A Triad of Trials & Some Prophets God Sent: The Minor Prophets & Noah, Jonah & Job

By Warren Sherwood Bennett

This is Mr. Bennett's fifth book-poem of the Holy Bible; without theologizing this volume has poetically captured and retained the true essence of the "Minor" (lessor) Holy Prophets, and three miracle men: Noah, Jonah, and Job.


As in all of his poetry, this is unique in the annals of religious literature. His desire is to complete the entire Holy Bible to poetic meter and rhyme, before the Lord calls him home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 9, 2012
• ISBN: 9781463437657

Warren Sherwood Bennett

As said in the prophecy, God is the source of all knowledge and life-giving breath. These matters of the fact lead the way to all forces on Earth and all unto death. This author has visualized and realized how his life has been blessed with the verse to feel with his zeal just how he could be prized with some wisdom of God’s universe. They recently had a great-grandchild, a boy, as their twenty-fifth one, and somehow, they also just had their first great-great-grandchild. This makes them great-great-grandparents now.

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Table of Contents

The Trauma Of Noah           ~2448 B.C.

In Genesis Time

Chapter V. of Genesis, vs. 28

Chapter VI.

Because of his righteousness, No`-ah alone

God has chosen to live and survive

A watery holocaust, - earth He’ll disown,

But his family will stay alive.

God tells of His anger, of all that He made,

Prompting Him to destroy His creations.

He orders an ark to be built with His aid,

All dimensions of all installations.

Chapter VII.

The three sons of No`-ah, himself, and their wives,

With the creatures that God had selected,

Go into the ark, - nothing else would survive

The continuous flood God affected.

Chapter VIII.

The waters subside and the ark comes to rest.

No`-ah sends forth a raven and dove.

He leaves the ark, being commanded and blest,

On Mount Ar`-a-rat, from God Above.

An altar he builds, making thanks sacrifice

For relief, and God’s promise unfurled,

Which God had accepted, and promised advice:

He would never again curse the world.

Chapter IX.

The Lord blesses No`-ah, forbids shedding blood,

No more murder, a covenant’s worth,

By signified show of a rainbow: no flood.

No`-ah then must replenish the earth.

A vineyard he plants, and becomes drunk with wine.

He is mocked by son Ham. Ca`-naan cries.

He blesses another son, Shem, as divine.

And for Ja`-phath he prays. No`-ah dies.

Comments on Noah’s Life

The Terror To Jo-nah         ~862 B.C.

Chapter I.

Jo`-nah was dispatched to Nin`-e-veh bound,

But instead flees away unto Tar`-shish.

Betrayed by a tempest, he is almost drowned;

He is swallowed alive by a fish.

Chapter II.

Jo`-nah prayed to God for life.

His life was spared from further strife.

Chapter III.

Jo`-nah sent again to preach

To Nin`-e-vites, though hard to reach.

Chapter IV.

Jo`-nah moped at God’s release.

Reproved he was by God for peace.

Comments on the Saga of Jonah

The Tribulations Of Job         ~1520 B.C.

Introduction:

Chapter I.

The holiness, riches, religious of care,

That Job had for his children was great.

That Sa`-tan appeared before God to ensnare

The true nature of Job and his fate.

He leaves to tempt Job by permission to test.

Shows what really Job’s character is.

Job understands loss of his children, so blest

He asks God in his mourning what’s his.

Chapter II.

Again Sa`-tan gets further leave to tempt Job,

By insisting that Job will resist.

He smites Job with boils. Job reproves his wife’s probe,

Moving him to curse God to desist.

Chapter III.

Job curses the day and the way he was born.

He proclaims his death will give him ease.

Because of his anguish, he’s fully forlorn.

He complains of this life of disease.

Chapter IV.

For want of religion, Job gets a rebuke

From God’s El`-i-phaz, counsel he had.

He teaches God’s judgments as only a fluke

For the righteous, but meant for the bad.

Chapter V.

The harm of the lack of considerate ways,

Breeds the wrath and the envy of man.

God must then be valued in troubled affrays.

God’s correction yields His happy plan

Chapter VI.

