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Prophets Flashcards

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Isaiah’s vision of “the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty … and the hem of his robe filled the temple” occurred in the year of which king’s death?

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Uzziah

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In which book does this quotation appear: “I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I; send me’”?

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Isaiah

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In response to what crisis did Isaiah say, “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel”?

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The threat of invasion by the kings of Ephraim and Aram

Isaiah

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To which king did Isaiah say, “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel”?

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Ahaz

Isaiah

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What was the name God told Isaiah to call his son as a sign that “the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria”?

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Maher-shalal-hash-baz

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From which prophetic book is the following quotation taken: “The wolf shall live with the lamb, the lepoard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.”

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Isaiah

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In the book of Isaiah, what action are the people called to do in response to the words of comfort that Jerusalem “has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins”?

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“In the wilderness, prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”

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Where is Israel referred to repeatedly as the servant of the Lord?

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Isaiah 40 - 55

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Complete this passage: “Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old…”

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“…I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?”

Isaiah 43

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In Isaiah 45, who is called the anointed one of the Lord?

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Cyrus

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In Isaiah 55, the prophet calls the people to the participate in the blessings of restoration from exile with what words?

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“Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.”

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The words “The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners” come from what book?

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Isaiah

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God’s call of the prophet Jeremiah included which of the following statements:

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“Now I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Jeremiah

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In his sermon at the gate of the temple, Jeremiah says that the LORD will dwell in the temple if the people obey the commandments and stop oppressing the

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alien, orphan, and widow.

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Which prophet was sent to a potter’s house, where “the word of the LORD came to [him]: Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done? … Just like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand”?

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Jeremiah

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Which prophet complained that God enticed him, overpowered him, and made him a laughingstock all day long?

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Jeremiah

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Which prophet counseled King Zedekiah: “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live”?

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Jeremiah

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God’s promise of a “new covenant” that will “put my law within them” and “write it on their hearts” is found in which book?

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Jeremiah

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I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people is in found in which of the following books?

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Jeremiah

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Which prophet “bought the field at Anathoth” and preserved the deed as a sign that “Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land”?

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Jeremiah

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Which prophet was imprisoned during the Babylonian invasion of Judah in a cistern that had been made a prison on a charge that he was “deserting to the Chaldeans”?

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Jeremiah

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Which prophet prophesied in Egypt?

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Jeremiah

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Whose voice is prominent in the book of Lamentations?

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Zion’s

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According to Lamentations, what does Zion have no longer?

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Comforters

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A central theme of which book is expressed in the verse, “Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her”?

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Lamentations

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Which book ends with the words, “…unless you have utterly rejected us, and are angry with us beyond measure”?

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Lamentations

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Which prophetic book opens with the prophet seeing “visions of God” as he “was among the exiles by the river Chebar”?

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Ezekiel

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Which prophet had a vision in which he ate a scroll containing “words of lamentation and mourning and woe” which nevertheless tasted “as sweet as honey”?

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Ezekiel

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To which prophet did God say, “O mortal, take a brick and set it before you. On it portray a city, Jerusalem; and put siegeworks against it”?

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Ezekiel

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What action did God command Ezekiel to perform in the sight of the exiles to illustrate the extent of the famine the inhabitants of Jerusalem would endure during the seige of the city?

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preparing and eating barley-cakes that he had baked over burning dung

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Which prophet recounts being lifted “by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem”?

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Ezekiel

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Complete this prophetic promise: “A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you…”

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“and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

Ezekiel

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Which prophet was “brought … out by the spirit of the LORD and set … down in the middle of a valley … full of bones”?

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Ezekiel

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Ezekiel 40 - 48 presents a vision of

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a new temple in the land of Israel.

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Along with Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, who was the Israelite “of the royal family and of the nobility” who refused the “daily portion of the royal rations of food and wine” provided for them as they were being trained for service to King Nebuchadnezzar?

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Daniel

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Who interpreted a vision of a statue with feet made of iron and clay?

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Daniel

37
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The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego being delivered by God from a “furnace of blazing fire” is found in the book of

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Daniel

38
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According to Daniel’s interpretation of the inscription “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN” that appeared on the wall of King Belshazzar’s palace,

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the Babylonian kingdom would be divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.

39
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As a result of a conspiracy by his rivals, Daniel was condemned to spend a night in a den of lions by which king?

