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Onias (I)

I. ONIAS, High Priest of the Jews, Son and Successor of Jeddoa1 or Jaddus; he was made High Priest in the Year of the World 3682, and governed the Hebrew Republick for twenty Years, to the Year of the World 3702, before Christ 298, before the Vulgar Æra 302. Onias had two Sons, Simon and Eleazar. Simon surnamed the Just, succeeded him.

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  1. Joseph. Antiq. l. xi. c. ult. ad finem. ↩

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