AMOS, HOSEA, FALL OF THE NORTH

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AMOS, HOSEA, FALL OF THE NORTH AMOS Issues of
social justice HOSEA Issues of religious
unfaithfulness Jezreel God Sows
battlefield (14-5) ? fertile field
(221-23) Lo-ruhamah Not Pitied Not
pitied (16-7) ? Pitied (223) Lo-ammi Not My
People Not my people (19) ? My people
(223) Fall of the northern kingdom (2 Kgs 17)
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MICAH (ca. 740-700 BC) Mic 66-8 Do justice
walk humbly with God Mic 39-12 Warning of
Jerusalems destruction Mic 41-5 Promise of
restoration
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ISAIAH (742-687 BC) Message 12-4 Religious
Social Problems 15-9 Judahs refusal to
repent 110-17 Misguided trust in ritual
118-20 Plea to repent 21-5 Promise of
restoration Isaiahs call (6) War with Ephraim
Syria (7-8) Shear-jashub a remnant shall
return Immanuel God with us
Maher-shalal-hash-baz spoil speeds, prey
hastens Promise of Messianic King (9) AHAZ (2
Kings 16) Pagan worship / placates Assyria
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HEZEKIAH (727-698 BC) Religious reforms (2 Kgs
18) Deliverance from Assyria (2 Kgs 19)
Sickness recovery (2 Kgs 20) Shows
Babylonians his treasure Apostate Kings (2 Kings
21) Manasseh (698-642 BC) Amon (642-640
BC) ZEPHANIAH (ca. 640-609 BC) Zeph 12-9
Warning against those who adopt false, foreign
worship Zeph 38-13 Promise that God will
bring foreign nations to true worship JOSIAH
(640-609 BC) Reforms Worship (2 Kgs
22-23) NAHUM fall of Assyria (Nahum)
Josiahs revolt death (2 Kgs 2329-30)
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JEREMIAH (ca. 627-587 BC) Early Life Call (Jer
1) Temple sermon (Jer 7) God the potter (Jer
18) Broken pot (Jer 19) Arrest lament (Jer
20) Jehoiakim burns scroll (Jer 36)
(Jehoiakim dies, Jehoiakin becomes king)
(Jehoiakin and others deported in 597 BC)
(Zedekiah becomes the last Davidic king) Fall of
Jerusalem Jeremiah Hananiah (Jer 27-29)
Prison release (Jer 37-38) Fall of the South
in 587 BC (Jer 39) Aftermath to Egypt (Jer
40-43)
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HOSEAS CHILDREN Jezreel God
Sows battlefield (14-5) ? fertile field
(221-23) Lo-ruhamah Not Pitied Not Pitied
(16-7) ? Pitied (223) Lo-ammi Not my
People Not my people (19) ? My people (223)
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Readings from theSTORY OF JUDAH
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Readings from theStory of Judah (cont.)