Authors Of The Bible (Based on Tradition)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both;display:none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFChTldxGQ3_RYyKemRdMniM0OCp8j5TQV_k6M6ViyrSPM94wW4TFd3JGBIXvVgbl_xWbyRBRtv1Nd7xYCOkxOG9IuFYLtFmiEzeshoD1c8yBnLdXvvtKzS8DerYCf8-iKuhEI_wxPDTg/s0/bible+authors+400.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFChTldxGQ3_RYyKemRdMniM0OCp8j5TQV_k6M6ViyrSPM94wW4TFd3JGBIXvVgbl_xWbyRBRtv1Nd7xYCOkxOG9IuFYLtFmiEzeshoD1c8yBnLdXvvtKzS8DerYCf8-iKuhEI_wxPDTg/s0/bible+authors+400.jpg"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwBzvuub39ZCx4LVSns_IWJiS1ulEd25j0qZpXa0I4q4JnZgQrGIlc3bzvOyicqGX8SlG1djH8gvt7rBy8H9h58IZ5Dv0QoEBRftbtDUZsAfF80oNY1raXTpQTWPeLdxuBcwwcJp42GyY/s0/bible+authors-1.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 0em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwBzvuub39ZCx4LVSns_IWJiS1ulEd25j0qZpXa0I4q4JnZgQrGIlc3bzvOyicqGX8SlG1djH8gvt7rBy8H9h58IZ5Dv0QoEBRftbtDUZsAfF80oNY1raXTpQTWPeLdxuBcwwcJp42GyY/s0/bible+authors-1.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">If you’ve ever asked your pastor or Sunday school teacher, “Who wrote the Bible?” you probably got one of two responses:</span></p><ol style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 1.7em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“God wrote the Bible.” The Holy Spirit moved <a href="https://overviewbible.com/prophets/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42bfb6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">prophets</a> like <a href="https://overviewbible.com/moses/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42bfb6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Moses</a> and apostles like <a href="https://overviewbible.com/apostle-paul/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42bfb6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Paul</a> to write about God’s relationship with the world (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="1 Tim 3.16" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/1%20Tim%203.16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42bfb6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">1 Ti 3:16</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="2 Pet 1.20–21" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/2%20Pet%201.20%E2%80%9321" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42bfb6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2 Pe 1:20–21</a>).</span></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“About 40 people wrote the Bible.” The <a href="https://overviewbible.com//books-of-the-bible/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42bfb6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">individual books</a> were written by many authors over many years in many places to many different people groups.</span></li></ol><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In a way, both of these answers are true, but by now you’re probably looking for a little more detail about the authors of the Bible. And rightly so: when you’re studying a book or passage of the Bible, it’s pretty important to know who wrote it.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But there’s a lot of nuance that goes into answering this question. The Bible didn’t fall out of heaven, and it was a long time in the making.</span></div><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><p></p><div class="fluid-width-video-wrapper" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 356.391px 0px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.594px;"><iframe 0="" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" class="aligncenter frameborder= lazyloaded" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/waafzPlfGTc" name="fitvid0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/waafzPlfGTc" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; height: 356.391px; left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-size-adjust: 100%; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.594px;"></iframe></div><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://overviewbible.com//wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Whiteboard_web.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42bfb6; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-9099 lazyloaded" data-sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" data-src="https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Whiteboard_web-1024x601.jpg" data-srcset="https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Whiteboard_web-980x575.jpg 980w, https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Whiteboard_web-480x282.jpg 480w" height="164" loading="lazy" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" src="https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Whiteboard_web-1024x601.jpg" srcset="https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Whiteboard_web-980x575.jpg 980w, https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Whiteboard_web-480x282.jpg 480w" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="280" /></a><p></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">So,</span> <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">let’s take a closer look at the people whom tradition says wrote the Bible.</span> Before we jump into the list of names, let me throw out a few disclaimers:</span></p><ul style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 1.7em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is a list of authors either identified in the Bible’s text itself or generally assumed by church/Jewish tradition. I’ve included a few candidates for anonymous works (like Moses, Ezra, and Matthew).</span></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are more authors of the Bible than the 35 I’ve listed here. For example, <em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">somebody</em> wrote <a href="https://overviewbible.com//judges/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42bfb6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Judges</a>, but we don’t know who. There really were around 40 authors of the Bible, but the Bible and tradition only call out around 35 by name.</span></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ancient attribution and modern attribution aren’t even really in the same ball park. For example, the book of Isaiah may have been partially composed and arranged by Isaiah’s disciples long after Isaiah’s death. But New Testament writers still refer to the words in the book as though they were Isaiah’s.</span></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I do not know who wrote <a href="https://overviewbible.com//hebrews/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42bfb6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hebrews</a>.</span></li></ul><h2 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">First, a chart for the visual learners:</h2><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">In case you’re just here for the list of names, here you go!</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8417 lazyloaded" data-sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1800px, 100vw" data-src="https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Authors-of-the-Bible-01.png" data-srcset="https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Authors-of-the-Bible-01.png 1800w, https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Authors-of-the-Bible-01-1280x6285.png 1280w, https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Authors-of-the-Bible-01-980x4812.png 980w, https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Authors-of-the-Bible-01-480x2357.png 480w" height="1374" loading="lazy" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1800px, 100vw" src="https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Authors-of-the-Bible-01.png" srcset="https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Authors-of-the-Bible-01.png 1800w, https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Authors-of-the-Bible-01-1280x6285.png 1280w, https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Authors-of-the-Bible-01-980x4812.png 980w, https://overviewbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Authors-of-the-Bible-01-480x2357.png 480w" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" width="280" /></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Heads up: </span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Next is a really long article.</span> <a href="/2018/11/the-35-traditional-authors-of-bible.html">Keep on reading</a> anyway .....</p>

Authors Of The Bible (Based on Tradition)

If you’ve ever asked your pastor or Sunday school teacher, “Who wrote the Bible?” you probably got one of two responses: “God wrote the Bibl...

