
Phoenician: 2:636
rudder: 2:825-826
Solomon’s fleet: 1:796; 2:1066-1067
storms: 2:319-320
Tarshish ships: 1:796; 2:1066-1067
Tyrian: 2:532
Shishak 2:934
invasion of Judah: 1:149-150, 952
Shushan 2:938-939
archaeology: 1:148-149; 2:330
castle: 1:422
Sign 2:941-942
(See also LAST DAYS; PRESENCE; TIME OF THE END)
Isaiah and sons: 1:1219; 2:296-297
omen: 2:553
portent: 2:655-656
“sign of the Son of man”: 2:1002-1003
Siloam 2:943-944
Festival of Booths: 1:823-824
pool: 1:941; 2:651, 943-944, 949-950
water tunnel: 1:151, 960, 1104
Sin 2:962-971
abolition: 1:598
Adam and Eve: 1:771-772, 853-855; 2:263, 1010
against holy spirit: 1:339; 2:792
anointed Christians: 1:605
atonement for: 1:211-214, 225-226, 344-345; 2:733-736
guilt offerings: 2:527-528
sin offerings: 1:211-212, 1132; 2:526-527
Christian attitude toward: 2:96
confession: 2:773-774
difference between act and practice: 1:1008
effects: 1:45-46, 589-590, 596-597; 2:617
fault: 1:817-818
help for: 2:521
inherited: 1:479-480; 2:18-19
perfect persons: 2:604
promotion of: 2:265
reconciliation for: 2:760-762
repentance for: 2:771-776
reproof for: 2:780-781
Satan originates: 2:866-867
slavery to: 2:979-980
suffering no evidence of: 2:82-83
Sinai 1:950, 1141; 2:971-973
Israel encamps at: 1:136, 662, 669-670, 1079; 2:444, 764-765, 858
Singleness 2:973-974
advantages: 1:119
not required: 1:768
Sisera 2:975
Jael kills: 1:1247-1248
‘stars fought against’: 2:1033-1034
Skin 2:976-977
parchment: 2:577-578
sealskin: 2:883-884
tanning: 2:1065
Sky 2:977
appearance from earth: 1:1060, 1064
expanse: 1:786
Slave 2:977-980
illustrations:
good-for-nothing slaves: 1:1181
unmerciful slave: 1:1179
Jehovah’s servants: 1:253-254, 774
mark indicating ownership: 2:320
Roman Empire: 1:870-871
Smyrna 2:946, 982
Social Gatherings
(See ASSOCIATION; HOSPITALITY)
Sodom 2:984-985
location: 1:48, 636; 2:844-845
Solomon 1:748-749; 2:986-993
building projects: 1:159-160, 372, 1156-1157; 2:42, 654
Ezion-geber: 1:796
gates of Hazor, Gezer, and Megiddo: 1:158, 928, 1049-1050
ships of Tarshish: 1:796; 2:1066-1067
cities given to King Hiram: 1:381, 1121
deputies: 1:615
horses accumulated: 1:174, 1145
king and congregator: 1:674
name Jedidiah: 1:1263
proverbs: 2:702-703
queen of Sheba visits: 2:912-913
view of—
human wisdom: 2:1192
life: 2:250
Solomon’s Temple 1:748, 750-751; 2:1076-1078
altars: 1:83
ark of the covenant: 1:165-168
basins: 1:261
cherubs: 1:432
construction: 1:159-160, 461, 1121; 2:560, 988
alabaster: 1:69
carvings: 1:421
gold: 1:982
Hiram (artisan) assists: 1:1121-1122
precious stones: 2:74-75
date burned: 1:11
David’s preparation: 1:159, 590
inauguration: 2:988-990
Jehoash repairs: 1:1266
lampstands: 2:197
molten sea: 2:425-426
pillars Jachin, Boaz: 1:348, 412, 1241
porch: 2:654
Son(s) of God 2:996-1001
Adam: 2:304
anointed Christians: 1:51, 546, 605; 2:857, 998-999
revealing of: 2:797
Song 2:994
(See also MUSIC)
Israel: 2:452-454, 666-667
Deborah and Barak: 1:600
Levite temple singers: 2:452-454
