The Bible in a Year

Old Testament

Daniel – Hosea – Joel - Amos

Read this coming week:
Dec 13 Dan 8‐9, Ps 133, Heb 12‐13 Dec 14 Dan 10‐12, Ps 134, Jas 1‐2
Dec 15 Hos 1, Ps 135, Jas 3‐5 Dec 16 Hos 2‐5, Ps 136, 1 Pet 1‐2 Dec 17
Hos 6‐9, Ps 137, 1 Pet 3‐5 Dec 18 Hos 10‐14, Ps 138, 2 Pet 1‐3 Dec 19
Joel 1‐3, Ps 139, 1 Jn 1‐2 Dec 20 Amos 1‐5, Ps 140, 1 Jn 3‐5

Reading Questions
For next week you’re reading the end of Hebrews
through I John. Answer the following:
• What does the vision of the ram and goat mean?
What does it lead Daniel to do? What is Gabriel’s
answer?
• How do you interpret Daniel 12 as a Christian?
• What does Hosea’s wife do for a living? What do
the names of his children mean?
• What are some of the ways that God accuses
Israel and Judah of being unfaithful like a whoring
wife?
• Who is Ephraim? (Clue: Genesis 41 & 48) Why is
his name used so much in Hosea?
• Hosea leaves on a note of repentance. What
promise is there for those who repent?
 • Joel’s prophecy calls God’s people to repentance
and then gives a vision of what it will be like.
What is the “bright future” that Joel describes?
• We did a Bible study on Amos many months ago,
remember any of it?

The Bible in a Year

Old Testament

Daniel – Hosea – Joel - Amos

Read this coming week:
Dec 13 Dan 8‐9, Ps 133, Heb 12‐13 Dec 14 Dan 10‐12, Ps 134, Jas 1‐2
Dec 15 Hos 1, Ps 135, Jas 3‐5 Dec 16 Hos 2‐5, Ps 136, 1 Pet 1‐2 Dec 17
Hos 6‐9, Ps 137, 1 Pet 3‐5 Dec 18 Hos 10‐14, Ps 138, 2 Pet 1‐3 Dec 19
Joel 1‐3, Ps 139, 1 Jn 1‐2 Dec 20 Amos 1‐5, Ps 140, 1 Jn 3‐5

Reading Questions
For next week you’re reading the end of Hebrews
through I John. Answer the following:
• What does the vision of the ram and goat mean?
What does it lead Daniel to do? What is Gabriel’s
answer?
• How do you interpret Daniel 12 as a Christian?
• What does Hosea’s wife do for a living? What do
the names of his children mean?
• What are some of the ways that God accuses
Israel and Judah of being unfaithful like a whoring
wife?
 • Who is Ephraim? (Clue: Genesis 41 & 48) Why is
his name used so much in Hosea?
• Hosea leaves on a note of repentance. What
promise is there for those who repent?
• Joel’s prophecy calls God’s people to repentance
and then gives a vision of what it will be like.
What is the “bright future” that Joel describes?
• We did a Bible study on Amos many months ago,
remember any of it?
The Twelve Prophets
The so-called “Minor” prophets are not given that name
because they are “lesser.” Instead, these prophets
were called “minor” because their books were generally
shorter than the books of the major prophets such as
Isaiah and Jeremiah.

These books are sometimes called by their Aramaic

name, the “Trei Asar” or “the Twelve”. The times and
locations of these prophets are all varied. While some
scholars believe that these books should be read as a
cohesive whole explaining the cycle of repentance and
grace from the time before the exile until after the exile,
doing so greatly limits the specificity of the prophecies
in their time (nearly 400 years apart at it’s greatest
division!).

While the prophets bear resemblances to each other,

since their original context differs, they must at least be
grouped with other prophets of their same period.
• Joel – 800’s BC
• Jonah – 790 BC
• Amos – 700’s BC
• Hosea – 700’s BC
• Micah – 700’s BC
• Nahum – 600’s BC (book of Jeremiah written)
• Zephaniah – 600’s BC
• Habakkuk – 600’s BC (book of Daniel written)
• Obadiah – 500’s BC
 • Haggai – 520 BC
• Zechariah – 520 BC
• Malachi – 430 BC

Please don’t throw this away. If you’re not going to use it, leave it for
someone else to use.
The Twelve Prophets
The so-called “Minor” prophets are not given that name
because they are “lesser.” Instead, these prophets
were called “minor” because their books were generally
shorter than the books of the major prophets such as
Isaiah and Jeremiah.

These books are sometimes called by their Aramaic

name, the “Trei Asar” or “the Twelve”. The times and
locations of these prophets are all varied. While some
scholars believe that these books should be read as a
cohesive whole explaining the cycle of repentance and
grace from the time before the exile until after the exile,
doing so greatly limits the specificity of the prophecies
in their time (nearly 400 years apart at it’s greatest
division!).

While the prophets bear resemblances to each other,

since their original context differs, they must at least be
grouped with other prophets of their same period.
• Joel – 800’s BC
• Jonah – 790 BC
• Amos – 700’s BC
• Hosea – 700’s BC
• Micah – 700’s BC
• Nahum – 600’s BC (book of Jeremiah written)
• Zephaniah – 600’s BC
• Habakkuk – 600’s BC (book of Daniel written)
• Obadiah – 500’s BC
• Haggai – 520 BC
• Zechariah – 520 BC
• Malachi – 430 BC

Please don’t throw this away. If you’re not going to use it, leave it for
someone else to use.