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  2. Exodus (25, 957 words) Isaiah (25,608 words) Numbers (25,048 words) Deuteronomy (23,008 words) Second Chronicles (21,349 words) First Samuel (20,361 words) Notice anything interesting? The entire top-10 list of longest books in the Bible are all Old Testament books!

    • Longest Books of The Bible by Total Chapters: Top 25
    • Longest Books of The Bible by Total Verses: Top 25
    • Longest Books of The Bible by Total Words: Top 25

    At 150 chapters, Psalms more than doubles the second-longest book of the Bible with regard to the total number of chapters. Psalms is part of the wisdom literature of the Old Testament, as is #6 on the list, the book of Job. Yet three out of the top five longest books by chapter are part of the prophetic literature of the Old Testament — Isaiah, Je...

    Psalms is the longest book of the Bible by total chapters and total verses. It has almost 1,000 more verses than the second-longest book, Genesis. While Genesis had the fourth most number of total chapters, it has the second most number of verses. Isaiah had the second most number of chapters with 66, but it has the fourth-highest number of verses....

    Not surprisingly, Psalms is #1 again, but the margin between it and second place — the book of Jeremiah — may surprise people. Psalms has 98 more chapters than Jeremiah but only 50 more words. Some scholars claim that when detailed aspects of the original Hebrew language are considered (e.g., morphological units), Jeremiah is actually longer than t...

    • Mahershalalhashbaz - The longest name in the Bible. The longest name mentioned in the Bible is recorded in Isaiah 8:1, which belongs to Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.
    • Chushanrishathaim. Chushanrishathaim, mentioned in Judges 3:8-10, was a king of Mesopotamia who oppressed the Israelites for eight years. He was a powerful ruler who had conquered many nations and had established his dominance in the region.
    • Zaphnathpaaneah. Zaphnathpaaneah is a name mentioned in Genesis 41:45 in the Bible. Although the exact meaning of the name is uncertain, it is believed to be an Egyptian name given to Joseph by Pharaoh when he appointed him as second in command over all of Egypt.
    • Tilgathpilneser. Tilgathpilneser was an Assyrian king who exiled the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. He was a powerful ruler who carried the tribes away into captivity because of their disobedience to God.
    • Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaiah 8:1, 3) God told Isaiah to name his son this whopping 18-letter, six syllable name—the longest name in the Bible. Why? Heaven only knows!
    • Zaphnathpaaneah (Genesis 41:45) This name was given to Joseph when he became the prime minister of Egypt. Why we don’t give our modern-day prime ministers grand names like this is a mystery, really.
    • Tilgathpilneser (1 Chronicles 5:6, 20) We’ll call him Tilga for short. As one of the ancient kings of Assyria, Tilga had keen intentions to expand the Assyrian Empire.
    • Chushanrishathaim (Judges 3:8-10) This guy was the king of Aram-Naharaim, or northwest Mesopotamia, and the first oppressor of the Israelites after their settlement in Caanan.
  3. Jan 4, 2022 · By counting the number of words in Hebrew or Greek, the longest book of the Bible is Jeremiah, weighing in at 33,002 words. The second longest book of the Bible is Genesis with 32,046 words.

  4. ISAIAH 1: CALL TO REPENTANCE. Isaiah is the longest book of prophecy in the Bible. God gave Isaiah a clearer vision of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ than any other of the Old Testament prophets. v.1 Historical time of prophecy begins in 760 BC when Uzziah is King of Judah. ( 2 Chronicles 26-32 gives historical background of Isaiah's ...

  5. The Book of Isaiah ( Hebrew: ספר ישעיהו [ˈsɛ.fɛr jə.ʃaʕ.ˈjaː.hu]) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. [1] It is identified by a superscription as the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet Isaiah ben Amoz, but there is evidence that much of it ...

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