Authors Of The Bible (Based on Tradition)

If you’ve ever asked your pastor or Sunday school teacher, “Who wrote the Bible?” you probably got one of two responses: “God wrote the Bibl...

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The 35 Traditional Authors of The Bible

<div style="line-height: 1.3em; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: helvetica, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMW9o77ephTnHfHKZXIKmFEz9Vlr99LwJEebzrdYpAfsEqUDDcwGpwvRspNzMLkDJb4uCSwmxOXktzY5RoRsilBu7CpfP2dqcuDW6EeNlue9Mh4NnMJVH3m6Dca-m3UasamoYRM-xZd4/s0/bible+authors.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 0em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMW9o77ephTnHfHKZXIKmFEz9Vlr99LwJEebzrdYpAfsEqUDDcwGpwvRspNzMLkDJb4uCSwmxOXktzY5RoRsilBu7CpfP2dqcuDW6EeNlue9Mh4NnMJVH3m6Dca-m3UasamoYRM-xZd4/s0/bible+authors.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="font-family: helvetica, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">According to traditional Christians belief, below is the list of "true" Bible Authors:  </span><div><br /><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: helvetica, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Trirong;">1. Moses</span><span> </span></span><span><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">(<a href="https://overviewbible.com//genesis/" target="_blank">Genesis</a> | <a href="https://overviewbible.com//exodus/" target="_blank">Exodus</a> | <a href="https://overviewbible.com//leviticus/" target="_blank">Leviticus</a> | <a href="https://overviewbible.com//numbers/" target="_blank">Numbers </a>| <a href="https://overviewbible.com//deuteronomy/" target="_blank">Deuteronomy</a> | <a href="https://overviewbible.com//psalms/" target="_blank">Psalms</a>)</span></span></h2><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Moses is the prophet who leads Israel from slavery in Egypt to the edge of the promised land. He also wrote about 20% of your Bible. Of all the Old Testament prophets, nobody’s like Moses<span> (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Deut 34.10–12" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Deut%2034.10%E2%80%9312" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Dt 34:10–12</a>).</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Moses is a Hebrew born in Egypt and raised in Pharaoh’s house. After killing an abusive Egyptian slave driver, Moses escapes the death penalty by running to the wilderness, where he marries and takes up life as a shepherd. Forty years go by, and God meets Moses in the wilderness (there’s a burning bush involved).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">God commissions Moses: tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. Moses does so, Pharaoh resists, God judges Egypt with 10 plagues, and the Israelites leave. Moses takes the new nation to Mount Sinai, where the Lord brings Israel into a special relationship: from now on, Israel is God’s people, and God is Israel’s deity. Moses writes out the details of what that relationship looks like. These details are called the “Law,” and they take up most of the books attributed to Moses in the Bible.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The first book, Genesis, sets the stage for the other four books. It explains where the Jewish people came from, and how they ended up in Egypt. The next four books chronicle Israel’s physical and spiritual journey from Egypt to the promised land.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">But Moses’ works aren’t over at Deuteronomy! He’s also the one who wrote Psalm 90.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: helvetica, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">2. Ezra<span> (</span><a href="https://overviewbible.com//1-2-chronicles/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="1 & 2 Chronicles: the kingdom and the covenant">1 & 2 Chronicles</a><span> | </span><a href="https://overviewbible.com//ezra/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Ezra: Israel returns to her foundations">Ezra</a><span>)</span></span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Ezra is born long, long after Moses. But like the ancient prophet, Ezra leads a group of Israelites from exile in another nation back to the promised land.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Ezra is a scribe (someone who reads, writes, and interprets documents), and he’s especially well-versed in the Law of Moses (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Ezra 7.6" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Ezra%207.6" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ezra 7:6</a>). He’s actually related to Moses: Ezra is a great-great-great(…)-grandson of Moses’ brother Aaron, which means he’s also got some priest blood in him (7:1–5). Ezra grows up in Babylon, but he is determined to move to become a missionary to his homeland (7:10), so he takes a group of Jews back to Jerusalem and begins teaching the people God’s ways.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Ezra is a key player in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. He’s a religious leader in Jerusalem who calls the people around him to holiness.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The Jewish Talmud says Ezra wrote the book of 1 & 2 Chronicles (yes, they’re really two parts of the same book), and the book of Ezra. If this is the case, it makes Ezra the second-most prolific author of the Bible. Not bad for a guy you never hear about, right?</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: helvetica, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">3. Nehemiah<span> (</span><a href="https://overviewbible.com//nehemiah/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Nehemiah: rebuilding and remembering">Nehemiah</a><span>)</span></span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Nehemiah is a cupbearer to the king of Persia when he gets some disturbing news: his countrymen back in Jerusalem are in dire straits, and the city is in shambles (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Neh 1.3" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Neh%201.3" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Neh 1:3</a>). Nehemiah then gets the go-ahead from King Artaxerxes to rebuild the city walls and gates, and takes off for Jerusalem.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">And get this: he gets the wall rebuilt in just 52 days (6:15).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Nehemiah’s more than a wallbuilder, though. Artaxerxes makes him the governor of Judah (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Neh 5.14" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Neh%205.14" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Neh 5:14</a>), and Nehemiah uses this position to point the people to God. He’s the one stationing soldiers, commissioning singers in the temple, and making sure the temple stays clean. Plus, he teams up with Ezra to rededicate the people to God (10:28–39) and hold them to their promises (13:4–31).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Nehemiah wrote the book that bears his name—and he wrote it in first person. Nehemiah has a very transparent writing style, often breaking from his story to record a prayer he made to God (4:4; 13:22).</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: helvetica, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">4. David <span>(</span><a href="https://overviewbible.com//psalms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Psalms: 150 songs and poems to God">Psalms</a><span>)</span></span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">You’ve all heard of this guy. He’s the shepherd boy who killed Goliath the giant. He’s the war-hero king who delivered Israel from her enemies and established Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. He’s the jerk who killed off Uriah so he could have Uriah’s wife. And maybe most importantly, he’s a messiah: someone anointed by God to rule the people in wisdom and justice.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://overviewbible.com/david/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">David</a> is the focal character in the books of <a href="https://overviewbible.com//1-samuel/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="1 Samuel: Israel demands a king">1 & 2 Samuel</a> and <a href="https://overviewbible.com//1-2-chronicles/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="1 & 2 Chronicles: the kingdom and the covenant">1 & 2 Chronicles</a>, and the books of <a href="https://overviewbible.com//ruth/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Ruth: redemption and hope for a family and a nation">Ruth</a> and <a href="https://overviewbible.com//1-2-kings/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="1 & 2 Kings: Israel falls into idolatry and captivity">Kings</a> tell us all about his family. David’s one of the Bible’s most important characters, but that doesn’t have all that much to do with David. He’s important because God makes a special promise to him: from David will come an everlasting kingdom with an everlasting king. Spoiler alert: that’s Jesus.