Question

Zephaniah

Habakkuk
Nahum


Prophesied the destruction of Nineveh





Was quoted three times in the New Testament





Was a descendant of Hezekiah and a relative of Josiah

Answer 1

The proper matches are:

• NAHUM = Prophesied the destruction of Nineveh
• HABAKKUK = Was quoted three times in the New Testament
• ZEPHANIAH = Was a descendant of Hezekiah and a relative of Josiah

Some further details:

• Perhaps the prophet most remembered for an association with the Assyrian city of Nineveh was Jonah -- who tried to run away from the Lord's assignment to go and preach there. Jonah's ministry was in the first half of the 8th century BC. In Jonah's days, God called Nineveh to repentance and spared the city. By a century later, Nineveh's days were numbered, and Nahum prophesied about the fall of Nineveh and Assyria, which would come near the end of the 7th century BC.
• The line from Habakkuk that is quoted three times in the New Testament is: "The righteous shall live by faith." [Some translations, like the King James Version, will have that as "The just shall live by faith."] That reference to Habakkuk's words can be found in Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, and Hebrews 10:38.
• The first line of Zephaniah's book of prophecy mentions his ancestry connection to Hezekiah: "The word of the Lord that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah ..." (Zephaniah 1:1). That would mean Zephaniah was the great-great grandson of Hezekiah. Josiah was a great-grandson of Hezekiah. Josiah was son of Amon, who was son of Manasseh, who was a son of Hezekiah.