Interesting Facts about THE OLD TESTAMENT ***

Facts about the Old Testament

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Did you Know? List of Interesting Facts about the Old Testament
Facts are statements which are held to be true and often contrasted with opinions and beliefs. Our unusual and interesting facts about the Old Testament, trivia and information, including some useful statistics will fascinate everyone from kids and children to adults.

Interesting Facts about the Old Testament are as follows:

Fact 1 - The Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christian Biblical canon

Fact 2 - The Old Testament is the first 39 books of the 66 books in the Bible
Fact 3 - The books begin with Genesis and end with Malachi.
Fact 4 - It has 23,214 verses
Fact 5 - The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and were written and compiled between the 12th and the 2nd century BC.
Fact 6 - The number of words total 602,585.
Fact 7 - Famous names of men in this part of the Bible include Adam, Cain and Abel, Moses, Joseph, Job, Jonah, Daniel, Jacob and Noah.
Fact 8 - Famous names of women in this part of the Bible include Ruth, Esther, Mary, Delilah, Hannah and Naomi.
Fact 9 - The great stories of the Old Testament include those such as the story of Adam and Eve, Moses and Jonah and the whale.
Fact 10 - The Major prophets include Isaiah, Jeremiah, Baruch, Ezekiel and Daniel.
Fact 11 - The Minor prophets (the Twelve Prophets) include Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.
Fact 12 - The Longest book is Psalms
Fact 13 - The Longest chapter is Psalms 119
Fact 14 - The smallest Book is Obadiah
Fact 15 - The Shortest verse is 1 Chronicles 1:25