
Onias - in ancient sources @ attalus.org
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Onias
I - Jewish high priest, late 4th century B.C.
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Onias becomes Jewish high priest.
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rta, sends an embassy with a letter to the Jewish high priest Onias.
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rated himself [before God]. 7. Onias, the son of Jaddus,
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imself before the Lord God. 7. Onias was high priest for
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2nd year of the high priest Onias. Ptolemy the son
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ears Jaddus for 18 years Onias for 21 years Simon for 11
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214 years. The high priest was Onias. After Philadelphus,
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ever, supreme above all". Then Onias the son of Jaddus.
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ypt. [1698 in Ar.] Onias the son of Iaddus, the high pries
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Ar.] Simon the son of Onias, the high priest of the Jew
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ion following: [43] When Onias the high priest was dead,
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II - Jewish high priest, late 3rd century B.C.
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Onias II becomes Jewish high priest.
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died. [Ol. 123.2] Onias, the son of Simon, became the 10t
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sent royal offerings to Onias Simon, the brother of Eleaz
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scriptures. 9. Onias, the son of Simon and brother of
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high priest for 14 years. 10. Onias was high priest for
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years Simon for 23 years Onias for 25 years another Onias
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Simon, and after him another Onias. After Euergetes, his
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Alexandria. Then Onias the son of Simon and brother of
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est of the Jews, because Onias the son of Simon was still
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ria, for 20 years. Onias, the son of Simon the Just and
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Ar.] Simon the son of Onias, the high priest of the Jew
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oung son, who was called Onias, Simon's brother Eleazar,
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This happened when Onias was high priest; [157] for after
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thoughtless temper of Onias; and informed him of the
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ain of the management of Onias: to which he answered, "For
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His uncle also, Onias, died [about this time], and left
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III - Jewish high priest, early 2nd century B.C.
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Onias III becomes Jewish high priest.
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The Jewish high priest Onias visits Seleucus to seek his support agai
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to the Jewish high priest Onias offering to renew the friendship
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Jesus (also known as Jason) replaces Onias as high priest.
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Menelaus persuades the regent Andronicus to murder Onias at Daphne.
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ast a letter was sent to Onias the high priest from Areius
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piety of the high priest Onias and his hatred of wickednes
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own country, slandered Onias, saying that it was he who
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What he saw was this: Onias, who had been high priest,
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the noble and good man, Onias, who then held the high pri
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ygia. [Ol. 143.2] Onias the second became the 13th high
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political opponent of Onias the high priest, and brough
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God to save him. Onias the high priest was moved by his
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son of the high priest Onias went off to Egypt and found
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high priest for 22 years. 13. Onias, for 29 years. In his
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iest for 22 years. 13. Another Onias was high priest for
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ias for 25 years another Onias for 19 years Mattathias for
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riest at Jerusalem was another Onias. The next king in Egy
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wisdom for the Hebrews. Then Onias the son of Simon. At
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143.1 . [1809] Onias the son of Simon, the high priest
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to Seleucus. But Onias the high priest forced Simon to
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called Jason, the brother of Onias, as high priest. Then
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son of the high priest Onias left for Egypt and founded
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when he was dead, Onias his son succeeded him in that dig
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king of the Lacedaemonians, to Onias, sendeth greeting.
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time, upon the death of Onias the high priest, they gave
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[62] But then the son of Onias the high priest, who was
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epistle was brought to Onias, who was then our high prie
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Jesus, and made his brother Onias high priest in his stead.
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driving away the son [of Onias the third], put Jaceimus
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who was the nephew of Onias that was dead, and bore the
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IV - founder of the Jewish temple at Leontopolis, Egypt
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Onias, the son of a Jewish high priest, goes to Egypt and builds a
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Because of this, Onias the son of the high priest Onias
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Because of this, Onias the son of the high priest Onias
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son which Onias left [or Onias IV.] was yet but an infant;
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who was the brother of Onias, was deprived of the high
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[387] Now as to Onias, the son of the high priest, who,
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already. When this Onias saw that Judaea was oppressed by
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that was a Jew. Onias was elevated with this prediction
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place." [69] And this was what Onias wrote to king Ptolema
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nanias, the sons of that Onias who built the temple in the
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those that were called Onias's party, being Jews, contin
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On which account Onias, who was the nephew of Onias that
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months. [33] But Onias, the high priest, fled to Ptolema
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- a righteous Jew, 1st century B.C.
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the temple at Jerusalem, and Onias is stoned to death for refusing
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was one, whose name was Onias, a righteous man be was,
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them for the murder of Onias, in the manner following:
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- father of Jonathan, 1st century B.C.
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and Jonathan the, son of Onias." [223] Hyrcanus sent also
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(Land of Onias) - a region in Egypt that was settled by the Jews under Onias IV
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ntry called the place of Onias, would not let Antipater
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country called the country of Onias stopped them. Then
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