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IN the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah, Jeroboam the son of
Joash reigned over Israel in Samaria forty years. This king was guilty
of contumely against God, 1
and became very wicked in worshipping of idols, and in many undertakings
that were absurd and foreign. He was also the cause of ten thousand misfortunes
to the people of Israel. Now one Jonah, a prophet, foretold to him that
he should make war with the Syrians, and conquer their army, and enlarge
the bounds of his kingdom on the northern parts to the city Hamath, and
on the southern to the lake Asphaltitis; for the bounds of the Canaanites
originally were these, as Joshua their general had determined them. So
Jeroboam made an expedition against the Syrians, and overran all their
country, as Jonah had foretold.
1 What I have above noted concerning Jehoash, seems to me to have been true also concerning his son Jeroboam II., viz. that although he began wickedly, as Josephus agrees with our other copies, and, as he adds, "was the cause of a vast number of misfortunes to the Israelites" in those his first years, (the particulars of which are unhappily wanting both in Josephus and in all our copies,) so does it seem to me that he was afterwards reclaimed, and became a good king, and so was encouraged by the prophet Jonah, and had great successes afterward, when "God had saved the Israelites by the hand of Jeroboam, the son of Joash," 2 Kings 14:27; which encouragement by Jonah, and great successes, are equally observable in Josephus, and in the other copies.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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