Each of the verses below are the beginning of a Book of the Bible.  Can you match the verses to the Bible Books?

1.  "The song of songs, which is Solomon's."

2.  "Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,  Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me."

3.  "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

4.  "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil."

5.  "Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons."

6.  "Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob."

7.  "Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel."

8.  "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.  But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night."

9.  "Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?"

10.  "The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,"

11.  "The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.  Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity."

12.  "Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)"

13.  "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake."

14.  "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God."

15.  "The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.  I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,"


Bible Book Beginnings - Old Testament
___ Genesis

___ Exodus

___ Joshua

___ Judges

___ Ruth

___ Nehemiah

___ Esther

___ Job

___ Psalms

___ Ecclesiastes

___ Song of
       Solomon

___ Ezekiel

___ Amos

___ Jonah

___ Malachi











































Answers:

3 Genesis

6 Exodus

7 Joshua

9 Judges

5 Ruth

10 Nehemiah

12 Esther

4 Job

8 Psalms

11 Ecclesiastes

1 Song of Solomon

14 Ezekiel

13 Amos

2 Jonah

15 Malachi




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