The Minor Prophets

The "Minor Prophets" can be seen in the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament. In the Hebrew Bible, all of the Minor Prophets are located in one book, but the Old Testament gives them each their own book. Also in the King James Version of the Holy Bible, they are the last twelve books of the Old Testament. They're called "minor" prophets because the size or length of the books, not because of their importance. A few of them have more than ten chapters but most have around one, two or three chapters only.

The Minor Prophets are as follows:

• Hosea
  
• Joel
  
• Amos
  
• Obadiah
  
• Jonah
  
• Micah
  
• Nahum
  
• Habakkuk
  
• Zephaniah
  
• Haggai
  
• Zechariah
  
• Malachi
  

Although this is the end of the Old Testament, this is the beginning of my blog. I'll start with each of the Minor Prophets in turn and then go from there. The posts will very likely be in a different order than the books of the Old Testament. I chose to do this for personal study because these books are the ones I know the least about, excluding Jonah. I figure I've started reading the Old Testament about ten times and only finished a few. So why not start at the end.