![]() Assuming that Jonah’s prophecy of restoration came early in the reign of Jeroboam, Jonah’s ministry would have been in the first half of the eighth century BC, i.e. ![]() Jeroboam II began a coregency with his father Jehoash in 793/92 BC and reigned alone from 782/81 to late summer or early fall of 753 (Thiele 1983: 116 McFall 1991: 45 Young 2005: 245). Second Kings 14:25 says that Jeroboam II, king of Israel, restored the northern and eastern borders of Israel according to the word of the Lord spoken by the prophet Jonah, son of Amittai. The time of Jonah’s preaching in Nineveh can only be estimated very generally from the Bible. ![]() In the Antiquities passage, the eclipse and Herod’s torment signified the same thing: God’s solemn judgment on Herod after he put to death individuals more righteous than himself.Īnother famous eclipse, this time of the sun, may have played a part in the account of Jonah and the Ninevites. This is shown by the fact that Josephus describes, immediately after the mention of the eclipse, Herod’s physical suffering, a suffering from which he could find no relief until his death at some time between the eclipse and Passover. For Josephus, the eclipse in the night after Herod put to death the two protesters was a sign of displeasure from God. In the ancient world, however, an eclipse was regarded as an omen or portent whenever it happened. Perhaps a modern historian would not have mentioned it, judging that an astronomical event like an eclipse is independent of the activities of man, unless it preceded some important occasion such as a battle and so influenced a decision such as whether or not to go to war. This is the only reference to a lunar eclipse in all the writings of Josephus. After relating this sordid incident, Josephus comments that the night after Matthias and Judas were executed by burning, there was an eclipse of the moon ( Antiquities 17.6.2-4/17.149-167). Herod’s soldiers captured and executed many of the participants Matthias and Judas were burned alive. Although he professed that it was an offering dedicated to the Lord, it was regarded as a desecration of the Temple by two rabbis, Matthias and Judas, who provoked a group of more than 40 individuals into pulling down the eagle. Herod had placed a golden eagle over the entrance to the Temple. In the closing days of his life, Herod the Great was presented with a crisis called the golden eagle incident. How Lunar and Solar Eclipses Shed Light on Biblical Events This was the subject of an article by ABR Associate Rodger Young in the Spring 2013 issue of Bible and Spade, which is reproduced below. Without advocating any such speculations, we at ABR have thought that the subject of eclipses does have some relevance to events in the Bible. During this time, virtually all of North America will be partially darkened by the penumbra (partial shadow) of the eclipse.ĭue to the great international attention devoted to this eclipse, there has been the expected spate of unreasonable speculations about its being an end-time event. During this event, the moon’s umbra (complete shadow), first falling on the Pacific Ocean, will make landfall in Oregon and then traverse the North American continent before darkening the ocean off South Carolina one and one-half hours later. Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical ChronologiesĪlthough there are two to five solar eclipses visible from some place on Earth in any given year, the total solar eclipse predicted for Aughas attracted more attention than any eclipse in recent memory.People, Places, and Things in the New Testament. ![]()
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