He was probably a teenager when the Babylonians took him. Daniel — a young nobleman of Judah, handsome, gifted, “without...

“The LORD has spoken” — that is the heartbeat of Old Testament prophecy. Not “I predict,” not “I feel,” but...

It is one of the Bible’s great ironies: the prophet whose name means comfort wrote a book about the violent...

Most prophets in the Bible speak for God to the people. Habakkuk is the glorious exception: he speaks to God...

No book in the Bible opens darker and ends more tenderly than Zephaniah. Its first chapter announces a day of...

The Jews had come home — and home was a disappointment. After decades in Babylonian exile, a remnant returned to...