Talk:List of books of the King James Version

Spelling errors

A recent editor has introduced many spelling errors into the article. Apparently the editor has been confused by the funny looking fonts found in older books. For instance, not even the oldest printings of the KJV contained any "gofpels", but rather gospels, and yes, that funny looking sigil really is an S and not an F. Likewise, the editor seems to have confused the letters U and V, which truly is an easy thing for a modern reader to do when presented with these unfamiliar fonts.

For this reason, I am reverting his edits. The spelling used in this article follows The Bible: Authorized King James Version, Oxford World's Classics (ISBN 978-0199535941), which should probably be added as a reference to this article. Rwflammang (talk) 16:09, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Statistics

The following section got cut from Chapters and verses of the Bible; I think it more rightly belongs in the article. It needs a little bit of work for the Apocrypha section, so in the meantime I am storing it here. Rwflammang (talk) 15:20, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

New ref: [1] Rwflammang (talk) 15:20, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

The following apply to the King James Version of Bible in its modern Protestant form, i.e. including the New Testament but none of the deuterocanonical books.

Chapters

• There are 929 chapters in the Old Testament and 260 chapters in the New Testament. This gives a total of 1,189 chapters (on average, 18 per book).
• Psalm 117 is the middle chapter of the Bible, being the 595th Chapter.
• Psalm 117 is also the shortest chapter of the Bible.
• Psalm 119 is the longest chapter of the Bible.

Verses

• There are 23,145 verses in the Old Testament and 7,957 verses in the New Testament. This gives a total of 31,102 verses, which is an average of a little more than 26 verses per chapter.
• Contrary to popular belief, Psalm 118 does not contain the middle verse of the Bible. The King James Version has an even number of verses (31,102), with the two middle verses being Psalm 103:1–2.
• 1 Chronicles 1:25 ("Eber, Peleg, Reu") is the shortest verse in the Old Testament.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:16 ("παντοτε χαιρετε", "Rejoice always") is the shortest verse in the original Greek of the New Testament.
• Isaiah 10:8 ("Dicet enim") is the shortest verse in the Latin Vulgate.
• John 11:35 ("Jesus wept") is the shortest verse in most English translations. Some translations — including the New International Version, New Living Translation, New Life Version, Holman Christian Standard Bible and New International Reader's Version — render Job 3:2 as "He said". However, this is a translators' condensation of the Hebrew which literally translated is "And Job answered and said."
• Esther 8:9 is the longest verse in the Masoretic Text. The discovery of several manuscripts at Qumran (in the Dead Sea Scrolls) has reopened what is considered the most original text of 1 Samuel 11; if one believes that those manuscripts better preserve the text, several verses in 1 Samuel 11 surpass Esther 8:9 in length.

The Holy Bible King James Version

I contain a blue copy in my room. The OT and NT turned out half-fold so magically. You try it out. It's just coffee and skim milk. Bye. Moreovaltine (talk) 00:55, 24 January 2023 (UTC)