Minor Prophets

A marriage as a sermon — covenant love and spiritual adultery. ‘I desired mercy, and not sacrifice.’

Locust plague, call to return, and the Spirit poured out on all flesh. Peter's Pentecost text.

A herdsman from Tekoa sent north to Bethel. ‘Let justice run down as waters.’

The OT's shortest book — twenty-one verses against Edom's gloating over Jerusalem's fall.

A reluctant prophet, a storm, a fish, a repentant city — and a complaint about God's mercy.

Contemporary of Isaiah. Bethlehem named; ‘do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with thy God.’

Breathtaking poetry on Nineveh's fall. ‘The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble.’

Two complaints, two answers, a psalm. ‘The just shall live by his faith’ — cited thrice in the NT.

Josiah's day. ‘The LORD thy God … will joy over thee with singing.’

Four dated oracles in 520 BC prodding the returned exiles back to the Temple project.

Eight night visions and the pierced one. ‘Thy King cometh, lowly, riding on an ass.’

The OT's last voice — six disputations and Elijah promised before the great day.