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Somebody may have told you that <a href="https://overviewbible.com//who-wrote-psalms-besides-david/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">David wrote the book of Psalms</a>, but that’s not really the case. David only wrote about half of the Psalms—73 out of all 150, to be precise (though the <a href="https://overviewbible.com/vulgate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Latin Vulgate</a> and <a href="https://overviewbible.com/septuagint/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Septuagint</a> credit a few more to him). Even so, that’s a lot more than any other psalmist.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">These ones are his, specifically:</p><ul style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalms 3–9" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalms%203%E2%80%939" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalms 3–9</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalms 11–41" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalms%2011%E2%80%9341" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalms 11–41</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalms 51–65" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalms%2051%E2%80%9365" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalms 51–65</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalms 68–70" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalms%2068%E2%80%9370" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalms 68–70</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalm 86" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalm%2086" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalm 86</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalm 101" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalm%20101" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalm 101</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalm 103" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalm%20103" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalm 103</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalms 108–110" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalms%20108%E2%80%93110" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalms 108–110</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalm 122" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalm%20122" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalm 122</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalm 124" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalm%20124" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalm 124</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalm 131" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalm%20131" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalm 131</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalm 133" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalm%20133" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalm 133</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalms 138–145" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalms%20138%E2%80%93145" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalms 138–145</span></a></li></ul><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">If you throw in the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament) and Latin Vulgate credits, it brings the count as high as 85.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Sidenote: another common myth about the book of Psalms is that it’s the longest book of the Bible. But <a href="https://overviewbible.com//longest-book-of-the-bible/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="What’s the longest book of the Bible? The answer might surprise you.">that’s not really true, either</a>.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: helvetica, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">5. Solomon<span> (</span><a href="https://overviewbible.com//psalms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Psalms: 150 songs and poems to God">Psalms</a><span> | </span><a href="https://overviewbible.com//proverbs/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Proverbs: principles of wisdom, righteousness, and justice">Proverbs</a><span> | </span><a href="https://overviewbible.com//ecclesiastes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Ecclesiastes: what’s the point?">Ecclesiastes</a><span> | </span><a href="https://overviewbible.com//song-of-solomon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Song of Solomon: delighting in love, sex, and marriage">Song of Solomon</a><span>)</span></span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">When <a href="https://overviewbible.com/solomon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Solomon</a> succeeds his father David as king of all Israel, the Lord appears to him in a dream. He gives Solomon the ultimate “blank check”: Solomon names anything he wants, and God will give it to him. Instead of asking for cash or the heads of his enemies, Solomon just asks God for wisdom. And boy, does God deliver:</p><blockquote style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; margin: 20px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 9px 26px; quotes: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore. Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was known in all the surrounding nations. (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="1 Kings 4.29–31" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/1%20Kings%204.29%E2%80%9331" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">1 Ki 4:29–31</a>)</p></blockquote><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Solomon came up with 3,000 proverbs and 1,005 songs (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="1 Kings 4.32" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/1%20Kings%204.32" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">1 Ki 4:32</a>). Lucky for us, a lot of that wisdom is part of our Bibles.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Solomon is traditionally credited for authoring the books of Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon. In the first, he asks, “What’s the point of even existing?” In the second, he celebrates love, marriage, and all kinds of sexual privileges that come with that.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Solomon contributes to two more books of the Bible as well. He’s the main writer in Proverbs, which is a book of principles for making decisions in wisdom and justice. Most of the first 29 chapters were written or curated by Solomon. The wise king also joins his dad in the book of Psalms: numbers 72 and 127 are Solomon’s.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">6. Asaph and family (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//psalms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Psalms: 150 songs and poems to God">Psalms</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">When David commissions the temple in Jerusalem, he appoints Asaph and his family to lead worship (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="1 Chron 16.5" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/1%20Chron%2016.5" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">1 Ch 16:5</a>). We don’t know much about Asaph, except that he’s a singer from the <a href="https://overviewbible.com/12-tribes-israel/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">tribe</a> of Levi (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="2 Chron 5.12" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/2%20Chron%205.12" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2 Ch 5:12</a>). He and his family must have been some awesome songwriters, because 12 of the Psalms are credited to him (Ps 50; 73–83).</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">7. Sons of Korah (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//psalms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Psalms: 150 songs and poems to God">Psalms</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">When Moses is leading Israel through the wilderness, a Levite named Korah challenges Moses’ leadership. That doesn’t end well—the earth swallows up Korah and his followers.