Number of books in the Bible: 66
Chapters: 1,189
Verses: 31,101
Words: 783,137
Letters: 3,566,480
Longest name (and word): Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaiah 8:1)
Longest verse: Esther 8:9 (78 words)
Shortest verse: John 11:35 (2 words: "Jesus wept")
Middle books: Micah and Nahum
Middle verse: Psalm 118:8
Middle chapter: Psalm 117
Shortest chapter (by number of words): Psalm 117
Longest book: Psalms (150 chapters)
Shortest book (by number of words): 3 John
Longest chapter: Psalm 119 (176 verses)
Number of times the word "God" appears: 3,358
Number of times the word "Lord" appears: 7,736
Number of different authors: 40 to 43 (We aren't sure who wrote some books, such as Hebrews, Jonah and Samuel)
Number of languages the Bible has been translated into: more than 1,200

>The number of new Bibles sold, given away, or otherwise distributed in the United States is about 168,000 per day.

>The Bible's system of chapters was introduced in 1238 by Cardinal Hugo de S. Caro. The verse notations were added in 1551 by Robertus Stephanus, just after the printing press was invented.

>A Bible at the University of Gottingen in Germany is written on 2,470 palm leaves.

>The longest intercontinental telegram ever sent was the text of the New International Version of the Bible, sent from Geneva, where it was translated, to New York for printing.

>The Bible can be read aloud in about 70 hours.

>There are 8,674 different Hebrew words in the Bible, 5,624 different Greek words, and 12,143 different English words in the King James Version.

>A number of verses in the King James Version of the Bible contain all but one letter of the alphabet: Ezra 7:21 contains all but the letter j; Joshua 7:24, 1 Kings 1:9, 1 Chronicles 12:40, 2 Chronicles 36:10, Ezekiel 28:13, Daniel 4:37, and Haggai 1:1 contain all but q; 2 Kings 16:15 and 1 Chronicles 4:10 contain all but z; and Galations 1:14 contains all but k.

Psalm 118
Did you know?

Psalm 118 is the middle chapter of the entire Bible.
Before Psalm 118, Psalm 117 is the shortest chapter in the Bible.
After Psalm 118, Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible.
There are 594 chapters before and after Psalm 118.
If you add up all the chapters except Psalm 118 you get a total of 1188 chapters.
1188 or Psalms 118:8 also happens to be the middle verse of the entire Bible.
The central verse should have a fairly important message, don't you think?

"It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man."

OOPS!
In 1631, King Charles 1 ordered 1,000 Bibles from an English printer named Robert Baker. Only after the Bilbes were delivered did anyone notice a serious mistake: The word "no" had been left out of the Seventh Commandment! (Exodus 20:14)

Charles was not amused by the "Wicked Bible," as the infamous printing mistake was called. He ordered the Bibles recalled and destroyed, took away Barker's license to print Bibles and fined him 300 pounds--a hefty chunk of change in those days. And Barker was out of business.

OOPS! The Sequel
The unlucky printer of the "Fool Bible," another printing mistake, fared even worse: He was fined 3,000 pounds for accidently printing, "The fool hath said in his heart there is a God" (Psalm 14:1).

OOPS! The Series
Other notorious Bible printing mistakes include:
>The "Judas Bible," first printed in 1608, which had Judas instead of Jesus in John 6:67.
>The "Sin On" Bible, published in 1716, which printed John 8:11 as "Go, and sin on more."
>The "Ears to Ear" Bible. Printed in 1820, it had Jesus saying, "Who hath ears to ear, let him hear" in Matthew 13:43.
>The "Denial Bible," printed in 1792, in which Philip, not Peter, denies Jesus in Luke 22:34.

With these in mind, the "Printers Bible," published in 1702, makes more sense. In that edition, instead of saying "princes have persecuted me without a cause" (Psalm 119:61), David complains that "printers have persecuted me without a cause."

Aren't YOU glad your parents didn't NAME you
Huppim (Genesis 46:21)
Muppim (Genesis 46:21)
Nergal-sharezer (Jeremiah 39:3)
Dodo (Judges 10:1)
Ishbi-benob (2 Samuel 21:16)
Gog (1 Chronicles 5:4)
Josheb-basshebeth (2 Samel 23:8)
Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isaiah 8:3)
Zeeb (Judges 7:25), or
Pokereth-hazzebaim? (Ezra 2:57)

The Bible is 2000 years old, which means that it was translated from copies of copies of copies. How can we possibly believe we still have what Paul and Moses and the rest of those guys wrote after all this time?

Scholars rate the accuracy and "historicity" of ancient books by two main criteria:
1. The number of manuscripts--that is, complete copies or pieces we still have of the book in question. The more manuscripts, the easier it is to identify and remove copying errors.
2. The age of the earliest manuscript. The closer it is to the time of the original book, the less chance it has had to get miscopied.

The second-best documented ancient book in the world is Homer's The Iliad. It was written in about 900 B.C., and the oldest manuscript is dated about 500 B.C., separating it from the original by 400 years. Furthermore, we have 643 manuscripts. Many important ancient books have far less documentary evidence. Caesar's Gallic Wars, for instance, is based on only 10 manuscripts, the oldest of which was copied a thousand years after Casear died.

The best-documented ancient book of them all, though, is the New Testament. We have more than 24,000 manuscripts of the New Testament; the oldest, part of the Gospel of John, is dated at 125 A.D.--only 35 years after the original.
When it comes to historical evidence, it's not overstating matters at all to say that the Bible is in a class by itself!