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• Jonah (Person)

  Jonah was an Israelite prophet and the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Jonah. He is known for fleeing from God's command, spending three days in the belly of a great fish, and then going to Nineveh to call its people to repentance.

• Ahijah

  Ahijah was a prophet from Shiloh who was active in the last years of Solomon's reign and during the reign of Jeroboam I. He tore his garment into twelve pieces to foretell the division of the kingdom, and he later prophesied the destruction of the house of Jeroboam.

• Zechariah (Person)

  Zechariah was a prophet active during the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem after the return from the Babylonian exile, and he is the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Zechariah. Together with Haggai, he urged the people to rebuild the temple.

• Nahum (person)

  Nahum is a prophet from Elkosh, identified as the author of the Old Testament Book of Nahum. He appears in Scripture only in Nahum 1:1 and prophesied the fall of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria.

• Deborah

  Deborah was a prophetess and judge in the Old Testament Book of Judges, known for defeating the army of Jabin, king of Canaan, together with Barak, and for the Song of Deborah, which commemorates the victory.

• Miriam

  Miriam was the sister of Moses and Aaron and a prophetess who, in Exodus, took up a timbrel and sang with the women after the crossing of the Red Sea. Numbers records that she was struck with a skin disease after speaking against Moses, and that she died at Kadesh.

• Samuel

  Samuel, who appears in 1 Samuel, was the last judge of Israel and a prophet. Born in answer to Hannah's prayer and raised under the priest Eli, he anointed Saul and David and ushered in the era of the monarchy.

• Elisha

  Elisha was a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel who appears in the Old Testament books of Kings. He succeeded Elijah and is recorded as having performed many miracles.

• Ezekiel (person)

  Ezekiel was an Old Testament priest and prophet who ministered during the Babylonian exile. He proclaimed to the exiles of Judah both the judgment of Jerusalem and the restoration of Israel, and his prophecies are preserved in the [[에스겔|Book of Ezekiel]].

• Jeremiah (Person)

  Jeremiah was an Old Testament prophet who ministered from the final years of the Kingdom of Judah into the early period of the Babylonian exile. He warned of the destruction of Jerusalem, prophesied the "new covenant," and is known as "the weeping prophet."

• Shemaiah

  Shemaiah was a prophet in the time of Rehoboam, the first king of the southern kingdom of Judah. He delivered the word that prevented war with the northern tribes, and when Shishak king of Egypt invaded, he brought God's warning to the leaders of Judah.

• Hanani

  Hanani was a seer (prophet) during the reign of King Asa of Judah. He was imprisoned for rebuking the king for relying on the king of Aram instead of on God. He appears in 2 Chronicles 16 and is also recorded as the father of the prophet Jehu.

• Huldah

  Huldah was a prophetess who lived in Jerusalem during the reign of Josiah, king of Judah. She delivered the word of God to the officials the king sent to inquire about the Book of the Law discovered in the temple.

• Oded

  Oded was a prophet active in Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, during the reign of King Ahaz of Judah. He rebuked the army of Israel and urged it to send back the captives taken from Judah (2 Chronicles 28:9-15).

• Habakkuk (person)

  Habakkuk was the prophet to whom the Old Testament Book of Habakkuk is attributed. Scripture gives his name only in the book's two headings and says nothing about his origins or life.

• Malachi (Person)

  Malachi is the prophet whose name is attached to [[말라기|Malachi]], the last book of the Old Testament. His name appears only once in the Bible, in Malachi 1:1, and nothing is known about his life.

• Noadiah

  Noadiah was a prophetess who tried to intimidate Nehemiah while he was rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Her name appears only once, in Nehemiah 6:14.

• Eliezer (son of Dodavah)

  Eliezer was a prophet during the reign of King Jehoshaphat of Judah and the son of Dodavah of Mareshah. He rebuked Jehoshaphat for allying with King Ahaziah of the northern kingdom of Israel to build ships, and he prophesied that the ships would be wrecked (2 Chronicles 20:37).

• Amos (Person)

  Amos was an Old Testament prophet, a herdsman from Tekoa in Judah, who proclaimed God's judgment and justice to the northern kingdom of Israel during the reigns of Uzziah and Jeroboam II. He is the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Amos.

• Zedekiah son of Chenaanah

  Zedekiah son of Chenaanah was a prophet in the time of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel. He prophesied victory in the war against Aram and struck the prophet Micaiah on the cheek. He appears in 1 Kings 22 and 2 Chronicles 18.