Onias III (Hebrew: חוֹנִיּוֹ Ḥōnīyyō), son of Simon II, was Jewish High Priest during the Second Temple period. He is described in scriptures as a pious...

presided over by kohanim (priests) of the family of Onias III or Onias IV, for whom the "Land of Onias" is named. Aside from a somewhat uncertain allusion...

Onias IV (Hebrew: חוֹנִיּוֹ Ḥōniyyō) was the son of Onias III and the heir of the Zadokite line of High Priests of Israel. He built a new Jewish temple...

Maccabean revolt (167-160). He was the successor of Jason, the brother of Onias III. The sources are divided as to his origin. According to II Maccabees,...

Onias as a contemporary of the Spartan king Areus I (309–265 BCE). "Josephus is ... mistaken in placing it in the time of Onias III instead of Onias I...

Josephus also ascribes this to Onias III, while dating the project so as to suggest Onias II). It has been suggested that Onias or members of his Zadokite...

he, Geordi La Forge, and Worf are sent down to a huge cavern on Alpha Onias III, an uninhabited Class M planet, to investigate unusual readings. After...

Philopator of Egypt (221–204 BCE). Onias III, son of Simon II (?–175 BC), murdered 170 BCE Onias IV, son of Onias III, fled to Egypt and in c. 150 BCE built...

the succession of Onias III, Jason, and Menelaus as High Priest. Simon, from Chapter 3, continues his dispute with Onias III; Onias complains to the king...

Temple period of Judaism. He was of the Oniad family and was brother to Onias III, his predecessor as High Priest. Josephus records that his name was originally...

Priest Onias III, whose murder outside Jerusalem in 171/0 BCE is recorded in 2 Maccabees 4:23–28. Most critical scholars see another reference to Onias III's...

than 1 Maccabees does, instead covering the period from the high priest Onias III and King Seleucus IV (180 BC) to the defeat of Nicanor in 161. The exact...

Land of Onias Menelaus (High Priest), who according to Josephus was originally called Onias, second successor and murderer of Onias III Onias C. Skinner...

was only seventeen when appointed by Herod the Great; but the son of Onias III was too young (νήπιος) to succeed his father. Legitimacy of birth and...

an exiled Jewish priest, often identified as Onias IV, (Josephus states that both Onias IV and Onias III built the temple at different points in his writing...

during the Second Temple period. He was the son of Onias II, and was probably succeeded by Onias III. There are two main sources that discuss Simon II:...

but fails. Onias III serves as High Priest. September 175 BCE Antiochus IV Epiphanes ascends to the Seleucid throne. Shortly after, Onias III is replaced...

Antiochus IV Epiphanes became ruler of the Seleucid Empire in 175 BCE, Onias III held the office of high priest in Jerusalem. To Antiochus, the high priest...

Artaxerxes II Mnemon (46 years) → Artaxerxes III Ochus (21 years) → Artaxerxes IV Arses (2 years) → Darius III Codomannus (6 years, but who, at the end of...

theory, the first sentence most likely refers to the death of High Priest Onias III, whose murder is described in 1 Maccabees 3:33–35 (died c. 171 BCE). The...

"son of Jochanan", Onias I, high priest from 323 to 300 or 290 BCE. New American Bible, 2 Maccabees 3:1–3, footnotes. Onias III high priest, 196–175...

164 BCE, the starting point would then be the murder of the high priest Onias III in 171, another notable year in the events leading up to the desecration...

in the Temple in Jerusalem. Answering the prayers of the high priest Onias III, God sends a horseman assisted by two youths to drive Heliodorus out....

Israel by the late high priest Onias III plus that of Jeremiah, the prophet who died almost 400 years earlier. "And Onias spoke, saying, 'This is a man...

the violent death of another "anointed one", probably the High Priest Onias III (ousted to make way for Jason and murdered in 171 BC), and the profanation...

world to entrap William Riker in his specially modified cave on Alpha Onias III. Riker eventually saw through the young alien's illusions and brought...

who died in 196 BCE. Because the struggles between Simon's successors (Onias III, Jason, and Menelaus) are not alluded to in the book, nor is the Seleucid...

efforts to eradicate the Jewish religion by forcing the Jewish High Priest Onias III to step down in favour of his brother Jason, who was replaced by Menelaus...

the end of the Third Syrian War, the high priest Onias II would not pay the tax to the Ptolemy III Euergetes. It is thought that this shows a turning...

would come to later prominence was Antiochus IV replacing the high priest Onias III with his brother Jason after Jason offered a large sum of money to Antiochus...