Job shows his complaints are not causeless, so he

Has a death wish to end all his ills.

His friends he reproves. They’re unkind to his plea.

He compares them to animal spills.

Chapter VII.

Job justifies ev’ry desire for his death.

Of his own restlessness he complains.

God’s watchfulness over Job’s every breath,

But to now interferes, He’d abstain.

Chapter VIII.

According to works, Bil`-dad shows how God deals,

Bringing justice to men for all time.

God’s justice is shown, as example, reveals

When applied to Job’s living sublime.

Chapter IX.

The wisdom of God is unsearchable, guides

The repentant to reverence, assured he where bides.

Chapter X.

By using the freedom of voicing complaints,

Job vehemently argues his case,

About his afflictions to God, with restraints,

That God ease before death, and embrace.

Chapter XI.

For Job justifying himself, Zo`-phar chides.

He reproves in a scold that’s intense.

Of being diverse, and exhorts him, somewhat

To repentance, - then mercy begins.

Chapter XII.

Job maintains himself against friends who would scold.

He acknowledges God’s true omnipotent hold.

Chapter XIII.

Job chides all his friends of partiality, and,

He professes his great faith in God.

He asks to know what sin God sees to remand,

And God’s purpose to strike with His rod.

Chapter XIV.

Job begs God for favor, by shortness of life,

To have certainty, promise of death.

Though life that is lost may not ever see strife,

It will never return and have breath.

Job waits for his change, but it doesn’t arrive.

Nothing happens toward reaching this goal.

By sin, all God’s creatures will strive to survive.

They are yoked to corruption control.

Chapter XV.

God’s El`-i-phaz scolded Job of impropriety. -

Justifies how he has felt.

He proves by tradition of men in society,

Restless, how wicked ones dealt.

Chapter XVI.

Job censures his friends for un-mercifulness.

He shows them that his case is pitiful-ness.

Chapter XVII.

Job’s claim and appeal went to God from the men.

The unmerciful dealings with men,

With those of affliction, astonished, but then

Not the righteous discouraged again.

Job’s hope is in death. It’s the final release.

In life there is breath, but its strife will not cease.

Chapter XVIII.

God’s Bil`-dad reproves Job of haughty impatience.

Calamities fall on the wicked’s irreverence.

Chapter XIX.

Complaining of many friends’ cruel remarks,

Job expresses that there is enough

Unhappiness in him to feed their remarks.

He believes resurrection’s no bluff.

Chapter XX.

God’s Zo`-phar shows Job of the wicked ones’ state.

He shows what their portion of life is their fate.

Chapter XXI.

Job shows that in even the judgment of man,

He has cause to be saddened to grief.

Though they despise God, sometimes prosper by plan,

It’s God’s judgment that’s Heaven’s relief.

Chapter XXII.

God’s El`-i-phaz shows that man’s goodness does not

Profit God, and accuses Job’s sins,

Of being diverse, and exhorts him somewhat

To repentance, - then mercy begins.

Acknowledging God’s form of justice, Job shows

There is no way contending with Him.

Man’s innocence shown unto God never grows,

Nor condemned by afflictions, though grim.

Chapter XXIII.

Job longs to appear before God, and believes

He has confidence, knowing God’s Way.

Invisible God, Who is merciful, grieves

While observing Job’s innocent stay.

Chapter XXIV.

Unpunished will often be for evil men.

But wicked ones will be judged secretly then.

Chapter XXV.

God’s Bil`-dad shows all

That man cannot but fall

Before God, and be not justified on God’s call.

Chapter XXVI.

Reproving the spirit of Bil`-dad’s ill-will,

Job grants that the power of God will fulfill.

Chapter XXVII.

Job harshly protests his sincerity, and,

His hypocrisy is without hope.

The blessings which wicked ones have that are grand,

Are then turned into curses by scope.

Chapter XXVIII.

There is a great knowledge of natural things.

The wisdom of God is a gift that He brings.

Chapter XXIX.

Job grieves his prosperity, he once was glad.

He mourns for the loss of the honor he had.

Chapter XXX.

