Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1883 — Facts About the Bible. [ARTICLE]

Facts About the Bible.

A prisoner condemmed to solitary con finement obtained a copy of the Bible, and by three years, careful study, obtained the following facts: The Bible contains 3,389,489 letters, 778,892 words, 81,171 verses, 1,189 chapters, and 86 books. The word and occurs 46,277 times. The word Lord occurs 1,855 times. The word Rev., occurs but once, which is in the Sth verse of the 111th Psalm. The middle verse is the Bth verse of the 118th Psalm. The 21t verse of the 7th chapter of Bzra contains all the letters in the alphabet except the letter J. The finest chapter to read is the 26th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. The 19th chapter of IL Kings and the 87th chapter of Isaiah are alike. The longest verse is the 9th verse of the Bth chapter of Esther. The shortest verse is the 85th verse of the llth chapter of St. John. The Bth, 25th, 21sh, verses of the 107th Psalm end alike. Each verse of the 186th Psalm end alike. There are no words or names of more than six syllables.