Onias IV information

heavily populated by Jews was called the Land of Onias in reference to his influence. Onias's father Onias III served as High Priest from 187–175 BCE. High...

presided over by kohanim (priests) of the family of Onias III or Onias IV, for whom the "Land of Onias" is named. Aside from a somewhat uncertain allusion...

portrays Onias III's replacement as part of a Seleucid attack on Judaism. Onias IV II Macc. iii.-iv. II Macc. iv. 7 Ant. xii. 5, § 1 II Macc. iv. 29-39...

Onias may refer to: Any of the Jewish high priests known as Onias (Hebrew: חוֹנִיּוֹ Honio, also Honiyya or Honiyahu) at the time of the Second Temple...

Josephus also ascribes this to Onias III, while dating the project so as to suggest Onias II). It has been suggested that Onias or members of his Zadokite...

Philopator of Egypt (221–204 BCE). Onias III, son of Simon II (?–175 BC), murdered 170 BCE Onias IV, son of Onias III, fled to Egypt and built a Jewish...

conflict, the Maccabees take Beth Zur and Joppa. c. 145 BCE Temple of Onias opened by Onias IV in Egypt as a rival to Temple in Jerusalem. 143 BCE Diodotus Tryphon...

Land of Onias, and to establish a temple with Onias as High Priest. The place is still known as Tell al-Jahudija (Hill of the Jews) today. Onias was also...

Artaxerxes II Mnemon (46 years) → Artaxerxes III Ochus (21 years) → Artaxerxes IV Arses (2 years) → Darius III Codomannus (6 years, but who, at the end of his...

Ananias the son of Onias (in Hebrew, Hananiya ben Honiyyahu) was the son of the Jewish high priest, Onias IV, who founded a Jewish Temple at Leontopolis...

divinely appointed. Jason, the brother of Onias, bribed Antiochus to make him high priest instead of Onias. Jason abolished the traditional theocracy...

Onias II (Hebrew: חוֹנִיּוֹ Ḥōniyyō or Honio or Honiyya ben Shimon; Greek: Onias Simonides) was the son of Simon I. He was still a minor when his father...

Onias as a contemporary of the Spartan king Areus I (309-265 BCE). "Josephus is ... mistaken in placing it in the time of Onias III instead of Onias I...

the succession of Onias III, Jason, and Menelaus as High Priest. Simon, from Chapter 3, continues his dispute with Onias III; Onias complains to the king...

for a bribe, Jason's petition was granted. Onias fled and his son, Onias IV, established the Temple of Onias in Egypt. The Polis status was beneficial...

by a rival of the current High Priest Onias III. Heliodorus was not allowed into the temple, but it required Onias to go explain to the king why one of...

afterwards, Seleucus IV Philopator (187-175 BC) became king of the Seleucid kingdom. Hyrcanus's father Joseph and his uncle, Onias II, also died. The high-priesthood...

High Priest Onias III of the Temple of Jerusalem is succeeded by his brother Jason; Jason is then succeeded by the corrupt Menelaus; Onias III is murdered...

Priest Onias III, whose murder outside Jerusalem in 171/0 BCE is recorded in 2 Maccabees 4:23–28. Most critical scholars see another reference to Onias III's...

Alexander the Great. I Maccabees regards Onias as a contemporary of the Spartan king Areus I (309-265 BCE). Onias I is thought to be the father or grandfather...

high priest, Simon son of Onias" (chapter 50:1). This passage almost certainly refers to Simon the High Priest, the son of Onias II, who died in 196 BCE...

164 BCE, the starting point would then be the murder of the high priest Onias III in 171, another notable year in the events leading up to the desecration...

Onias I, high priest from 323 to 300 or 290 BCE. New American Bible, 2 Maccabees 3:1–3, footnotes. Onias III high priest, 196–175 BCE; Seleucus IV Philopator...

in 2 Maccabees include the High Priest Simon II appearing, the father of Onias III who is discussed in 2 Maccabees, and fends off an attempt by Philopator...