The word Hallelujah is Hebrew for "praise the Lord"
The Bible mentions waters being parted four times. In Exodus the Red Sea was parted so the Israelites could be led to safety. The Jordan River was parted when Joshua and the Israelites were going into the promised land (Joshua chapter four). The Jordan was parted a second time when the prophets Elijah and Elisha needed to cross (II Kings chapter two), and still another time when Elisha crossed back over when Elijah was taken up into the firey chariot.
Money is not the root of all evil. The Love of money is the root of all kinds of evil (I Timothy 6:10)
The only two books in the Bible that don't contain the name of God are Song of Solomon and Esther.
Despite the fact that most people believe that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, it is more probable that the "great fish" mentioned in Jonah chapter one was not a whale because whales are very rare in the Mediterrean Sea.
Two chapters in the Bible, II Kings 19 and Isaiah 37, are almost identical.
The oldest man recorded in the Bible was Methuselah. He lived 969 years (Genesis 5:27).
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