Amazing Bible Facts
The Bible was written by about forty men over a period of about sixteen hundred years dating from 1500 BC to about 100 years after Christ. These men wrote this Scripture as they were given inspiration by God. (2 Timothy 3:16)
The first translation of the English Bible was initiated by John Wycliffe and completed by John Purvey in 1388.
The Bible has since been translated in part or in whole into over one thousand languages and dialects.
The Bible was divided into chapters by Stephen Langton in 1228. The Old Testament was divided into verses by R. Nathan in 1488 and the New Testament by Robert Stephanus in 1551.
The entire Bible divided into chapters and verses first appeared in the Geneva Bible of 1560.
Today The Bible is the biggest seller of all books published.
Books of the Bible – 66, The Old Testament – 39, The New Testament – 27, Middle Book of Old Testament – Proverbs, Middle Book of New Testament – 2 Thessalonians, Longest Book of Old Testament – Psalms, Longest Book of New Testament – Luke
Entire Bible – 1189 chapters, Old Testament – 929 chapters, New Testament – 260 chapters, Middle chapter of Old Testament – Job 29, Middle chapter of New Testament – Romans 13, Middle & shortest chapter of The Bible – Psalm 117, Longest chapter in The Bible – Psalm 119, Chapters which are similar – 2 Kings 19 & Isaiah 37
Between chapters 6 and 7 of Ezra, both Confucius and Buddha died (516-458 B.C.)
Entire Bible – 31,173 verses, Old Testament – 23,214 verses, New Testament – 7,959 verses, Middle verse of The Bible – Psalm 118:8, Middle verse of Old Testament – 2 Chronicles 20:17, Middle verse of New Testament – Acts 17:17, Shortest verse in The Bible – John 11:35, Longest verse in The Bible – Esther 8:9, Verses which are similar – Psalm 107:8, 15, 21 & 31
Verse containing all the letters of the alphabet except ‘J’ – Ezra 7:21, Verse containing all the letters of the alphabet except ‘Q’ – Daniel 4:37, In the whole Bible – 773,692 words, In the Old Testament – 592,439 words, In the New Testament – 181,253 words
The longest word in the Bible is “Mahershalalhashbaz” (18 letters) which is found in Isaiah 8:1.
Several of the words occurring only once in the Bible: Eternity – Isaiah 57:15, Reverend – Psalm 111:9, Grandmother – 2 Timothy 1:5, Gnat – Matthew 23:24
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