A TREE OF BIBLICAL KNOWLEDGE.
THE Bible contains 3,566,480 letters, 810,697 words, 31,175 verses, 1,189 chapters, and 66 books; longest chapter is the 119th psalm; the shortest and middle chapter is the 117th psalm; the middle verse is the 8th of the 118th psalm. The longest name is in the 8th chapter of Isaiah. The word “and” occurs 46,627 times. The 37th chapter of Isaiah and the 19th chapter of the 2d book of Kings are alike. The longest verse is the 9th of the 8th chapter of Esther; the shortest, the 35th of the 11th chapter of John. The 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra is the only one of the entire collection which contains every letter in the alphabet. The word “Lord,” or its equivalent, “Jehovah,” occurs 7,698 times in the Old Testament; or, to be more exact, the word “Lord” occurs 1,853 times, and the word “Jehovah” 5,845 times. The word “God” does not occur in the book of Esther, BUT THERE IS WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, HOLINESS, AND LOVE IN EVERY CHAPTER OF THE ENTIRE WORK. —Detroit Free Press.