Most Comforting Chapters -- Psalms 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
Number of Authors -- 40
The Garden verse -- Num. 11:5
The Metal verse -- Ezek. 22:19
Word "God" occurs -- 4,370 times
Word "Jehovah" occurs -- 6,855 times
Word "Lord" occurs -- 7,736 times
Longest Word -- Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isaiah 8:1)
The Greatest Word -- JESUS
Words appears only once in the Bible --
Reverend (Psalms 111:9), Eternity (Isaiah 57:15)
and Grandmother (2 Timothy 1:5).
The Bible was written by about 40 men over a period of about 1600
years dating from 1500 BC to about 100 years after Christ.
A Bible in the University of Gottingen is written on 2,470 palm leaves.
The system of chapters was introduced in A.D. 1238 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 1388
The Bible can be read aloud in 70 hours.
There are 8,674 different Hebrew words in the Bible, 5,624 different
Greek words, and 12,143 different English words in the King James Version.
Verses in the Bible (KJV) contain all but 1 letter of the alphabet:
Ezra 7:21 contains all but the letter j;
Joshua 7:24, 1 Kings 1:9, 1 Chronicles 12:40, 2 Chronicles 36:10,
Ezekiel 28:13, Daniel 4:37, and Haggai 1:1 contain all but q;
2 Kings 16:15 and 1 Chronicles 4:10 contain all but z;
and Galatians 1:14 contains all but k.
Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
Salt is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible.
Who is the mother of Jonah? -- Widow in the Zarephath (Jewish tradition).
According the traditions, following are the names of three wise men
who visited infant Jesus and offered gifts:
MELCHOIR (means king of light) offered Gold,
GASPAR (means the white one) offered frankincense,
and BALTHAZAR (means lord of treasures) offered myrrh.
(Frankincense is a gum resin used as a base for incense.
Myrrh, also a gum resin, was valued as a perfume
and unguent used in embalming)
The two robbers crucified next to Jesus were named DISMAS and
GESTAS (according the traditions)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, named in the Bible's Book of
Revelation, are Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death.
There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.
|
