Holy Bible Survey Results, American Bible Statistics

SURVEY SAYS....

• 47% of American adults believe the Bible has too little influence in society today; only 16% believe it has too much influence, with the remaining adults expressing neutral opinions (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2012)
• 55% read the Bible to be closer to God, down 9% (from 64%) in 2011 (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2012)
• 79% believe they are knowledgeable about the Bible but 54% were unable to correctly identify the first five books of the Bible  (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2012)
• 46% believe the Bible, the Koran and the Book of Mormon are different expressions of the same spiritual truths, 46% disagree (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2012)
• On average, 85% of U.S. households own a Bible; the average number of Bibles per household is 4.3 (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2012)
• 36% of Americans read the Bible less than once a year or never while 33% read the Bible once a week or more (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2012)
• Generational patterns emerged where younger adults are less likely to perceive the Bible as relevant and useful when compared with older adults (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2012)
• Sixty-two percent of adults age 66 and older believe the Bible contains everything a person needs to know about living a meaningful life, dropping to 54% among boomers (age 47 to 65), 44% among those age 28 to 46, and dropping even further to 34% for those age 18 to 27  (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2012)
• Nearly nine out of 10 U.S. adults (88%) say their household owns a Bible, with a median of 3.4 Bibles per household (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2011)  
• 54% of adults in America believe the Bible has too little influence in U.S. society today - more than four times the proportion of those who think it has too much influence (13%) (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2011)
• 56% of those surveyed said they consider themselves to have an average knowledge of the Bible, while 23% considered themselves to be completely or highly knowledge (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2011)
• 51% of adults in the U.S. strongly - but erroneously - believe that the Bible teaches God helps those who help themselves (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2011)
• Seven out of ten (69%) described the Bible as the Word of God (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2011)
• The proportion who never read the Bible increased (from 21% in 1999 to 25% in 2011), while the proportion of adults who read the Bible only once or twice a year decreased over the past decade, from 16% in 1999 to 11% in 2011 (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2011)
• Nearly six out of 10 adults who owns a Bible (57%) say they own the King James Version (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2011)
• Nearly half of all Bible readers (45%) read the King James Version most often (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2011)
• Nearly four in ten Bible-reading adults (37%) used a computer to read Bible content during the past year; 28% listened to an audio version of the Bible (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2011)
• Three out of four U.S. adults (76%) are able to correctly name Genesis as the first book of the Bible (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2011)
• A majority of Americans (57%) knows that Hebrew is the original language in which most of the Bible’s Old Testament was written. Fewer than half as many adults (27%) are able to name Greek as the original language in which most of the Bible’s New Testament was written (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2011)
• 60% of Americans can't name five of the Ten Commandments 
(USA Today, March 14, 2007)
• 50% of high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married 
(USA Today, March 14, 2007)
• 50% of Americans, including Christians, can't name any of the four Gospels 
(NPR, Feb. 8, 2008)
• 22% of American teens think Moses was either one of Jesus' 12 apostles, an Egyptian pharaoh or an angel (Bible Literacy Project, Inc., 2005)
• 21% of American believe the Bible is a book of fables (Gallup, May 2007)

Interesting Holy Bible Facts

HOLY BIBLE FACTS

• Number of languages the Bible has been translated into: over 1200 
• The Old Testament has more than 60 references to Jesus.
• The New Testament has more than 260 Old Testament quotations. 
• The name Christian first appears in Antioch, Syria about 100 AD. 
• The Gutenberg Bible was printed in August 1456. 
• Stephen Langton added the Chapters in 1228. 
• R. Nathan added the verses to the Old Testament in 1488. 
• Robert Stephanus added the verses to the New Testament in 1551.
• The Geneva Bible was the first Bible with Chapters and Verses in 1560
• The system of chapters was introduced in A.D. 1238 by Cardinal Hugo de S. Caro, while the verse notations were added in 1551 by Robertus Stephanus, after the advent of printing.

BIBLE STATISTICS

•  The Bible was written between 1450 BC and 100AD 
•  Number of different Authors: 40 
•  Number of books in the Bible: 66 
•  Chapters: 1189 
•  Verses: 31,101 
•  Words: 783,137 
•  Letters: 3,566,480 
•  Number of promises given in the bible: 1,260 
•  Number of Commands: 6,468 
•  Number of predictions over 8,000 
•  Fulfilled prophecy: 3,268 
•  Unfulfilled prophecy: 3,140 
•  Number of questions: 3,294 
•  Longest chapter: Psalm 119 
•  Longest verse, Esther 8:9 (78 words). 
•  Shortest chapter: Psalm 117 
•  Shortest verse , John 11:35 (2 words: “Jesus Wept“) 
•  Number of times “God” appears: 3,358 
•  Number of times “Lord” or “LORD” appears: 7,736
•  The oldest parable in the Bible is Judges 9: 8-15. 
•  The word Christian appears only 3 times in the Bible, Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, and Peter 4:16. 
•  Two men in the Bible never died. Enoch and Elijah, they were taken up to heaven by God. 
•  There were 12 tribes of Israel. There were 12 Disciples. 
•  “Do not be Afraid “ appears 365 times, once for each day.
• 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.
• According to statistics from Wycliffe International, the Society of Gideons, and the International Bible Society, the number of new Bibles that are sold, given away, or otherwise distributed in the United States is about 168,000 per day.
• A number of verses in the Bible (KJV) contain all but 1 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 x; and Galatians 1:14 contains all  but k.
•  It takes 70 hours to read the bible aloud.

