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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Various Authors DATE: Probable 1060-444 B.C. The Jews referred to this book of songs, laments, and praises as “The Book of Praises,” while the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHORS: Solomon and Others DATE: 950-700 B.C. First Kings 4:32 tells that Solomon spoke 3,000 proverbs and 1,005 songs. Proverbs 1:1-9:18, 10:1-22:16, and 25:1-29:27...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Solomon DATE: ca. 935 BC The Hebrew title is Qoheleth means “one who convenes and speaks at an assembly,” or “an ecclesiastic,” or...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Solomon DATE: ca. 965 B.C. The Hebrew title for this verse comes from verse 1. It is The Song of Songs, which means “the most superlative, or best, of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Isaiah DATE: 740-680 B.C. The prophet Isaiah was the son of Amoz, but nothing is known about this man. What we do know is that God spoke at great length to...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Jeremiah DATE: 627-585 B.C. Jeremiah is often called the “weeping prophet” (Jer 9:1; 13:17) or the “prophet of loneliness” because he was...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Jeremiah DATE: ca. 586 B.C. The term Lamentations is from a Greek verb meaning “to cry aloud.” Crying aloud accurately describes this book, which...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Ezekiel DATE: 592-570 B.C. From a priestly family (Eze 1:3), Ezekiel’s name means “God strengthens.” He spent his early years in...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Daniel DATE: 537 B.C. AUTHOR: Daniel, from the Tribe of Judah DATE: 537 B.C. The Prophet Daniel, whose name means “God is my judge,” was from the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: HoseaDATE: ca. 710 B.C.We don’t know much about the person of Hosea, but we do know his character. Like his contemporary, Amos, he prophesied to the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Joel DATE: Date Uncertain Joel’s name means Yahweh is God. Most believe he wrote around 835 B.C., during the days of young King Jehoash (835-796) who was...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Amos DATE: circa 7:30-760 B.C. Amos was a shepherd and a fig farmer (Amos 7:14) in the southern village of Tekoa in Judah (a village 10 mi, or 16 km, S of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Obadiah DATE: 845 or 586 B.C. Short but Powerful Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament, only 21 verses long. It’s also the least read book of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Jonah DATE: 760 B.C. Although some consider this book to be an allegory, according to 2 Kings 14:25, Jonah was not only a real person but a proven prophet from...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Micah 700 B.C. Micah was a Judean from Moresheth. He preached at the same time as Isaiah, Amos, and Hosea. While Isaiah, Amos, and Hosea were in the Northern...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Nahum DATE: 663-612 B.C. Not a lot is known about Nahum. We do know that his name means consolation and, interestingly, Nahum’s message was to be a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Habakkuk DATE: 606-604 B.C. HABAKKUK / AUTHOR: Habakkuk / DATE: 606-604 B.C. Nothing is known about the prophet himself, except that his name means...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Zephaniah DATE: ca. 625 B.C. We know from Zeph 1:1 that Zephaniah was of noble birth. He was the great, great grandson of King Hezekiah, one of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Haggai DATE: 520 B.C. The Prophet Haggai (name means “my feast”) was the first prophetic voice after the Babylonian Exile. He was a contemporary of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. AUTHOR: Zechariah DATE: 520-518 B.C. Zechariah was the grandson of Iddo, a priest who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel and Joshua (Neh. 12:4). According to...