Introduction to the Minor Prophets

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Just some minor prophets…

• Isaiah

• Jeremiah

• Ezekiel

• Daniel

• Hosea

• Joel

• Amos

• Obadiah

• Jonah

• Micah

• Nahum

• Habbakuk

• Zephaniah

• Haggai

• Zechariah

• Malachi

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Israel in Egypt

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Israel in Egypt

From desert to Canaan

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Israel in Egypt

Judges

From desert to Canaan

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Israel in Egypt

Judges

Saul, David, Solomon

From desert to Canaan

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Israel in Egypt

Judges

Saul, David, Solomon

From desert to Canaan

Southern kingdom

Northern kingdom

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Israel in Egypt

Judges

Saul, David, Solomon

From desert to Canaan

Southern kingdom

Northern kingdom

Amos 760BC

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Israel in Egypt

Judges

Saul, David, Solomon

From desert to Canaan

Southern kingdom

Northern kingdom

Amos 760BC

Malachi 460BC

All about the exile

Deuteronomy

720740760780800 700

Amos 760

Hosea 755 - 722

Northern kingdom Defeat by AssyriaMass deportation722BC

500550600650700 450

Habakkuk 605

Zephaniah640 - 610

Southern kingdom Jerusalem falls

Exile in Babylon586BC

First exiles return to Jerusalem538BC

Zechariah520

Malachi460

Exile

OT Prophecy:

Announcing the Covenant’s enforcement

Old TestamentTorah: Who are God’s people &

how should they behave?

Histories: How did God’s people behave?

Prophecy: How did God respond?

OT Prophecy:

Collections of oracles

OT Prophecy:

Poetry

“All you need is…”

OT Prophecy:

God’s word to them, not necessarily his word to us

Good interpretation:

1. What did it mean to them?

2. How does that apply to us?

For I will gather you up from all the nations and bring you home again to your

land.

And you will live in Israel, the land I gave your ancestors long ago. You will be my

people, and I will be your God.

Ezekiel 36: 24, 28