Exodus  - Israel's flight from Egypt relates.
Numbers  - the Israelites' numbers, also their flaws.
Deuteronomy  - the last words of Moses scan.
Joshua  - the grand taking of the promised land.
Ruth  - heralds David's Moabite ancestor, brave.
II Samuel  - David's and Solomon's Kingdom.
II Kings  - narrates how both to captivity fell.
II Chronicles  - Judah's till captivity came.
Nehemiah  - likewise for Jerusalem's walls.
Esther  - a Jewish Queen in Persia, saves the Jews.
Job  - needs all his righteousness to withstand bad news.
Psalms  - hymns and pray'rs to God, provide inspiration.
Proverbs  - gives words of pure wisdom from Solomon.
Song Of Solomon  - love songs, future man and wife.
Ezekiel  - visions give hope to captive few.
Hosea  - whore-wife mirrors Judah's deception.
Amos  - shepherd-prophet, rebukes Israel's ways.
Jonah  - runs from call; gets whale of a reception.
Nahum  - foretells God's wrath/judgement on Nineveh.
Zephaniah  - warns Judah of judgement, gives praise.
Zechariah  - says Jerusalem will be saved.
These the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament.