THE HOLY WRITINGS
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.
Ketuvim (Hebrew: כְּתוּבִים, "writings") is the third and final section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), after Torah (teachings) and Nevi'im (prophets). In the Jewish textual tradition, Chronicles is counted
as one book. Ezra and Nehemiah are also counted together as a single book called "Ezra". (In citations by chapter and verse numbers, however, the Hebrew equivalents of "Nehemiah", "I Chronicles" and "II Chronicles" are used, as the system of chapter division was imported from Christian usage.) Thus, there is a total of eleven books in this third division of the Old Testament.
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 (Father) will be with!
