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Their order, and position in the Old Testament, varies slightly between the Protestant, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles. The name "Minor Prophets" goes back apparently to St. Augustine , [ 1 ] [ non-primary source needed ] who distinguished the 12 shorter prophetic books as prophetae minores from the four longer books of the prophets ...
Below they appear in their order in the Hebrew Bible. ... out of 12 total. ... Pages in category "Twelve Minor Prophets"
These names do not imply that the major prophets are more important than the minor prophets, but refer to the major prophetic books being much longer than the minor ones. [3] The books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel have 66, 52 and 48 chapters, respectively, while the minor prophets merely have 1 to 14 chapters per book. [6]
Benaiah was the name of 12 minor biblical individuals. A Pirathonite, and one of David's mighty men who was chief of the course in the 11th month, numbering 24,000 (2 Samuel 23:30; 1 Chronicles 11:31; 27:14). Chief over the house of Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:36). A Levite appointed as a singer with "psalteries set to Alamoth" (1 Chronicles 15:18 ...
The Latter Prophets are divided into two groups: the major prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel) and the Twelve Minor Prophets (Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi) collected into a single book. Again, although Daniel is considered a major prophet, his book is not in the category ...
c. 1025 BC–c. 1003 BC [citation needed] King Saul, prophecy of Samuel, c. 1003 BC–c. 963 BC [citation needed] King David, prophecy of Nathan prophecy of Gad c. 963 BC–c. 923 BC [citation needed]
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. [1] The second division of Christian Bibles is the New Testament, written in Koine Greek.
Zechariah 1 is the first chapter [a] of the Book of Zechariah in the Hebrew Bible [1] or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [2] [3] This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Zechariah. In the Hebrew Bible it forms a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. [4]