OLD TESTAMENT STATISTICS (King James Authorized): 

• Number of books: 39 
• Chapters: 929 
• Verses: 23,145
• Words: 602,585 
• Letters: 2,278,100 
• Middle book: Proverbs 
• Middle chapter: Job 20 
• Middle verses: 2 Chronicles 20:17,18 
• Smallest book: Obadiah 
• Shortest verse: 1 Chronicles 1:25 
• Longest verse: Esther 8:9 
• Longest chapter: Psalms 119 
• Largest book: Psalms 

NEW TESTAMENT STATISTICS

• Number of books: 27 
• Chapters: 260 
• Verses: 7,957 
• Words: 180,552 
• Letters: 838,380 
• Middle book: 2 Thessalonians 
• Middle chapters: Romans 8, 9 
• Middle verse: Acts 27:17 
• Smallest book: 3 John 
• Shortest verse: John 11:35 
• Longest verse: Revelation 20:4 
• Longest chapter: Luke 1 
• Largest book: Luke

Dates When Holy Bible Was Written Years

When was the Bible written? Who wrote the Bible scriptures?

Book Name	Date/Year	Author (Written by)
Genesis	1450 - 1410 BC	Moses
Exodus	1450 - 1410 BC	Moses
Leviticus	1450 - 1410 BC	Moses
Numbers	1450 - 1410 BC	Moses
Deuteronomy	1410 BC	Moses
Joshua	1400 - 1370 BC	Joshua
Judges	1050 - 1000 BC	Anonymous (Samuel ?)
Ruth	1000 BC	Uncertain (Samuel ?)
1 Samuel	930 BC & later	Samuel +
2 Samuel	930 BC & later	Samuel +
1 Kings	550 BC	Jeremiah
2 Kings	550 BC	Jeremiah
1 Chronicles	450 - 425 BC	Ezra
2 Chronicles	450 - 425 BC	Ezra
Ezra	456 - 444 BC	Ezra
Nehemiah	445 - 425 BC	Nehemiah
Esther	465 BC	Uncertain
Job	occurred 1500 BC	Uncertain (Job ?)
Psalms	10th Century BC	David - 73, Solomon - 2, Sons of Korah -12, Asaph - 12, Heman 1, Ethan 1, Moses 1
Proverbs	950 - 700 BC	Solomon +
Ecclesiastes	935 BC	Solomon
Song of Solomon	965 BC	Solomon
Isaiah	740 - 680 BC	Isaiah
Jeremiah	627 - 585 BC	Jeremiah
Lamentations	586/5 BC	Jeremiah
Ezekiel	592 - 570 BC	Ezekiel
Daniel	537 BC	Daniel
Hosea	710 BC	Hosea
Joel	835 BC	Joel
Amos	755 BC	Amos
Obadiah	840 or 586 BC	Obadiah
Jonah	760 BC	Jonah
Micah	700 BC	Micah
Nahum	663 - 612 BC	Nahum
Habakkuk	607 BC	Habakkuk
Zephaniah	625 BC	Zephaniah
Haggai	520 BC	Haggai
Zechariah	520 - 518 BC	Zechariah
Malachi	450 - 400 BC	Malachi
Matthew	60's AD	Matthew
Mark	50's AD	Mark
Luke	60 AD	Luke
John	85 - 90 AD	John
Acts	61 AD	Luke
Romans	58 AD	Paul
1 Corinthians	56 AD	Paul
2 Corinthians	57 AD	Paul
Galatians	49 or 55 AD	Paul
Ephesians	61 AD	Paul
Philippians	61 AD	Paul
Colossians	61 AD	Paul
1 Thessalonians	51 AD	Paul
2 Thessalonians	51 AD	Paul
1 Timothy	63 AD	Paul
2 Timothy	66 AD	Paul
Titus	65 AD	Paul
Philemon	61 AD	Paul
Hebrews	64 - 68 AD	Uncertain (Paul ?)
James	45 - 50 AD	James
1 Peter	63 AD	Peter
2 Peter	66 AD	Peter
1 John	90 AD	John
2 John	90 AD	John
3 John	90 AD	John
Jude	70 - 80 AD	Jude
Revelation	90's AD	John

