Haggai (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"Haggai was a prophet of the restored remnant after the 70 years' captivity.  The circumstances are detailed in Ezra and Nehemiah.  To hearten, rebuke, and instruct that feeble remnant was the task of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.  The theme of Haggai is the unfinished temple, and his mission to admonish and encourage the builders."  (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

Zephaniah (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"This prophet, a contemporary of Jeremiah, exercised his ministry during the reign of Josiah.  It was a time of revival, but the captivity was impending, nevertheless, and Zephaniah points out the mortal state which, despite the superficial revival under Josiah, made it inevitable." (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

Habakkuk (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"It seems most probable that Habakkuk prophesied in the latter years of Josiah.  Of the prophet himself nothing is known.  To him the character of Jehovah was revealed in terms of the highest spirituality.  He alone of the prophets was more concerned that the holiness of Jehovah should be vindicated than that Israel should escape chastisement."  (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

Nahum (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"The prophet Nahum has but one subject---the destruction of Nineveh.
The moral theme is: the holiness of Jehovah which must deal with sin in judgement."  (Reference:  The Scofield Reference Bible)

Micah (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"Micah, was a prophet in Judah (Jer. 26. vs 17-19), but the book called by his name chiefly concerns Samaria."  (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

Jonah (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"The historical character of the man Jonah is vouched for by Jesus Christ (Mt. 12. vs  39-41), as also that his preservation in the great fish was a sign or type of our Lord's own entombment and resurrection.  Both are miraculous and both are equally credible."  (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

Obadiah (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"Internal evidence seems to fix the date of Obadiah's ministry in the reign of the bloody Athaliah (2 Ki. 8. vs 16-26).  If this be true, and if the ministry of Joel was during the reign of Joash, then Obadiah is chronologically first of the writing prophets, and first to use the formula, the day of the LORD."  (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

Amos (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"Amos, a Jew, but prophesying in the northern kingdom, exercised his ministry during the reign of Jeroboam II, an able but idolatrous king who brougth his kingdom to the zenith of its power.  Nothing could seem more improbable than the fulfilment of Amos' warnings; yet within fifty years the kingdom was utterly destroyed.  The vision of Amos is, however, wider than the northern kingdom, including the whole house of Jacob."  (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

Joel (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"Joel, a prophet of Judah, probably exercised his ministry during the reign of Joash (2 Chr. 22. to 24.).  In his youth he may have known Elijah, and he certainly was a contemporary of Elisha.  The plagues of insects, which were the token of the divine chastening, give occasion for the unveiling of the coming day of the LORD (Isa. 2 vs 12, refs.), in its two aspects of judgment on the Gentiles and blessing for Israel."  (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

Hosea (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"Hosea was a contemporary of Amos in Israel, and of Isaiah and Micah in Judah, and his ministry continued after the first, or Assyrian, captivity of the northern kingdom (2 Ki. Chapter 15 vs. 29).  His style is abrupt, metaphorical, and figurative."
"Israel is Jehovah's adulterous wife, repudiated, but ultimately to be purified and restored.  This is Hosea's distinctive message, which may be summed up in his two words, Lo-ammi, not my people, and Ammi, my people."  (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

The Book of Daniel (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"Daniel is the indispensible introduction to New Testament prophecy, the themes of which are, the apostacy of the church, the manifestation of the man of sin, the great tribulation, the return of the Lord, the resurrections and the judgements. 
But Daniel is distinctively the prophet of the times of the Gentiles."  (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"Ezekial was carried away to Babylon between the first and final deportations of Judah.  Ezekiel is the voice of the Jehovah to the whole house of Israel."  (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

The Lamentations of Jeremiah (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"The touching significance of this book lies in the fact that it is the disclosure of the love and sorrow of Jehovah for the very people whom He is chastening--- a sorrow wrought by the Spirit in the heart of Jeremiah." (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"Jeremiah began his ministry in the 13th year of Josiah, about 60 years after Isaiah's death.  Jeremiah, prophesying before and during the exile of Judah, connects the pre-exile prophets with Ezekiel and Daniel, prophets of the exile." (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)

The Book of the Prophet Isaiah (Click here to download or print the lesson)

"ISAIAH is justly accounted the chief of the writing prophets.  He has the more comprehensive testimony and is distinctively the prophet of redemption.  Nowhere else in the Scriptures written under the law have we so clear a view of grace."  (Reference: The Scofield Reference Bible)