Minor Prophets I (Biblia.com)

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This volume includes commentary on the first six books of the Minor Prophets: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, and Micah. Though varied in setting, style, audience, and theme, these books share at least one commonality: each is an important message from God. With interpretive skill and theological passion, Achtemeier helps the reader see the importance of these messages for today.

and deported much of its population (2 Kgs. 15:29). The remnant of the country was saved only by Hoshea ben Elah’s (732–724 BC) assassination of Pekah and submission as a vassal to Assyria (Hos. 8:9–10). Some portions of Hosea 9–12 reflect the relatively quiet time under the rule of Assyria before Shalmaneser V took the throne of that empire (726–722 BC). However, the small states of the ancient Near Eastern world vacillated constantly between alliance to one or another empire of Mesopotamia and

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