Key Themes
God's sovereignty over the nations
Daniel
Isaiah's commissioning
Isaiah 6
When was the exile of the Northern Kingdom?
722 A.D.
"Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity..."
Daniel 9
Who was Jeremiah's scribe?
Baruch
"But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel,"
Micah 5:2
God's glory leaving and returning
Ezekiel
The Virgin Birth
Isaiah 7
When was the destruction of Jerusalem and Solomonic Temple?
586 B.C.
"What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten."
Joel 1
Who is the father of Edom?
Esau
"Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."
Zechariah 9:9
God's compassion towards the lost
Jonah
The 5th Gospel
Isaiah 53
Completion of Solomon's Temple
"but the righteous shall live by his faith."
Habakkuk 2:4b
Daniel's 3 friends
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
"But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing on its wings."
Malachi 4:2
The coming Day of the Lord
Joel
"A voice cries in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God."
Isaiah 40
Split of Northern and Southern Kingdoms
~930 B.C.
"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?"
Haggai 1:4
Who is the king of Babylon who destroyed Jerusalem?
Nebuchadnezzar
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
Isaiah 9:6
Judgment of Nineveh
Nahum
The Mountain of the Lord chapter (also quoted in Micah)
Isaiah 2
When was the first captivity/exile?
605 B.C.
"I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts."
Jeremiah 31:33
Who is the Roman king who is a type of the antichrist in Daniel 11.
Antiochus Epiphanes
"Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities."
Isaiah 53:11
The Rebuilding of the Temple
Haggai
"How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn!"
Isaiah 14:12
When was the first return, led by Zerubbubel, to rebuild the temple?
537 B.C.
"Then the glory of the Lord went out from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim. And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as they went out, with the wheels beside them."
Ezekiel 10:18-19
Who is the king of Israel that asked for Isaiah's help against Assyrian invasion?
Hezekiah
"There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit."
Isaiah 11:1
Israel's Unfaithful Adultery leads to Judgment
Hosea
The Worthless Vineyard is Destroyed
Isaiah 5
How many years were there between the destruction of the temple and its rebuilding?
70 Years
"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness."
Lamentations 3:22-23
Governor of Judah who helped lead Israel to rebuild the temple after their return from exile.
Zerubbabel
"When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son."
Hosea 11:1