Interesting facts about the Bible
/╬ Total chapters in the Bible — 1189
╬ Chapters in the Old Testament — 929
╬ Chapters in the New Testament — 260
╬ Longest chapter — Psalms 119
╬ Shortest chapter — Psalm 117
╬ Center chapter — Psalm 118
╬ Chapters before Psalm 118 — 594
╬ Chapters after Psalm 118 — 594
╬ Adding the chapters up: a total of 1188 (594+594) + 1 (the center chapter, Ps. 118) = 1189
╬ Center verse — Psalm 118:8
╬ Psalm 118:8 — It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man
╬ Most comforting chapters — Psalm 23, John 14
╬ Love chapter — 1 Corinthians 13
╬ Faith chapter — Hebrews 11
╬ New Testament Formation — Acts 2
╬ Alike chapters — 2 Kings 19 and Isaiah 37
╬ Longest verse — Esther 8:9
╬ Shortest verse — John 11:35
╬ Most Precious verse — John 3:16
╬ Saddest verse — Mark 15:34
╬ Grandest verse — Romans 8:11
╬ The garden verse — Num 11:5
╬ The metal verse — Ezek 22:19
╬ Word ‘God’ occurs — 4,370 times
╬ Word ‘Jehovah’ [Yahweh] occurs — 6,855 times
╬ Word ‘Lord’ occurs — 7,736 times
╬ Longest word — Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isaiah 8:1)
╬ The greatest Word — JESUS
╬ The Bible gives all glory and honor to the Heavenly Father. Jesus Christ (Yeshua, Messiah) is hidden in the Old Testament and revealed in the New Testament.
╬ The 66 books of the Bible were written by the Holy Spirit through some 50 different authors over a period of about 1,600 years (1,500 BC to about 100 years AD).
╬ The system of chapters was introduced in AD 1227 by Cardinal Hugo de S Caro, while the verse notations were added in 1551 by Robertus Stephanus, after the advent of printing.
╬ The first translation of the English Bible was initiated by John Wycliffe and completed by John Purvey in 1380.
╬ A Bible in the University of Gottingen is written on 2,470 palm leaves.
╬ The Bible devotes some 500 verses to prayer, less than 500 to faith, but over 2,000 deal with money and possessions.
╬ The Bible can be read aloud in 70 hours.
╬ There are 8,674 different Hebrew words in most versions of the Bible, 5,624 different Greek words, and 12,143 different English words
╬ According to statistics from Wycliffe International, the International Bible Society and Gideons International, the number of new Bibles sold, given away, or otherwise distributed in the USA alone is approximately 168,000 each day.
╬ Gabriel and Michael are the only angels mentioned by name in the Bible.
╬ The word ‘baptize’ and variations of it appear 77 times in the Bible.
╬ The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Book of Revelation are considered to represent Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death.
╬ There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.
╬ Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
╬ Salt is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible
╬ Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
╬ Voltaire, French philosopher and atheist, was convinced he would live to see the destruction of the Bible and its removal from the face of the earth. Instead, after his death, the Bible Society bought the house in which he was born and it remains one of the biggest sales centers of the Bible.
