1.55 Four Prophets of the Babylonian Crisis

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 April 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Four prophets lived in the last decades of the kingdom of Judah. In his short and miserable book, Zephaniah rails about the destruction to come. Jeremiah is a foreign policy advisor, and spreader of doom. We are all going to die! Surrender to your new overlords: Babylon! In a short and nasty work, Nahum gloats at the fall of the Assyrian capital of Nineveh, a victory he did nothing to accomplish. Habakkuk is a contemplative philosopher, with an important question for God.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:24.8	All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles. Episode 1.55
0:43.5	Four prophets of the Babylonian crisis.
0:48.0	In the last episode of the history in the Bible,
0:51.6	I left the Judeans miserably marching their way to Babylon.
0:56.2	The Bible gives us four prophets who worked in the last decades of Judah.
1:02.3	Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Nehom and Habakkuk. Let's start with Zephaniah. Who, you say? Exactly.
1:13.2	According to the brilliant online resource, that is Biblegaytway.com,
1:18.8	Zeffernaya is one of the least accessed books of the entire Bible.
1:23.8	Zeffernaya is one of the twelve minor prophets, stuck between the equally obscure Habakkuk and Haggai.
1:31.3	Let's take it from the top.
1:33.3	The word of Yavai that came to Zefaniah
1:39.3	during the reign of King Josiah of Judah,
1:43.3	I will sweep everything away from the face of King Josiah of Judah.
1:49.2	I will sweep everything away from the face of the earth, Claire's Yave.
1:53.0	I will sweep away man and beast.
1:58.4	I will sweep away the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea.
2:05.6	I will make the wicked stumble, and I will destroy mankind from the face of the earth, declares Yave. I will stretch out my arm against Judah, and against all who dwell in Jerusalem,
2:15.3	and I will wipe out from this place every vestige of Baal,
2:20.3	and the name of the priestlings, along with the priests."
2:24.4	End quote.
2:25.6	Zeveniah is not someone you would invite to a Bucks night or stag party.
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