How many Old Testament Books| Old testament books

How many Old Testament Books are there? and Names of Old Testament books and how to memorize the Old testament books. does any one know how many books are in Old Testament.

Here is a trick to remember , how many letter are there in word “Old”  is 3 and how many letter in “Testament” is 9 .so combine 3 and 9 to each other that’s make 39. Yeah you heard it right , there are 39 books in the Old Testament .

Many people don’t understand .how  Old testament books  are arranged .they assume ,its kind a chronological from the first book written to the last .instead the Old testament arranged in section and to help us with  those sections. Remember that there are either in group of 5 books or 12 books .In fact we have 5 section which are like 

 

                   “ 5 12 5 5 12 ”

These 5 12 5  5 12  refers to 5books  12 books 5books 5 books 12 books .

And here is some help with section .The first section is

Law section.

these are the books of  Moses who receive in the form of  the Ten Commandments.

Remember the Law consist of  5 books .

The next section is the history books which contain 12 books and after that 5 books of poetry,5 books of  Major Prophets and 12 books of  Minor Prophets.

Major Prophets are not important than Minor prophet just they have written in more word .so their books are long.

Lets learn a sentence that will help us remember the books of law name start  with letter and also its easy to remember .here is sentence-

"God’s Eternal  Love  Never  Dies"

Each word of these sentence help us remember first letter of  Books name.

So lets start from beginning .letter start with G E L N D respectively so here are the books.

First books is Genesis.

Second books start with journey of Jews and wilderness. Its start with E

And its called Exodus.

Next are

Leviticus ,

Numbers and

Deuteronomy .

After the law comes History section .there are 12 books  in History section.

Joshua ,Judges ,Ruth (3 books)

Next we have 3 pairs or another 6 six books .these are arranged in opposite alphabetical order .

1 Samuel, 2 Samuel,

1 Kings, 2 kings,

1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles

And remaining three books are

Ezra ,

Nehemiah,

Esther.

Poetry Section

Now we have 5 books of poetry . Many poet write about love, others write about pain and overcoming pain but the joy of  the Lord is our strength according to our Bible. Now Lets memorize one sentence to remember the books name easily by referring the first letter of these word of sentences.

“Jesus Provide People Eternal Strength”

Here are the books name with starting letter of  these sentence.

Jobs,

Psalms,

Proverbs,

Ecclesiaste,

Song of Solomon.

Major Prophets

Lets take another sentence to remember the names books

“I just love every day”

Here are the books -

Isaiah,

Jeremiah,

Lamentations,

Ezekiel,

Daniel.

Minor Prophet

In Minor prophet ,there are 12 books .Here are the sentence for the reference.

“Having Jesus Always Offer Joy”

Books are

Hosea ,

Joel,

Amos,

Obadiah,

Jonah.

And remaining 7 books of  this section are something like this .lets have another sentence for  these remaining books. So here are the sentence

“My New ,Happy Zookeeper Hoists Zebra Manure”

Books are

Micah,

Nahum,

Habakkuk,

Zephaniah,

Haggai,

Zechariah,

Malachi