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Studies in the Twelve (Minor) Prophets
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Articles in this Series
‘Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets’, Amos 3. 7.’ A short introduction The Minor Prophets come after the major prophetic books in the Old…
The penman We know very little about the background of the prophet Joel, apart from the fact that his father’s name was Pethuel, Joel 1. 1, and it seems clear from his book that he lived and ministere…
Few books have attracted the attention of sceptics and rationalists more than this one. The fact that a human could be swallowed by a great fish and survive has been ridiculed as fanciful. However, as…
Author Amos is named only in the book that bears his name and there is no record of his parentage or family. In chapter 7 verse 14, he tells us he was not a prophet or a prophet’s son but a herdsman o…
Introduction Hosea prophesied during the reigns of five kings, four of Judah (Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah) and one of the Northern Kingdom of Israel (Jeroboam II), Hos. 1. 1. He was a prophet of…
In chapters 2 and 3, we are mainly concerned with the interaction between God and Israel, mirrored in the relationship between Hosea and his promiscuous wife, Gomer. We feel the frustration of both Go…
The penman Like some other prophets, very little is known about the background of the prophet Micah. We do know that he came from the Judean town of Moresheth, Mic. 1. 1, and that he was a contemporar…
The prophet Nahum prophesied sometime between the fall of the Egyptian capital city of Thebes, which is dated to 663 BC,1 and the later fall of the city of Nineveh, which is dated to 612 BC. Many Jewi…
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