Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the three angels mentioned by name in the Bible.
Salt is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible.
Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
The Bible contains 66 books, written by 44 authors over a period of about 1500 years. The 39 books of the Old Testament were composed between 1400 and 400 B.C., the 27 books of the New Testament between A.D. 50 and 100.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, named in the Bible's Book of Revelation, are Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death.
The Seven Deadly Sins are lust, pride, anger, envy, sloth, avarice and gluttony.
There are 1189 chapters in the Bible: 929 chapters in the Old Testament and 260 chapters in the New Testament.
The Bible was divided into chapters by Stephen Langton about A.D. 1228. The Old Testament was divided into verses by R. Nathan in A.D. 1448 and the New Testament by Robert Stephanus in A.D. 1551. The entire Bible divided into chapters and verses first appeared in the Geneva Bible of 1560.
There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.
In the King James Version of the Bible...
The middle book of the Old Testament is Proverbs.
The middle book of the New Testament is 2 Thessalonians.
The entire Bible contains 1189 chapters. The Old Testament has 929 and the New Testament has 260.
The middle chapter of the Old Testament is Job 29.
The middle chapter of the New Testament is Romans 13.
The middle and shortest chapter of the Bible is Psalm 117.
The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.
There are 23,214 verses in the Old Testament and 7,959 in the New Testament.
The middle verse of the Bible is Psalm 118:8.
The middle verse of the Old Testament is 2 Chronicles 20:17.
The middle verse of the New Testament is Acts 17:17.
The shortest verse in the Old Testament is 1 Chronicles 1:25.
The shortest verse in the New Testament is John 11:35.
The longest verse in the Bible is Esther 8:9.
Ezra 7:21 contains all the letters of the alphabet except "J."
There are 592,439 words in the Old Testament and 181,253 in the New Testament.
The longest word in the Bible is Mahershalalhashbaz which is 18 letters long and can be found in Isaiah 8:1 and 8:3. It means "quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil."
According to Zephaniah 3:17, God sings.
The biblical king with the shortest reign was King Zimri who can be found in 1 Kings 16:15. He was king for 7 days.
Daniel 4:37 contains all the letters of the alphabet except "Q."
Three words that only occur once in the Bible are "eternity," "grandmother," and "gnat."
The word "hate" is used 83 times in the Bible. The word "love" is used 262.
