Some Interesting Facts Concerning the Bible

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 16, 1909

Some Interesting Facts Concerning the Bible

It is said that the learned Prince of Granada, heir to the Spanish throne, was imprisoned by order of the crown and kept in solitary confinement in the old prison in the Palace of Skulls, Madrid, for fear he would aspire to the throne. After thirty-three years in this living tomb, death came to his release, and the following researches taken from the Bible, and marked with an old nail on the rough walls of his cell, tell how the ‘brain sought employment through the weary years:—

“In the Bible the word ‘Lord’ is found 1,853 times; the word ‘Jehovah’ 6,855 times; and the word ‘reverend’ but once, and that in the ninth verse of the one hundred eleventh psalm. The eighth verse of the one hundred seventeenth psalm is the middle verse of the Bible. The ninth verse of the seventh chapter of Esther is the longest verse; thirty-fifth verse, eleventh chapter of St. John, is the shortest verse. In the one hundred seventh psalm four verses are alike—the eighth, fifteenth, twenty-first, and the thirty-first. Each verse of the one hundred thirty-sixth psalm ends alike. No names or words with more than six syllables are found in the Bible. The thirty-seventh chapter of Isaiah and the nineteenth chapter of 2 Kings are alike. The word ‘girl’ occurs but once in the Bible, and that in the third verse and third chapter of Joel. There are found in both books of the Bible, 3,586,483 letters, 773,693 words, 31,373 verses, 1,189 chapters, and 66 books. The twenty-sixth chapter of Acts is the finest chapter to read. Psalm twenty-three is the most beautiful chapter in the Bible. The four most inspiring promises are John 14:2; John 6:37; Matt. 11:28; Ps. 37:4. The first verse of the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah is the one for the new convert. All who flatter themselves with vain boasting of their perfection should learn the sixth chapter of Matthew. All humanity should learn the sixth chapter of Luke, from the twentieth verse to its ending.”—New York Indicator.