What the prophets include in the sacred canon is of inestimable worth. From the beginning the Lord declared scripture to be the standard for human behavior and action: “And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live” (Deuteronomy 8:3).