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Bible Book Order

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The following provides a complete list of the articles on this website.

Normal Articles

The following articles are in-order through the next links on each page. This is the normal reading order for the parts of this website that work like a book.

Using Scripture to Order the Books of the Bible

The discovery leading to this web site was the realization that the Bible defines it's own book order in Isaiah. By simply matching each book in the Bible to a chapter in Isaiah a book order results that is different from any known in history, but defined by scripture, which to my knowledge no other book order can claim.

Discovery Story

The following describes how the realization came that Isaiah defines the Bible's book order.

Book-ends

Book-ends are those funny things that hold books upright on the shelf. They frame a series of books and keep them from falling over. When the books of the Bible are ordered based on Isaiah, book-ends appear around the Bible, the Testaments and the Gospels.

Frequently Asked Questions

This page contains answers to frequently asked questions. Read down the page to learn answers to frequently asked questions or click a specific question at the top of the page to read its answer.

Matching Books with Isaiah

Every book in the Bible uniquely matches a chapter in the book of Isaiah. The first pass at matching the books and chapters happened with 3" x 5" note cards and took several months to finish. A Discovery Story in the [Home] section tells the story of learning to think to use Isaiah this way.

Isaiah 1 and Genesis

Isaiah 1 and Genesis match on the following themes:

Isaiah 2 and Exodus

Isaiah 2 and Exodus match on the following themes:

Isaiah 3 and Leviticus

Isaiah 3 and Leviticus match on the following themes:

Isaiah 4 and Numbers

Isaiah 5 and Deuteronomy

Isaiah 6 and Joshua

Isaiah 7 and Judges

Isaiah 8 and First Samuel

Isaiah 9 and Second Samuel

Isaiah 10 and First Kings

Isaiah 11 and Second Kings

Isaiah 12 and Ezekiel

Isaiah 12 and Ezekiel match on the following themes:

Isaiah 13 and Isaiah

Isaiah 14 and Jeremiah

Isaiah 15 and Lamentations

Isaiah 16 and Ezra

Isaiah 17 and Nehemiah

Isaiah 18 and Esther

Isaiah 19 and Zechariah

Isaiah 20 and Micah

Isaiah 21 and Jonah

Isaiah 22 and Amos

Isaiah 23 and Hosea

Isaiah 24 and Haggai

Isaiah 25 and Zephaniah

Isaiah 26 and Psalms

Isaiah 27 and Job

Isaiah 28 and Ecclesiastes

Isaiah 29 and Proverbs

Isaiah 30 and Ruth

Isaiah 31 and Song of Solomon

Isaiah 32 and Joel

Isaiah 33 and Obadiah

Isaiah 34 and Malachi

Isaiah 35 and Nahum

Isaiah 36 and Habakkuk

Isaiah 37 and First Chronicles

Isaiah 38 and Second Chronicles

Isaiah 39 and Daniel

Isaiah 40 and John

Isaiah 41 and Matthew

Isaiah 42 and Mark

Isaiah 43 and Luke

Isaiah 44 and Acts

Isaiah 45 and Philippians

Isaiah 46 and First Thessalonians

Isaiah 47 and Second Thessalonians

Isaiah 48 and Second John

Isaiah 49 and Second Timothy

Isaiah 50 and First Corinthians

Isaiah 51 and Galatians

Isaiah 52 and Ephesians

Isaiah 53 and Romans

Isaiah 54 and Hebrews

Isaiah 55 and Jacob

Isaiah 56 and First Timothy

Isaiah 57 and Jude

Isaiah 58 and Second Corinthians

Isaiah 59 and Philemon

Isaiah 60 and Colossians

Isaiah 61 and First John

Isaiah 62 and First Peter

Isaiah 63 and Second Peter

Isaiah 64 and Titus

Isaiah 65 and Third John

Isaiah 66 and Revelation

Discovering the Title Sentences

I was with some friends that kept reminding me that the genealogies that are present in the Bible often form important sentences that add to the meaning of Scripture. This group did not realize I was working on the Book Order project, and had no idea how this might matter to my work. They were persistent, though, and I eventually realized I should attempt to apply the same principle to the names of the books of the Bible.

Sentence Derivation

There are places in the Bible where genealogical lists of names form sentences. This is a strange literary style since modern English readers rarely assign meaning to proper names. But, in the Bible, all names have meaning, which allows for these odd literary devices.

Connecting the Books

The discovery that the books of the Bible connect together end-to-end across the Bible began several years ago while attending a college lecture. One of my favorite Bible professors took a rabbit trail from the main lecture, or so it seemed, but the seed he planted that day would later grow into the "Book Chain," one of the core proofs for the book order presented on this website.

Genesis - Exodus

Genesis and Exodus connect in the following ways:

Exodus - Leviticus

Exodus and Leviticus connect in the following ways:

Leviticus - Numbers

Leviticus and Numbers connect in the following ways:

Numbers and Deuteronomy

Numbers and Deuteronomy connect in the following ways:

Joshua Succeedes Moses

The Death of Joshua

Family Inheritance

The Death of King Saul

King David

King Ahaziah Seeks Baal

The Captivity of King Jehoiachin

The City of Jerusalem

The Captivity of Jerusalem

Jerusalem Emptied of People

Return to Jerusalem

Walls Broken Down

Foreign Women

The King's Horses

Moving Mountains

Into the Sea

Repentance

Harlotry

Dew

Shaking and Sweeping

Singing

Praise Yahvah

Generations

Fearing God

The Virtuous Woman

The "Virtuous Woman" is the linkage between books 29 and 30. Proverbs ends with an acrostic (22 verses beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet) describing the "Virtous Woman." With the virtuous woman in mind the focus shifts to the life of Ruth. Ruth lives out the characteristics stated in Proverbs. When Boaz agrees to take Ruth's hand in marriage he uses the same Hebrew phrase occurring at the end of Proverbs to affirm Ruth's virtue.

Solomon's Genealogy

Sacred Assemblies

Edom Judged

Mountain's of Esau

Fire

Scattering and Seizing

Review

Solomon Succeedes David

Vessels

End and Beginning

Three Denials

Baptism

A Fearful Angel Encounter

Jesus Taken Up

Imprisonment

Fragrant Offerings

Increasing Love

Immanuel

Joy

Perseverance

Damnation

The damnation of those who "do not love Jesus" that abruptly ends First Corinthians has an immediate context in the opening thought of Galatians. Those who preach a different gospel are also damned.

Blessing

Gospel

Prophets

Greetings

Wandering

Entrusted

Comfort

Faith

Faithful

Complete

Eternal Life

Equal Faith

Knowledge of Jesus

Love in the Faith

Face to Face with Jesus

The Tree of Life

The Book Chain is a closed circuit. The last book in the Bible, Revelation, connects to the beginning of Genesis.

Mapping Letters to the Books

In the Ancient Hebrew script every letter in the Hebrew alphabet is drawn as a picture and carries inherent meaning. Aleph, the first letter of the alphabet, is drawn as the head of an ox and means ox. Bet, the second letter, is drawn like a tent and means tent.