The Bible as a whole:
1. Number of books – 66
2. Chapters -- 1189
3. Verses – 31102
4. Words -- 783134
5. Letters – 3566480
6. Promises –1260
7. Commands – 6468
8. Predictions – over 8000
9. 3268 verses of fulfilled prophecy.
10. 3140 verses of unfulfilled prophecy.
11. Questions – 3296
12. Longest name – 18 letters (Isaiah 8:11)
13. Longest verse – (Esther 8:9)
14. Shortest verse – John 11:35
15. Middle books – Micah and Nahum
16. Middle verse – Psalm 118:8
17. Middle and shortest chapter – Psalm 117
18. Largest book – Psalms
19. Smallest book – 3 John (counting words)
20. Longest chapter – Psalm 119
21. Word God occurs 3358 times
22. Lord occurs 7736 times.
23. Authors – 40.
24. Languages translated in over 1100.
25. First chapter divisions made in A.D. 1227
26. First complete English Bible – A.D. 1380
The Old Testament:
1. Number of books – 39.
2. Chapters – 929.
3. Verses – 23145
4. Words – 602583
5. Letters – 278100
6. Middle book – Proverbs.
7. Middle chapter –Job 29.
8. Middle verse – 2 Chronicles 20:17, 18.
9. Smallest book – Obadiah.
10. Shortest verse – 1 Chronicles 1:25.
11. Longest verse – Esther 8:9.
12. Longest chapter – Psalm 119.
13. Largest book – Psalms.
14. Passages which are alike or near so – 2 King 19 and Isaiah 37; Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7; 2 Chronicles 36:22-23 and Ezra 1:1-3a; Psalms 14 and 53; Psalms 60:6-12 and 108:7-13.
Nahum 7 has 12 repeats; Psalm 107 has 4 repeats and Psalm 136 has 26 repeats.
Other interesting facts about the Bible:
1. 5 books have only one chapter: Obadiah, Philemon, 2nd John, 3rd John and Jude.
2. Esther and Song of Solomon have no name of God in the English text.
3. Haggai has only 2 chapters.
4. 7 books have but 3 chapters: Joel, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, 2 Thessalonians, Titus and 2 Peter.
5. 6 books have only 4 chapters: Ruth, Jonah, Malachi, Colossians, Philippians and 2 Timothy.
6. 5 books have only 5 chapters: Lamentations, 1 Thessalonians, James, 1 Peter and 1 John.
7. Only 10 books have over 1000 verses: Genesis (1533) Exodus (1213) Numbers (1288) Job (1070) Psalms (2461) Isaiah (1292) Jeremiah (1273) Matthew (1071) Luke (1151) and Acts (1007)
8. A Bible in the Library of the University of Gottingen is written on 2470 palm leaves.
9. The Word Lord in the O.T. stands for Jehovah in the majority of places.
10. The statements of 4 verses in Numbers 7 are repeated 12 times in the chapter.
11. Number 33 has 42 verses having the first two words like.
12. Number 11:5 is the garden verse of Scripture.
13. 12 verses in Dt. 27 begin with Word cursed and end with Amen.
14. Ex. 26 has 20 verses having the first three Words alike.
15. 13 verses in 1 Ch. 20 end alike.
16. 23 verses in 1 Ch. 25 end alike.
17. 21 verses in Neh. 10 have only 3 Words in them.
18. 4 verses in Pr. 30 begin alike.
19. Ps. 119 have 22 sections with 8 verses each.
20. Jer. 51 has one expression in it used 9 times – I will break in pieces.
21. In 3 of the 5 chapters of Lamentations the verses are nearly the same length.
22. 17 verses in Proverbs begin with My Son.
23. 4 verses in Jer. 4 begin with the phrase I be held.
24. Ez. 22:20 may be called the metal verse of Scripture.
25. The only verse in Scripture that has boy and girl in is Joel 3:3
26. 9 verses in Mt. 5 begin with Blessed are.
27. 15 verses of Luke. 3 begin with which was.
28. Of the 5 chapters in Lamentations 4 have 22 verses each.
29. The longest verse of Scripture (Esther 8:9) containing 90 words and 426 letters.
30. There are no words in Scripture more than 6 syllables.
31. A number of verses Scripture contain all the letters of alphabet except one. Ezra 7:21 contains all but ‘j’
Josh 7:24, 1Ki. 1:9, 1Chr. 12:40, 2Chr. 36:10, Ez. 28:13, Dan. 4:37 and Hag. 1:1 contain all but ‘q’.
2ki. 16:15 and 1Ch. 4:10 contain all but ‘z’.
Gal. 1:14 contains all but ‘k’.
32. There are 8674 Hebrew Words, 5624 Greek Words, and 12143 different English Words in the Bible.
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