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