Prophet General Information In the Old Testament of the Bible the prophets were a succession of men whose inspired utterances molded the shape of Israelite history. The customary classification of the prophetical books of the Bible into Major Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel) and Minor Prophets (Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and ...