Lives of the Prophets

The Lives of the Prophets

[Short notices of the prophets: their birthplaces, their deaths, their burial, and the signs remembered of them.]

Isaiah, of Jerusalem, died under Manasseh, sawn in two, and was buried beneath the oak of Rogel, near the place where the waters of Siloam come up; for the prophet had prayed, and the waters came forth, that the people might not perish of thirst in the siege. A sign of the end of the city was given through him: that Siloam’s waters would fail.

Jeremiah, of Anathoth, died in Egypt, at Tahpanhes, stoned by his own people, and was buried in the place where Pharaoh’s house had stood; for the Egyptians honored him, because by his prayer the serpents and the crocodiles that plagued them were driven off.

Ezekiel, of the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar, was put to death by the ruler of the exiles, whom he had rebuked for worshiping idols, and was buried in the field of Maour, in the tomb of Shem and Arphaxad. He saw the likeness of the chariot and the living creatures, and he prophesied to the dry bones that they would live.

Daniel, of the tribe of Judah, served in Babylon and in Persia; he was temperate and gentle, and the kings held him in honor. He prophesied of the kingdoms and of the end of days, and he was buried with honor.

Of the Twelve: Hosea, of Belemoth in Issachar, was buried in his own land; he gave a sign that the LORD would come when an oak in Shiloh divided of itself. Jonah, of Gath-hepher, fled from before the LORD, was swallowed and cast up, and afterward dwelt in the land of Tyre. Habakkuk, of the tribe of Simeon, saw the fall of Jerusalem and mourned, and was carried by an angel to feed Daniel in the den. Zechariah, Haggai, Malachi, and the rest each prophesied in his time and were gathered to their fathers.

So the notices were kept of all the prophets, that their memory might not perish: where each was born, where each died, and the signs the LORD wrought through them. [Meaning uncertain]