Many people believe Psalms 118:8 to be the middle verse of the Bible. This is perpetuated in large part by an e-mail chain letter of Bible facts, which tries to illustrate the recurrence of the number 1188 in the Bible. It is perhaps fitting that the verse in question talks about trusting God over man. Analysis done on a modern computer has yielded a different result.
Using Microsoft Word 2000, (which resulted in a total verse count of 31,102 for the King James Version), the middle verses are Psalm 103, verses 1 and 2. (There is no middle verse, since there is an even numbered total verse count). There are 15,550 verses before and after these verses. Some verse counts in the past (probably counted by hand), have resulted in an incorrect verse count of 31,175, leading to Psalm 118:8 as the middle verse.
See also
- Bible—Interesting facts
References and external links
- Analysis results -
- Biblebelievers.com -
- Christring.org -