Song of Ascents: 1:188
seraphs: 2:897
Son of Man 2:1001-1003
sign of: 2:942
Soul 2:1004-1007
belief in immortality:
Egypt: 1:691
Pharisees: 2:625
heart’s effect on: 2:706
resurrection: 2:789-790
Sovereignty 2:1008-1012
(See also KINGDOM OF GOD)
issue of Jehovah’s: 1:1210; 2:16-17, 160, 264, 867-869, 1181
settled in Christ: 2:67-68, 838
Jehovah’s:
Adam to recognize: 2:304
based on love: 2:275
exercise of: 2:159-170, 660
symbolized by tree: 1:134; 2:1123-1124
willing submission to: 2:164, 168-169
presumptuousness shows disrespect for: 2:681
Sower, Sowing 2:1012-1015
(See also AGRICULTURE)
illustration of sower: 1:1178
methods: 1:1178
reap what is sown: 2:756, 808-809
Speech
(See ABUSIVE SPEECH; LANGUAGE; TONGUE)
Spice 1:844; 2:1016
cinnamon: 1:468-469
coriander: 1:508
cumin: 1:556-557
garlic: 1:891
Spirit 2:1017-1027
(See also HOLY SPIRIT)
‘force actuating mind’ (Eph 4:23): 2:404
“inspired expressions”: 1:1206-1207
King Saul’s bad: 2:871-872
soul distinct from: 2:1007
longness of spirit: 2:262-263
“of the truth”: 2:1131-1132
persons: 1:106-107, 348
“spirits in prison” (1Pe 3:19): 2:492, 674
spiritual man: 2:305
value of controlling: 2:706
Spiritism 2:1027-1030
(See also DIVINATION; MAGIC AND SORCERY)
Ephesus: 1:733-734
Saul consults medium: 1:861; 2:872-873
snake charming: 1:428
Spiritual Temple 2:1081-1082
(See also PROPHETIC PATTERNS; TEMPLE)
anointed Christians likened to a: 1:373, 514, 867; 2:1023, 1036, 1083
approach to Jehovah: 1:187
earthly courtyard: 2:860-861
pictured by tabernacle and by temple: 1:1134
priesthood: 1:1134
Star 2:1031-1034
constellations:
Ash: 1:189
Kesil: 2:147
Kimah: 2:151
Mazzaroth: 2:355-356
Davidic dynasty: 2:932
star-gods: 1:207; 2:143, 778, 840
zodiac: 2:1240
Steward 2:1035
faithful and discreet slave: 1:805-806
illustration of unrighteous: 1:1181
Stoics 2:634, 1035-1036
Stone 2:1036-1037
(See also JEWELS AND PRECIOUS STONES)
alabaster: 1:69
chalkstone: 1:426
cornerstone: 1:513-514
gravel: 1:995
marble: 2:319
mason: 2:350
pavement: 2:1037
quarry: 2:719-720
saws for: 2:873-874
use in houses: 1:1154
Straw 2:1039
use in bricks: 1:366
Street 2:1039-1040
“street called Straight” (Ac 9:11): 2:748, 1039
Strife 2:1040
quarrel: 2:718-719
Submissiveness 2:1041
head covering: 1:1052-1054
obedience: 2:520-523
willing, sought by Jehovah: 2:164, 168-169, 1009-1010
Suffering
(See ANXIETY; TRIBULATION)
Superior Authorities 2:1045
Christian attitude toward: 1:382, 991-992, 1194; 2:758
‘placed by God’: 2:1009
Synagogue 2:1050-1052
assembly place: 1:198
expelling from: 1:787-788
manuscript storage: 2:314
public reading program: 2:713
Syria 2:1052-1053
Ahab defeats: 1:59-60
Quirinius governs: 2:721-722
religion: 1:152-153, 945, 948; 2:811-812
Systems of Things 2:1054-1057
Christian: 1:1079-1080
Greek word: 1:57
great tribulation: 2:1126-1127
Tabernacle 1:538; 2:1058-1060
(See also PROPHETIC PATTERNS; TEMPLE)
altars: 1:82-83
ark of the covenant: 1:165-168
basins: 1:260-261
camp of Israel around: 1:397-398
cherubs: 1:432
acacia: 1:36