Job’s honor is turned into utmost contempt.

Calamity falls, his success not exempt.

Chapter XXXI.

Job makes protestation a high solemn vow.

Integrity saved many duties somehow.

Chapter XXXII.

E-li`-hu is angry with Job and three friends.

His zeal to speak out doesn’t make his amends.

Chapter XXXIII.

E-li`-hu proposes to reason with Job.

He excuses God from giving man,

Accounts of His Ways, by His greatness to probe,

So God doesn’t need show of his plan.

God calls upon man to repentance by vision,

In dreams, or awakened alert.

Afflictions he causes in case of derision.

In ministry, errors avert.

Chapter XXXIV.

E-li`-hu accuses Job for his mistrust,

Charging God of injustice that’s odd.

Omnipotent God cannot e’er be unjust.

Man must humble himself before God.

Chapter XXXV.

Comparison isn’t to be made with God,

For our evil and good can’t extend,

To reach Him, and many made ill by His rod,

But are not heard, their faith will contend.

Chapter XXXVI.

E-li`-hu shows how God is just in His Ways.

He is so great, one cannot compare.

Job’s sins hinder blessings by God all his days.

God’s great works magnified are most fair.

Chapter XXXVII.

Because of His works, God must also be feared.

His wisdom’s unsearchable, greatly endeared.

Chapter XXXVIII.

God challenges Job by promoting the things

He has done, and an answer, demands.

Job’s ignorance shows when God shows what He brings,

And Job’s shallowness shows how he stands.

Chapter XXXIX.

Concerning wild goats and the female red deer,

Of the wild ass and unicorn’s squawk,

The peacock, the stork, and the ostrich they fear,

Of the horse, and the eagle, - the hawk.

Chapter XL.

Job humbles himself unto God, but won’t cower.

God stirs him to righteousness, wisdom and power.

Chapter XLI.

Leviathan size is God’s power so great.

God’s questions show Job his inferior state.

Chapter XLII.

To God, Job submits. God prefers Job by reason.

God makes his friends cede, then Job dies in due season.

Comments on the Life of Job

Section II.

The Minor (or Lesser) Prophets

Introduction:

EZRA         ~536 B.C.

Chapter I.

Bab-lon`-ian captivity comes to an end. King Cy`-rus of Persia has planned an amend.

Chapter II.

The list of the exiles, returning at last To their home in Ju-de`-a, - a new life is cast.

Chapter III.

Je-ru`-sa-lem’s worship again is restored, The Temple’s foundation’s begun for the Lord.

Chapter IV.

Resistance to building the Temple is laid.

Opposing Je-ru`-sa-lem’s building is made.

Chapter V.

The Temple’s construction’s resumed unopposed.

Restoration is granted, Da-ri`-us they chose.

Chapter VI.

Decrees of Da-ri`-us have ordered it done.

Dedication and Passover feasts have begun.

Chapter VII.

The coming of Ez`-ra, the prophet, his deeds; –

Ar-tax-erx`-es own letter to Ez`-ra concedes.

Chapter VIII.

Heads of clans are returning with Ez`-ra, and those

Temple servants when chosen were sent.

For protection, came fasting and prayer they’d compose,

Gifts received, then Je-ru`-sa-lem went

Chapter IX.

Mixed marriages were not yet sanctioned, denounced.

Ez`-ra’s prayer of confession, repentance announced.

Chapter X.

The people’s responses to Ez`-ra’s own prayer.

Foreign wives and their children rejected to share.

NEHEMIAH       ~446 B.C.

Chapter I.

Ne-he-mi`-ah, the prophet, gives prayers for his kin.

He advises his people, repenting their sin.

Chapter II.

Ne-he-mi`-ah was sent to inspect Ju`-dah’s walls,

And he made the decision to build up the halls.

Chapter III.

The organization of work was a task.

Assignments were classified, no work a mask.

Chapter IV.

Plots of hostility of evil men,

Were thwarted, and put down again and again.

Chapter V.

Ne-he-mi`-ah deals righteously, unto oppression.

His great generosity fills his obsession.

Chapter VI.

