Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jonah+002   Jonah 2 (ESV) Jonah’s Prayer 1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice. 3 For you cast me into the deep, […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jonah+001   JONAH INTRODUCTION The book relates how the word of the Lord came to Jonah, a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam II in the 8th century BC. It is unique among prophetic books in focusing on a story about a prophet rather than a collection of oracles. The book contains […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Obadiah+001   OBADIAH INTRODUCTION When Judah’s capital city of Jerusalem fell to the Babylonian army in 587/6 BC, those in the neighboring kingdom of Edom joined in looting the city. They intercepted fleeing Judeans and turned them over to the Babylonians to be executed or enslaved. They showed no compassion even […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+009   Amos 9 (ESV) The Restoration of Israel 11 “In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old, 12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+008   Amos 8 (ESV) 11 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. 12 They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall […]