The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24
Bible Facts. .
Not Commonly Known.


Micah is the middle book of the Bible.
The shortest verse in the Bible is John
11:35.
Psalms III is the middle chapter of the
Bible.
The longest verse in the Bible is Es-
Their SO.
Psalms III is the shortest chapter of
the Bible.
The shortest book in the whole Bible Is
HI John.
Proverbs is the middle book of the Old
Testament
Job % is the middle chapter of the Old
Testament
The Bible contains 1,lss chapters and
81, l73 verses.
The shortest verse in the New Tesla
ment is John 1875.
Psalms 1888.
The original language of the New Tes-
lament is Greek.
Acts 17:17 is the middle verse of the
New Tes lament.
The shortest book in the Old Tesla
ment is Obadiah
The middle book of the New Testament
is II. Tessalonians.
Romans IA is the middle chapter of
the New Testament
The middle verse of the Old Testament
is II. Chronicles 2017.
Ezra 7:21 contain all the letters of the
alphabet except and q.
The shortest verse in the Old Testa-
ment is l. Chronicles IL.
The Savior is supposed to have spoken
the Aramark dialect of the Hebrew Ian
guage.
The word Testament, as applied to the
two grand divisions of the Bible means
covenant.
The word Bible is not scriptural. It
comes from the Greek ia biblia, mean
ing the Books.
Genesis covers 1883 years of time, or
1853 years more than all of the other sixty
five books combined.
c. F. Gunthers Chicago collection has
a Bible once belonging to Martha Wash
ington, which cost $4,000.
There are five books in the Bible hay
ing one chapter each: Obadiah, Philemon
II. John, III John and Jude.
The Old Testament was written in He
brew, except portions of Ezra and Dan
lei, which we: e written in Chaldee.
Before the days of printing it took a
monlIish expert over year to write out
on, vellum a copy of the Bible.
The first Bible printed in America was
the Indian translation by John Eliot IN
1863. Copies are worth from $1,000 to
$3.50.
Isaiah 81 and II. Kings 10 are chapters
just alike, and so are the closing verses
of II. Chronicles and the opening verses
of Ezra.
The first printed book was a Latin BIZ
BILE in 1850, by John Buttenberg, of Mainz
\ few copies are extant, and are worth
$25 600 each.
TO read the Bible at the rate of 100
words a minute 1t would take two weeks
and two hours, reading it at the rate of
nine hours day.
Cardinal Hugo divided the Bible into
chapters in the thirteenth century, and
Athias divided it into verses in the sew
enteenth century.
ne CWeHtN-SeVen DOCKS of the New
Testament are divided into three d.
visions, viz. Historical o., doctrinal
CID, prophetical o..
Of the forty authors of the Bible.
thirty eight are known to be Jews: Job
nationality is not known, while Luke
was a Roman proselyte.
Four forms of government prevailed
during the Old Testament periods, viz:
PatlafchaI moderate theocracy, strict
theocracy and monarchy.
The Bible contains sixty-six different
books, written by forty different men,
VINO represented fourteen different call
ings, and lived in thirteen different coun-
tries, during 500 years.
The Old Tes lament is divided into tillr-
ty-nlne books, and these represent four
grand divisions: The Pentateuch a., 'he
historical books 10. the poetical books
80, and the prophetical books QD.