Intrigues of his foes are discovered and foiled.

The wall is completed. They won’t be despoiled.

Chapter VII.

The list here is lengthy of exiles returned.

The various gifts they bestowed as they earned.

Chapter VIII.

The people, from Ez`-ra, were urged to obey

All laws, celebrating that festival stay.

Chapter IX.

A national theme of confession was made.

Those who signed for the Covenant paid.

Chapter X.

The Covenant’s summary rested on all.

Mo`-ses’ Law of the Covenant vested on call.

Chapter XI.

As people moved back, population increased.

Je-ru`-sa-lem’s villages never decreased.

Chapter XII.

A list of the Le`-vites and priests were then scrolled.

Their duties in Temple. The wall was extolled.

Chapter XIII.

From Is`-ra-el, foreigners were kept away.

The reforms Ne-he-mi`-ah invoked.

He started with Sabbath reforms from decay.

Condemned marriages mixed. They provoked.

HOSEA          ~785 B.C.

Chapter I.

Concerning the family of Ho-se`-a, the Lord

Gave advice to have Is`-ra-el restored and scored.

Chapter II.

Infidelity, punishment, lastly redemption,

Is given to Is`-ra-el, with no exemption.

Chapter III.

There are further assurances classified here,

That God’s love is redeeming His people so dear.

Chapter IV.

The Lord indicts Is`-ra-el’s infidel living.

Idolatry rampant proves this is not giving.

Chapter V.

Harsh judgment impends upon Is`-ra-el’s race.

On Ju`-dah, no mercy is given, - no grace.

Chapter VI.

God calls to repentance all Is`-ra-el’s kin,

But impenitence shows throughout Ju`-dah, a sin.

Chapter VII.

God promises treasures restored to them all.

But futile reliance on heathens, they call.

Chapter VIII.

Apostasy flagrant is Is`-ra-el’s plight.

Abandonment thorough is all of God’s Light.

Chapter IX.

For Is`-ra-el’s sin, God will punish, indeed.

He has withdrawn His care, and no more be in need.

Chapter X.

Description of Is`-ra-el’s sin, and the reason

Captivity loomed as their plight for the season.

Chapter XI.

Compassion from God was to Is`-ra-el given,

Despite the ingratitude, living as heathen.

Chapter XII.

The Lord narrates briefly the history long,

The children of Is`-ra-el had that was wrong.

Chapter XIII.

Continuous sinning breeds unending rue.

Relentless on Is`-ra-el, judgment is due.

Chapter XIV.

A plea for repentance, recanting, they’d win.

Assured of forgiveness, He’d wipe out their sin.

JOEL          ~ 800 B.C.

Chapter I.

Lament over ruining all of the land.

The call for repentance, pray God for command.

Chapter II.

God’s pitied response and the promises made.

God’s Spirit’s poured out to give Is`-ra-el aid.

Chapter III.

Je-ho`-sa-phat’s Valley, a judgment took place.

The glorious future of Ju`-dah’s embrace.

AMOS           ~787 B.C.

Chapter I.

The judgment on Is`-ra-el’s neighbors was just.

Its severity only created their trust.

Chapter II.

The judgment on Ju`-dah, He will not revoke.

The judgment on Is`-ra-el, He will invoke.

Chapter III.

The guilt of iniquity Is`-ra-el shares,

Invites punishment justly by God, - shows He cares.

Chapter IV.

Correction from God is rejected by all,

God explains what He’s done for them all to enthrall.

Chapter V.

Lamenting for Is`-ra-el’s sin is made clear.

The Day of the Lord is a dark day with fear.

Chapter VI.

Complacency, not giving God His just due,

Self-indulgence He’ll punish; God says what He’ll do.

Chapter VII.

The Lord showed a plumb line, and locusts and fire.

The priest A-ma-zi`-ah complains to conspire.

Chapter VIII.

To illustrate forthcoming punishment, God

Shows to A`-mos, a basket of fruit, - how they trod.

Chapter IX.

Destruction of Is`-ra-el promised the Lord.

Restoration of old David’s kingdom accord.

OBADIAH          ~587 B.C.

