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These prophets were writing during the seventh and eighth century B.C.. The major prophetic themes of the destruction of Israel’s enemies, the judgment of God upon Israel when she turns from him, and the peace that would result from living in harmony with God, are all here. There are also Messianic and future prophetic themes, such as the eternal reign of a king from the line of David (Micah) and...

of Zebulun, and it probably lay a few miles north of Nazareth. Jonah was the only Old Testament prophet we know about from Galilee (John 7:52), and he is the only Old Testament prophet to whom Jesus compares himself and his ministry (Matt. 12:39–41; Luke 11:29–32; see on 1:17). In the book of Jonah, however, it is not to his own nation that the prophet has to deliver his message—at least that is how it appears initially. We do have to remember that he wrote this book for them, so what he was doing
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