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God said concerning Israel, “I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing” (Hos. 8:12). This statement is both a condemnation of the people and an expression of the need for the messages of such prophets as Hosea. The same criticism might be offered, in an accommodative way, concerning our understanding of the words of the Minor Prophets. For years,...

Judah.” But in the parallel passage in 2 Chronicles 12:15 we read, “Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, according to the genealogical enrollment.” The conclusion seems to be that those historical records were being kept and written by the prophets themselves. They were probably stored in the temple, and while that might suggest to us a job for a priest, we should remember that many of the prophets were in
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