The Bible consists of two Testaments New and Old Testament. The entire Bible was inspired by the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is the centerpiece of the entire Bible.
Bible Facts
- There are 66 books in the Bible
- Old Testament books - 39
- New Testament books -27
- No of chapters in Bible - 1189 (Old Testament - 929, New Testament - 260)
- No of verses in Bible - 31, 173 (Old Testament - 23,214, New Testament - 7,959)
- No of words - 783,137 (may vary with versions)
- Number of Promises given in the Bible - 1,260
- No of commands given in the Bible - 6,468
- Number of questions - 3,294
- Number of prophecies in the - 1,817 (Old Testament - 1,239, New Testament - 578)
- No of predictive verses - over 8,000
- Written in 3 languages - Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic
- The Bible was roughly written over a period of 1500 years by more than 40 men from different walks of life and different professions - fishermen, God's prophets, Kings, Doctors, poets, scholars, officials
- Written in different times - war, peace, poverty, prosperity, freedom, and slavery
- Written in different moods - from heights of joy to depths of despair
- Written on 3 continents - Asia, Europe, and Africa
- Written from different locations - wilderness, dungeon, palace, prison, in exile, at home
Bible Trivia
- Middle chapter - Psalms 118
- Middle Verse - Psalms 118:8
- Longest Chapter - Psalms 119 (176 verses)
- Longest Book - Psalms (OT), Luke (NT)
- Smallest Book - Obadiah (OT), 3 John (NT)
- Chapters most alike - 2 Kings 19 and Isaiah 37
- Who divided the Bible into Chapters - Stephen Langton in 1228
- Who divided the Bible into Verses
- Old Testament - R Nathan (1448)
- New Testament - Robert Stephanus (1551)
- Shortest Verse - " Jesus Wept" (John 11:35)
- Longest Verse - Esther 8:9 (78 words in KJV)
- Longest word in the Bible - MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ (18 Letters - Is 8:1, Name of Isaiah's son)
- It takes close to 70 hours to read the entire Bible aloud.
- Just 10 commandment - none failed to keep them all (except Jesus)
Can you Believe it?
- Bible is the best selling books of all Time
- There is no mention of the word "TRINITY" in the Bible
- ETERNITY - occurs only once in the Bible (Is 57:15) - English Translation
- Bible is available in more than 2500 languages
- China is the word's largest supplier of Bible
- Bibliomancy is the practice by someone who opens the Bible at random to be guided by the verse they see first.
- An African emperor would eat few pages of the Bible when he felt unwell
- The Bible does not give any physical description of Jesus Christ
- The bible does not give any count of the wise men - just 3 gifts
- God is never mentioned in the book of Esther
- Only 2% of the Christians are believed to have read the whole Bible
- Two men in the Bible never dies - Enoch and Elijah
- The most popular word - LORD (close to 8000 times)
Bible Classification
The Bible books can be classified into the following major headings (source www.thisisyourbible.com).
- Pentateuch
- History
- Poetry & Wisdom
- Major & Minor Prophets (size of the book)
- Gospels
- Paul's Letters
- General Letter
- Prophecy
References
http://www.factslides.com/s-Bible
https://in.pinterest.com/explore/bible-facts/
The Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy” by J. Barton Payne