Memory Verses
Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity
What is Joel 2:13?
Known for preaching to Nineveh, he spent three days in the belly of a great fish.
Who is Jonah?
This is the shortest book in the Old Testament, consisting of only 21 verses.
What is Obadiah?
The central theme of the Minor Prophets is a call to return to God and avoid this.
What is sin/disobedience?
This is the first book listed among the 12 Minor Prophets.
What is Hosea?
Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
What is Amose 5:24?
Is it a time for yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house of the Lord’s remains a ruin?
Who is Haggai?
This prophet's book is largely a poem about the destruction of Nineveh.
What is Nahum?
In Joel, this plague is used as a metaphor for the coming judgment.
What are locusts?
This prophet comes immediately after Amos.
Who is Obadiah?
What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, and to love mercy and walk humbly with your God
What is Micah 6:8?
A shepherd from Tekoa, he warned against social injustice and empty religious rituals.
Who is Amos?
He asks God, "How long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear?"
Who is Habakkuk?
Obadiah’s message is almost exclusively a prophecy of judgment against this nation.
What is Edom?
This book is located between Habakkuk and Haggai.
What is Zephaniah?
Even though the fig tree does not bud and there are not grapes in the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior
What is Habakkuk 3: 17-18?
This prophet prophesied that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.
Who is Micah?
This prophet, alongside Zechariah, encouraged the rebuilding of the Temple.
Who is Haggai?
Zechariah 9:9 prophesied that the King would come riding on this.
What is a donkey?
Total number of books in the Minor Prophets section.
What is 12?
These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, Render true and sound judgment in your courts, Do not plot evil against each other, Do not love to swear falsely, I hate all this declares the Lord
What is Zechariah 8:16-17?
This Prophet Prophesied that God will send Prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
Who is Malachi?
He speaks extensively about the "Day of the Lord."
Who is Zephaniah/Joel?
The book of Malachi accuses the people of robbing God in these.
What are tithes and offerings?
The Minor Prophets are located in this major division of the Bible.
What is the Old Testament?