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">But Korah’s sons survive, and they have quite a legacy in the Bible through their music. The descendants of Korah wrote 11 psalms:</p><ul style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalm 42" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalm%2042" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalm 42</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalms 44–49" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalms%2044%E2%80%9349" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalms 44–49</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalms 84–85" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalms%2084%E2%80%9385" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalms 84–85</span></a></li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Psalms 87-88" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Psalms%2087-88" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Psalms 87-88</span></a></li></ul><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">8. Heman (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//psalms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Psalms: 150 songs and poems to God">Psalms</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Before anyone gets overly excited, no, a <em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Masters of the Universe</em> character did not author part of the Bible (as far as I can tell). But the similarity in name is pretty funny.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Heman was a wise man who co-authored the eighty-eighth psalm with the sons of Korah. He was wise enough to compare to Solomon, but not wiser (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="1 Kings 4.31" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/1%20Kings%204.31" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">1 Ki 4:31</a>).</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">9. Ethan (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//psalms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Psalms: 150 songs and poems to God">Psalms</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh, look, another psalmist! Like his relative Heman, Ethan was one of the wisest men in the world. You know, besides Solomon (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="1 Kings 4.31" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/1%20Kings%204.31" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">1 Ki 4:31</a>). He wrote Psalm 89.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">10. Agur (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//proverbs/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Proverbs: principles of wisdom, righteousness, and justice">Proverbs</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">We don’t know much about the author of Proverbs 30. He must have been wise enough for the Jews to include in their book of wisdom, but he doesn’t think to highly of his smarts compared to God’s:</p><blockquote style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; margin: 20px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 9px 26px; quotes: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: initial;">Surely I am more stupid than any man,</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: initial;">And I do not have the understanding of a man.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: initial;">Neither have I learned wisdom,</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: initial;">Nor do I have the knowledge of the Holy One. (</span><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Prov 30.2–3" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Prov%2030.2%E2%80%933" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pr 30:2–3</a><span style="background-color: initial;">)</span></div><p></p></blockquote><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">11. Lemuel (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//proverbs/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Proverbs: principles of wisdom, righteousness, and justice">Proverbs</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Again, the Bible tells us very little about this author. Lemuel was a king. possibly of a place called Massa (31:1). Some Bibles translate his intro to call him the “king of Massa,” but we’re not sure where that would be.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s something cool about Lemuel: his contribution to the Bible is pretty much a tribute to his mom. She taught her son well, and now he’s passing on her wisdom to his readers.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">12. Isaiah (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//isaiah/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Isaiah: judgment and comfort for Israel">Isaiah</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Isaiah is the earliest,and arguably the most preeminent of the Major Prophets. His ministry spans the reign of four kings, and he seems to be responsible for some of the royal records (2 Ch 2622; 32:32). Isaiah marries a prophetess (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Isa 8.3" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Isa%208.3" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Is 8:3</a>) and has two sons.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition to proclaiming the word of God to the nation, Isaiah gives personal advise to the kings of Judah. He tells King Ahaz not to worry when the kingdom of Israel and Aram make war against Jerusalem (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Isa 7.3–4" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Isa%207.3%E2%80%934" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Is 7:3–4</a>). He reassures King Hezekiah that the Lord will protect Judah from Assyrian armies (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="2 Kings 19.1–7" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/2%20Kings%2019.1%E2%80%937" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2 Ki 19:1–7</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Isa 37.1–7" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Isa%2037.1%E2%80%937" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Is 37:1–7</a>), but warns him that Jerusalem will one day be sacked by the Babylonians (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Isa 39.5–7" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Isa%2039.5%E2%80%937" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Is 39:5–7</a>).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">And of course, the book of Isaiah is traditionally credited to him (though his disciples seem to have contributed to the body of work overtime). His prophecies cover the rise of Persian emperor Cyrus, the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and the coming kingdom of God.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">13. Jeremiah (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//jeremiah/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Jeremiah: Jerusalem’s rebellion, punishment, and hope">Jeremiah</a> | <a href="https://overviewbible.com//lamentations/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Lamentations: the dirge for Jerusalem">Lamentations</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">He’s the famous “weeping prophet” from the priests in the land of Benjamin (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Jer 1.1" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Jer%201.1" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jer 1:1</a>). Jeremiah begins his prophetic ministry at a young age (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Jer 1.6" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Jer%201.6" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jer 1:6</a>), and spends most of his time warning the nation of Judah that judgment is coming. He warns them about multiple Babylonian attacks, but the kings of Judah just won’t hear it. Jeremiah outlasts all the kings, though, and ends up offering counsel to the refugees of Jerusalem and the surrounding area. But even they don’t listen.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeremiah is like the Peter Parker of the Bible: the dude just can’t catch a break.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Trirong; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Books of the Bible Jeremiah wrote</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Forget what you’ve been told about Psalms: <a href="https://overviewbible.com//longest-book-of-the-bible/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="What’s the longest book of the Bible? The answer might surprise you.">Jeremiah is actually the longest book of the Bible</a>. And that’s not all of Jeremiah’s writings. According to tradition, Jeremiah wrote the book of Lamentations, too. This book is a group of five acrostic poems that mourn the fall of Jerusalem. Jeremiah also wrote a few more dirges when the good king Josiah died in battle (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="2 Chron 35.25" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/2%20Chron%2035.25" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2 Ch 35:25</a>).