King James Bible (overview)

Updated: Sat 01 Oct 2022 01:11:21 PM CDT

Page Contents:

  1. Introdoction
  2. Bible quotes about Scripture
  3. Christs attitude toward Scripture
  4. Word of God
  5. Books of the Bible
  6. Statistics
  7. Facts
  8. Sources

Bible quotes about Scripture

Ecl 8:4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Ps 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Jn 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

2 Tim 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Pro 8.8,9 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

Joh 17.17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Christs attitude toward Scripture

Matthew 4 Satan is temping Jesus, and he always responds with It is written.

The Five Precepts of Matthew 4:4

  1. The ultimate authority of scripture
    • Man shall live by every word.
    • It is YOUR authority
    • Nothing higher Nehemiah 9:5 Psalm 138:2
  2. The divine inspiration of scripture
    • The words come from God
    • They are literal, verbal things.
      • Mouth -> Words
      • Not “Mind -> Message”
      • Mouth -> Words -> Written
        • Jesus says “It is written”
      • Exodus 20:1 And God spake all these words

      • Exodus 24:7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
      • 2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
  3. The preservation of scripture
    • “It is written”
      • Present Tense (not “was written”) What is “it?”
      • Deuteronomy 8:3
      • 1,500 year-old text spoken by God, written by Moses, copied and copied, available to the Hebrews in the first century.
      • Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is pure

      • Psalm 12:6-7 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
      • Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
      • Matthew 5 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
  4. The accessibility of scripture
    • “Every word” Context is everything
      • We have already seen that “every word that preceedeth out of the mouth of God” is a reference to Scripture (written text).
      • Mouth -> Words -> Written
      • Exodus 20:1, Exodus 24:7
      • A Bible believer can have faith that anything Jesus included in “every word” is available to us to read and live by.
      • Isaiah 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read

  5. The relevance of scripture
    • He answered with Scripture
      • “Did ye never read in the scriptures” Mat. 21:42
      • “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures” Mat. 22:29
      • “Search the scriptures” John 5:39
      • “as the scriptures hath said” John 7:38
      • 2 Timothy 3:15-16 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

KJV is the ONLY Word of God in English

Why the AV is superior to any set of Greek or Hebrew manuscripts, including the so-called “originals”

  1. It is available. The originals are not and have not been for seventeen centuries.
  2. It has born more fruit than the originals, including the two hundred years after they were written.
  3. It has word and sentence separation, which the originals were not supposed to have had.
  4. It is written in the universal language of the twentieth century, and the originals were not.
  5. It has chapter and verse numbers for locating passages easily and for checking out false documents and perversions of the Bible. The “originals” had none.
  6. The Old Testament is set out in the pre millennial order, whereas the Hebrew “originals” where not.
  7. The promise of the church that kept the word was given to the Philadelphia church (1500-1900), not to the early Apostolic church (A.D. 90-200).

The Books of the Bible (With chapter and verse count)

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Order Book Title(s) Chapters Verses

I. Law

1.  The First Book of Moses Called Genesis  50  1,533  (*the beginning*)
2.  The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus  40  1,213
3.  The Third Book of Moses Called Leviticus    27  859
4.  The Fourth Book of Moses Called Numbers     36  1,288
5.  The Fifth Book of Moses Called Deuteronomy  34  959

II. Old Testament Narrative

6.  The Book of Joshua  24  658
7.  The Book of Judges  21  618
8.  The Book of Ruth    4   85
9.  The First Book of Samuel    31  810
10.     The Second Book of Samuel   24  695
11.     The First Book of Kings     22  816
12.     The Second Book of Kings    25  719
13.     The First Book of Chronicles    29  942
14.     The Second Book of Chronicles   36  822
15.     The Book of Ezra    10  280
16.     The Book of Nehemiah    13  406
17.     The Book of Esther  10  167

III. Wisdom Literature

18.     The Book of Job     42  1,070
19.     The Book of Psalms  150     2,461
20.     The Book of Proverbs    31  915
21.     The Book of Ecclesiastes    12  222
22.     The Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon or Canticles)     8   117

IV. Major Prophets

23.     The Book of Isaiah  66  1,292
24.     The Book of Jeremiah    52  1,364
25.     The Book of Lamentations    5   154
26.     The Book of Ezekiel     48  1,273
27.     The Book of Daniel  12  357

V. Minor Prophets

28.     The Book of Hosea   14  197
29.     The Book of Joel    3   73
30.     The Book of Amos    9   146
31.     The Book of Obadiah     1   21
32.     The Book of Jonah   4   48
33.     The Book of Micah   7   105
34.     The Book of Nahum   3   47
35.     The Book of Habakkuk    3   56
36.     The Book of Zephaniah   3   53
37.     The Book of Haggai  2   38
38.     The Book of Zechariah   14  211
39.     The Book of Malachi     4   55

VI. New Testament Narrative

40.     The Gospel According to Matthew     28  1,071   (*Transitional Book*)
41.     The Gospel According to Mark    16  678
42.     The Gospel According to Luke    24  1,151
43.     The Gospel According to John    21  879
44.     The Acts of the Apostles    28  1,007   (*Transitional Book*)

VII. Pauline Epistles

45.     The Epistle of Paul to the Romans   16  433
46.     The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians    16  437
47.     The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians   13  257
48.     The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians    6   149
49.     The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians    6   155
50.     The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians  4   104
51.     The Epistle of Paul to the Colossians   4   95
52.     The First Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians  5   89
53.     The Second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians     3   47
54.     The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy    6   113
55.     The Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy   4   83
56.     The Epistle of Paul to Titus    3   46
57.     The Epistle of Paul to Philemon     1   25

VIII. General Epistles

58.     The Epistle to the Hebrews  13  303   (*Transitional Book*)
59.     The General Epistle of James    5   108
60.     The First Epistle of Peter  5   105
61.     The Second Epistle of Peter     3   61
62.     The First Epistle of John   5   105
63.     The Second Epistle of John  1   13
64.     The Third Epistle of John   1   14
65.     The Epistle of Jude     1   25

IX. Apocalyptic Epistle

66.     The Book of Revelation (or The Apocalypse of John)  22  404

Total Number of Chapters and Verses 1,189 31,102

Statistics

Bible Facts

Sources/notes