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• Haggai

  Haggai is the thirty-seventh book of the Old Testament and the tenth of the twelve Minor Prophets. It contains the messages of the prophet Haggai, who urged the people of Judah, returned from exile in Babylon, to rebuild the ruined temple in Jerusalem.

• Zephaniah

  Zephaniah is the ninth book of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It records the prophet Zephaniah's warnings of judgment on "the day of the LORD" and his promise that a remnant will be restored, delivered during the reign of King Josiah of Judah. The book has three chapters.

• Joel

  Joel is the second book of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament. Prompted by a locust plague, it calls the people to repentance and contains God's promise to pour out His Spirit upon all flesh.

• Habakkuk

  Habakkuk is the eighth of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It records the prophet's question of why evil is allowed to persist, together with God's answer, and it is widely known for the verse "the just shall live by his faith" (Habakkuk 2:4).

• Amos

  Amos is the third of the twelve books of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament. It contains the words of the prophet Amos, who was active in the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC, and it is well known for its call to social justice and its critique of merely formal worship.

• Nahum

  Nahum is the seventh of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It proclaims the coming destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, and consists of three chapters.

• Simeon Called Niger

  Simeon called Niger is an early church figure named in Acts 13:1 as one of the "prophets and teachers" of the church at Antioch in Syria.

• Ezekiel

  Ezekiel is the twenty-sixth book of the Old Testament and one of the Major Prophets. Its forty-eight chapters record the visions and prophecies received by Ezekiel, a prophet from a priestly family who ministered during the Babylonian exile.

• Matthew 5:17–18

  In this saying Jesus declares that he came not to destroy the law or the prophets but to fulfill them. The passage serves as a starting point from which different denominations reach different conclusions about the relationship between Christians and the Old Testament law.

• Day of the Lord

  The Day of the Lord is an expression used by the Old Testament prophets for the time when God intervenes directly in history to bring about judgment and salvation. The New Testament takes it up as "the day of the Lord" and "the day of Christ," connecting it with the Second Coming and the Last Judgment.

• Manaen

  Manaen is an early church figure named in Acts 13:1 as one of the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch. He is described as having been "brought up with Herod the tetrarch," that is, as Herod's foster brother.

• Prophecy

  Prophecy is the act of receiving a message from God and conveying it to others, or the message so conveyed. In the Old Testament it was the ministry of the prophets; in the New Testament it appears as one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

• 2 Kings 9

  2 Kings 9 is the chapter in which one of the sons of the prophets, sent by Elisha, anoints the army commander Jehu as king of Israel, after which Jehu kills King Joram of Israel, King Ahaziah of Judah, and Jezebel.

• Malachi

  Malachi is the last of the thirty-nine books of the Protestant Old Testament and one of the twelve Minor Prophets, a group of shorter prophetic books. It rebukes the formalism of Israel's worship and conduct after the rebuilding of the Temple.

• Hebrews 1:1–3

  The three opening verses of the Epistle to the Hebrews declare that the God who spoke through the prophets has at last spoken through his Son. The passage presents the Son as the agent of creation, the brightness of God's glory, and the express image of his being. It is frequently cited as one of the principal Christological texts of the New Testament.

• Branch (Messianic Title)

  "Branch" translates the Hebrew word tsemach, which the Old Testament prophets used as a title for a righteous ruler who would arise from the line of David. Christianity has read it as a messianic prophecy of Jesus Christ.

• Lucius of Cyrene

  Lucius is a figure of the early church named in Acts 13:1 as one of the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch. He was from Cyrene in North Africa.

• Micah 3

  Micah 3 indicts the leaders of the house of Jacob, the prophets who prophesy for money, and the priests who teach for hire, and it declares that because of them Zion and Jerusalem will be laid waste.

• Elijah

  Elijah was an Old Testament prophet who is understood to have ministered in the northern kingdom of Israel around the ninth century BC. He is best known for his contest with the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel and for his ascent into heaven.

• Matthew 22:37–40

  In this passage Jesus, asked which is the greatest commandment, names love for God and love for neighbor and declares that all the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments. It is accepted across denominational lines as a summary of biblical ethics.