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OLD TESTAMENT
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Genesis | Genesis answers two big questions: “How did God’s relationship with the world begin?” and “Where did the nation of Israel come from?” |
| Exodus | God saves Israel from slavery in Egypt, and then enters into a special relationship with them. |
| Leviticus | God gives Israel instructions for how to worship Him. |
| Numbers | Israel fails to trust and obey God, and wanders in the wilderness for 40 years. |
| Deuteronomy | Moses gives Israel instructions (in some ways, a recap of the laws in Exodus–Numbers) for how to love and obey God in the Promised Land. |
| Joshua | Joshua (Israel’s new leader) leads Israel to conquer the Promised land, then parcels out territories to the twelve tribes of Israel. |
| Judges | Israel enters a cycle of turning from God, falling captive to oppressive nations, calling out to God, and being rescued by leaders God sends their way (called “judges”). |
| Ruth | Two widows lose everything, and find hope in Israel—which leads to the birth of the future King David. |
| 1Samuel | Israel demands a king, who turns out to be quite a disappointment. |
| 2Samuel | David, a man after God’s own heart, becomes king of Israel. |
| 1Kings | The kingdom of Israel has a time of peace and prosperity under King Solomon, but afterward splits, and the two lines of kings turn away from God. |
| 2Kings | Both kingdoms ignore God and his prophets, until they both fall captive to other world empires. |
| 1Chronicles | This is a brief history of Israel from Adam to David, culminating with David commissioning the temple of God in Jerusalem. |
| 2Chronicles | David’s son Solomon builds the temple, but after centuries of rejecting God, the Babylonians take the southern Israelites captive and destroy the temple. |
| Ezra | The Israelites rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, and a scribe named Ezra teaches the people to once again obey God’s laws. |
| Nehemiah | The city of Jerusalem is in bad shape, so Nehemiah rebuilds the wall around the city. |
| Esther | Someone hatches a genocidal plot to bring about Israel’s extinction, and Esther must face the emperor to ask for help. |
| Job | Satan attacks a righteous man named Job, and Job and his friends argue about why terrible things are happening to him. |
| Psalms | A collection of 150 songs that Israel sang to God (and to each other)—kind of like a hymnal for the ancient Israelites. |
| Proverbs | A collection of sayings written to help people make wise decisions that bring about justice. |
| Ecclesiastes | A philosophical exploration of the meaning of life—with a surprisingly skeptical tone for the Bible. |
| Song of Solomon (Song of Songs) | A love song (or collection of love songs) celebrating love, desire, and marriage. |
| Isaiah | God sends the prophet Isaiah to warn Israel of future judgment—but also to tell them about a coming king and servant who will “bear the sins of many.” |
| Jeremiah | God sends a prophet to warn Israel about the coming Babylonian captivity, but the people don’t take the news very well. |
| Lamentations | A collection of sad songs lamenting the fall of Jerusalem after the Babylonian attacks. |
| Ezekiel | God chooses a man to speak for Him to Israel, to tell them the error of their ways and teach them justice. |
| Daniel | Daniel becomes a high-ranking wise man in the Babylonian and Persian empires, and has prophetic visions concerning Israel’s future. |
| Hosea | Hosea is told to marry a prostitute who leaves him, and he must bring her back: a picture of God’s relationship with Israel. |
| Joel | God sends a plague of locusts to judge Israel, but his judgment on the surrounding nations is coming, too. |
| Amos | A shepherd named Amos preaches against the injustice of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. |
| Obadiah | Obadiah warns the neighboring nation of Edom that they will be judged for abusing Jerusalem. |
| Jonah | A disobedient prophet runs from God, is swallowed by a great fish, and then preaches God’s message to the city of Nineveh. |
| Micah | Micah confronts the leaders of Israel and Judah regarding their injustice, and prophecies that one day the Lord himself will rule in perfect justice. |
| Nahum | Nahum foretells of God’s judgment on Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. |
| Habakkuk | Habakkuk pleads with God to stop the injustice and violence in Judah, but is surprised to find that God will use the even more violent Babylonians to do so. |
| Zephaniah | God warns that he will judge Israel and the surrounding nations, but also that he will restore them in peace and justice. |
| Haggai | The people have abandoned the work of restoring God’s temple in Jerusalem, and so Haggai takes them to task. |
| Zechariah | The prophet Zechariah calls Israel to return to God, and records prophetic visions that show what’s happening behind the scenes. |
| Malachi | God has been faithful to Israel, but they continue to live disconnected from him—so God sends Malachi to call them out. |
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