Bible Maths

 

 

God created Mathematics

And the Bible tells me so,

Let me share with you now

How I came to know.

 

Here are some facts

In the King James Version,

I will list a few of them

For your consideration.

 

Let me start at the centre

And then move either way

And hope at the end of this poem

I will have made your day.

 

Psalm 118

Is the middle chapter,

There are 594 chapters before

And 594 thereafter.

 

Add up these two numbers

To get 1188,

How many chapters in the Bible?

That was your mistake.

 

The centre verse of the Bible

Is Psalm 118 verse 8,

It would be interesting to see

To whom this verse relates.

 

“It is better to trust in the Lord

Than to put confidence in man.”

This can’t be a coincidence

But instead a Divine Plan.

 

 

At the Bible’s centre

We see the Almighty God

And the directive that He gives

Is to trust in the LORD.

 

In whom do you confide?

In whom should you trust?

At the centre of God’s Word it says-

In God we must.

 

At the centre is Psalm 118

With the shortest chapter before

Which chapter is the longest?

Need I tell you more?

 

Psalm 117 is the shortest

Psalm 118 is at the centre,

Psalm 119 is the longest chapter

And comes immediately after.

 

One hundred seventy-six verses

Has Psalm 119

But Psalm 117 has but two

And this is clearly seen.

 

The longest verse in the Bible

Is Esther 8 verse 9,

And if you count the number of words

Exactly 90 you will find.

 

You will not see the word God

Nowhere in the book of Esther

But in the entire Esther narrative

God is the Mighty Deliverer.

 

Next is the shortest verse

Which is but just two words,

An oft used expletive in the past

That was horribly absurd.

 

In St. John 11:35

We read that Jesus wept,

Lazarus had died, the Bible tells,

Causing much regret.

 

I just wanted to show

The Bible is not by chance,

It is the divinely inspired Word of God

And not mere happenstance.

 

It is replete with facts

Both serious and amusing

And the information you find therein

Is by God’s own choosing.

 

  

I trust I have made your day

But even more than this,

I trust you have put the Bible

Top of your reading list.

 

Stewart Russell © April 29, 2021