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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

A movement of the canon

Prophets

Seventeen books of God's messengers, from Isaiah to Malachi. They warned, they pleaded, and they promised a King who was still coming.

  • 17
    Books
  • 250
    Chapters
  • 81
    Studies
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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.

Hosea

14 ch

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

Joel

3 ch

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

Amos

9 ch

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

Obadiah

1 ch

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

Jonah

4 ch

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

Micah

7 ch

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

Nahum

3 ch

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

Habakkuk

3 ch

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

Zephaniah

3 ch

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

Haggai

2 ch

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

Zechariah

14 ch

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

Malachi

4 ch

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

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

›Go deeper: how these books work together

Israel's prophets are the LORD's voice to a covenant people who would not hear. Seventeen books across roughly four centuries (from Isaiah in Uzziah's reign to Malachi four centuries later) cover the arc from the northern kingdom's last decades (Hosea, Amos) to the southern kingdom's collapse (Jeremiah, Lamentations), through the Babylonian exile (Ezekiel, Daniel), into the post-exilic rebuilding (Haggai, Zechariah) and the prophetic silence that follows Malachi.

The canonical division is conventional rather than chronological: the ‘Major Prophets’ (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel) are simply the longer books, and the ‘Minor Prophets’ or Book of the Twelve (Hosea through Malachi) are a deliberately-arranged anthology of shorter ones. The prophets preach judgment and they preach hope; they confront idolatry, injustice, and alliance-making; they announce the day of the LORD and the new covenant; they foresee the Messiah in dozens of forms: the Branch, the Servant, the Son of Man, the pierced one, the king riding on a donkey.

Isaiah stays at its own hub and retains its Mini-Bible feature-page treatment; the other sixteen books ship here in Wave C. Three receive Tier 1 bespoke visuals (Jeremiah's weeping-prophet + seventy-year frame, Ezekiel's wheels-and-watchman, Daniel's seventy-weeks timeline); Lamentations and the twelve Minor Prophets ship at uniform Tier 2. On every contested interpretive question (Daniel's seventy weeks, Ezekiel's millennial Temple, the identity of Gog and Magog) the site presents the schools without adjudicating.

Studies that walk through these books

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

The Suffering Servant18×The Covenants9×Messianic Psalms8×Tabernacle of Moses8×The Day of the LORD — yom YHWH8×The Remnant — she'erith8×The Scarlet Thread8×The Twelve8×Names of God7×Zephaniah — the Study Guide7×Creation to New Creation6×Isaiah as a Mini-Bible5×Jeremiah — the Study Guide5×Revelation — the Canon's Closing Scroll5×Son of Man5×Taw — The Mark of God5×The Armor of God5×The Fulfillment Formula — Matthew's Ten Quotations5×The Glory Departed — Ezekiel 8–115×Ezekiel's Temple — Ezekiel 40–484×Faith Under Fire — the Furnace and the Lions' Den4×Habakkuk — the Study Guide4×Mazzaroth4×Nahum — the Study Guide4×The Exodus — Redemption's Master-Type4×The God Who Sings — Zephaniah 3:174×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×Justice and Righteousness — Mishpat and Tsedaqah3×The New Covenant — Jeremiah 31:31–343×The Ransom — Mark 10:453×The Statue and the Stone — Daniel 2 and 73×Trees of Scripture3×A Royal Priesthood — 1 Peter 2:4-102×Gomer — Bought Back — Hosea 1–32×Good Shepherd2×Jacob Have I Loved — the Election Thread2×King of Kings2×Lamb of God2×The Forerunner and the Refiner — Malachi 3:1; 4:5–62×The Fruit of the Spirit2×The Genealogies of Christ2×The Just Shall Live by His Faith — Habakkuk 2:42×The Seed Promise2×The Seventy Weeks — Daniel 9:24–272×The Valley of Dry Bones — Ezekiel 372×Alpha and Omega1×Amos — the Study Guide1×Bridegroom1×Christ / Messiah1×Christ Our Wisdom — Proverbs 8 and the Wisdom of God1×Ezekiel — the Study Guide1×Great Is Thy Faithfulness — Lamentations 3:22–241×Haggai — the Study Guide1×Hebrews — the Study Guide1×Hosea — the Study Guide1×Immanuel1×Isaiah — the Study Guide1×Joel — the Study Guide1×Jonah — the Study Guide1×Lamentations — the Study Guide1×Malachi — the Study Guide1×Micah — the Study Guide1×New Heavens and New Earth — Isaiah 65–661×Obadiah — the Study Guide1×Once for All — the Finished Sacrifice1×The Branch and the King — the Four Plantings of Tsemach1×The Genealogy of Jesus — Matthew's 3×141×The Golden Calf — Covenant Made, Broken, Remade1×The Great Commission — Matthew 28:18–201×The Holy One of Israel — Isaiah 61×The Jerusalem Council — Acts 151×The Lamb — Revelation's Christology1×The Messianic Secret — Mark1×The Restrainer — 2 Thessalonians 2:6-71×The Servant Songs — Isaiah 42, 49, 50, 531×The Sign of Jonah1×The Three Pentecosts — Acts 2, 10 & 191×Zechariah — the Study Guide1×
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