We take the layout of our Bibles for granted. I don’t mean that dismissively or negatively; we just know how the Old and New Testaments are laid out. For instance, we know that Malachi ends the Old Testament in our Bibles, and Christians often view God’s words to the prophet Malachi as the last words before 400 years of silence, which God broke when He sent John the Baptist to prepare the way for Jesus’ arrival.
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But in the Jewish scriptures, which they call the Tanakh, the books of 1 and 2 Chronicles fall at the end. The prophetic books come before Chronicles. Those books are a recapitulation of the books of 1 and 2 Samuel and 1 and
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