Proud E`-dom will humble, and stumble to low.

Its pillage and slaughter is repaid by foe.

False E`-dom mistreated his brother with woe.

Last triumph of Is`-ra-el hastened the show.

MICAH          ~750 B.C.

Chapter I.

The judgment pronounced to Sa-ma`-ri-a, - vile.

The doom of the cities of Ju`-dah with guile.

Chapter II.

Denounced were the evils of social extent.

A promise to Is`-ra-el’s remnant is sent.

Chapter III.

The terrible rulers who governed those days;

False prophets who lied, teaching craze for the praise.

Chapter IV.

Security, peace through obedience taught.

After exile, the promised restoring is sought.

Chapter V.

The ruler from Beth`-le-hem comes from of old.

The role of the remnant in future is told.

Chapter VI.

God challenges Is`-ra-el, - what He requires.

All cheating and violence punished with fires.

Chapter VII.

The total corruption of all of the kin;

Their trust in their God and their penitence of sin;

Restoration, a prophecy, soon to begin;

God’s compassion and love prove they are genuine.

NAHUM          ~713 B.C.

Chapter I.

God’s wrath is consuming, and vengeful with ire.

The good news for Ju`-dah is peaceful desire.

Chapter II.

The total destruction of that wicked city;

The proof the Lord gives when He shows them no pity.

Chapter III.

The ruins are imminent, menacing threats;

Inevitable, certain, unavoidable regrets.

HABAKKUK          ~626 B.C.

Chapter I.

The prophet’s complaint of the Lord’s not responding.

The wrongs of the earth, that God’s left, are desponding.

Chapter II.

The prophet’s complaint is replied by the Lord.

The woes of the wicked are shown and abhorred.

Chapter III.

The prayer of the prophet has compassed all pleas.

In trouble, his trust made his joy and God please.

ZEPHANIAH          ~630 B.C.

Chapter I.

The coming of judgment on Ju`-dah is seen.

The Day of the Lord is so great and obscene.

Chapter II.

On Is`-ra-el’s enemies, judgment is cast.

Their punishment thorough, forever will last.

Chapter III.

Je-ru`-sa-lem’s wickedness, soiled and defiled,

Seeks punishment, - Gentiles are now reconciled.

A long song of joy rings aloud, not beguiled.

The Lord has relented; - He’s pleased, not reviled.

HAGGAI          ~520 B.C.

Chapter I.

The order to rebuild the Temple was made.

To rebuild the Temple was paid for with aid.

Chapter II.

The Temple’s great glory began, but rebuked.

A promise by God was made, not overlooked.

ZECHARIAH          ~520 B.C.

Chapter I.

The Lord urges Is`-ra-el to repent mourns.

Two visions of horsemen, the blacksmiths and horns.

Chapter II.

The third vision: man with a measuring line.

Appeal to the exiles to come back, recline.

Chapter III.

The fourth vision: Sa`-tan and Josh`-u-a bout.

Restoration of church, Christ the Branch is devout.

Chapter IV.

The fifth vision: olive trees, lampstand of gold.

Ze-rub-ba`-bel’s foundation, a thing to behold.

Chapter V.

The sixth and the seventh: a basket and scroll

Flying by with a woman inside to control.

Chapter VI.

Eighth vision: four chariots; Josh`-u-a crowns.

Christ, the Branch, inside the Temple renown.

Chapter VII.

God always condemns hypocritical fasting.

Rejecting His laws provokes punishment, lasting.

Chapter VIII.

To Zi`-on, God promises He will return.

He’ll dwell among them, and His anger won’t burn.

Chapter IX.

The judgment on Is`-ra-el’s enemies, - bad.

God defends His church, advocates joy! – He’s not sad.

Chapter X.

After God, one must seek, and not idols at all.

As He Came when they sinned, He will come when they call.

Chapter XI.

There’re two kinds of shepherds, the bad and the best.

The chosen are cared for, rejecting the rest.

Chapter XII.

Je-ru`-sa-lem’s victory burdens the foes.

Mourning the pierced One, restores all the woes.

Chapter XIII.

