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With just two verses, seventeen words, and 62 characters (29 in verse 1 and 33 in verse 2) in Hebrew, it is the shortest psalm in the Book of Psalms. It is also the shortest chapter in the whole Bible. It is the 595th of the 1,189 chapters of the King James Version of the Bible, making it the middle chapter of this version.
Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible. Since the early 13th century, most copies and editions of the Bible have presented all but the shortest of the scriptural books with divisions into chapters, generally a page or so in length ...
Ezekiel 2 is the second chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel and is one of the Book of the Prophets. [2]
Obadiah is one of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the final section of Nevi'im, the second main division of the Hebrew Bible. The text consists of a single chapter , divided into 21 verses with 440 Hebrew words, making it the shortest book in the Tanakh (The Hebrew Bible), though there are three shorter New Testament epistles in Greek ( Philemon ...
Third John is the shortest book of the Bible by word count, [4] though 2 John has fewer verses. [5] 3 John has 15 verses in the critical SBL Greek New Testament text, [6] or 14 in the Textus Receptus. [7] It is the only New Testament book which does not contain the names "Jesus" or "Christ".
This chapter is the shortest in the Book of Isaiah, with only 6 verses. American theologian Albert Barnes argued that "there was no reason why these six verses should have been made a separate chapter" from Isaiah 3. [2] The New King James Version calls verses 2-6 "The Renewal of Zion".
This verse is considered 'the shortest summary of Johannine theology', [6] that to expound each word or phrase in detail requires one to expound the whole book. [5] The combination of Jesus' 'Messiahship and divine sonship' becomes the ultimate conclusion of the presentation of Jesus in this gospel.
The ERV caused a slight bit of controversy among a small number of lay members of the Churches of Christ (the WBTC is an outreach of the Churches of Christ).Goebel Music wrote a lengthy book critiquing this translation titled "Easy-to-Read Version: Easy to Read or Easy to Mislead?", criticizing the ERV's method of translation, textual basis, and wording of certain passages. [5]