Jewish%20thought for Bava Batra 28:7
ואידך ההוא מיבעי ליה לכדריש לקיש דאמר ר"ל אשר שברת אמר לו הקב"ה למשה יישר כחך ששברת:
Our Rabbis taught: The order of the Prophets is, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, and the Twelve Minor Prophets. Let us examine this. Hosea came first, as it is written, God spake first to Hosea.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hos. I; 2. ');"><sup>11</sup></span> But did God speak first to Hosea? Were there not many prophets between Moses and Hosea? R. Johanan, however, has explained that [what It means is that] he was the first of the four prophets who prophesied at that period,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. ');"><sup>12</sup></span>
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