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Bible Dictionaries
Interesting Facts About the Bible
People's Dictionary of the Bible
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| OLD TESTAMENT. | NEW TESTAMENT. | IN WHOLE BIBLE. |
| Number of books in | |||
| Number of chapters in | 929 | 260 | 1,189 |
| Number of verses in | 23,214 | 7,959 | 31,173 |
| Number of words in | 592,439 | 181,253 | 773,692 |
| Number of letters in | 2,728,100 | 838,380 | 3,566,480 |
| Middle book in | Proverbs. | 2 Thess. | Micah and Nahum |
| Middle chapter of | Job 29:1-25. | Romans 13:1-14; Romans 14:1-23. | Psalms 117:1-2. |
| Middle verse of | 2 Chronicles 20:17. | Acts 17:17. | Psalms 118:8. |
| Shortest book in | Obadiah. | 3 John. | 3 John. |
| Shortest verse in | 1 Chronicles 1:1. | John 11:35. | John 11:35. |
Ezra 7:21 has all the letters of the alphabet except j.
Isaiah 37:1-38 and 2 Kings 19:1-37 are alike; so are the last verses of 2 Chron. and the opening verses of Ezra.
The word Jehovah occurs 6853 times in the Bible; the word and 35,543 times in the Old Testament, and 6853 times in the New Testament The shortest chapter in the Bible is Psalms 117:1-2.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Interesting Facts About the Bible'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/i/interesting-facts-about-the-bible.html. 1893.