carvings: 1:421
cloths: 1:482
gold: 1:982-983
sealskin covering: 2:883-884
fire holder: 1:834-835
holiness: 1:1129-1130, 1133-1134; 2:858-859
Holy Place: 1:1133-1134
inauguration: 1:833
incense: 1:1195
Jehovah’s presence: 1:484
Jehovah’s sanctuary: 2:860
lampstand: 2:196-197
names: 2:1085
prophetic significance: 1:538-539, 1134
Shiloh: 2:929
showbread: 2:936
snuffers: 2:983
transportation: 2:793
Talent 2:1063
illustration of: 1:1183
Tamar (Daughter of David) 2:1063
violated by Amnon: 1:32-33, 96
Taxation 2:1069-1070
Christian view: 1:382
Jesus tested on: 1:1100; 2:544
temple tax: 2:428
tribute: 2:1128
Tax Collector 2:1070
extortion: 1:788-789
illustrations: 1:1180-1182
Teacher, Teaching 2:1070-1074
(See also EDUCATION)
discipline: 1:629
illustrations effective: 1:1175
philosophy: 2:634
promoters of divisive: 1:200
public instructor: 2:712-713
Rabbi: 2:724-725
scribe: 2:877-878
word of God: 2:1201-1202
Temple 2:1076-1083
(See also EZEKIEL’S TEMPLE; HEROD’S TEMPLE; SOLOMON’S TEMPLE; SPIRITUAL TEMPLE; TABERNACLE; ZERUBBABEL’S TEMPLE)
captain of: 1:413
gatekeeper: 1:898
gates: 1:897
gifts to: 1:502-503, 935
holiness: 1:1133-1134; 2:858-859
Holy Place: 1:1133-1134
incense: 1:1153-1154, 1195
Jehovah’s sanctuary: 2:860-861
location: 1:146-147, 752; 2:715, 948
money changers: 2:428
music: 1:185-186; 2:451-454
Nethinim: 2:495-496
orientation: 1:215
priestly duties: 2:685-686
age for: 1:56-57
Samaritan temple: 1:926; 2:848
showbread: 2:936
tax for: 2:1069
utensils: 2:1144
extinguishers: 1:788
fire holders: 1:834-835
snuffers: 2:983
Ten Plagues
(See PLAGUE)
Ten Words 2:1085-1087
basis for Law: 1:549
Israel receives: 2:972-973
Jewish fable about: 1:800-801
organization of: 2:220
sanctions: 1:549
Teraphim 2:1087-1088
Thessalonica 2:1092
ancient city wall: 2:749
Paul’s ministry: 1:1257
Vardar Gate inscription: 1:476
Thigh 2:1093-1094
placing hand under: 1:217
Thinking Ability 2:1094-1095
meaning of term: 2:182
meditation: 2:363-364
relationship to language: 2:202
Thomas 2:1095
calls Jesus “my God”: 2:55-56
Threshing 2:1096-1097
chaff: 1:425
cumin: 1:556
picture: 2:454-455, 953
Throne 2:1097-1098
Jehovah’s: 2:730-731, 896-897
Solomon’s: 2:654
Thyatira 2:946, 1099
Tiberias (City) 2:739, 1099
Time Indefinite 2:1102-1103
Greek word: 1:57
Time of the End 2:1103-1104
(See also LAST DAYS; PRESENCE; SIGN; SYSTEMS OF THINGS)
Gog of Magog: 1:980-981; 2:295
good news preached: 1:771
Time Periods
(See also CHRONOLOGY)
acceptable time: 1:37
apostolic period: 1:130
appointed times of the nations: 1:132-135
calendar: 1:389-393
Christ’s presence: 2:676-679
close of Hebrew Scriptures to birth of Jesus: 2:663
cockcrowing: 1:486-487
day: 1:592-594
seventh creative: 2:859
“day of Jehovah”: 1:594-595; 2:679
generation: 1:911-912, 917-918
holy time periods: 1:1129
Jubilee: 2:121-123
Judgment Day: 2:136-138, 788-789
last days: 2:205-207
life span: 2:252
Lord’s day: 2:268
month: 1:389-392, 825-826; 2:429
new moon: 2:429
night: 2:498-499
Passover:
