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| Isaiah (“The Lord is Salvation”); Judah; to proclaim God’s message of indictment and redemption (condemnation and comfort) |
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| “the remnant shall return”; one of Isaiah’s sons with a prophetic name; goes with Isaiah to seek out Ahaz |
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| “God with Us”; used in Isaiah and Matthew; fulfilled Isaiah 7:14 prophecy given to Ahaz; description of Jesus, yet not His name |
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| son of Isaiah; “Speed the spoil and hasten the booty.”; spoken to Ahaz; revealed the time frame of Israel’s and Syria’s defeat: sometime between the conception of Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz to “before the boy knows how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother’” (Isaiah 8:3–4). That is, Judah would be saved before Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz reached age 2, a total of less than three years, counting the child’s time in the womb; fulfilled in732 BC; ultimately revealed God’s timing and plan for Israel in captivity |
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| one of kings of Judah that was very aware of God daily; son of wicked King Ahaz; 701 used Isaiah in help with Assyrian conflict; pray for healing and received 15 years, became proud and showed Babylon his riches |
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| Isaiah 36; king of Assyria; tried to demoralize Jerusalem; murdered after trying to oppose God |
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| weary God, weeping prophet; “the Lord throws down”; to warn the nation of Judah of its impending doom |
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| Jeremiah’s secretary; book included in the Apocrypha; wrote about Israel’s disobedience to God, God exiling Jews to Babylon due to their behavior, God’s just action, the need to repent and honor and obey God’s Word, and begging for God’s mercy |
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| the first name of Shadrach; chosen by King Neb for service as a mighty man; suffix of name short for YAHWEH |
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| After the ten northern tribes followed Jeroboam, Solomon’s son Rehoboam prepared the southern tribes for battle. God sent Shemaiah to tell them to return home (1 Kings 12:22); Shemaiah tried to trick Nehemiah into hiding in the temple. It’s unclear what Noadiah and the other prophets did, but Nehemiah trusted God and was not caught in their traps (Nehemiah 6:9–14) |
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| “God Strengthens”; to encourage the exiles with the Lord’s prophetic plan for Israel |
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| faithful man; reveals integrity and what it looks like to live a life contrary to the world for God’s glory; received divine revelations from God, especially of the end times; goes hand-in-hand with Revelation |
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| King of Babylon that was humbled in the book of Daniel and came to know the Lord through cursing and punishment and hired Daniel and friends as mighty men |
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| Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego |
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| mighty men of King Neb; thrown in furnace for following God; rewarded for faithfulness |
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| last king of Babylon in Daniel 5; his name is a prayer to a Babylonian god; drunken king that used temple treasures to throw a party; encountered the mysterious hand on the wall; killed by Persians |
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| the Mede; ruler that promoted Daniel to a high position within the kingdom; ruled for a very short time (2 years); construction of temple resumed under Darius I’s leadership |
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| “salvation”; righteous man that pursued Gomer the prostitute by the Lord’s command to show Israel the relationship they have with God (playing the whore) |
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| unfaithful prostitute that God tells Hosea to marry to reveal the relationship between God and Israel |
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| son of Hosea; used to show that God had declared that he would avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu (Hosea 1:4,5) |
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| not pitied, the name of the prophet Hosea's first daughter, a type of Jehovah's temporary rejection of his people ( Hosea 1:6 ; 2:23 ) |
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| not my people, a symbolical name given by God's command to Hosea's second son in token of Jehovah's rejection of his people ( Hosea 1:9 Hosea 1:10 ), his treatment of them as a foreign people |
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| the day of the Lord is near; locusts; “Yahweh is God"; to call Judah to repent and return to the Lord with humble hearts during a time of national calamity |
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| woe to the complacent; “burden bearer”; to wake Israel out of her complacency and warn her of the coming judgment |
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| brother’s keeper; “servant of Jehovah”; to announce the coming destruction of Edom because of her cruelty and betrayal of Jacob |
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| what does the Lord require?; “Who is like God?”; to present the Lord’s indictment of the nation of Israel and tell what the Lord desires from His people |
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| I am against you; “comfort”; to announce the coming fall of Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire |
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| Why, O Lord?; “One who embraces”; to record Habakkuk’s conversation with the Lord about the problem of evil in the world |
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| the Lord sweeps and saves; “God hides”; ”), descendant of King Hezekiah and contemporary of Josiah; to warn Judah about the coming Day of the Lord |
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| consider your ways!; “festive”; to exhort those who returned to Jerusalem after the exile to rebuild the temple |
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| Zechariah 3:1-10; a Levite and descendant of Aaron in post-exilic Jerusalem in approximately 538 B.C; would help to rebuild the temple |
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| prophet that rebuilt the temple; in the line of Christ |
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| not by might, nor by power; “Jehovah remembers”; to reassure those who returned to Jerusalem following the Babylonian captivity that the Lord will ultimately fulfill His promises to Israel through Christ |
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| but you say . . .; “my messenger” |
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| prophet; end of Baal worship in Israel; weeping prophet; was very good and very bad; colorful character; northern kingdom prophet |
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Jehoahaz, bad, 609 BC
Jehoiakim, wicked, 609—597 BC
Jehoiachin, bad, 597 BC - King Neb captured Jerusalem under his reign; gave self up as prisoner to Babylon
Zedekiah, bad, 597—586 BC |
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| godly king and one of the world’s youngest kings; time of repentance; cleansed temple of idols; delayed judgement from Manasseh |
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| evil king of Judah; destroyed the things of the Lord; confronted by Isaiah |
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| one of the good kings of Judah; intelligent kings whose pride led to his demise – went into the temple to burn incense out of disobedience and was struck with leprosy |
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| the Antichrist that goes along with Revelation 13 |
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| Greek king that took over Israel; Goat with a single horn from Daniel 8 |
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| Greek king of the Seleucid Empire; persecuted Jews, led to Maccabean revolt |
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