What Do Their Names Mean? Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Lord saves

Hosea preached to Israel around 755 B.C.-712 B.C. His message was on God's redeeming love.

Answer: The Lord is God

Joel's message was on the Day of the LORD. He preached to Judah. It's also interesting that no kings are mentioned in the book of Joel, as they are in most of the other minor prophet books.

Answer: To bear a load

Amos preached to the Gentiles (people who aren't Jews) around the year 760 B.C. His was a message of judgment.

Answer: Servant of the Lord

Obadiah's message was also on judgment - but he was warning the country of Edom, descendents of Esau, Jacob's brother. He preached around the year of 835 B.C. His book also mentions no kings, and it is also the shortest book in the Old Testament.

Answer: Dove

Jonah, as you may already know, preached to Nineveh around 780 B.C. His message was on judgment. He wanted God to judge Nineveh, even though they had repented!

Answer: Who is like the Lord?

Micah's message was on judgment and restoration. He preached to Jerusalem and Samaria around 720 B.C.

Answer: Comfort of God

Nahum's message was (like so many others) on judgment. He also preached to Nineveh sixty years after Jonah, around 720 B.C.

Answer: Embrace

Habakkuk preached to Judah in the year of 615 B.C., during the reign of King Josiah.

Answer: The Lord hides

Zephaniah's message was on judgment. He preached to Judah around 635 B.C.

Answer: Festive

Haggai was one of the prophets during the construction of Jerusalem. He preached to Israel in 500 B.C. His book is about the rebuilding of the Temple.

Answer: And God remembers

Zechariah was the other prophet mentioned during the construction of Jerusalem. He also preached to Israel in 500 B.C. But his message was on the Messiah, whom Christians believe is Jesus Christ.

Answer: Messenger

Malachi preached to Israel in 450 B.C. His book rebukes the Jews' formalism. They didn't have the right motives for worshiping God.

Answer: Micah

Micah 5:2 says, 'But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.'

Answer: Hosea

This was an example of what Israel was doing, always turning away from God.

Answer: Jonah

He didn't want to go to Nineveh as God had told him, so he went to Joppa to get on a ship headed toward Tarshish. When a storm blew up, the sailors finally threw him overboard. And that's when he was swallowed by a fish. (Many translations say "fish"; some people now believe this beast to have been a whale.)