“between the two evenings”: 1:592-593; 2:581
Preparation: 2:676
Sabbaths: 2:830-834
seasons: 2:884-885
time indefinite: 2:1102-1103
time of the end: 2:1103-1104
week: 2:1176-1177
year: 1:389-393, 609; 2:252, 1213-1215
Tithe 2:1109-1111
holiness: 1:1130
‘second’ tenth part: 1:821
Titles
Abimelech: 1:24
Christ: 1:438-439
Darius: 1:582
Father: 1:815
Jabin: 1:1241
Nahash: 2:461
Pharaoh: 2:624
Phicol: 2:626
Rabbi: 2:724-725, 877
Rabmag: 2:725
Rabsaris: 2:725
Rabshakeh: 2:725-726
religious: 1:13-14
Tartan: 2:1068
Tirshatha: 2:1109
title-names of Messiah: 1:1188
Toe 2:1113
gecko lizard: 1:903
Tongue 2:1113-1114
(See also LANGUAGE)
abusive speech: 1:35
accusation: 1:39-40
backbiting: 1:241
blasphemy: 1:337-339
blessing: 1:340-342
control of: 1:367; 2:250, 1026-1027
cursing: 1:557-558
gift of tongues: 1:938, 1212-1213; 2:204
gossip, slander: 1:989-991; 2:1151
lie: 2:244-245
lip: 2:258
malediction: 2:300-301
praise: 2:666-667
proper use of: 2:448-449
proverbial saying: 2:702-703
reviling: 2:801-802
riddle: 2:806-807
ridicule: 2:807-809
Tools
building: 1:373
farming: 1:810-811
list:
ax: 1:223
bellows: 1:282
billhook: 1:315
bridle: 1:367
compass: 1:493
cord, rope: 1:507-508
goad: 1:965
hammer: 1:1026
harpoon: 1:1039
hook: 1:1136-1137
kneading trough: 2:179
knife: 2:180
ladder: 2:189
leveling instrument: 2:239-240
measuring line: 2:357
mill: 2:403
mortar and pestle: 2:433-434
nails: 2:463
needle: 2:483
net: 2:494-495
plummet: 2:649-650
potter’s wheel: 2:658
press: 2:679-680
saddle: 2:839
saw: 2:873-874
scales: 2:874
secretary’s inkhorn: 2:885-886
shovel: 2:936
trap: 2:1121
utensils: 2:1144
wheel: 2:1180
whip: 2:1180
yoke: 2:1215-1216
mason’s: 2:350
Topheth 2:1114-1115
desecration: 1:1120
Torment 2:1115
Gehenna not a symbol: 1:905-906
jailers: 1:1250
lake of fire: 2:190
pagan concept of hell: 1:1087
Torrent Valley 2:1115-1116
Arabah: 1:139
Arnon: 1:177-178
Jabbok: 1:1240
Kidron: 2:150
Kishon: 2:176-177
of Egypt: 1:699-700; 2:927-928
of poplars: 2:653-654
Sorek: 2:1003
Zered: 2:1231
Torture Stake 2:1116-1117
impalement: 1:1190-1192
Tower 2:1117-1118
city fortifications: 1:865
isolated defenses: 1:865-867; 2:1172
Tower of Antonia: 1:118; 2:535
Tower of Babel: 2:322-323, 434, 503, 508, 660-661
watchtower: 2:1172
Tradition 2:1118-1119
hatred for enemies: 1:1043
Sabbath: 2:832
Training
(See DISCIPLINE; EDUCATION; INSTRUCTION)
Transfiguration 2:1120-1121
location: 2:1061
Translations
(See VERSIONS)
Trap 2:1121-1122
birds: 1:315-316
figurative usage: 1:316
Trees 2:1123-1124
balsam-producing: 1:246-247
bdellium gum: 1:264-265
“big tree,” “massive tree”: 1:313-314
branch: 1:362
forest: 1:860-861
frankincense-producing: 1:869-870
grafting: 1:993
knowledge of good and bad: 1:676-677; 2:963, 1011
Lebanon: 1:424; 2:139, 231-232, 532
list:
acacia: 1:36-37
algum: 1:72
aloe: 1:79-80
apple: 1:131-132
ash: 1:188-189
black mulberry: 1:337
broom tree: 1:368
carob: 1:420-421
cassia: 1:422
cinnamon: 1:468
cypress: 1:563-564
ebony: 1:673
fig-mulberry: 1:831; 2:1049-1050
juniper: 2:139
