Interesting and Unusual facts about the Bible-2

Words

In the whole Bible	. . . .	c. 773,692 words
In the Old Testament	. . . .	c. 592,439 words
In the New Testament	. . . .	c. 181,253 words

The longest word in the Bible is "Mahershalalhashbaz"
(18 letters) which is found in Isaiah 8:1.

Several of the words occurring only once in the Bible:

Eternity	. . . .	Isaiah 57:15
Reverend	. . . .	Psalm 111:9
Grandmother	. . . .	2 Timothy 1:5
Gnat	. . . .	Matthew 23:24

Unusual Things in the Bible

Man who lived to be 969 years old	. . . .	Genesis 5:27
Sons of God married the daughters of men	. . . .	Genesis 6:2
Man who used a stone for a pillow	. . . .	Genesis 28:11
Baby had a scarlet thread tied around its hand before birth	. . . .	Genesis 38:28-29
Battle won because manstretched out his hand	. . . .	Exodus17:11
Man who was spoken to by an ass	. . . .	Numbers 22:28-29
Giant who had a bed 13ft. 6 in. long by 6ft. wide	. . . .	Deuteronomy 3:11
The women who had to shave their heads before marriage	. . . .	Deuteronomy 21:11-13
Women forbidden to wear men's clothing	. . . .	Deuteronomy 22:5
Sun and moon stood still for a whole day	. . . .	Joshua 10:13
A woman killed a man by driving a nail through his head	. . . .	Judges 4:17-21
Men lapped water like dogs	. . . .	Judges 7:5
An army with seven hundred left-handed men	. . . .	Judges 20:16
Man whose hair weighed about 6.5lbs. at his annual haircut	. . . .	2 Samuel 14:26
Where a ferry boat was used	. . . .	2 Samuel 19:18
Man who had twelve fingers and twelve toes	. . . .	2 Samuel 21:20
Man who had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines	. . . .	1 Kings 11:1-3
The soaking wet sacrifice that burnt supernaturally	. . . .	1 Kings 18:17-40
Man who outran a chariot	. . . .	1 Kings 18:41-46
The axe head that floated in the river	. . . .	2 Kings 6:1-6
Woman who boiled and ate her son	. . . .	2 Kings 6:29
Man killed in his chariot	. . . .	2 Kings 9:24
Woman whose body was eaten by dogs	. . . .	2 Kings 9:30-36
Father who had eighty-eight children	. . . .	2 Chronicles 11:21
The sun travelled backwards	. . . .	Isaiah 38:8
Man who walked naked for three years	. . . .	Isaiah 20:2-3
Army of 185,000 destroyed in one night	. . . .	Isaiah 37:36
Man whose life was increased by fifteen years because he prayed	. . . .	Isaiah 38:1-5
The Bible that was cut with a penknife	. . . .	Jeremiah 36:20-23
Valley full of dry bones prophesied to be resurrected	. . . .	Ezekiel 37:1-14
A Harlot an ancestor of Christ	. . . .	Matthew 1:5
Man ate locusts for food	. . . .	Matthew 3:4

Source: by Robert Gunn

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