Do you know how many books are there in the bible? And if you are a regular reader of the Bible than you must be knowing that there are 66 total books in the Bible. But besides that, we are going to discuss all the number of chapters, verses, and books in the Bible.

The Bible as a whole has 66 books among which 39 are in the Old Testament and 27 are in the New Testament. Below I have written each category as a whole and after that in The New Testaments and The Old Testaments.

And I must mention out of curiosity that According to the Roman Catholic’s there are 73 books in the Bible. They have added 7 extra books in the old testament which we will be discussing in details in the upcoming articles.

However, here is the list of the Books in the Bible are:

Total Number of books in the Bible – 66

Chapters – 1,189

Verses – 31,102

Words – 783,134

Letters – 3,566,480

Promises – 1,260

Commands – 6,468

Predication – over 8,000

Fulfilled Prophecy – 3,268 verses

Unfulfilled Prophecy – 3,140 verses

Questions – 3,296

Longest name – 18 letters (Isaiah 8:1)

Longest verse – Esther 8:9

Shortest verse – John 11:35

Middle books – Micah and Nahum

Middle verse – Psalm 118:8

Middle and Shortest chapter – Psalm 117

Largest book – Psalms

Smallest book – 3 John (Counting words)

Longest Chapter – Psalm 119

Word God occurs – 3,358 Times

Word Lord occurs – 7,736 Times

Total Authors – 40

THE OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers of books – 39

Total Chapters – 929

Total verses – 23,145

Total words – 602,583

Total Letters – 2,728,100

Middle book – Proverbs

Middle Chapters – Job 29

Middle verses – 2 Chronicles 20:17, 18

Smallest book – Obadiah

Shortest book – 1 Chronicles 1:25

Longest verse – Esther 8:9

Longest Chapter – Psalm 119

Longest book – Psalms

THE NEW TESTAMENT

Numbers of books – 27

Total Chapters – 260

Total verses – 7,957

Total words – 180,551

Total Letters – 838,380

Middle book – 2 Thessalonians

Middle verses – Acts 27:17

Smallest book – 3 John (Counting words)

Shortest verse – John 11:35

Longest verse – Revelation 20:4

Longest Chapter – Luke 1

Largest book – Luke

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