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Total
Chapters in the Bible -- 1189.
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Chapters
in the Old Testament -- 929.
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Chapters
in the New Testament -- 260.
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Longest
Chapter -- Psalms 119.
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Shortest
Chapter -- Psalms 117.
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Center
Chapter -- Psalms 118.
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Chapters
before Psalm 118 -- 594 Chapters.
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Chapters
after Psalm 118 -- 594 Chapters.
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Add
the Chapters up --1188 (594+594)+1 (Center Chapter)=1189.
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Center
Verse -- Psalms 118:8.
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Psalm
118:8 -- It is better to trust in the LORD than to
put confidence in man.
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Most
Comforting Chapters -- Psalms 23, John 14.
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Love
Chapter -- 1 Corinthians 13.
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Faith
Chapter -- Hebrews 11.
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New
Testament Formation -- Acts 2.
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Alike
Chapters -- 2 Kings 19, and Isaiah 37.
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Longest
Verse -- Esther 8:9.
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Shortest
Verse -- John 11:35.
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Most
Precious Verse -- John 3:16.
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Saddest
Verse -- Mark 15:34.
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Grandest
Verse -- Romans 8:11.
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The
Garden verse -- Num. 11:5.
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The
Metal verse -- Ezek. 22:19.
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Word "God" occurs
-- 4,370 times.
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Word "Jehovah" [Yahweh] occurs -- 6,855
times.
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Word "Lord" occurs
-- 7,736 times.
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English
Bible published first-- 1380 A.D.
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Divisions
of the Chapters made first -- 1227 A.D.
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Longest
Word -- Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isaiah 8:1).
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The
Greatest Word -- JESUS.
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Words
appears only once in the KJV Bible -- Reverend (Psalms
111:9), Eternity (Isaiah 57:15), and Grandmother (2
Timothy 1:5).
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The
Bible gives all glory and honor to the Heavenly Father. Jesus
Christ (Yashua Massiah) is hidden in the Old Testament
and revealed in the New Testament.
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The
Bible was written by the Holy Spirit through 40 men
over a period of about 1600 years dating from 1500
BC to about 100 years after Christ.
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The
Bible is the Book of Salvation and Jesus Christ is
the Only Savior under Heaven given among the human
beings.
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Scholars
estimate that the 66 books of the Bible were written
by some 50 different authors.
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The
system of chapters was introduced in A.D. 1227 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 1380.
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A
Bible in the University of Gottingen is written on
2,470 palm leaves.
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The
Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than
500 verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on money
and possessions.
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The
Bible can be read aloud in 70 hours.
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There
are 8,674 different Hebrew words in the Bible (KJV),
5,624 different Greek words, and 12,143 different English
words.
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According
to statistics from Wycliffe International, the Society
of Gideons, and the International Bible Society, the
number of new Bibles that are sold, given away, or
otherwise distributed in USA is about 168,000 per day.
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A
number of 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.
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Gabriel
and Michael are the angels mentioned by name in the
Bible.
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The
words baptize, baptized, baptizest, baptizeth, baptizing
appears in the Bible 77 times.
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The
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, named in the Bible's
Book of Revelation are Conquest, Slaughter, Famine,
and Death.
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Voltaire,
the French philosopher was an athiest, threatened that
he will see to the destruction of the Bible and its
removal from the face of the earth. What happened is
that the Bible Society bought the house where he was
born after his death and today that building is one
of the biggest sales centers of the Bible.
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The
name “Easter” derives from the Anglo-Saxon goddess
Eostre, who governed the vernal equinox.
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Salt
is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible.
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There
are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.
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Almonds
and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
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Seven
suicides are recorded in the Bible.
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The
only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is
the cat.
