and religious realities in Judah. And while they are not strictly contemporaries of Isaiah and Micah, God also sent Amos and Hosea as his messengers to the Northern Kingdom. During the same time, Jonah was sent to Nineveh. These five prophets spoke for God during approximately the same time. Our attention is on the ministry of Isaiah, which was limited to Judah and Jerusalem. Isaiah was God’s messenger to Judah, and he focuses on the affairs in Judah. Isaiah does not mention the Northern kings, but
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