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• Historical Books

  [Bible]

  In the genre classification of the Bible, the Historical Books are the books that recount the history of Israel and the early church in narrative form. In Protestant usage, the term refers to the twelve Old Testament books from Joshua through Esther and to the New Testament book of Acts.

• 1 Kings

  [Bible]

  1 Kings is the eleventh book of the Old Testament. It is a historical book that records the final years of David, the reign of Solomon and his construction of the temple, the division of the kingdom, and the ministry of the prophet Elijah.

• Hananiah (False Prophet)

  [People]

  Hananiah, son of Azur of Gibeon, is a prophet who appears in Jeremiah 28. During the reign of Zedekiah he prophesied that the yoke of Babylon would be broken within two years, and he broke the yoke Jeremiah was wearing. He died that same year, as Jeremiah had declared.

• Matthew 5:17–18

  [Bible Verses]

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

• Tophet

  [Bible]

  Tophet was a site in the Valley of Hinnom south of Jerusalem. The Old Testament presents it as a place where children were burned as offerings in idolatrous worship, and the prophet Jeremiah made it a symbol of judgment.

• Sign

  [Bible]

  A sign is a mark that reveals God's will or shows in advance what is to come. In the Old Testament the term refers to signs of the covenant and to the symbolic acts of the prophets; in the New Testament it extends to the signs performed by Jesus and to the signs of the end times.

• Micah

  [Bible]

  The sixth book of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament, containing the message of Micah, a prophet of Judah in the eighth century BC. It is known for its proclamation of judgment on social injustice, its promise of restoration, and its prophecy of a ruler who would come forth from Bethlehem.

• 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.

• Daughter of Zion

  [Bible]

  The Daughter of Zion is a poetic Old Testament expression that personifies Jerusalem and its inhabitants as a woman. It appears frequently in the Prophets and in Lamentations, and the New Testament quotes the title in its accounts of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem.

• 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.

• 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.

• Ezekiel

  [Bible]

  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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• Ephah

  [Bible]

  The ephah is an Old Testament dry measure of volume used for grain and flour. It appears both in sacrificial regulations and in everyday reckonings of grain, and the prophets condemned the falsified ephah as a symbol of injustice.

• Hannah

  [People]

  Hannah is a woman in the Old Testament book of 1 Samuel, the wife of Elkanah and the mother of the prophet Samuel. She is known for the prayer and vow she made at the sanctuary in Shiloh while she was childless, and for the "Song of Hannah."

• Son of Man

  [Bible]

  "Son of Man" is a biblical expression meaning literally "son of a human being." In the Old Testament it refers to a human being; in Daniel 7 it describes a figure who comes with the clouds of heaven; and in the Gospels it is the term Jesus most often used to refer to himself.

• Amittai

  [People]

  Amittai was the father of the prophet Jonah. He is mentioned by name only twice in the Old Testament, in 2 Kings 14:25 and Jonah 1:1.