Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah

Teacher: Mark Johnson

The goal for this week is to figure out why Zephaniah is in the Bible. What does it add that no other book adds? If you were putting the Canon together, would you have included Zephaniah?

Nahum

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Short Outline of the Book of Nahum from Today's English Version:

• Judgment on Nineveh (1:1-15)
• The fall of Nineveh (2:1 – 3:19)

Habakkuk

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Short Outline of the Book of Habakkuk from Today's English Version:

• Habakkuk’s complaints and the Lord’s replies (1:1 – 2:4)
• Doom on the unrighteous (2:5-20)
• Habakkuk’s prayer (3:1-19)

Zephaniah

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Short Outline of the Book of Zephaniah from Today's English Version:

• The day of the Lord’s judgment (1:1 0 2:3)
• The doom of Israel’s neighbors (2:4-15)
• Jerusalem’s doom and redemption (3:1-20)