MISTRANSLATIONS CORRECTED AND OBSOLETE WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS EXPLAINED.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
Total number of books in the Old Testament 39
Total number of chapters in the Old Testament 929
Total number of books in the New Testament 27
Total number of chapters in the New Testament 260
Total number of verses in the Old Testament, 23,235
Total number of verses in the New Testament 7,959
The shortest book in the Old Testament is Obadiah.
The shortest chapter in the Old Testament is Esther 10
The last historical book in the Old Testament is Nehemiah.
The moral condition of Israel to the first coming of the Lord in grace is given in the book of Malachi.
Old Testament history is comprised in sixteen books—from Genesis till Nehemiah—the first and last historical books of the Old Testament.
The priests' guide book was Leviticus.
The Levites' guide book was Numbers.
The peoples' guide book was Deuteronomy.
The following prophets prophesied after the restoration from the captivity:-Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.
The following prophets prophesied during the captivity:-Daniel in the royal court of the conquerors; Ezekiel amongst the captives at the river of Chebar; and Jeremiah amongst the poor of the people left in the land.
The first worker for salvation was Cain (Gen. 4).
The first city builder and murderer was Cain (Gen. 4).
The first recorded instance of a daughter being born is noted in Gen. 4
The first general confederacy amongst men is recorded in Gen. 11:1-61And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4And 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. 5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6And 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. (Genesis 11:1‑6).
The first, second, and third kings of all Israel each reigned the probationary period of 40 years.
The first notice of the Rainbow—token of Divine goodness—is in Gen. 9
There were ten fathers before the flood, and ten fathers after the flood, till Abram.
Christ suffered at man's hands as a martyr for righteousness; hence judgment is the result (Psa. 69). Christ suffered at God's hands as a victim for sin; hence grace to man is the blessed fruit (Psa. 22).
The last five verses of Psa. 40—the prayer of the suffering Messiah—forms Psa. 70, the prayer of the future remnant of Judah.
"There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked," is the concluding words of Jehovah's expostulation with His people, because of their idolatry (Isa. 40-48). "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked," is the concluding words of God's expostulation with the people, because of their rejection of the Messiah (Isa. 49-57).
Human life has been shortened by about a half, several times; thus the longest liver after the flood—Heber—lived 464 years, a little less than half Methuselah's age, 969 years, the longest liver before or since the flood; the longest liver after the dispersion at Babel—Reu lived 239 years, a little more than half Heber's age. In the wilderness, life was again shortened to about half of the age of Abram (Psa. 90:1010The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psalm 90:10)): the blessed Lord was cut off in "midst" or half of His days, as a man (Psa. 102:2424I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations. (Psalm 102:24)).
Scripture furnishes no account of the birth or death of any of Cain's posterity, but simply records their doings (Gen. 4).
Seth, third son of Adam, in whom the line of grace was continued, was contemporary with all the antediluvian fathers, except Noah.
Methuselah was contemporary with Adam for more than 200 years, and with Noah for about 600 years.
Enoch, who walked with God, was contemporary with Adam for about 300 years, and with Noah for some time, and thus the truth and revelation of God then revealed, was handed down for 1656 years.
The Cherubim (plural) are always connected with the judicial and governmental authority of God; it is so in the first instance, where they are named as in guarding the tree of life (Gen. 3:2424So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. (Genesis 3:24)). In the tabernacle and temple, they formed the moral supports of Jehovah's throne, as "justice and judgment" (Psa. 89:1414Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. (Psalm 89:14)); and in Ezek. 114And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. (Ezekiel 1:14) and 10, they clearly set forth God acting judicially towards His people, in bringing against them that "bitter nation," the Chaldeans.
The Seraphim (plural) announce the holiness of Jehovah, the Divine glory being their great care and concern; they are only once named in Scripture (Isa. 6); God's righteous mess is the great care of the Cherubim.
Four cities originally constituted the strength of the Babylonian kingdom (Gen. 10:1010And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (Genesis 10:10)), and four cities the strength of the Assyrian kingdom. (Gen. 10:11, 1211Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. (Genesis 10:11‑12).)
The Feasts of Jehovah were seven in number (Lev. 23), and are termed in John's Gospel "feasts of the jews," because there the moral rejection of the Lord is assumed from the commencement of the gospel (John 1:10,1110He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11He came unto his own, and his own received him not. (John 1:10‑11)).