Bible - Books of the Old Testament by Topic

Write the name of the correct book beside the summary of its contents. All books are from the Protestant Bible.

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Hint	Answer
A proclamation of the coming "Day of the Lord"	Zephaniah
The Israelites go out from Egypt	Exodus
The reign of King David	2 Samuel
The Israelite census	Numbers
Israel in Canaan before the monarchy	Judges
The Israelite kings from Solomon to Ahab	1 Kings
Exhortation to rebuild the temple	Haggai
More of the Law of Moses	Deuteronomy
The Israelite kings from Jehoram to the Babylonian capitivity	2 Kings
The courtly history of Israel from Adam to David	1 Chronicles
The Israelites rebuild Jerusalem's wall	Nehemiah
The reign of King Saul	1 Samuel
The conquest of Canaan	Joshua
The beginning of the world and civilization	Genesis
Prophecies that Israel's enemy, Assyria, will be destroyed	Nahum
The Israelites return from exile and rebuild the temple	Ezra
The story of one of King David's female ancestors	Ruth
A righteous man suffers and doesn't understand why	Job
A collection of sacred songs and poems, mostly composed by King David	Psalms
Rules for the Levite priests	Leviticus

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A poem about the meaninglessness of life	Ecclesiastes
A comparison between Israel and an unfaithful wife	Hosea
Poetic prophecies concerning Jerusalem's destruction and liberation, with affirmations of monotheism	Isaiah
God shows mercy to a man swallowed by a giant fish and to Ninevah	Jonah
Prophecies that Israel's enemy, Edom, will be destroyed	Obadiah
Post-exilic Israel is exhorted to repent	Malachi
Poetic laments regarding Jerusalem's destruction	Lamentations
A man complains to God about his handling of injustice	Habakkuk
Visions concerning Judah's destruction, exile, and eventually restoration	Ezekiel
Symbolic visions and exhortation to rebuild Jerusalem	Zechariah
A collection of wise sayings, mostly composed by King Solomon	Proverbs
Jews in Babylon interact with the king and have apocalyptic visions	Daniel
The courtly history of Israel from Solomon to the return from exile	2 Chronicles
Visions and prophecies of divine retribution for the social injustices committed by Israel	Amos
A poetic celebration of erotic love	Song of Solomon
An affirmation that God will bless the Israelites, if and only if, they repent	Joel
A Jewish queen saves her people from slaughter	Esther
A distressed proclamation of Jerusalem's imminent and inevitable fall	Jeremiah
Prophecies of both Israel's fall and its eventual theocratic kingdom	Micah