</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">14. Ezekiel (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//ezekiel/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Ezekiel: God’s watchman for a rebellious people">Ezekiel</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Ezekiel is one of the many Jews taken captive to Babylon (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Ezek 1.1" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Ezek%201.1" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ezek 1:1</a>). He’s a priest from the tribe of Levi (1:3), but the Lord chooses him to do much more than make sacrifices. God sets up Ezekiel as the “watchman” for the Jews, because as bad as it is now, they’re about to get themselves into a lot more trouble.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Ezekiel makes a lot of sacrifices in his ministry. He eats cakes cooked over poop (4:12–15). He lies on his side for 430 days(4:4–6). His wife dies, but he doesn’t get a chance to mourn (24:15–24). He doesn’t have it easy.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">But his prophecies are phenomenal. He sees the Lord enthroned above the cherubim (10:1–2). He sees the temple of God destroyed and rebuilt. He sees dry bones growing ligaments and flesh. He’s the watchman, and he watches some crazy things.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">15. Daniel (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//daniel/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Daniel: God’s long-term plan for the world">Daniel</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">You’ve heard of this guy and his lion’s den episode. Daniel is a young nobleman from Judah who’s taken captive by <a href="https://overviewbible.com/nebuchadnezzar/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="blank">King Nebuchadnezzar</a> (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Dan 1.3" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Dan%201.3" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Da 1:3</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Da 1.6" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Da%201.6" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">6</a>). Exiled to Babylon, Daniel quickly distinguishes himself from the other boys for his wisdom (1:20), and he’s one of the few characters in the Bible that reliably <a href="https://overviewbible.com//infographic-dreams-bible/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Infographic: Every dream in the Bible (and what they mean)">interprets other people’s dreams</a> (2:28). He becomes a chief government officer in both the Babylonian and Persian empires (2:48; 5:29; 6:1–3).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">And he also has some pretty intense visions. His prophecies tend to concern two major themes.</p><ul style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The future of the world’s kingdoms: Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, and the unshakable kingdom of God.</li><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The future of God’s people: the Messiah, the temple, and Israel’s part in God’s long-term plan.</li></ul><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniel’s a wise man and he wrote an important book for those who want to study biblical prophecy.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">16. Hosea (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//hosea/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Hosea: God’s unending love for an unfaithful people">Hosea</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Hosea’s claim to fame: God told him to enter a really unhealthy marriage.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Seriously, God has Hosea marry a prostitute and have a few kids (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Hos 1.2" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Hos%201.2" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hos 1:2</a>). And Hosea does. When his wife takes up her old trade and starts sleeping with other men, God tells him to go bring her back home as his wife again.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Why? Because Israel has turned away from her relationship to God and chased idols instead. Israel is going to deal with the consequences of her actions, but the Lord plans to bring her back to him, just like Hosea brings back his wife (3:5).</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">17. Joel (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//joel/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Joel: locusts and the day of the Lord">Joel</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">All we know about this prophet is his father’s name: Pethuel. Joel writes a brief book of prophecy that explains two important phenomenon: the current plague of locusts and the coming day of the Lord.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">18. Amos (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//amos/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Amos: the sovereign Lord roars against Israel">Amos</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Amos is a shepherd from Tekoa, a little town in the Southern Kingdom of Judah. The Lord gives him visions and calls him to journey north to prophesy against the king of Israel. As you can imagine, the false priests in Israel want to shut this Southerner down (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Amos 7.12–13" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Amos%207.12%E2%80%9313" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Am 7:12–13</a>).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Amos is an interesting character in that it seems he has no background in public ministry. When the false priest Amaziah tells Amos to go prophesy somewhere else, Amos responds: “I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Amos 7.14" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Amos%207.14" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Am 7:14</a>).”</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">19. Obadiah (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//obadiah/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Obadiah: Edom’s judgment is coming">Obadiah</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">We don’t know much about this guy, except that he made a short prophecy against Edom. We don’t even get an “Obadiah, son of X” intro to his book, either, so we really don’t have much to go on.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">But hey, if you love underdogs, you should check out his book. It’s the <a href="https://overviewbible.com//least-popular-book-bible/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The least popular book of the Bible (it’s not Leviticus)">least-read book of the Bible</a>!</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">20. Jonah (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//jonah/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Jonah: God’s compassion for all nations">Jonah</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the more famous characters in the Bible (albeit his is one of the <a href="https://overviewbible.com//10-least-popular-books-bible-infographic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The 10 least popular books of the Bible [infographic]">least-read books</a>). Jonah is a prophet to the Northern Kingdom of Israel (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="2 Kings 14.25" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/2%20Kings%2014.25" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2 Ki 14:25</a>), but the Lord sends him to Nineveh to warn the Assyrians of God’s coming judgment. Jonah sails in the other direction instead, gets thrown overboard, and spends three days in the belly of a big fish.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The fish spits him up, and Jonah is again called to preach in Nineveh. This time, Jonah obeys. But when the Ninevites repent, God spares them—and Jonah isn’t too pleased about that.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">He is traditionally credited as the author of Jonah. If that’s the case, he must have had a moment of clarity after the events took place.