laurel: 2:211
lotus tree: 2:273
myrtle: 2:455
nut: 2:516
oil tree: 2:547
olive: 1:190, 362, 543, 742, 993; 2:474, 551-552
pistachio: 2:645
plane tree: 2:647
poplar: 2:653
storax: 2:1037
sycamore: 1:831; 2:1049-1050
tamarisk: 2:1064
willow: 2:1186
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream tree (Da 4): 1:133-135
resinous: 2:782
used in Noah’s ark: 1:164
scented wood: 2:874-875
trees of life: 2:250-251
Triads
Assyria: 1:201-202, 975; 2:529
Babylon: 1:237, 974; 2:529, 812
Egypt: 1:96, 532, 689, 975; 2:529
Medo-Persia: 1:977
Roman Empire: 1:979
Sumer: 1:281
Tribe 2:1124-1125
Arabia: 1:140-141
clan: 1:476
Greece: 1:999
Israel:
land inheritance: 1:358-359, 744, 1200
remain at 12: 1:1229
Tribulation 2:1125-1127
“day of Jehovah”: 1:594-595
endurance under: 1:724-725
Trumpet 2:1130
(See also MUSIC)
Israel: 2:452
Festival of Trumpet Blast: 1:826
Truth 2:1130-1133
loins girded with: 1:172
love rejoices with: 2:278
preservation of: 1:923
purpose of Jesus’ ministry: 2:62
withholding: 2:245
Turtledove 2:1134
offerings of: 2:638
Tyre 2:531-532, 1135-1136
(See also PHOENICIA)
destroyed as foretold: 1:70; 2:531
king of, similar to Satan: 2:604
religion: 2:531-532
Understanding 2:1138-1141
discernment: 2:182
key: 2:801
meaning of term: 2:182
relationship to—
insight: 1:1202
wisdom: 2:1189-1190
Undeserved Kindness
(See KINDNESS)
Ur 2:1141-1142
architecture: 1:158
Utensils 2:1144
extinguishers: 1:788
fire holder: 1:834-835
snuffers: 2:983
vessels: 2:1154
Uzziah 2:1146
archaeological finds: 1:960; 2:1101
Valley 2:1147
Arabah: 1:138-139; 2:570
Hinnom: 1:1119-1120; 2:949
Jezreel: 1:334
Nile: 1:531, 534, 686-687; 2:501
Rephaim: 2:778
torrent valley: 2:1115-1116
valley plain: 2:647
Vellum
(See PARCHMENT)
Vengeance 2:1149-1151
retribution: 2:794-795
Venom 2:1151
cobra: 1:485
scorpion: 2:876
viper: 2:1157
Versions 2:1151-1154
divine name: 1:1072; 2:9-11, 266-267
Samaritan Pentateuch: 2:848
Septuagint:
Apocrypha: 1:121
Jeremiah: 2:32
pre-Flood chronology: 1:459
quoted in Christian Greek Scriptures: 1:1206
Vessels 2:952, 1154-1155
bag: 1:241-242
basin: 1:260-261
basket: 1:261-262
bottle: 1:357
bowl: 1:261
cooking utensils: 1:504
copper sea: 2:425-426
mortar: 2:433-434
perfume containers: 1:69, 1157
pot: 2:657-658
wineskins: 2:1189
Vine 1:742; 2:1155-1156
illustration of murderous cultivators: 1:1183
“vine of the earth”: 1:367
vineyard: 1:1183
watchman’s booth: 1:555
Viper
(See SERPENT, SNAKE)
Virgin 2:1157-1158
(See also EUNUCH; SINGLENESS)
illustration of ten: 1:1183
proof bride is: 2:341
Vision 1:789-791; 2:1158-1160
apparition: 1:131
Jehovah’s presence: 1:970; 2:393, 862, 896-897, 1180
spiritual: 1:790
transfiguration: 2:1061, 1120-1121
Vow 2:1162-1164
Jephthah: 2:27-28
Nazirite: 2:477-478
oath: 2:517
Walking 1:220, 847; 2:1132
Walls 2:1165-1166
(See also GATE, GATEWAY)
cities: 1:865-866
Jerusalem: 1:306, 797, 893, 1120; 2:486
New Jerusalem: 2:497
rampart: 2:733
houses: 1:1154
materials: 1:159
cement and plaster: 2:434
War 2:1166-1170
