9Jan 2019
by Tom Creedy | posted in: Leadership, New Testament, Old Testament, Preaching, Reading, The Bible, Theology | 35
When preparing Bible Studies, or thinking about what book to study over the course of a term’s worth of small groups, or just planning a sermon series where you are reading an entire chapter of Scripture and preaching on it, it is helpful to have a list of books of the Bible with the number of chapters they contain.
Of course, this is a blunt instrument – some chapters are longer than others – but given that a faithful preacher can generate a sermon from a single verse of scripture (I’d recommend Colossians 3:17, personally) or even a single word, I wanted to at least for myself collect together a list of the books of the Bible ordered by the number of chapters in each book.
To start with, here’s the basic data: Book titles, and the number of chapters…
[2022 Update – I’m gradually adding links to each book of the Bible to the posts/reviews I’ve done on/around the specific book of the Bible.]
(Old Testament)
Genesis – 50
Exodus – 40
Leviticus – 27
Numbers – 36
Deuteronomy – 34
Joshua – 24
Judges – 21
Ruth – 4
1 Samuel – 31
2 Samuel – 24
1 Kings – 22
2 Kings – 25
1 Chronicles – 29
2 Chronicles – 36
Ezra – 10
Nehemiah – 13
Esther – 10
Job – 42
Psalms – 150
Proverbs – 31
Ecclesiastes – 12
Song of Solomon – 8
Isaiah – 66
Jeremiah – 52
Lamentations – 5
Ezekiel – 48
Daniel – 12
Hosea – 14
Joel – 3
Amos – 9
Obadiah – 1
Jonah – 4
Micah – 7
Nahum – 3
Habakkuk – 3
Zephaniah – 3
Haggai – 2
Zechariah – 14
Malachi – 4
(New Testament)
Matthew – 28
Mark – 16
Luke – 24
John – 21
Acts – 28
Romans – 16
1 Corinthians – 16
2 Corinthians – 13
Galatians – 6
Ephesians – 6
Philippians 4
Colossians – 4
1 Thessalonians – 5
2 Thessalonians – 3
1 Timothy – 6
2 Timothy – 4
Titus – 3
Philemon – 1
Hebrews – 13
James – 5
1 Peter – 5
2 Peter – 3
1 John – 5
2 John – 1
3 John – 1
Jude – 1
Revelation – 22
Hope that’s helpful. I’ll add to this post over time with different ways of having the data visualised.
35 Responses
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Marvin D Vawter
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Can you give me the order of chapters to read the Bible in?
I’m wanting to learn the right way and people say not to read
from cover to cover…Thanks….-
Paul
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Marvin,
I see that this is a very old post and maybe you have already figured it out. If not, there are several ways that you can go about it and there a many reading plans already out there. With 150 Psalms and 31 Proverbs, you can read 1 Proverbs and 5 Psalms a day and cover praise and wisdom once a month. People separate the New and Old testament like it is almost a completely different mindset, but Jesus came to fulfill the Law, not to change it. Going through the gospels and understanding who Jesus really is helps put a better understanding of how all of the books fit together. Regardless of your actual plan, I believe that God will bless you in this pursuit.
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Cade Griffith
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Perhaps it’s a little late. But if this response is still valuable for you, I see nothing wrong with reading cover to cover. I think it provides wonderful continuity of God’s work through time. That said, I’ve only ever made it to Jeremiah, so I may not be the best authority on that. I mainly read anywhere, trusting that, as all of the bible is good, I’ll come to somewhere that is profitable for me to read and pray with God about, and live out.
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Nandaala Mark
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Thanks for the work, God bless. But total up the chapters. What about the verses? Who made divided the chapters and when, where, why?
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emma
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just google it up u got all the answers online.
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Jennifer
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Micah needs corrected. It has 7 chapters.
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plain jane
there are only 10 chapters in the book of Ester, not 13 as listed.
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Marvin fluff
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I would like to have the Bible chapeters new and old separated for me to have is it possibil.i would like them separated for my own personal use.
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Dennis Hindman
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Thanks very helpful.
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JEFF
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I THINK THAT YOU HAVE DONE A FINE JOB EXCEPT FOR Michah – 4 WHICH SHOULD READ Micah – 7. HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK!
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Chelsea
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Good morning. I want to thank you all for supplying the list of Books of the Bible with how many chapters are in each book. I try to help others update information as it needs it (it takes a village). Esther has 10 books and Micah has 7.
Thank you all for providing this resource! It is a blessing.
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Chelsea
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It takes a village. I am commenting on my own comment. Esther has 10 chapters and Micah has 7 chapters. Not books. Sorry about that. Oh and you do not have to post these comments to your site. My goal is just to have you update the information. No need to post these.
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Jon
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Thank you Tom, I think you made a typo, Micah (Michah) has 7 chapters. May God bless you richly.
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Jon
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Thank you Tom, I think you made some typos, Micah (Michah) has 7 chapters, and Esther has only 10 chapters. May God bless you richly.
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Desiree
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Errors: Esther has 10 chapters, Micah has 7 chapters.
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Thomas Hehl
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Esther has 10 chapters
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Patsy
Thank you for this!
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Deborah
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Micah has 7 chapters
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A Guy
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Thanks for doing this, however:
Esther has 10 chapters, not 13,
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Jake
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Studying far class I’m teaching and was looking for this information thank you very much.
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Heather
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Thanks. That’s what I was looking for. ✅
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Bill
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Thank you for providing this list.
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Alice Davis
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I also need to know what the twelve Minor Prophets are.
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Grace
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Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi. 12 minor prophets
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentation
Ezekiel
Daniel. 5 major…
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Ben
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You got the number of chapters in Esther wrong.
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Marvin Lloyd
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[emailprotected]
There are 929 chapters in the Old Testament.Net Testament has 260 chapters
The Bible contains: :open_book:
• 2 Testaments• 66 books
Check for more info https://howtodiscuss.com/t/how-many-chapters-in-the-bible/40538
• 783,137 words• 3,116,480 letters
• 39 books in the Old Testament 8
• 27 books in the New Testament 1
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Daniel
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Micah** has 7 chapters.
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Daniel
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Also Esther has 10.
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Thow Both
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Thank you for the hard work.
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Charlie Michelle
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Thanks so much…its very helpful🙏🙏
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Pam Robinson
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This will be useful!
I have audio bibles bought on Audible and there are no references for book, chapter or verse in any of these bibles.
It is crazy, you can’t look anything up. You can listen at any point through the Bible but if you do you have to work out which book, chapter and verse.
If I want to do this I would need to work out how many chapters for each book and add them all up and calculate how many chapters in is the book or reading I’m looking for.
Thanks for what you’ve done here!
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Ehiwario
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Thank you for the comment.
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Starla
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Thank you so much for your post. God bless you it’s October 3 2023 and it’s still helping people out.
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Chris
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Thanks so much for putting this together.
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Ikome 24
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Thanks a lot Thomas for this. Quite thoughtful of you.I will like to ask if you can tell us how we should read it daily like how many chapters from the different testaments. Thanks again
