4. Brief overview of the Old Testament

In this episode we discuss a VERY brief overview of the narrative of the Old Testament. The better that we understand the Old Testament, the better we will understand the New Testament!

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You can access the picture of the chart of the kings of Israel and Judah that I mentioned by clicking HERE or copying and pasting this URL:

https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2017/07/updated-chart-of-israels-and-judahs-kings-and-prophets/

I was originally going to include both the TaNaKh and English Old Testament ordering of books, but this description would become too cumbersome. As such, I will just include the TaNaKh ordering here and you can compare it with the Old Testament ordering in the table of contents in your Bible.

TaNaKh ordering of the Old Testament:

THE LAW:

• Genesis
• Exodus
• Leviticus
• Numbers
• Deuteronomy

THE PROPHETS:

• Joshua
• Judges
• Samuel (1 & 2)
• Kings (1 & 2)
• Isaiah
• Jeremiah
• Ezekiel
• The Twelve (the minor prophets)

THE WRITINGS:

• Psalms
• Proverbs
• Job
• Song of Songs
• Ruth
• Lamentations
• Esther
• Ecclesiastes
• Dannel
• Ezra-Nehemiah
• Chronicles (1 & 2)

**CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS**
I mentioned that the length of the exile was 70 years because the land had been deprived of its sabbath rests for 490 years; so, it was being repaid the 70 sabbaths it missed (see Leviticus 25:1-7 for the command to let the land have a sabbath rest every 7th year). I mentioned that Jeremiah explained this specifically. While Jeremiah did indeed mention the length of the exile being 70 years (See Jeremiah 25:11-12 and 29:10), it doesn't seem that Jeremiah mentions anything about the sabbath rests for the land. Second Chronicles 36:21, however, does. Maybe it was the 2 Chronicles verse that I had in mind when I said that. Even so, the text doesn't mention anything about 490 years where the land didn't have a sabbath. I think I

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