(See also ARMS, ARMOR; ARMY)
ambush: 1:90
Christian view: 1:175-176, 842
city defenses: 1:474-475, 892
fortifications: 1:864-867; 2:733
horses: 1:174, 1026, 1144-1145
Israel’s attackers: 1:951-952; 2:663
spoil: 2:1030-1031
triumphal procession: 2:1128-1129
why Jehovah fights: 2:19
Washing of Feet 2:1170-1171
Jesus washes apostles’ feet: 1:220, 847
Washing of Hands 2:1171
another’s hands: 1:217
Watchman 2:1171-1172
Ezekiel’s commission: 1:792
gatekeeper: 1:898-899
temple: 1:898
Water 2:1172-1174
(See also FOUNTAIN, SPRING; RIVER; SEA)
camel’s capacity: 1:395
cistern: 1:470-471, 866
city supply: 1:475
Gibeon: 1:930
Jerusalem: 1:940-942, 960, 1104; 2:40, 651-652
Megiddo: 1:866
cycle: 1:483
Siloam, during Festival of Booths: 1:823-824
water of life: 2:251
Weaving 2:1175
warp and woof: 2:1170
Week 1:593-594; 2:1176-1177
Weights and Measures 2:1177-1178
list:
acre: 1:42
bath: 1:263
cab: 1:381
cor: 1:506
ephah: 1:731
fathom: 1:817
fingerbreadth: 1:832
furlong: 1:875
handbreadth: 1:1030
hin: 1:1119
homer: 1:1134
log: 2:262
mile: 2:401
mina: 2:404
omer: 2:553-554
pim: 2:643
pound: 2:659
quart: 2:720
seah: 2:882
shekel: 2:918
span: 2:1015
talent: 2:1063
measuring basket: 1:262
monetary designations: 2:426-427
scales: 2:874
Wheat 1:741; 2:1179-1180
illustration of wheat and weeds: 1:1178-1179; 2:1176
threshing: 2:1096-1097
Wickedness 2:1180-1181
permission of: 2:263-264
Widow 2:1181-1182
congregation assistance: 1:940; 2:227-228, 343-344, 769
illustration of widow and judge: 1:1182
Wife 2:1182-1184
(See also FAMILY; HUSBAND; MARRIAGE)
adultery of, suspected by husband: 1:1261; 2:234-235, 1094
bride-price: 2:340
concubine: 1:495-496
foreign wives dismissed: 1:641, 798
position and responsibilities: 2:342, 1195-1197
selection: 2:340
subjection: 2:221-222
Wilderness 2:1184-1186
(See also ISRAEL [ANCIENT PEOPLE])
Paran: 2:577
Shur: 2:938
Sin: 2:971
Zin: 2:1235-1236
Wind 2:1186-1187
Euroaquilo: 1:770
sirocco: 2:1185
spirit: 2:1017-1018
Wine and Strong Drink 2:1187-1189
(See also VINE)
beer: 1:276
dregs: 1:651-652
drunkenness: 1:656-657; 2:508
food item: 1:844-845
medicinal value: 1:632
Memorial: 2:269-271, 582
priests to avoid, when officiating: 1:22, 1174
soberness: 2:983
winepress: 2:679-680
Wineskins 2:1189
bursting: 1:357
Winnowing 2:953, 1189
chaff: 1:425
Wisdom 2:1189-1195
ant: 1:115
counsel: 1:515-516
gift from God: 1:936
gift of spirit: 1:937
madness contrasted with: 2:292
meaning of term: 2:182
personified: 2:52-53
philosophy: 2:634
relationship to understanding: 2:1140
Woman 2:1195-1199
(See also MOTHER; WIDOW; WIFE)
adornment: 1:51-52
barrenness: 1:257-258
childbearing: 1:436
cosmetics: 1:515
daughter: 1:584-585
genealogies: 1:911
Genesis 3:15: 1:521-522; 2:869
seed of: 1:310-311; 2:887-890
hair: 1:1021, 1052-1054; 2:475
shaved: 1:246
head covering: 1:1052-1054
headship of man over: 1:1054; 2:304
heavenly, gives birth: 2:187
Jesus calls mother “woman”: 2:347
menstruation: 2:371-372
midwife: 2:397
pregnancy: 2:674-676
sister: 2:975
