Old Covenant Chronological Reading

If you are interested in reading historically related sections of Old Covenant Scripture in chronological order, the following chart will be of great value to you. This chart will help you keep the prophets in their proper context with the rest of historical events.

DATE (B.C.)	HISTORICAL & POETICAL BOOKS	PROPHETICAL BOOKS
1500s	Genesis Job
1400s	Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy
1300s	Joshua Judges 1-3
1200s	Judges 3-5
1100s	Judges 5:31-10 Ruth
1000s	Judges 11-21 1 & 2 Samuel 1 Chronicles 10-22
900s	1 Kings 1-16 1 Chronicles 23 - 2 Chronicles 15 Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon
800s	1 Kings 15 - 2 Kings 13 2 Chronicles 16-24	Obadiah Joel
700s	2 Kings 13-18 2 Chronicles 25-32	Jonah Amos Hosea Isaiah Micah
600s	2 Kings 19-24 2 Chronicles 33-36	Nahum Zephaniah Jeremiah Lamentations Habakkuk Daniel
500s	2 Kings 24-25 2 Chronicles 36 Ezra 1-6	Daniel Ezekiel Zechariah Haggai
400s	Esther Ezra 7-10 Nehemiah	Malachi

Psalms was written over several centuries, so it does not matter where you place it. Perhaps a good place would be at the end of the Old Covenant.