Jonah, Nahum, and Ambackum

He sojourned in the land of Shur belonging to the other nations. For he said, 'In this way I have cast off the reproach, because I lied in prophesying concerning Nineveh.' Having lived in the land of Saar, he died there and was buried in the cave of Kenaz the Cretan. He prophesied thus: when they see in Jerusalem many nations coming from the west, it shall be destroyed even to the ground.

14. But Nahum the prophet. This man was from Elkesin beyond the Jordan to Bethagbar, of the tribe of Simeon. After Jonah, he gave a sign against Nineveh, declaring that it would be destroyed by sweet waters and by fire from the earth, which indeed happened. For the lake surrounding it was consumed, its higher parts being set ablaze by an earthquake and by fire coming from the wilderness. Nahum died in peace and was buried in his own land, Bethagbar.

15. Ambackum the prophet. This man was from the countryside of Byzzuchar, of the tribe of Simeon. Before the captivity, regarding the capture of Jerusalem, he saw it and grieved greatly for the city and the people. When Nebuchadnezzar came into Jerusalem to seize it, he fled to Ostrakine and lived there as a sojourner in the land of Ishmael. As the Chaldeans returned to their own land after making Jerusalem a spoil, the survivors remaining in Jerusalem went down to Egypt. He himself, however, went up to his own land. He was serving the reapers of his own field, for he was sowing barley. When the grain was ripe for them, he prophesied to his own people, saying, 'I am going to a distant land, but I shall return quickly. If I am delayed, carry it away so the reapers may eat.' Having been in Babylon and having provided a meal for Daniel in the lions' den, he returned and stood among the reapers while they were eating, yet he said nothing of what had occurred. But the prophet understood that the people would quickly return from Babylon to Jerusalem. He gave a sign to those in Judea, that they would see a great light shining in the temple, so that they might see the glory of God. Concerning the destruction of the temple, he foretold that the entrance of the temple of Jerusalem would come from a western nation; then the throne of David would be split into two parts, and the capitals of the two pillars would be removed. No one will know where they are. They shall be carried away into the wilderness by angels, to the place where the tent of the testimony was originally pitched. And in them, the Lord shall be known at the end, because they shall shine.