Old Testament

Law / Torah / Pentateuch: Genesis to Deuteronomy
History--Theocratic Kingdom: Joshua to Esther
Philosophy and Poetry: Job to Song of Solomon
Prophecy / Major Prophets: Isaiah to Daniel
Prophecy / Minor Prophets: Hosea to Malachi

  1. Genesis ("beginnings")
    Jesus as the Seed of the Woman
    • Genesis 3:15: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
  2. Exodus ("way out")
    Jesus as the Passover Lamb
    • Exodus 12:13: The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
  3. Leviticus (concerns Levites, priests)
    Jesus in the sacrifices and feasts
  4. Numbers
    Jesus lifted up against the serpent's work
    • Numbers 21:9: So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.
    • John 3:14: Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up...
  5. Deuteronomy ("second law", marriage contract between YHWH and Israel)
    Jesus as the Great Prophet
    • Deuteronomy 18:15: The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.
    • Acts 3:22: For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you.
    • Acts 7:37: “This is that Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will send you a prophet like me from your own people.
  6. Joshua ("salvation")
  7. Judges
  8. Ruth ("friendship"), read at Pentecost
    Jesus, our Kinsman Redeemer
  9. 1 Samuel ("asked of God")
  10. 2 Samuel
  11. 1 Kings
  12. 2 Kings
  13. 1 Chronicles
  14. 2 Chronicles
  15. Ezra
  16. Nehemiah
  17. Esther ("star"), read at Purim
  18. Job
  19. Psalms (tehillim in Hebrew, "praises")
  20. Proverbs
  21. Ecclesiastes ("preacher"), read at Pentecost
  22. Song of Solomon, read at Passover
  23. Isaiah (to Judah)
  24. Jeremiah (to Judah)
  25. Lamentations (to Judah), read on the 9th of Ab, the date Solomon's Temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans.
  26. Ezekiel (to captive Jews in Babylon)
  27. Daniel (to Babylon)
  28. Hosea (to Israel)
  29. Joel (to Judah)
  30. Amos (to Israel)
  31. Obadiah (to Judah)
  32. Jonah (to Ninevah)
  33. Micah (to Judah)
  34. Nahum (to Ninevah)
  35. Habakkuk (to Judah)
  36. Zephaniah (to Judah)
  37. Haggai (to Judah)
  38. Zechariah (to Judah)
  39. Malachi (to Judah)

400 years of silence ensued between the writing of Malachi and the New Testament. Books of the Apocrypha were written during this time.

Source: Bible Book of Lists at www.SusanCAnthony.com