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Minor Prophets, Part 3: Persian Period and Restoration

  1. Lesson One
    Obadiah
    17 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  2. Lesson Two
    Haggai
    17 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  3. Lesson Three
    Zechariah
    20 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  4. Lesson Four
    Malachi
    18 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  5. Lesson Five
    OT Wrap-Up (Psalm 119)
    15 Activities
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    5 Assessments
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment
Lesson 1, Activity 10

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[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

Obadiah is not the only prophet to speak against Edom. The citations below are a partial list of other prophetic passages against the Edomites:

  • Isaiah 21:11-12
  • Isaiah 63:1-6
  • Jeremiah 9:24-25
  • Jeremiah 25:21
  • Jeremiah 27
  • Jeremiah 49:7-22
  • Amos 9:12
  • Joel 3:19
  • Ezekiel 32:29
  • Ezekiel 35–36
  • Ezekiel 25:12-14
  • Malachi 1

The table below includes a list of passages in the left column all from one prophet, and a list of passages in the right column all from another prophet. See you if you can identify the prophet that goes with each column. 

Prophet AProphet B 
I have heard a message from the LORD, And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying . . .We have heard a report from the LORD, And an envoy has been sent among the nations saying …
“Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!”“Arise and let us go against her for battle.”
“For behold, I have made you small among the nations, despised among men.”“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you are greatly despised.”
“As for the terror of you, the arrogance of your heart has deceived you, O you who live in the clefts of the rock, who occupy the height of the hill.”“The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in the loftiness of your dwelling place, who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to earth?’”
“Though you make your nest as high as an eagle’s, I will bring you down from there,” declares the LORD.“Though you build high like the eagle, though you set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
“If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?”“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—O how you will be ruined! Would they not steal only until they had enough?”
“If thieves came by night, they would destroy only until they had enough.”“If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?”
“But I have stripped Esau bare.”“O how Esau will be ransacked.”
  1. Based on the passages in the table above, who are Prophet A and Prophet B?