Ecclesiastes Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. AUTHOR: Solomon DATE: ca. 935 BC The Hebrew title is Qoheleth means “one who convenes and speaks at an assembly,” or “an...

Song of Songs Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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,...

Isaiah Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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...

Jeremiah Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. AUTHOR: Jeremiah DATE: 627-585 B.C. Jeremiah is often called the “weeping prophet” (Jer 9:1; 13:17) or the “prophet of loneliness”...

Lamentations Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. AUTHOR: Jeremiah DATE: ca. 586 B.C. The term Lamentations is from a Greek verb meaning “to cry aloud.”  Crying aloud accurately describes this...

Ezekiel Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. AUTHOR: Ezekiel DATE: 592-570 B.C.   From a priestly family (Eze 1:3), Ezekiel’s name means “God strengthens.”  He spent his early...

Daniel Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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,”...

Hosea Overview & Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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...

Joel Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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...

Amos Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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...

Obadiah Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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...

Jonah Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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...

Micah Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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...

Nahum Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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...

Habakkuk Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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...

Zephaniah Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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,...

Haggai Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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...

Zechariah Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. 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)....

Malachi Overview and Outline

If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. AUTHOR: Malachi DATE: 450-400 B.C. We know nothing about the prophet Malachi.  There is no historical record of him, nor is any genealogy given.  We do...