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Zephaniah
[Bible]Zephaniah is the ninth of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. Delivered by the prophet Zephaniah during the reign of King Josiah of Judah, it warns of judgment on "the day of the LORD" and promises the restoration of a remnant. The book has three chapters.
Joel
[Bible]Joel is the second book of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament. Occasioned by a locust plague, it calls the people to repentance and contains God's promise to pour out His Spirit upon all flesh.
Habakkuk
[Bible]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).
Malachi
[Bible]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.
Amos
[Bible]Amos is the third of the twelve books of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament. It preserves 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.
Esther
[Bible]Esther is a book of the Old Testament. In ten chapters it tells the story of Esther, a Jewish queen at the Persian court who averted the threatened annihilation of her people.
Jeremiah
[Bible]Jeremiah is one of the Major Prophets of the Old Testament. It records the prophecies and life of the prophet Jeremiah, who ministered during the period when the Kingdom of Judah fell.
Hosea
[Bible]Hosea is a prophetic book of the Old Testament in which Hosea, an eighth-century BC prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel, uses his own marriage to portray idolatrous Israel and the love of God, who will not finally abandon His people.
Ecclesiastes
[Bible]Ecclesiastes is a book of Old Testament wisdom literature. It reflects on the transience, or "vanity," of all things in the world and concludes that fearing God is the whole duty of man.
Nahum
[Bible]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.
Zechariah
[Bible]Zechariah is the thirty-eighth book of the Old Testament. This prophetic book encourages the people of Judah who had returned from the Babylonian exile to rebuild the Temple, and it prophesies concerning the Messiah and the restoration of the kingdom of God.
Obadiah
[Bible]Obadiah is one of the Minor Prophets of the Old Testament and, with a single chapter of twenty-one verses, the shortest book in the Old Testament. It prophesies God's judgment on Edom and the restoration of Zion.
Tobit
[Bible]Tobit is a book included in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles but classified by Protestants as part of the Apocrypha; it is also the name of the book's main character. The story is set in Nineveh during the Assyrian exile and features the angel Raphael.
Lamentations
[Bible]Lamentations is a book of the Old Testament that collects five laments, poems of grief mourning the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Babylonians.
Song of Songs
[Bible]The Song of Songs is a poetic book of the Old Testament, an eight-chapter poem celebrating the love and longing between a man and a woman. In Judaism and Christianity it has also long been read as a figure of the love between God and his people and between Christ and the Church.
Gospel of John
[Bible]The Gospel of John is the fourth book of the New Testament and the last of the four Gospels. It presents Jesus as the Son of God and the Word made flesh, and it consists of twenty-one chapters.
Gospel of Luke
[Bible]The Gospel of Luke is the third book of the New Testament and one of the four Gospels, recording the life of Jesus Christ from his birth to his ascension. It is regarded as the first volume of a two-part work, continued in the Acts of the Apostles by the same author.
Job 10
[Bible]Job 10 is the chapter in which Job, while answering Bildad, turns to appeal directly to God. He asks why the God who formed him with His own hands now destroys him, and he pleads for even a brief respite before he dies.
Epistle to the Hebrews
[Bible]Hebrews is the nineteenth book of the New Testament. It presents Jesus Christ as the true High Priest who fulfilled the sacrifices and priesthood of the Old Testament, and it exhorts its readers to hold fast to the faith.
Romans
[Bible]Romans is the sixth book of the New Testament, a letter from the apostle Paul to the church in Rome. It is widely regarded as the most systematic exposition of the gospel of justification by faith.