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">21. Micah (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//micah/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Micah: the just God demands justice">Micah</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Micah is a prophet from Moreshetch in the Southern Kingdom of Judah, but he preaches to both the people in both the North and the South (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Micah 1.1" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Micah%201.1" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mic 1:1</a>). We don’t know much more about Micah, but we do know that by the time of Jeremiah (around a century later), the elders in Judah considered him to be a true prophet.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact, the people quote Micah to save Jeremiah from the death sentence. When Jeremiah prophesies that Jerusalem and the temple will be sacked, the priests and false prophets try to get him killed (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Jer 26.8" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Jer%2026.8" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jer 26:8</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Jer 26.11" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Jer%2026.11" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">11</a>). But the officials and the people of the city remember Micah’s prophecies against Jerusalem, and stop the priests from murdering Jeremiah (26:17–19).</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">22. Nahum (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//nahum/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Nahum: it’s over for Nineveh">Nahum</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Nahum is a prophet, and calls himself an “Elkoshite” in his oracle against Nineveh (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Nah 1.1" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Nah%201.1" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Na 1:1</a>). We’re really not sure where Elkosh is, and so we don’t know much more about Nahum.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">23. Habakkuk (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//habakkuk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Habakkuk: the Babylonians are coming">Habakkuk</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">We don’t know much about this minor prophet, aside from his songwriting ability. The third chapter of his book is a prayer-psalm, one of the only <a href="https://overviewbible.com//kinds-of-psalms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The 8 kinds of psalms"><em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">shiggaion </em>examples in the Bible</a> ( <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Hab 3.1" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Hab%203.1" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hab 3:1</a>).</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">24. Zephaniah (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//zephaniah/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Zephaniah: God removes everything, God restores everything">Zephaniah</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Zephaniah has some royal blood in him. He opens his tiny book of the Bible with his genealogy—which traces back to Hezekiah, the righteous king (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Zeph 1.1" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Zeph%201.1" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Zep 1:1</a>).</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">25. Haggai (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//haggai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Haggai: consider your ways!">Haggai</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Haggai writes a very brief account of his ministry in the Bible. He encourages the Jews to finish rebuilding the temple of God, and his ministry is noteworthy enough for the scribe Ezra to give him a nod (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Ezra 5.1–2" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Ezra%205.1%E2%80%932" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ezr 5:1–2</a>). His recorded ministry spans about three months and 24 days (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Haggai 1.1" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Haggai%201.1" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hag 1:1</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Hag 2.10" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Hag%202.10" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2:10</a>).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Haggai is the most specific of the Minor Prophets when it comes to dates: he gives the month and day of every message God sends him. Way to clock in your hours, Haggai!</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">26. Zechariah (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//zechariah/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Zechariah: return to God, and He will return to you">Zechariah</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Zechariah’s ministry gears up about halfway through Haggai’s (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Zech 1.1" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Zech%201.1" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Zec 1:1</a>), and he too encourages the people to get off their duffs and complete the temple (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Ezra 5.1–2" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Ezra%205.1%E2%80%932" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ezr 5:1–2</a>). Like Jeremiah, Zechariah begins delivering messages from God as a young man (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Zech 2.4" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Zech%202.4" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Zec 2:4</a>). He wrote down his visions and messages, giving us the book of Zechariah in the Bible.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition to being a prophet, Zechariah seems to be among the priests (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Zech 7.2–5" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Zech%207.2%E2%80%935" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Zec 7:2–5</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Neh 12.16" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Neh%2012.16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Neh 12:16</a>), which would mean he’s from the tribe of Levi.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">27. Malachi (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//malachi/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Malachi: the faithful God and the disconnected people">Malachi</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Malachi is the last of the prophets to contribute to <a href="https://overviewbible.com//old-testament-books/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the Old Testament</a>. He calls the post-exilic Jews to reconnect with the Lord, but apart from this, we don’t know much about him.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">28. Matthew/Levi (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//matthew/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Gospel of Matthew: Jesus Christ, king of the Jews">Matthew</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://overviewbible.com/matthew-the-apostle/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Matthew</a> is one of the <a href="https://overviewbible.com/12-apostles/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">12 apostles of Jesus</a>, and one of the four evangelists who wrote down Jesus’s story. When we meet Matthew, he’s a tax collector for Rome. Tax collectors weren’t very popular in Israel, because they collected money from fellow Jews to pay a heathen king. But when Jesus calls Matthew to follow him, Matthew closes his booth down to serve the true King of the Jews. Then he brings Jesus over for dinner (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Matt 9.9–10" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Matt%209.9%E2%80%9310" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mt 9:9–10</a>).</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Matthew is called Levi in the other gospels, which may indicate that he’s from the tribe of Levi—we’re not sure (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Mark 2.14–15" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Mark%202.14%E2%80%9315" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mk 2:14–15</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Luke 5.27–29" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%205.27%E2%80%9329" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Lk 5:27–29</a>).