# Bible chapter summary 5: Minor prophets

## Hosea

1. Hosea's wife and children
2. Israel's adultery rebuked, God's mercy to Israel
3. Hosea redeems his wife
4. God's case against His people
5. Israel and Judah's judgment
6. Israel and Judah's unrepentance
7. Ephraim's sin
8. Israel will reap the whirlwind
9. Israel's punishment
10. retribution for Israel's sin
11. out of Egypt I called My son, God's love for Israel
12. reproof of Ephraim, Judah, and Jacob
13. God's anger against Israel, Israel's death and resurrection, judgment on Samaria
14. a call to repentance, a promise of God's blessing

## Joel

1. the invasion of locusts, a call to mourning, a call to repent
2. the army of locusts, return with all your heart, restoration promised, God will pour out His Spirit
3. God judges the nations, blessings for God's people

## Amos

1. judgment on Israel's neighbors
2. judgment on Moab, Judah, and Israel
3. witnesses summoned against Israel
4. God's punishment hasn't brought repentance
5. lamentation against Israel, a call to repent, woe to Israel
6. woe to those at ease in Zion, the pride of Israel
7. locusts, fire, and the plumb line, Amaziah accuses Amos and he defends himself
8. the basket of summer fruit and God's famine
9. the destruction of Israel and a promise of restoration

## Obadiah

1. Edom will be destroyed, Israel will be delivered

## Jonah

1. Jonah is called and flees God, the great storm, Jonah is cast into the sea
2. Jonah's prayer
3. the Ninevites repent
4. Jonah's anger at God's compassion

## Micah

1. the coming judgment, weeping and mourning
2. woe to the oppressors, reproof of false prophets, the remnant of Israel
3. the rulers and prophets are condemned
4. the mountain of the house of the Lord, the restoration of Zion
5. a ruler from Bethlehem, the remnant of Jacob
6. the case against Israel, the punishment of Israel
7. Israel's great misery, Israel's confession and comfort, God's compassion on Israel

## Nahum

1. the burden against Nineveh
2. the overthrow of Nineveh
3. God's judgment against Nineveh

## Habakkuk

1. Habakkuk's first complaint and God's answer, Habakkuk's second complaint
2. God's second answer, woe to the Chaldeans
3. Habakkuk's prayer and rejoicing

## Zephaniah

1. judgment on Judah, the Day of the Lord
2. a call to repentance, judgments on the Philistines, Moab and Ammon Cush and Assyria
3. judgment on Jerusalem, judgment on the nations, a faithful remnant, Israel's restoration

## Haggai

1. a call to rebuild the Temple, the people obey (Ezra 5:1-5)
2. the coming glory of God's house, blessings for a defiled people, God will make Zerubbabel His signet ring

## Zechariah

1. call to repentance, vision of horses, vision of horns and craftsmen
2. vision of measuring line, Zion's redemption
3. vision of Joshua the high priest
4. vision of lampstand and olive trees
5. vision of flying scroll, vision of woman in a basket
6. vision of four chariots, the crown and the Temple
7. call to justice and mercy
8. restoration of Jerusalem
9. burden against Israel's enemies, Zion's coming king, God will save His people
10. Judah and Israel will be restored
11. the doomed flock, thirty pieces of silver
12. Jerusalem's coming deliverance, mourning the one they pierced
13. idolatry's end, the shepherd struck and sheep scattered
14. Jerusalem's destroyers destroyed, all nations will worship the King

## Malachi

1. God's love for Israel, the polluted offerings
2. warning to the priests, Judah's unfaithfulness
3. God will send His messenger, robbing God, the book of remembrance
4. the Lord's day