Here is something I really thought was interesting that I found in “Biblical School of Evangelism” by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron:
Interesting Bible Statistics:
Number of books in the Bible: 66
Chapters: 1,189
Verses: 31,101
Words: 783,137
Letters: 3,566,480
Longest word (and name): Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaiah 8:1)
Longest verse: Esther 8:9 (78 words)
Shortest verse: John 11:35 (“Jesus wept”)
Middle books: Micah and Nahum
Middle chapter: Psalm 118
Middle verse: Psalm 188:8
Shortest book (number of words): 3 John
Shortest chapter (number of words): Psalm 117
Longest book: Psalms (150 chapters)
Longest chapter: Psalm 119 (176 verses)
Number of times the word “God” appears: 3,358
Number of times the word “Lord” appears: 7,736
Number of different authors: Approximately 40
Number of languages the Bible has been translated into: More than 1,200
Number of new Bibles distrubuted (sold or given away) in the U.S.: about 168,ooo per day!
I actually made a bookmark with this that I keep in my Bible, by typing this up in small text, and when it printed out, I cropped it into a bookmark!
Filed under: The Way of the Master Tagged: | Bible statistics, Biblical School of Evangelism, Kirk Cameron, Ray Comfort
