Like First Chronicles, Second Chronicles is a lot of repeat content from earlier books of the Bible. Second Chronicles retells many of the stories of the kings who ruled Israel after David from First and Second Kings. Though we learn in First Kings that Israel divided into two kingdoms—South…

The book of First Chronicles follows Second Kings in today’s Bible, but in the Hebrew Bible, Chronicles is the last book.

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The book of Judges follows Joshua and tells the tragic tale of Israel’s moral corruption, bad leadership, idol worship and abandonment of the God who, despite their failure, continues to rescue them.

Joshua is the sixth book of the Bible, written by Joshua, the man who takes over leadership of Israel after Moses dies at the end of Deuteronomy.

Deuteronomy is the final book of the Pentateuch and the fifth book of the Bible. The name Deuteronomy comes from a Greek word that means “second law,” because in Deuteronomy, Moses repeats the laws given by God to the people of Israel. The book picks up where the previous book, Numbers, left…

Numbers is the fourth book of the Bible, written by Moses around 1400 B.C. Numbers, named for censuses taken at the beginning and end of the book, continues the story of Moses and the Israelites who have been freed from slavery in Egypt and are on their way to the Promised Land.

In the book of Leviticus, God shows the people of Israel that despite their sin, they can still enjoy God’s presence and display His holiness to the world. In order to heal the damage from Israel’s rebellion against His instructions, God established a way for people’s sins to be covered thro…

Exodus is a continuation of God’s story, which began in Genesis. Exodus, also presumably written by Moses, takes place about 400 years after Abraham’s grandson, Jacob, brought his family to Egypt where the family grew and filled the land. Unfortunately, a new Pharaoh comes to power who fears…

The word “genesis” means origin or beginning. Written sometime between 1600 and 1300 B.C., most likely by Moses, Genesis is a compilation of stories that tell one larger story—much like the Bible as a whole.