Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Bible Trivia - 12/9/2008

Question: How many Psalms are there in the Book of Psalms?

Answer: 150.

Comments: The book of Psalms is the ancient Hebrew hymnal. The word psalms is derived from the Greek psalmoi, which originally meant "songs sung to a harp". There are 150 psalms in the Book of Psalms.

Psalm 150:6 is the last verse of Psalms:

Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD! (Psalm 150:6, NASB)

Most manuscripts of the Septuagint (the Greek version of the Old Testament) also include a Psalm 151, present in Eastern Orthodox translations. A Hebrew version of this poem was found in the Psalms Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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