How Many Verses Chapters Books In Holy Bible? Statistics

Total Books in the King James Bible	66 (first/last)
Total Chapters in the King James Bible	1,189 (first/last)
Total verses in the King James Bible	31,102 (first/last)
Total Books in the Old Testament	39
Total Chapters in the Old Testament	929
Total verses in the Old Testament	23,145
Total Books in the New Testament	27
Total Chapters in the New Testament	260
Total verses in the New Testament	7,957
Middle Book in the King James Bible	There are 2 – Micah & Nahum
Longest Book in the King James Bible	Psalms
Shortest Book in the King James Bible	2 John (verses) & 3 John (words)
Middle Chapter in the King James Bible	Psalm 117
Longest Chapter in the King James Bible	Psalm 119
Shortest Chapter in the King James Bible	Psalm 117
Middle verse in the King James Bible	2 – Psalm 103:1 & Psalm 103:2
Longest verse in the King James Bible	Esther 8:9
Shortest verse in the King James Bible	John 11:35

SUMMARY OF KING JAMES BIBLE STATISTICS:

1. Total Books - 66
2. Total Chapters  1189
3. Total Verses...31102
4. Total words in the 31,102 verses - 788,258 (not including the Hebrew Alphabet in Psalm 119 or the superscriptions listed in some of the Psalms)
5. Total words in the Hebrew Alphabet in Psalm 119 - 22
6. Total words in the Book Titles - 85 (the full titles as written in the 1611 edition - 374)
7. Total times the word "CHAPTER" is listed - 1,034 (in 5 books the word is not listed because they only have one chapter)
8. Total times the word "PSALM" is listed - 150
9. Total words in superscriptions (sub-titles) of Psalms - 1,034
10. Total words in subscriptions (concluding remarks) in the epistles of Paul - 186

Holy Bible Stats, How Many Verses Chapters Words Books

Book	Chapters	Verses	Words	Date
Genesis	50	1533	38262	1450 - 1410 BC
Exodus	40	1213	32685	1450 - 1410 BC
Leviticus	27	859	24541	1450 - 1410 BC
Numbers	36	1288	32896	1450 - 1410 BC
Deuteronomy	34	959	28352	1410 BC
Joshua	24	658	18854	1400 - 1370 BC
Judges	21	618	18966	1050 - 1000 BC
Ruth	4	85	2574	1000 BC
1 Samuel	31	810	25048	930 BC & later
2 Samuel	24	695	20600	930 BC & later
1 Kings	22	816	24513	550 BC
2 Kings	25	719	23517	550 BC
1 Chronicles	29	942	20365	450 - 425 BC
2 Chronicles	36	822	26069	450 - 425 BC
Ezra	10	280	7440	456 - 444 BC
Nehemiah	13	406	10480	445 - 425 BC
Esther	10	167	5633	465 BC
Job	42	1070	18098	occurred 1500 BC
Psalms	150	2461	43739	10th Century BC
Proverbs	31	915	15038	950 - 700 BC
Ecclesiastes	12	222	5579	935 BC
Song of Songs	8	117	2658	965 BC
Isaiah	66	1292	37036	740 - 680 BC
Jeremiah	52	1364	42654	627 - 585 BC
Lamentations	5	154	3411	586/5 BC
Ezekiel	48	1273	39401	592 - 570 BC
Daniel	12	357	11602	537 BC
Hosea	14	197	5174	710 BC
Joel	3	73	2033	835 BC
Amos	9	146	4216	755 BC
Obadiah	1	21	669	840 or 586 BC
Jonah	4	48	1320	760 BC
Micah	7	105	3152	700 BC
Nahum	3	47	1284	663 - 612 BC
Habakkuk	3	56	1475	607 BC
Zephaniah	3	53	1616	625 BC
Haggai	2	38	1130	520 BC
Zechariah	14	211	6443	520 - 518 BC
Malachi	4	55	1781	450 - 400 BC
Matthew	28	1071	23684	60's AD
Mark	16	678	15166	50's AD
Luke	24	1151	25939	60 AD
John	21	879	19094	85 - 90 AD
Acts	28	1007	24245	61 AD
Romans	16	433	9438	58 AD
1 Corinthians	16	437	9480	56 AD
2 Corinthians	13	257	6083	57 AD
Galatians	6	149	3090	49 or 55 AD
Ephesians	6	155	3030	61 AD
Philippians	4	104	2191	61 AD
Colossians	4	95	1988	61 AD
1 Thessalonians	5	89	1847	51 AD
2 Thessalonians	3	47	1032	51 AD
1 Timothy	6	113	2260	63 AD
2 Timothy	4	83	1694	66 AD
Titus	3	46	915	65 AD
Philemon	1	25	439	61 AD
Hebrews	13	303	6905	64 - 68 AD
James	5	108	2304	45 - 50 AD
1 Peter	5	105	2476	63 AD
2 Peter	3	61	1553	66 AD
1 John	5	105	2517	90 AD
2 John	1	13	298	90 AD
3 John	1	14	294	90 AD
Jude	1	25	608	70 - 80 AD
Revelation	22	404	11995	90's AD
	1189	31102	790869