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Show Some Facts About the Bible Number of Letters and Words in the Holy Book Counted By Unfortunate Confined in Spanish Prison The Word ''Reverend" Occurs But Once in the Pages. It is well known that the. number of letters, words, verses, etc., contained con-tained in the Bible have been counted, but by whom when or where, is not generally known. Treat's publication, publica-tion, entitled "Curiosities of the Bible," speaks of the occurrence as being of Spanish origin,' and that the Prince of Granada, fearing usurpation, caused the arrest of the supposed would-be usurper, and by order of the Spanish crown he was thrown into an old prison pris-on called the place of skulls, situated in Madrid, where he was confined for thirty-three years, with no other companion com-panion than the rats, mice and other vermin that frequented his dismal cell. During his confinement he counted the letters, etc., contained in the Bible, ad scratched the several numbers on the stone walls with a nail. When his work was discovered he was furnished fur-nished with writing utensils and or-dered or-dered to make a copy of the results of his long and tedious task, and, on its being completed, he finally received re-ceived his liberty. The following is a correct copy of his great work: The Bible contains 3,566,480 letters, let-ters, 773,746 words, 31,173 verses, 1,-195 1,-195 chapters and 66 books. The word "and" occurs 10,684 times, the word "Lord" 1,853 times, the word' "Jehovah" 6,855 times, and the word "reverend" but once, which is in the ninth verse of the One Hundred and Eleventh psalm. The middle verse is the eighth verse of the One Hundred and Eighteenth psalm. The twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of Ezra contains all the letters of the alphabet with the exception of the letter J. x The finest chapter to read is tha twenty-sixth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. The most beautiful chapter is the Twenty-third psalm. The nineteenth nine-teenth chapter of II. Kings and the thirty-seventh chapter of Isaiah are alike. The four most inspiring promises are to be found in the sixth chapter of St. John, thirty-seventh verse, and fourteenth chapter, second verse; also eleventh chapter of St. Matthew, twenty-eighth verse, . and the Thirty-Seventh psalm, fourth verse. The longest verse is the ninth verse, eighth chapter of Esther. The shortest short-est verse is the thirty-fifth verse, eleventh chapter of St. John. There are ten chapters in the book of Esther in which the words "Lord" and "God" do not occur. The eighth, fifteenth, twenty-first and thirty-first verses of the One Hundred and Seventh Sev-enth psalm are alike. Each verse of the One Hundred and Thirty-Sixth psalm end alike. The One Hundred and Seventeenth Sev-enteenth psalm contains but two verses, the One Hundred and Nineteenth Nine-teenth psalm contains 176 verses. There are no words or names of more than six syllables. It has also been discovered by some person unknown that in Joel, third chapter, third verse, the word "girl" occurs, and in the eighth chapter of Zachariah, fifth verse, the word "girl's" is mentioned for the only time in the whole book. The eighth chapter of Esther, ninth verse, contains fifty-two ts. The word. "snow" appears twenty-four times in the Old Testament and three times in the New. Boston Herald. |
