Bible Trivia
The following information is used with the permission of Bruce Barton. This information is found in Brother Barton’s ‘Scripture Kit’.
• The Bible contains:
. ° 66 books (39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament)
. ° 1,189 chapters (929 in the Old Testament and 260 in the New Testament)
. ° 31,175 verses (23,216 in the Old Testament and 7,959 in the New Testament)
. ° 773,692 words (592,439 in the Old Testament and 181,253 in the New Testament)
. ° 3,567,180 letters (2,728,800 in the Old Testament and 838,380 in the New Testament)
• The middle verse is Psalms 188:8
• The longest verse is Esther 8:9
• The shortest verse is John 11:35
• The longest chapter is Psalm 119
• The shortest (and middle) chapter is Psalm 117
• The longest Biblical name is found in Isaiah 8:1 — Mahershalalhashbaz
• The word ‘and’ occurs 46,227 times (35,543 times in the Old Testament and 10,684 times in the New Testament)
• The word ‘Lord’ occurs approximately 8,000 times
• Isaiah 37 and 2 Kings 19 are very similar
• Ezra 7:21 contains all the letters of the alphabet except ‘j’
• The name of God is not mentioned in the book of Esther
• Concerning the Old Testament:
. ° The middle book is Proverbs
. ° The middle chapter is Job 29
. ° The middle verses are 2 Chronicles 20:17-18
. ° The shortest verse is 1 Chronicles 1:25
• Concerning the New Testament:
. ° The middle book is 2 Thessalonians
. ° The middle chapters are Romans 13 and 14
. ° The middle verse is Acts 17:17
. ° The shortest verse is John 11:35
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