REFERENCE PROPHETS
Pre-exile Prophet
Obadiah 1:1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. (887-885 BC, Prophesied to during the reign of Athaliah)
Jonah 1:1-2 [1:1] Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, [1:2] Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. (862 BC, Prophesied to Nineveh)
Joel 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. (800 BC, Prophesied to Judah, contemporary of Elisha)
Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. (787 BC, Prophesied to Israel, under Jeroboam II, contemporary with Hosea)
Hosea 1:1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. (785-725 BC, Prophesied to Israel, under Jeroboam II, contemporary with Amos)
Isaiah 1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. (760-698 BC, Prophesied to Judah, under Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz & Hezekiah)
Micah 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. (750-710 BC, Prophesied to Judah under Jotham, Ahaz & Hezekiah. Contemporary of Isaiah)
Nahum 1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. (713 BC, Prophesied to Nineveh during the reign of Hezekiah over Judah )
Zephaniah 1:1 The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. (630 BC, Contemporary of Jeremiah, probably prophesied to Judah during the reign of Josiah.)
Habakkuk 1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. (626 BC, Probably prophesied to Judah during the reign of Josiah.)
Jeremiah 1:1-2 [1:1] The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: [1:2] To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. [1:3] It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. (629-534 BC, Prophesied to Judah during to reign of Josiah.)
Exile Prophet
Ezekiel 1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. (595-574 BC, Prophesied to the exiles in Babylon.)
Daniel 1:1-2 [1:1] In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. [1:2] And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god. (607-534 BC, Prophesied to the exiles in Babylon.)
Post-exile Prophet
Haggai 1:1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, (520 BC, Prophesied to Jerusalem and the restored remnant after the Exile)
Zechariah 1:1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, (520-487 BC, Prophesied to Jerusalem and the restored remnant after the Exile)
Malachi 1:1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. (397 BC, Prophesied to Jerusalem after the rebuilding of the Temple)