ad cast lots, [21] the
lot fell upon the prophet; and when they asked him whence he came, and
what he had done? he replied, that he was a Hebrew by nation, and a
prophet of Almighty God; and he persuaded them to cast him into the
sea, if they would escape the danger they were in, for that he was the
occasion of the storm which was upon them. Now at the first they durst
not do so, as esteeming it a wicked thing to cast a man who was a
stranger, and who had committed his life to them, into such manifest
perdition; but at last, when their misfortune overbore them, and the
ship was just going to be drowned, and when they were animated to do
it by the prophet himself, and by the fear concerning their own safety,
they cast him into the sea; upon which the sea became calm. It is also
reported that Jonah was swallowed down by a whale, and that when he had
been there three days, and as many nights, he was vomited out upon the
Euxine Sea, and this alive, and without any hurt upon his body; and
there, on his prayer to God, he obtained pardon for his sins, and went
to the city Nineveh, where he stood so as to be heard, and preached,
that in a very little time they should lose the dominion of Asia. And
when he had published this, he returned. Now I have given this account
about him as I found it written [in our books.]

3. When Jeroboam the king had passed his life in great happiness, and
had ruled forty years, he died, and was buried in Samaria, and his son
Zachariah took the kingdom. After the same manner did Uzziah, the son
of Amaziah, begin to reign over the two tribes in Jerusalem, in the
fourteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam. He was born of Jecoliah, his
mother, who was a citizen of Jerusalem. He was a good man, and by nature
righteous and magnanimous, and very laborious in taking care of
the affairs of his kingdom. He made an expedition also against the
Philistines, and overcame them in battle, and took the cities of Gath
and Jabneh, and brake down their walls; after which expedition he
assaulted those Arabs that adjoined to Egypt. He also built a city upon
the Red Sea, and put a garrison into it. He, after this, overthrew the
Ammonites, and appointed that they should pay tribute. He also overcame
all the countries as far as the bounds of Egypt, and then began to take
care of Jerusalem itself for the rest of his life; for he rebuilt and
repaired all those parts of the wall which had either fallen down by
length of time, or