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Stupidly, in a talk on Truth I fall in to the trap of quoting with errors a fact I had heard and not evaluated. 

Mis-remembered, Psalm118:8 means there are 1188 chapters before it and after it. No, the fact was 1189 chapters in the whole Bible.

Fact not evaluated: Psalm 118 is  not the centre chapter of the Bible.  There are 594 chapters up to (and including) Psalm 116, and 594 Chapters from 118 on (including Psalm 118). 594+1+594 = 1189

This makes Psalm 117, (not Psalm 118) the centre chapter of the Bible.

The King James Bible has 31,174 verses — an even number — so there is no one "centre" verse: the centre would be a combination of the 15,587th and the 15,588th verses, which do fall within Psalm 118 (Psalm 118:8-9, to be exact).  which is still good as together they say:

It is better to take refuge in the Lord  than to trust in humans.
9 It is better to take refuge in the Lord   than to trust in princes.         

So my statement was based on a truth, mis-remembered and therefore not fully true, apologies. Given the subject of the talk and the thrust of what I was saying, this was a very bad mistake!!!!

The key verse is Ps 118:9 which gives you the number of chapters, Psalm 118 verses 8 and 9 are the centre verses of the Bible.


PS... even now I haven't checked that myself but relied on a 'myth correction' website for the information. Anyone feel like counting all the verses?

     

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LuminBy Geoff Lumley