The times., 1889-11-08
BIBLE STATISTICS.
Interesting Facts Cleaned from the Old
and New Testaments.

After the bishops translation of
156S-15S9, nothing further in that line
was accomplished until 1609-1610,
when the Roman Catholics brought
out the Douay Bible, SO called because
it was printed at city of that name.
A year later, in 1911, the English
press issued the King James revision.
The translation of 1911 has remained
the standard up even to this day, not
withstanding the recent revision, the
merit of which rests almost wholly on
the fact that "hell" was changed to
''hades."
The Bible of today (Old TestamenD
contains 80 books, 929 chapters, %, ,214
verses, 592,439 words and 2,7S8, 100
letters.
The New Testament has q books,
27O chapters, 1867 verses, 132, 1858
words and 933, $50 letters.
In speaking of the Bible it is gener-
ally understood that we mean the two
books, the Old and the New Testa-
ment, which, taken collectively, have
66 books, 1,199 chapters, 81, 173 verses,
773, 500 words and 3, 566, 4S0 letters.
The word Lord, or its equivalent,
Jehovah, occurs 1858 times in the
Old Testament; or, to be more exact,
the word Lord occurs 1, ,S53 times, and
the word Jehovah 5,S45 times.
The Apocrypha rejected by the
Council of Nice as uninspired, but
sometimes bound with the inspired
portions) contains IA books, 1873 chap
ters, 5,0S1 verses and 1853, 1856 words.
The shortest chapter in the Bible,
and which is also the middle chapter,
is Psalm III. The middle verse is
Psalm xviii. 8.
The shortest verse in the Old Testa-
ment l Chronicles j, 25; shortest in
New Testament is John XII, 35.
The ninth verse of the eighth chap
ter OF Esther is the longest verse in
the entire work.
The word land" occurs 35, 543 times
in the Old Testament and the word
reverend" but once.
Most commentators, in fact all that
the writer has ever consulted, saw
that the word girl" is to be found
but once between the first chapter of
Genesis and the last chapter of Mali
chin the third verse of the third
chapter of Joel. This, however, is a
mistake, which can be eproven by turn.
ing to the fifth verse of the eighth
chapter of Zachariah.
-Four verses of the 107th Psalm-the
Sth, 18th, 2lst and 31st-are exactly
alike, and the seth chapter of Isaiah
and the 10Th chapter of Ii Kings are
alike.
The above curious facts in regard
to the number of chapters, verses,
words and letters in the Holy Book
were ascertained by the Prince of
Granada, heir to the Spanish throne,
who was for thirty-three years q pris-
oner in the Palace of Skulls, Madrid,
with no companion except his Bible,
which he faithfully peruSed and dis
sected for the benefit of more fortunate
humanity.
After a great deal of laborious re-
search am enabled to give the follow
ing explanations of obscure Bible
terms:
The cubit, according to Sir Isaac
Newton, was 90, CPS English inches.
A fingers breadth was / inch.
A span was s inches.
A shekel of silver was about 40 cents
of our United States money.
A shekel of.gold was $500.
The talent of gold was $13.S 800.
The talent of silver was $516.32.
The mite was about II cents.
The gerham 1 cent.
The farthing was cents.
The weights and measures of the
same good old days were:
The nepha contained z gallons and
5pints.
The homer7 gallons and pints.
The omer pints.
The bath was the same as the nepha
The hin was gallon and 3 pints. The
firxin pints and the cup 3pints.
There are nine books and one psalm
mentioned in the Bible which are now
lost to the world.
The book of Jasher, mentioned in
Joshua Y, 13, and Ii Samuel i, 1S.
The book of lido, the Seer, to which
reference is made twice in III Chron-
icles-in TX, 20 and xii, Is.
The prophesies of Ahijah. See II
Chronicles X, 90.
The book of Nathan, the Prophet.
See as above.
Book of Shemaiah, mentioned in II
Chronicles xii, Is.
Book of Jehu. See II Chronicles
Xxx, "a.
Solomon's five books on natural
history. See III Kings iv, 31-35.
The prophecy of Enoch. See
Jude, ii.
The book of the wars of the Lord.
See Numbers xxi, IA. The psalm mem
toned in several places but not found
in the Bible is the 151st.
There are many other curious facts
in regard to the Bible that would in
terest the reader, but space forbids
further reference to them here.
Enough has been said to convince any
one of an inquiring turn of mind that
the old Bible is not the dryest book in
the world after all.-John w. Wright
in st. Louis Republic.
The Sparrow's Family.