{"id":2035,"date":"2019-01-09T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T10:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2022-07-03T19:47:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T18:47:05","slug":"a-list-of-books-in-the-bible-by-number-of-chapters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/a-list-of-books-in-the-bible-by-number-of-chapters\/","title":{"rendered":"A list of books in the bible by number of chapters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

To start with, here’s the basic data: Book titles, and the number of chapters…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n[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.]\n

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(Old Testament)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Genesis<\/a> – 50
\nExodus<\/a> – 40
\nLeviticus<\/a> – 27
\nNumbers – 36
\nDeuteronomy<\/a> – 34
\nJoshua<\/a> – 24
\nJudges<\/a> – 21
\nRuth – 4
\n1 Samuel<\/a> – 31
\n2 Samuel<\/a> – 24
\n1 Kings – 22
\n2 Kings – 25
\n1 Chronicles – 29
\n2 Chronicles – 36
\nEzra – 10
\nNehemiah – 13
\nEsther – 10
\nJob – 42
\nPsalms – 150
\nProverbs – 31
\nEcclesiastes – 12
\nSong of Solomon – 8
\nIsaiah – 66
\nJeremiah – 52
\nLamentations – 5
\nEzekiel – 48
\nDaniel – 12
\nHosea – 14
\nJoel – 3
\nAmos – 9
\nObadiah – 1
\nJonah – 4
\nMicah – 7
\nNahum – 3
\nHabakkuk\u00a0 – 3
\nZephaniah – 3
\nHaggai – 2
\nZechariah – 14
\nMalachi – 4<\/p>\n

(New Testament)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matthew – 28
\nMark – 16
\nLuke – 24
\nJohn – 21
\nActs – 28
\nRomans – 16
\n1 Corinthians<\/a> – 16
\n2 Corinthians – 13
\nGalatians – 6
\nEphesians – 6
\nPhilippians 4
\nColossians – 4
\n1 Thessalonians – 5
\n2 Thessalonians – 3
\n1 Timothy – 6
\n2 Timothy – 4
\nTitus – 3
\nPhilemon – 1
\nHebrews – 13
\nJames – 5
\n1 Peter – 5
\n2 Peter – 3
\n1 John – 5
\n2 John – 1
\n3 John – 1
\nJude – 1
\nRevelation – 22<\/p>\n

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Hope that’s helpful. I’ll add to this post over time with different ways of having the data visualised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73,3,225,639,606,49,453],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}