According to 2 Kings 14:25, the prophet Jonah lived and prophesied in Jeroboam's reign. The biblical scholar Donald Wiseman has speculated that the eclipse took place around when Jonah arrived in Nineveh and urged the people to repent, otherwise the city would be destroyed.
In the biblical account of 2 Kings 14:25, prophet Jonah lived and prophesied during Jeroboam's reign. Biblical scholar Donald Wiseman has suggested that the eclipse occurred when Jonah arrived in Nineveh and exhorted the people to change their ways, or else the city would be destroyed.