Jok'theel (Hebrew Yoktheel', ^Xrp^, subdued by God), the name of two cities.
1. (Se])t. '\tx^aS]\ V. r. 'laxaQtifK.) A towni in the plain of Judah, mentioned between Mizpeh and Lachish (Josh. XV, 38). The associated names indicate a local- ity in the district south-west or west of Eleutheropolis (Keil's Comnwntary, ad loc.) ; possibly at Balin, a small modern village a little south of Tell es-Safieh (Robin- son, Researches, ii, 368).
2. (Sept. 'If/cS'oJjX v. r. 'If^oi^X.) The name given by king Amaziah to Selah, the capital of Idum.-ea, or Arabia Petrrea, and subsequently borne by it (2 Kings xiv, 7) ; from which circumstance he ajipears to have improved it after having captured it. See Petua.
JOLLY
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JONAH
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moved to Frasersburgh, where he resided for Ibrty-niiie years. In 1790 h^ was elevated to the bishopric of Dundee, and later he became bishop of Moray, a see founded in the 12th century, and which, al'lcr liishti]) Jolly's decease, was absorbed in other dioceses. lie ilicd in 1838. Bishop Jolly's works are, Biipti-niinl Ui<n m r- afiim {Lond. 182(5; new edition, with Life of author by Cheyne, 1.S40, r2mo) : — Sunday Scrriccs aixl //a/// Daijs, etc. (182N; 3d ed., with ]Memoir of author bv V,\). Walker, Edinb. 1840, 12rao) ■.— TlwChrhihn, Snrnjir, h, the Eu- charist (1832, 12mo ; 2d cd. Alirracm. IN 17. 12mn). See Allibonc, Diet, of Ewjl. and Armriran A uthorg, ii, 986.
Jonitob. See Lippmans.
Jon, FitAxcis Du. See Junius.
Jo'na (John i, 42). See Jonas.
Jon'adab, a shortened form of the name Jehona- dah, fur which it is used indifferently in the Hebrew as applied to either of two men in certain passages; but these have not been accurately representee! in the A. V,
Jolly, Ai-EXANDER, an English prelate, was born in ' more probably (Drake) Tarsus in Cilicia, a port of com- 175ti, He was ordained for the ministry in 1777. and i mercial intercourse. The providence of God, however, became pastor at Turiff the same year. In 1778 he re- watched over him, first in a storm, and then in liis being
,. I ...„ _„ i ._. „ swallowed by a large fish (bl"ia 5'n) for the space of three
days and three nights (see Hauber, Jonas irn Bauche des Wallfisches [Lemg. 1753] ; Delitzsch, in Zeitschr.f. Lu- ther. Kirche u. Theol. [1840], ii, 112 sq. ; Baumgartcn, ibid. [1841], ii, 187 ; Kcil, Bibl. Commentar zu d. Kl. Pro- : 2^heten [Leipz. 1800]). After his deliverance Jonah ex- 1 edited his commission ; and the king, having heard of j his miraculous deliverance (dean Jackson, On the Creed, bk. ix, c. 42), ordered a general fast, and averted the I threatened judgment. But the prophet, not from per- t sonal, but national feelings, grudged the mercy shown to a heathen nation. He was therefore taught, by the significant lesson of the '-gourd," whose growth .and de- cay (a known fact to naturalists: Layard's Xiii<r(h,i, 123, 124) brought the truth at once home to him, that he was sent to testify by deed, as other prophets would afterwards testify by word, of the capacity of Gentiles for salvation, and the design of God to make them partakers of it. This was "the sign of the prophet Jonas" (Luke
which applies the briefer form indeed to either, but the I xi, 29-32), which was given to a proud and perverse full form to but one in three of these passages. See , generation of Jews after the ascension of Christ by the Jeiionadab. j preaching of his apostles. (See the monographs on
1. The son of Shimeah and nephew of David (A. V. this subject cited by Hase, Lehen Jesu, p. IGO). But correctly in 2 Sam. xiii, 3 tv.ice 32 35' incorrectly m the resurrection of Christ itself was also shadowed forth
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incorrectly vcr. 5, where the Hebrew has Jehonadab).
2. The Kechabite (Jer. xxxv, G. 10, 19; incorrectly in verse 8, 14, IG, 18).
Jo'nah (Heb. Yonah', nsi^, a doi-e, as often, but in that sense fern., Sept. 'lujvd in 2 Kings xiv, 25; else- where and in the N. T. 'Iwvcig : see Jonas), the son of Amittai, the fifth in order of the minor prophets. No a3ra is assigned to him in the book of his prophecy, yet there is little doubt of his being the same person who is spoken of in 2 Kings xiv, 25 as having uttered a proph- ecy of the relief of the kingdom of Israel, which was ac- complished by Jeroboam's recapture of the ancient ter- ritory of the northern tribes batween Ccele-Syria and the Ghor (compare ver. 29). The Jewish doctors have supposed him to be the sou of the widow of Sarepta by a puerile interpretation of 1 Kings xvii, 24 (Jerome, Prafat. in Jonam). His birthplace was Gath-hepher, in the tribe of Zebulon (2 Kings xiv, 25). Jonah flour- ished in or before the reign of Jeroboam II (B.C. cir. 820), since he predicted the successful conquests, en- larged territory, and brief prosperity of the Israelitish kingdom under that monarch's sway (comp. Josephus, Ant. ix, 10, 1). The oracle itself is not extant, though Hitzig has, by a novel process of criticism, amused him- self with a fancied discovery of it in chaps, xv and xvi
in the history of the prophets, as is made certain to us by the words of our Saviour (see Jackson as above, bk, ix, c. 40). Titcomb (Bible Studies, p. 237, note) sees a correspondence between Jon. i, 17 and Hos. vi, 2. Be- sides this, the fact and the faith of Jonah's prayer in the belly of the fish betokened to the nation of Israel the intimation of a resurrection and of immortality.