</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">29. John Mark (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//mark/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Gospel of Mark: Jesus, servant and Son">Mark</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark’s an interesting character in the background of the New Testament. We first meet Mark in the book of Acts. When Peter miraculously escapes from prison, he goes to Mark’s mother’s house (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Acts 12.12" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Acts%2012.12" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ac 12:12</a>). Later, Paul and Barnabas bring Mark along on their missionary journey as a helper, but he leaves them and goes back to Jerusalem (13:5, 13). When Paul and Barnabas prepare for their second journey, Barnabas suggests bringing <a href="https://overviewbible.com/john-mark/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">John Mark</a> again, but Paul won’t hear it (15:37–38). Paul and Barnabas disagree so sharply that they split up: Barnabas takes Mark to Cyprus, and Paul starts a new missionary team (15:39–40).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark matures, though. Decades later, Mark is considered useful to Paul (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="2 Tim 4.11" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/2%20Tim%204.11" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2 Ti 4:11</a>) and a son to Peter (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="1 Pet 5.13" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/1%20Pet%205.13" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">1 Pe 5:13</a>). According to tradition, Mark is the one who writes down Peter’s stories of Jesus—which is how we got the Gospel of Mark.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">30. Luke (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//luke/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Gospel of Luke: Jesus in detail">Luke</a> | <a href="https://overviewbible.com//acts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Acts: the Holy Spirit advances the gospel">Acts</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://overviewbible.com/saint-luke/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Luke</a> is a physician who accompanies Paul through thick and thin (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Col 4.14" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Col%204.14" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Co 4:14</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="2 Tim 4.11" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/2%20Tim%204.11" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2 Ti 4:11</a>). His skills probably come in handy, because Paul takes a lot of beatings (2 Co 24ff).</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">But Luke’s greatest legacy is his contribution to the <a href="https://overviewbible.com//new-testament-books/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">New Testament</a>. Luke write more of the NT than anyone else (yes, even more than Paul). Luke’s a meticulous journalist who sets out to record the life and ministry of Jesus in consecutive order (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Luke 1.1–4" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1%E2%80%934" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Lk 1:1–4</a>), and later records the history of the early church (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Acts 1.1–2" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Acts%201.1%E2%80%932" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ac 1:1–2</a>). He composes these accounts on behalf of a mysterious Christian named Theophilus, who wants to learn more about his Christian faith.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">31. John (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//john/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Gospel of John: reasons to believe in Jesus">John</a> | <a href="https://overviewbible.com//1-john/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="1 John: how to recognize the children of God">1 John</a> | <a href="https://overviewbible.com//2-john/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="2 John: walking in truth, love, and obedience">2 John</a> | <a href="https://overviewbible.com//3-john/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="3 John: the fellowship of truth">3 John</a> | <a href="https://overviewbible.com//revelation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Revelation: behold, He is coming quickly">Revelation</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">He’s another member of the <a href="https://overviewbible.com//12-apostles-guide/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Illustrated Guide to the 12 Apostles">12 apostles</a>, a former fisherman from Galilee who follows Jesus (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Mark 1.19–20" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Mark%201.19%E2%80%9320" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mk 1:19–20</a>). The Lord gives <a href="https://overviewbible.com/john-the-apostle/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">John</a> and <a href="https://overviewbible.com/saint-james/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">his brother James</a> the nickname “Sons of Thunder” (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Mark 3.17" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Mark%203.17" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mk 3:17</a>). The Bible doesn’t say how he earned this nickname, but John does seem to have a stormy personality at times (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Luke 9.51–56" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%209.51%E2%80%9356" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Lk 9:51–56</a>).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">After the resurrection, John becomes a pillar of the early church (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Gal 2.9" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Gal%202.9" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ga 2:9</a>). He writes a persuasive account of Jesus’ earthly ministry, death, and resurrection, and then writes four letters (the last one, Revelation, includes many apocalyptic visions). According to tradition, John becomes an elder at the church at Ephesus. He is eventually exiled to the Isle of Patmos (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Rev 1.9" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Rev%201.9" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Rev 1:9</a>).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Fun fact: of all the epistles in the New Testament, John writes the longest (Revelation) and the shortest (3 John). In fact, 3 John is the <a href="https://overviewbible.com//the-5-shortest-books-of-the-bible-in-order/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The 5 shortest books of the Bible, in order">shortest book of the Bible</a>.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">32. Paul (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//romans/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Romans: how the gospel works">Romans</a>–<a href="https://overviewbible.com//philemon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Philemon: how to accept a runaway slave as a brother">Philemon</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://overviewbible.com/apostle-paul/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Paul</a> may not have the word count that Moses has, but he writes more individual documents than any other biblical author—13, to be exact.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">When we first meet Paul, he’s not leading the church: he’s leading the charge against it. Paul (also called Saul) kidnaps Christians from the regions around Judea and brings them to Jerusalem to suffer the punishment for blasphemy. That punishment was often prison or death (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Acts 8.3" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Acts%208.3" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ac 8:3</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Ac 9.1–2" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Ac%209.1%E2%80%932" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">9:1–2</a>).