lem, and made a royal funeral for
him. This was the end of the life of Amaziah, because of his innovations
in religion, and his contempt of God, when he had lived fifty-four
years, and had reigned twenty-nine. He was succeeded by his son, whose
name was Uzziah.

CHAPTER 10. Concerning Jeroboam King Of Israel And Jonah The Prophet;
And How After The Death Of Jeroboam His Son Zachariah Took The
Government. How Uzziah, King Of Jerusalem, Subdued The Nations That Were
Round About Him; And What Befell Him When He Attempted To Offer Incense
To God.

1. 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, [18] 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.

2. Now I cannot but think it necessary for me, who have promised to
give an accurate account of our affairs, to describe the actions of this
prophet, so far as I have found them written down in the Hebrew books.
Jonah had been commanded by God to go to the kingdom of Nineveh; and
when he was there, to publish it in that city, how it should lose the
dominion it had over the nations. But he went not, out of fear; nay,
he ran away from God to the city of Joppa, and finding a ship there, he
went into it, and sailed to Tarsus, in Cilicia [19] and upon the rise of
a most terrible storm, which was so great that the ship was in danger of
sinking, the mariners, the master, and the pilot himself, made prayers
and vows, in case they escaped the sea: but Jonah lay still and covered
[in the ship,] without imitating any thing that the others did; but as
the waves grew greater, and the sea became more violent by the winds,
they suspected, as is usual in such cases, that some one of the persons
that sailed with them was the occasion of this storm, and agreed to
discover by lot which of them it was. When they h