Onias II, High Priest

Onias II (Hebrew: חוֹנִיּוֹ Ḥōniyyō or Honio or Honiyya ben Shimon; Greek: Onias Simonides) was the son of Simon the Just. He was still a minor when his father died, so that his uncle Eleazar, and after him the latter's uncle Manasseh, officiated as high priests before he himself succeeded to that dignity.[1] According to Josephus, he was a covetous man and of limited intelligence, whose refusal to pay the twenty talents of silver which every high priest was required to pay to the King of Egypt threatened to imperil both the high priest and the people; but at this juncture Joseph, the clever son of Tobias and nephew of Onias, succeeded in pacifying Ptolemy III (Euergetes). Onias is said to have died, almost simultaneously with his nephew Joseph, during the reign of Seleucus IV Philopator, hence about 181 BCE.[2] His successor in office was Onias III.

References

• Josephus, Ant. xii. 4, § 1.
• Josephus, Ant. xii. 4. § 10.

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  The House of Zadok Simon I the Just (Tzaddik) (41st HP)

                    | Onias II (42nd HP, d. 226 BCE)

                               (10th in descent from Seraiah, the last HP of Solomon’s Temple)

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           |                                                        |                                      |   Simon II (43rd High Priest, d.198 BCE)    Manasseh (41st High Priest)   Judah   In descent from Eniachin, the

               |                                                                                          |                                                 son of Seriah, the last HP of

               |                                                                                          |                                                       Solomon’s Temple