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">But when Jesus stops Paul on the road to Damascus, Paul is forever changed. He becomes an apostle, the face of the church to the non-Jews around the Roman empire (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Eph 3.1" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Eph%203.1" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ep 3:1</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Ep 3.8" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Ep%203.8" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">8</a>). He travels across the world planting churches and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul’s letters to the Christians spread across the world make up his contribution to the Bible. Some of these letters were written to churches he had planted, others were to churches he hoped to visit someday. Paul also wrote to specific leaders in the local churches, like <a href="https://overviewbible.com//1-timothy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Timothy</a>, <a href="https://overviewbible.com//titus/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Titus</a>, and <a href="https://overviewbible.com//philemon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Philemon</a>.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">33. James (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//james/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="James: what does true faith look like?">James</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">James the Just is the younger brother of Jesus (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Matt 13.55" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Matt%2013.55" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mt 13:55</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Mark 6.3" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Mark%206.3" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mk 6:3</a>), the son of Mary and Joseph. James doesn’t believe in Jesus while the Lord is going about his earthly ministry (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="John 7.5" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/John%207.5" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jn 7:5</a>). But that all changes after Jesus rises from the dead. Jesus specifically appears to James (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="1 Cor 15.7" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/1%20Cor%2015.7" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">1 Co 15:7</a>), and afterward James becomes one of the main leaders in the early church.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">James is especially savvy when it comes to balancing freedom in Christ with respect for God’s holiness. When the church is undecided on how Gentiles should treat the Law of Moses, James settles the matter with a few pointers (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Acts 15.13–21" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Acts%2015.13%E2%80%9321" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ac 15:13–21</a>).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Later, James writes a letter to the Christian Jews scattered across the world, encouraging them to keep working out their faith. We call this letter the book of James.</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">34. Peter (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//1-peter/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="1 Peter: suffering and glory">1 Peter</a> | <a href="https://overviewbible.com//2-peter/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="2 Peter: remember the truth">2 Peter</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">You all know <a href="https://overviewbible.com/apostle-peter/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Peter</a>. He’s the leader of the 12 apostles (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Matt 10.2" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Matt%2010.2" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mt 10:2</a>) and a pillar in the early church (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Gal 2.9" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Gal%202.9" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ga 2:9</a>). Just as Paul is entrusted with bringing the gospel to the Gentiles, Peter is the face of the gospel to the Jews (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Gal 2.7" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Gal%202.7" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ga 2:7</a>).</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">This guy is pretty hardcore. He walks on water (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Matt 14.29" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Matt%2014.29" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mt 14:29</a>), he cuts off some guy’s ear to protect Jesus (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Mark 14.29" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Mark%2014.29" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mk 14:29</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Mk 14.31" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Mk%2014.31" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">31</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="John 18.10" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/John%2018.10" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jn 18:10</a>), and boldly declares that Jesus is the anointed one, the Christ (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Matt 16.16" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Matt%2016.16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mt 16:16</a>). Yes, he’s also the one who denies Jesus three times at the Lord’s trial (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="John 18.15–16" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/John%2018.15%E2%80%9316" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jn 18:15–16</a>), but the resurrection totally transforms him. When the Holy Spirit comes to the church, Peter openly preaches the gospel of Jesus in the city.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Peter wrote two books of the Bible, and both are named after him. The first explains how Christians should live as aliens in this world: even though we’ll suffer, it’s nothing compared to the glory to come. The second letter urges Christians to remember what Peter has taught them even after he dies (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="2 Pet 1.13–14" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/2%20Pet%201.13%E2%80%9314" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2 Pe 1:13–14</a>).</p><h3 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">35. Jude (<a href="https://overviewbible.com//jude/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Jude: fight for the faith!">Jude</a>)</span></h3><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://overviewbible.com/jude-the-apostle/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jude</a> is Jesus’ and James’ younger brother (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Jude 1" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Jude%201" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jude 1</a>). Like James, he didn’t believe in Jesus during Jesus’ ministry on earth (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="John 7.5" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/John%207.5" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jn 7:5</a>), but after the resurrection, he became a Christian. Jude writes one book of the Bible: a letter urging believers to “contend for the faith” (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Jude 3–4" data-version="nasb95" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Jude%203%E2%80%934" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jude 3–4</a>).</span></p><h2 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trirong; font-size: medium;">Now you know who wrote the Bible!</span></h2><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">A lot of people contributed to this massive <a href="https://overviewbible.com/books-of-the-bible/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">collection of books</a>. If you want to learn more about where the Bible came from and what it’s all about, check out my book, <em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://overviewbible.com/product/beginners-guide-bible/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="blank">The Beginner’s Guide to the Bible</a></em>. It’s a non-preachy, jargon-free journey through the world’s most important book.</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">[Source: <a href="https://overviewbible.com/authors-who-wrote-bible/" target="_blank">overview bible</a>]</p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div></div>

The 35 Traditional Authors of The Bible

According to traditional Christians belief, below is the list of "true" Bible Authors:   1. Moses   ( Genesis | Exodus | Levitic...

The 35 Traditional Authors of The Bible

According to traditional Christians belief, below is the list of "true" Bible Authors:   1. Moses   ( Genesis | Exodus | Levitic...

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