The Old Testament is famously hard to get through, even for scholars. All those laws, genealogies, census’, and some prophet or another flailing and yelling about fire and brimstone–it’s all very important to our faith, but fallen human nature being what it is, our attention lags when there aren’t lasers or explosions or inter-dimensional space zombies. If you find yourself forgetting which book of the Bible is about what, here’s a handy visual reference guide (but don’t forget to actually read the thing, you heathen).
Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 & 2nd Samuel

1st & 2nd Kings

1st & 2nd Chronicles

Ezra-Nehemiah

Tobit
Judith

Esther

1st Maccabees

2nd Maccabees

Job
Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon
Wisdom of Solomon

Sirach

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Obadiah

Jonah
Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi

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