steemchurch- 11 Bible Facts and Trivia

1. During the early Bible times, embalming takes 40 days
   (Gen 50:3 "And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days")

2. King Ahasuerus made a feast that went for 180 days
   (Est 1:3-4 "In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him: 1:4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days")

3. During a severe famine in Samaria, a donkeys head was being sold for 80 pieces of silver and 16 oz of dove dunk was being sold for 5 pieces of silver
   (2 kings 6:25 "And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver")

4. Everyone spoke the same language until the incident at the towel of Babel (Gen 11:1-9 "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth")

5. Goliath's coat weighed 125 pounds
   (1 Sam 17:5 "1 Samuel 17:5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass")

6. Joash was the youngest King at 7 years old
   (2 Chr 24:1 "Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beersheba")

7. Methuselah was the oldest man at 969 years old
   (Gen 5:27 "And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died")

8. Jubal inverted the harp and organ
   (Gen 4:21 "Genesis 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ")

9. Abraham was circumcised when he was 99 years old
   (Gen 17:24 "And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin")

10. Job said his wife though he had bad breath
    (Job 19:17 "My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body")

11. The book of Genesis never says Adam and Eve ate an apple, they ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

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