This document provides an overview of major people and events in the history of ancient Israel, from their exodus from Egypt through the exile and return. It lists the 12 minor prophets and notes the approximate dates of their prophecies. Timelines show the division of Israel into northern and southern kingdoms and the fall of each kingdom, with accompanying prophets. The purpose and interpretation of Old Testament prophecy is also briefly discussed.

1. Just some minor
prophets…

2. • Isaiah
• Jeremiah
• Ezekiel
• Daniel
• Hosea
• Joel
• Amos
• Obadiah
• Jonah
• Micah
• Nahum
• Habbakuk
• Zephaniah
• Haggai
• Zechariah
• Malachi

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Israel in Egypt

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Israel in Egypt
From desert to Canaan

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Israel in Egypt
Judges
From desert to Canaan

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Israel in Egypt
Judges
Saul, David, Solomon
From desert to Canaan

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Israel in Egypt
Judges
Saul, David, Solomon
From desert to Canaan
Southern kingdom
Northern kingdom

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Israel in Egypt
Judges
Saul, David, Solomon
From desert to Canaan
Southern kingdom
Northern kingdom
Amos
760BC

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Israel in Egypt
Judges
Saul, David, Solomon
From desert to Canaan
Southern kingdom
Northern kingdom
Amos
760BC
Malachi
460BC

10. All about the exile

11. Deuteronomy

12. 720740760780800 700
Amos 760
Hosea 755 - 722
Northern kingdom Defeat by Assyria
Mass deportation
722BC

13. 500550600650700 450
Habakkuk 605
Zephaniah
640 - 610
Southern
kingdom Jerusalem falls
Exile in Babylon
586BC
First exiles return
to Jerusalem
538BC
Zechariah
520
Malachi
460
Exile

14. OT Prophecy:
Announcing the
Covenant’s enforcement

15. Old Testament
Torah: Who are God’s people &
how should they behave?
Histories: How did God’s people
behave?
Prophecy: How did God respond?

16. OT Prophecy:
Collections of oracles

17. OT Prophecy:
Poetry

18. “All you need is…”

19. OT Prophecy:
God’s word to them, not
necessarily his word to us

20. Good interpretation:
1. What did it mean to them?
2. How does that apply to us?

21. For I will gather you up from all the
nations and bring you home again to your
land.
And you will live in Israel, the land I gave
your ancestors long ago. You will be my
people, and I will be your God.
Ezekiel 36: 24, 28