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The Book of the Twelve: Hosea–Malachi, 2 vols. (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary | SHBC) is unavailable, but you can change that!

This commentary focuses on the books of Hosea through Malachi, focusing on their contents in light of the Minor Prophets as a whole. Over the last thirty years, biblical scholars have explored the implications of an ancient Jewish and Christian tradition that referred to the Minor Prophets as “the Twelve.” Scholarly work on the Book of the Twelve in the last quarter century has focused on...

reformulating the classic confession of Exodus 34:6–7, although the text may be filtered through Joel 2:13. [Exodus 34:6–7] Exodus 34:6–7 Jonah 4:2 modifies the confession from Exod 34:6, although the motivation is not easy to discern. The phrasing could simply have been changed to suit the context of Jonah, or it could be calling attention to Joel 2:13, which contains the same variation of Exod 34:6. Exod 34:6 concludes the string of YHWH’s characteristics with faithfulness (ʾĕmet), but Jonah
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