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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,...

in the historical books. Compare Isaiah 36–39 with 2 Kings 18:13–20:19 and Jeremiah 52:1–34 with 2 Kings 24:18–25:30. We can conclude, therefore, that the prophets were the historians of Israel. But people do not write history unless they believe that there is some purpose, some direction to history. In short, they do not write history unless they believe that history is going somewhere. Early oriental societies, with their cyclical views of history (nature just goes round and round and never really
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