Old Testament Infographics

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Each card below contains a symbol representing the book, the title, the theme, the category, and a significant passage.

Genesis

Beginnings & Patriarchs

PENTATEUCH

Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Exodus

Deliverance & Covenant

PENTATEUCH

God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

Leviticus

Laws & Holiness

PENTATEUCH

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Numbers

Wandering in the Wilderness

PENTATEUCH

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

Deuteronomy

Covenant Renewal

PENTATEUCH

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants.

Joshua

The Promised Land

HISTORY

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.

Judges

Cycles of Apostasy

HISTORY

In those days Israel had no king, and everyone did what was right in their own eyes.

Ruth

Redemption

HISTORY

Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.

1 Samuel

Samuel & Saul

HISTORY

But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, “Set a king over us.”

2 Samuel

David Reigns

HISTORY

Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.

1 Kings

Solomon & Division

HISTORY

Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?

2 Kings

HISTORY

But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.

1 Chronicles

Genealogies & David’s Reign

HISTORY

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.

2 Chronicles

Judah’s History & Temple

HISTORY

For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.

Ezra

Restoration

HISTORY

For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

Nehemiah

Reconstruction

HISTORY

Let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father’s house have sinned.

Esther

Preservation

HISTORY

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Job

Suffering & Sovereignty

WISDOM

And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”

Psalms

Worship & Poetry

WISDOM

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!

Proverbs

Practical Wisdom

WISDOM

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Ecclesiastes

Everything is Vanity

WISDOM

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Song of Songs

Love & Allegory

WISDOM

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.

Isaiah

Salvation & Messiah

MAJOR PROPHETS

But they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Jeremiah

Judah’s Decline & Exile

MAJOR PROPHETS

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Lamentations

God’s People Conquered

MAJOR PROPHETS

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end.

Ezekiel

Prophetic Visions

MAJOR PROPHETS

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Daniel

Sovereignty of God

MAJOR PROPHETS

Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.”

Hosea

Love & Unfaithfulness

MINOR PROPHETS

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Joel

Day of the Lord

MINOR PROPHETS

Rend your hearts and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Amos

Judgment is Coming

MINOR PROPHETS

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

Obadiah

Judgment on Edom

MINOR PROPHETS

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.

Jonah

Mercy for All People

MINOR PROPHETS

Salvation belongs to the LORD!

Micah

Divine Justice

MINOR PROPHETS

He has told you, O man, what is good and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Nahum

Assyria will Fall

MINOR PROPHETS

The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.

Habakkuk

Faith in Crisis

MINOR PROPHETS

O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

Zephaniah

Judah will be Judged

MINOR PROPHETS

The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Haggai

Rebuilding the Temple

MINOR PROPHETS

The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah

Restoration & Messiah

MINOR PROPHETS

Therefore say to them, “Thus declares the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.

Malachi

God’s Love & Judgment

MINOR PROPHETS

For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.