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Joel identifies his father as whom?
Who is Pethuel
What was the capital or chief city of Edom, known for its rock dwellings?
What is Petra (also called Sela).
According to Amos, on what did father and son commit immorality together?
What is on the same maid, profaning God’s holy name.
In Joel what animal is used to describe the nation that invaded the land?
What is a lion, with teeth like a lion and fangs of a lioness.
In Joel, who are told to gird themselves and lament?
Who are the priests, ministers of the altar.
Amos comes from which town in Judah?
What is Tekoa
According to Obadiah 1:3, what deceived Edom’s heart?
What is the pride of their heart and their dwelling in the clefts of the rock.
In Micah 2:9, what did the oppressors take from women?
What is their pleasant houses.
In Amos 7, what did Amos say when God showed him the vision of fire consuming the deep?
What is he begged the Lord to stop, saying, “O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.”
In Amos 4:1, the women of Samaria are compared to what?
What a is the kine (cows) of Bashan.
Micah prophesied during the reigns of which three kings of Judah?
Who are Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah
In Obadiah 1:7, who laid a wound under Edom?
Who are those who ate their bread and were allied with them.
In Amos God lists the sins of Israel’s mighty —name two of them.
Who are they afflict the just and take bribes; they turn aside the poor in the gate.
In Amos 9:3, if the people hid themselves at the bottom of the sea, who would God command to bite them?
What is the serpent.
In Micah 2:12, what two similes describe how the remnant of Israel will be gathered?
What is as sheep in a fold, as a flock in the midst of their pasture.
Which prophet gave no personal background, kings, or dates in his book, making his timeline uncertain?
Who is Obadiah
In Obadiah, who shall come up on Mount Zion to judge Mount Esau?
Who are Saviours (deliverers).
In Micah 3:2–3, what violent imagery does Micah use to describe corrupt rulers?
Who are they tear the skin off the people and break their bones.
In Micah 1:14, which town is told to give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath?
What is Achzib.
According to who are warned that are “at ease” and “trust in the mountain of Samaria”?
Who are the notable men of the chief nation, to whom Israel came.
Which prophet’s message spanned both judgment and restoration and included direct warnings to Samaria and Jerusalem?
Who is Micah
what reason is given for Edom’s destruction?
What is violence against their brother Jacob.
In Amos , what did merchants sell for silver and a pair of shoes?
What is the poor and the refuse of wheat.
In Joel ,from which direction did the army come, and where would God drive it?
What is it came from the north and would be driven into a barren and desolate land — the eastern sea and the utmost sea.
In Joel what exact prayer are the priests told to say between the porch and the altar?
What is “Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach.”