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Darius

40
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Who related a vision involving seventy weeks and an “abomination that desolates”?

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Daniel

41
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“Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt” is found in which book?

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Daniel

42
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Which prophet’s call begins by God saying to him, “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD”?

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Hosea

43
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To which prophet did the LORD say, “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.”

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Hosea

44
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What names were directed to Hosea to give to his children?

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Jezreel
Lo-ruhamah
Lo-ammi
(Not Ephraim)

45
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In the writings of which prophet does God declare, “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son”?

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Hosea

46
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Which prophetic book contains God’s declaration, “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son”?

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Hosea

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The alternating themes of God’s extreme anger at Israel’s unfaithfulness and God’s continuing love for them expressed in the verse, “I will not execute my fierce anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and no mortal, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath,” are found throughout which prophetic book?

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Hosea

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In the oracles of which prophet does God promise, “I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent against you”?

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Joel

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Which prophet spoke the words of promise quoted in Acts 2, “I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh”?

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Joel

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Through which prophet does God promise, “I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions”?

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Joel

51
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Which prophet begins a series of judgments from the LORD by saying, “For three transgressions of” people in a particular place, “and for four, I will not revoke the punishment”?

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Amos

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In which book does this appear? “Why do you want the day of the LORD? It is darkness, not light.”

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Amos

53
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Which prophet had visions of a plumb line and summer fruit?

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Amos

54
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Which prophet responded to king Amaziah’s command that he leave Israel by saying, “I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel’”?

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Amos

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Which prophet declared, “Thus says the Lord: ‘For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals…”?

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Amos

56
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In “the vision of Obadiah,” the people of Edom are identified with which mountain?

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Mount Esau

Obadiah

57
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When Jonah was thrown overboard by the crew while sailing to Tarshish, what did God provide to rescue him?

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a great fish

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In the book of Jonah, who expresses a possibility of hope by saying, “Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”

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the king of Nineveh

59
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Why did Jonah get angry?

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Because God spared Nineveh.

60
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Which prophet justified his behavior by saying, “I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and ready to relent from punishing”?

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Jonah

61
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Which book contains the following: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks”?

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Micah

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Isaiah’s promise of a time when “they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks” is also found in the oracles of what other prophet?

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Micah

63
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Which prophetic book contains the following oracle: “But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule Israel”?

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Micah

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“But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule Israel.” - Which book?

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Micah

65
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“Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.” - Which Book?

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Isaiah

66
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“For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders.” - Which Book?

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Isaiah

67
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“A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.” - Which Book?

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Isaiah

68
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Which prophet issued a call to “do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God”?

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Micah 6:8

69
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Aside from Jonah, which other prophet’s oracles are related only to Nineveh?

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Nahum

70
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About what city was the prophet Nahum speaking when he said, “I will let nations look on your nakedness and kingdoms on your shame. I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a spectacle”?

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Nineveh

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Which prophet challenged God’s use of empires to bring judgment against Judah, saying, “So the law becomes slack and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous–therefore judgment comes forth perverted”?

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Habakkuk

72
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From which prophetic book is the following quotation taken: “I will stand at my watchpost, and station myself on the rampart; I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what he will answer concering my complaint. Then the LORD answered me and said: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it.

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Habakkuk

73
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To which prophet does God say, “Look at the proud! Their spirit is not right in them, but the righteous live by their faith.”

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Habakkuk

74
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Which prophetic book opens with an oracle about the “day of the LORD,” saying: “I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth, says the LORD. I will sweep away human and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea”?

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Zephaniah

75
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Which is a major theme for the book of Haggai?

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the rebuilding of the temple

76
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Through which prophet does God tell Zerubbabel that the people are enduring a drought “Because my house lies in ruins, while all of you hurry off to your own houses”?

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Haggai

77
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Who prophesied after the return from Babylonian exile?

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Zechariah

78
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Which prophet relates a vision of horsemen patrolling the earth that is accompanied by a message of comfort for Jerusalem.

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Zechariah

79
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Which prophet calls on the people of Jerusalem to rejoice because of a coming period of “peace to the nations” established by a king who comes “triumphant and victorious, … humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey”?

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Zechariah

80
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In which book are the people accused of having robbed God by the withholding of their tithes and offerings?

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Malachi

81
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Which of the following books contains the statement, “Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes”?

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Malachi

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