The third major division in the Old Testament is named “The Holy Writings,” and comprises The Psalms, Proverbs, Songs, and many of the “other” books of the Old Testament that in our modern versions of the Bible are placed all over the place. The Hebrew name, The Ketuvim ("writings"), are canonized by both Ezra (see note on Ezra) and Jesus himself! Jesus often quoted from Proverbs and Psalms and many of his words on the cross are direct quotations from Psalms. Jesus did leave out the “writings,” when her said that non of the Law was to be abolished until all things are finished, but his quotes from this divisions shows that He accepted Ezra's canon. Divided into four sections, The Holy Writings include: poetical books (Psalms, Proverbs, and Job), the Scrolls (Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations of Jeremiah, Ecclesiastes, and Esther), prophecy (Daniel), and history (Ezra, Nehemiah (one book), and I and II Chronicles (one book). It clearly is the last section of the Old Testament and Chronicles clearly is the last book! Here is just one example. Chronicles last verse ends with this question...... Who among you of all His people? May the LORD his God [be] with him, and let him go up? And Matthew 1:1 completes the answer: This is a record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of King David and of Abraham: Jesus is the “who” that the LORD GOD (the Father) will be with! This is volume 4 of a complete 5 volume publication of the entire Bible, in the order in which God meant it to be read. In our first volume, The Law or 'Torah' in Hebrew, the order of the Bible has been left the same in all modern Bibles. It is in volume 2 and 3 ('The Prophets' and 'Psalms or Writings') where we see a drastic changing in the order and number of the scriptures. We know that Jesus Himself knew of the proper order when he stated, “Then He said to them, ‘These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me’” (Luke 24:44). Jesus clearly knew that God's word, which we call The Old testament had three sections, or parts. When Jesus referred to the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms, He was speaking of the entire Old Testament, as we know it today, but in a different order than we have today. The Law, as in other places, referred to the five books of the law written by Moses. The prophets, however, were not the same as found in our Bibles today. They included Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel (but not Daniel, and today not even Jeremiah) and all of the twelve minor prophets. But they also included Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, and 1 and 2 Kings. This would place 21 books of the Old Testament in the Prophets according to our modern reckoning, but not counted as 22 Why some of the books of history were included and others were not and why Daniel was excluded is not fully understood and I am not ready to go into the complications of these questions here.