The Age of Reason, page 119 by Thomas Paine
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such importance in their day, as the compilers of the Bible, and priests and commentators have since represented them to be, how can it be accounted for that not one of those histories should say anything about them?
The history in the books of Kings and of Chronicles is brought forward, as I have already said, to the year B.C. 588; it will, therefore, be proper to examine which of these prophets lived before that period.
Here follows a table of all the prophets, with the times in which they lived before Christ, according to the chronology affixed to the first chapter of each of the books of the prophets; and also of the number of years they lived before the books of Kings and Chronicles were written:
TABLE of the Prophets, with the time in which they lived before Christ, and also before the books of Kings and Chronicles were written:
Years Years before NAMES. before Kings and Observations. Christ. Chronicles.
Isaiah.............. 760 172 mentioned.
(mentioned only in Jeremiah............. 629 41 the last [two] chapters of Chronicles.
Ezekiel.............. 595 7 not mentioned.
Daniel............... 607 19 not mentioned.
Hosea................ 785 97 not mentioned.
Joel................. 800 212 not mentioned.
Amos................. 789 199 not meneioned.
Obadiah.............. 789 199 not mentioned.
Jonah................ 862 274 see the note.
Micah................ 750 162 not mentioned.
Nahum............... 7I3 125 not mentioned.
Habakkuk............. 620 38 not mentioned.
Zepbaniah............ 630 42 not mentioned.
Haggai Zechariah all three after the year 588 Mdachi [NOTE In 2 Kings xiv. 25, the name of Jonah is mentioned on account of the restoration of a tract of land by Jeroboam; but nothing further is said of him, nor is any allusion made to the book of Jonah, nor to his expedition to Nineveh, nor to his encounter with the whale. -- Author.]
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