a messenger sent among the nations. For Jonah’s message, like Obadiah’s, is a message to a foreign people. If a link was assumed between the content of Obadiah and Jonah, this would make it understandable that the same sequence is to be found in the Septuagint, although otherwise the writings in the first half of the Book of the Twelve are there arranged differently. In the LXX, the earlier prophets seem to have been ordered according to the length of the books: Hosea, Amos, Micah, Joel, and then