slave laws: 2:978
veil: 1:654
womb: 2:1199-1200
Wool 2:1200
mixture with linen: 1:483
Word, The 2:1200-1203
Jesus’ role as: 2:53
Work 2:1203-1205
compulsory service: 1:495
craftsman: 1:526
forced labor: 1:848
hired laborer: 1:1123
industriousness: 1:1198-1199
Jehovah: 2:659
laziness: 2:227-228
priests at festivals: 1:821
retirement: 2:793-794
wages: 1:1122-1123; 2:427
World 2:1205-1210
reconciliation to God: 2:762
ruler of: 2:867-869
system of things: 2:1055-1056
wisdom of: 2:1192-1193
Worship 2:1210-1212
(See also GODS AND GODDESSES)
dancing in: 1:574-575
false worship:
art: 1:181
calf worship: 1:296-297, 393-394, 948
goat-shaped demons: 1:966-967
high places: 1:183-184, 1107-1109
idolatry: 1:1167-1172
images: 1:1185
Jehovah’s warnings: 1:621
moon: 2:429-430
mystery religions: 2:836-837
origin at Babel: 1:973-974
pagan priests: 2:688-689
sacred pole: 2:835-836
stars: 2:1032-1033, 1240
titles of religious leaders: 1:13-14
Judaism: 2:128
list by place:
Assyria: 1:201-202, 956, 974-975; 2:529
Babylon: 1:237, 239-240, 974; 2:322-324, 380, 529, 701
Canaan: 1:228-231, 402-403, 617-618, 739, 976-977; 2:835-836
Egypt: 1:531-533, 689-692, 966-967, 975-976; 2:370, 529-530, 554-555
Greece: 1:209-210, 509, 859, 978-979, 1000-1002; 2:335-336
Medo-Persia: 1:977-978; 2:613
Moab: 1:232-233, 430; 2:382
Pergamum: 2:607-608
Roman Empire: 1:979; 2:533, 536, 608, 824
Samaria (Samaritans): 1:926; 2:847-848
Sidon: 2:940
obeisance: 2:523-524
prayer: 2:667-671
proselyte: 2:699-700
true worship:
cleanliness required: 1:263
exalted: 2:445
exclusive devotion: 1:773-774, 970-971, 1259-1260
festivals: 1:820-822
godly devotion: 1:971-973
holiness required: 1:1128
instruction at home: 1:1156
non-Israelite, of Jehovah: 1:710; 2:72-73, 81
praises to Jehovah: 2:666-667
sacred service: 2:838-839
sanctuary: 2:860-861
whole-souled: 2:1007
Zion represents: 2:445
unacceptable worship: 1:618
Writing 2:1212-1213
(See also BOOK; READING; SCROLL, ROLL)
at meetings: 2:875-876
Egyptian: 1:688
handwriting on wall: 2:371, 579, 601
“Hittite”: 1:1124-1125
ink: 1:1201
inkhorn: 2:885-886
inscriptions: 1:155-156
known before Moses: 1:919
papyrus: 2:573-574
parchment: 2:577-578
pen: 2:597
styles in manuscripts: 2:312-313, 878-879
stylus: 2:1041
Year 2:1213-1215
before the Deluge: 2:252
Noah: 1:609
rule of kings: 1:461
solar: 1:389-390, 392-393
start of agricultural: 1:765
Yoke 1:376; 2:1215-1216
Zeal
(See JEALOUS, JEALOUSY)
Zebedee 2:1221
background: 2:89
Zechariah (Father of John the Baptizer) 2:686, 1224
Zerubbabel 2:1232-1233
father of: 2:911
Sheshbazzar: 2:926
Zerubbabel’s Temple 2:1078-1079
altars: 1:83
Ark missing: 2:441-442
Artaxerxes Longimanus contributes: 1:182
construction: 2:1232-1233
completion date: 1:463
legality confirmed: 1:583-584, 674; 2:926-927
stopped: 1:181-182; 2:1226
desecration and rededication: 1:635, 824-825; 2:335
lampstands: 2:198
Zion 2:1236
City of David: 1:591-592
holy mountain: 2:445
“mountain of meeting” (Isa 14:13): 2:446
restoration prophecy: 1:306-307