AMOS, HOSEA, FALL OF THE NORTH

AMOS: Issues of social justice

Hosea: Issues of religious unfaithfulness

•   Jezreel – “God Sows”
     battlefield (1:4-5) à fertile
     field (2:21-23)

•   Lo-ruhamah – “Not Pitied”
     Not pitied (1:6-7) à Pitied
     (2:23)

•   Lo-ammi – “Not My People”
     Not my people (1:9) à My
     people (2:23)

Fall of the northern kingdom (2 Kgs 17)

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MICAH (ca. 740-700 BC)

  Mic 6:6-8 Do justice & walk humbly with God

  Mic 3:9-12 Warning of Jerusalem’s destruction

  Mic 4:1-5 Promise of restoration

ISAIAH (742-687 BC)

Message

  1:2-4 Religious & Social Problems

  1:5-9 Judah’s refusal to repent

  1:10-17 Misguided trust in ritual

  1:18-20 Plea to repent

  2:1-5 Promise of restoration

Isaiah’s call (6)

War with Ephraim & Syria (7-8)

  Shear-jashub –

“a remnant shall return”

  Immanuel – “God with us”

  Maher-shalal-hash-baz –

            “spoil speeds, prey
              hastens”

Promise of Messianic King (9)

AHAZ (2 Kings 16)

  Pagan worship / placates Assyria

HEZEKIAH (727-698 BC)

  Religious reforms (2 Kgs 18)

  Deliverance from Assyria (2
  Kgs 19)

  Sickness & recovery (2 Kgs
  20)

  Shows Babylonians his

  treasure

Apostate Kings (2 Kings 21)

  Manasseh (698-642 BC)

  Amon (642-640 BC)

ZEPHANIAH (ca. 640-609 BC)

  Zeph 1:2-9 Warning against those who adopt false, foreign worship

  Zeph 3:8-13 Promise that God will bring foreign nations to true worship

JOSIAH (640-609 BC)

  Reforms Worship (2 Kgs 22
 -23)

  NAHUM & fall of Assyria
  (Nahum)

  Josiah’s revolt & death (2 Kgs
  23:29-30)

JEREMIAH (ca. 627-587 BC)

Early Life

  Call (Jer 1)

  Temple sermon (Jer 7)

  God the potter (Jer 18)

  Broken pot (Jer 19)

  Arrest & lament (Jer 20)

  Jehoiakim burns scroll (Jer 36)

  (Jehoiakim dies, Jehoiakin becomes king)

  (Jehoiakin and others deported in 597 BC)

  (Zedekiah becomes the last Davidic king)

Fall of Jerusalem

  Jeremiah & Hananiah (Jer 27
  -29)

  Prison & release (Jer 37-38)

  Fall of the South in 587 BC
  (Jer 39)

  Aftermath –to Egypt (Jer 40
  -43)