Major Prophets

Five long books from God's messengers. They warned a nation heading for disaster, then carried hope to the people who survived it.

5
Books
183
Chapters
57
Studies

Begin with Isaiah →

The story, plainly

Major Prophets in five questions

What happens

Four long witnesses stand over Judah's final century and the exile that follows: Isaiah seeing both judgment and a suffering Servant, Jeremiah weeping through Jerusalem's fall, Ezekiel among the exiles watching the glory depart and return, and Daniel standing in pagan courts while heaven unveils the ages.

Why it matters

The prophets prosecute the covenant and promise the new one: a virgin's Son, a pierced Servant, a new heart, a kingdom that will never be destroyed.

Who you’ll meet

Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel

Where it happens

Jerusalem Babylon

The exile roads, mapped →

When

c. 740–536 BC: before, through, and after the exile.

The books

Isaiah

66 ch

Jeremiah

52 ch

The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation. Seventy-year exile announced; new covenant glimpsed.

Lamentations

5 ch

Five poems over Jerusalem's ruin. Four acrostics; mercy new every morning at the centre.

Ezekiel

48 ch

The exile priest's visions: wheels, glory departing, dry bones, and the city named YHWH Shammah.

Daniel

12 ch

Court narratives and apocalyptic visions. Son of Man, seventy weeks; four interpretive schools surveyed.

Card plates: Gustave Doré — Doré’s English Bible (1866) and the Doré New Testament engravings. Public domain.

Studies that walk through these books

The numeral is how many passages of Major Prophets each study touches.

The Suffering Servant18×Tabernacle of Moses8×Names of God7×The Covenants6×Creation to New Creation5×Isaiah as a Mini-Bible5×Jeremiah — the Study Guide5×The Glory Departed — Ezekiel 8–115×Ezekiel's Temple — Ezekiel 40–484×Faith Under Fire — the Furnace and the Lions' Den4×Mazzaroth4×Son of Man4×Taw — The Mark of God4×The Armor of God4×The Exodus — Redemption's Master-Type4×The Potter and the Clay — Jeremiah 18–194×The Weeping Prophet — the Confessions of Jeremiah4×Antichrist — the Word and the Figure3×Daniel — the Study Guide3×Revelation — the Canon's Closing Scroll3×The Fulfillment Formula — Matthew's Ten Quotations3×The New Covenant — Jeremiah 31:31–343×The Ransom — Mark 10:453×The Remnant — she'erith3×The Statue and the Stone — Daniel 2 and 73×Trees of Scripture3×A Royal Priesthood — 1 Peter 2:4-102×Good Shepherd2×The Fruit of the Spirit2×The Genealogies of Christ2×The God Who Sings — Zephaniah 3:172×The Seventy Weeks — Daniel 9:24–272×The Valley of Dry Bones — Ezekiel 372×Alpha and Omega1×Christ / Messiah1×Christ Our Wisdom — Proverbs 8 and the Wisdom of God1×Ezekiel — the Study Guide1×Great Is Thy Faithfulness — Lamentations 3:22–241×Hebrews — the Study Guide1×Immanuel1×Isaiah — the Study Guide1×Justice and Righteousness — Mishpat and Tsedaqah1×King of Kings1×Lamb of God1×Lamentations — the Study Guide1×Messianic Psalms1×New Heavens and New Earth — Isaiah 65–661×Once for All — the Finished Sacrifice1×The Genealogy of Jesus — Matthew's 3×141×The Great Commission — Matthew 28:18–201×The Holy One of Israel — Isaiah 61×The Lamb — Revelation's Christology1×The Messianic Secret — Mark1×The Restrainer — 2 Thessalonians 2:6-71×The Scarlet Thread1×The Seed Promise1×The Servant Songs — Isaiah 42, 49, 50, 531×

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