Second Kings, for example, ends with a description of the deportation to Babylon, and the narrative portion of the next book, 1 Chronicles, begins with King Saul. Second, departures from a chronological presentation often are obvious even to novice Bible readers. Reading the Old Testament straight through from Genesis to Nehemiah will provide you with a generally chronological account of human history from creation through the Jewish return from exile. In large part, the Bible is organized chronologically. What is a Bible reader to make of this potentially confusing arrangement of books? First, don’t panic. Skipping to the New Testament, 1 Thessalonians was one of the first books written, but it appears after John, one of the last books written. But much of Psalms and Proverbs is set before Nehemiah and Esther. Psalms and Proverbs come after Nehemiah and Esther. You may have noticed that the Bible isn’t always in chronological order.
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