Idolatry once and for all is removed.

Death of Christ, and a third part approved.

Chapter XIV.

The warfare, then victory final, and Christ

Coming after Je-ru`-sa-lem’s plague is sufficed.

MALACHI          ~397 B.C.

Chapter I.

The Lord prefers Is`-ra-el, - E`-dom’s denied;

Its priesthood’s corrupted, malicious and snide.

Chapter II.

Profaned is the Covenant; Ju`-dah is blamed;

Exhortation, to holiness living, proclaimed.

Chapter III.

A messenger comes. Do not rob God the Lord.

The reward of the faithful is sought and adored.

Chapter IV.

The great Day is coming, the Day of our God.

The judgment of people for ways they have trod.

Dedication, Acknowledgment, & Author’s

Commentary

Key to fonts:

The narrator speaks Book Antigua in Bold,

While the Men speak Papyrus, a writing of old.

God’s envoys and God speak Edwardian Script".

But the Devil talks evil , Matisse from a crypt.

The other men mentioned are kinfolk or strange.

They are written in Curlz type of different range.

Section I.

A

Triad

Of

Trials, Tribulations, and Trauma,

Temptations

To

Noah & Jonah & Job

Three men of distinction, whom God chose for drama,

To keep from extinction, His world they would probe.

The Biblical Books of the prophets God chose,

Are considered by scholars of old,

To be by importance as each of them knows,

Called the lesser ones, Minors foretold.

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Section I.

The

TRAUMA

Of

N O A H

In Genesis Time

Is surviving and thriving, not striving in crime.

His life of emotion was rife with devotion

To God, - then God let His plan set into motion.

As narrated here, God was angry, severe.

But with No`-ah, God’s plan was achieved, but austere.

At last God repented, but never relented.

He started all over, - His anger was vented.

The story of No`-ah, in Genesis, starts

With God’s want to destroy what’s alive.

God found only No`-ah and fam’ly with hearts

Not corrupt, to live on and survive.

Chapter V. of Genesis, vs. 28

Recorded in Genesis, long, long ago,

The man La`-mech begat his first son.

A hundred and eighty-two years he lived, so

It was then his son’s life had begun.

He called his name No`-ah, and said about this,

"From the ground which the Lord has now cursed,

Relief He will give by this one giving bliss,

From our work and our toil at their worst."

Five hundred and eighty-five years La`-mech lived,

From the birth-time of No`-ah, till then.

Some daughters he had, - other sons he out-lived,

Leaving No`-ah alone of the men.

Thus La`-mech did die after living thereat,

Seven hundred and seventy-seven years.

When No`-ah was five hundred years, he begat

Ham and Ja`-phath, and Shem he reveres.

Chapter VI.

As time came to pass, and man increased at large;

On the face of the earth, there were born

Fair daughters to them, and God’s sons made their charge,

Taking some to be wives, without scorn.

The Lord said, "My Spirit will not

always strive

With mankind, because he is but

flesh.

Yet one hundred, twenty

years he will survive,

As the maximum span

he is fresh."

The Neph`-i-lim giants lived there in those days.

Also afterwards, when sons of God

Went in to the daughters of humans to raise

All the children they bore without prod.

Repented the Lord that He made man on earth,

And it grieved Him, and saddened His heart.

The Lord said, "I’ll waste all mankind with no worth,

Whom I’ve made from earth’s face, and depart.

"Both mankind and beast, and the fowls

of the air,

And all creeping things I shall

destroy.

For it has repented Me,

and, am aware

That I should not have

made them My joy."

But No`-ah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

He walked upright in his generations.

A just man he was, as with God he adored,

Living perfect in all venerations.

The earth was corrupt and in violence filled,

And in God’s sight was evilly bad.

God gazed upon earth at corruption distilled

In all flesh, - His creation was mad.

Said God unto No`-ah, "The end of

mankind

Is before me. Its end I’ll achieve.

The earth’s filled with madness

through them, which I find.

I’ll destroy the earth’s

life, - no reprieve.

"Prepare for yourself a large gopher

wood ark.

Rooms and nests