{"id":16594,"date":"2008-10-12T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=16594"},"modified":"2019-12-09T18:49:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:49:11","slug":"how-many-major-and-minor-prophets-are-there-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-many-major-and-minor-prophets-are-there-in-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"How many major and minor prophets are there in the Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>How many major and minor prophets are there in the Bible?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>The division of major and minor prophets come from the Old Testament. There are 17 books of prophecy in the Old Testament and they are divided into two groups: the long books (the major prophets) and the short books (the minor prophets).<\/p>\n<p>The major prophet books are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isaiah<\/li>\n<li>Jeremiah<\/li>\n<li>Lamentations<\/li>\n<li>Ezekiel<\/li>\n<li>Daniel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jeremiah and Lamentations were both written by Jeremiah. The minor prophet books are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hosea<\/li>\n<li>Joel<\/li>\n<li>Amos<\/li>\n<li>Obadiah<\/li>\n<li>Jonah<\/li>\n<li>Micah<\/li>\n<li>Nahum<\/li>\n<li>Habakkuk<\/li>\n<li>Zephaniah<\/li>\n<li>Haggai<\/li>\n<li>Zechariah<\/li>\n<li>Malachi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How many major and minor prophets are there in the Bible? Answer: The division of major and minor prophets come from the Old Testament. There are 17 books of prophecy in the Old Testament and they are divided into two groups: the long books (the major prophets) and the short books (the minor prophets).&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[219,268,483],"class_list":["post-16594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-bible","tag-old-testament","tag-prophets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61314,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/notes-on-the-organization-of-the-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":16594,"position":0},"title":"Notes on the Organization of the Bible","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 10, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Old Testament Divison Purpose Books Books of Moses History of the World Genesis Law Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy History History of Israel Joshua Judges Ruth I Samuel II Samuel I Kings II Kings I Chronicles II Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther Wisdom Poems Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon Prophets\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Notes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Notes","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/notes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2139,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-do-some-consider-the-minor-prophets-one-book\/","url_meta":{"origin":16594,"position":1},"title":"Why do some consider the minor prophets one book?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 27, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Why do some consider Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi all to be one book? Answer: The books that you refer to are commonly called the minor prophets. They are not minor because they are unimportant, but because their writings were short\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44973,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/which-book-should-be-first-job-or-genesis\/","url_meta":{"origin":16594,"position":2},"title":"Which book should be first, Job or Genesis?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I'm confused. A brother mentioned what I understood to mean that Job was to be the first book in the Bible and not Genesis. Since then I have done my own research and am now seriously confused. The way I see it is \"Does it really matter?\" There are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12932,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-canon-of-the-old-testament-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":16594,"position":3},"title":"The Canon of the Old Testament \u2013 Part 2","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In our prior lesson, we established the acceptance of the writings of Moses by a large number of people over a wide range of history. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The writings were not accepted because of some decree or because the documents were old, but because they were recognized as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17211,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/an-overview-of-the-old-testament-prophets\/","url_meta":{"origin":16594,"position":4},"title":"An Overview of the Old Testament Prophets","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. 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