You are probably wondering if all of those statistics on the Internet might be
correct, only counting these extra things or counting them differently. Nope. If
that were true, their counts would be higher than mine, not less than. And the
vast majority were less than.
Book
Chapters Verses Words
Words w/Colophons
& Superscriptions
1
Genesis
50
1533
38262
2
Exodus
40
1213
32685(*)
3
Leviticus
27
859
24541
4
Numbers
36
1288
32896
5
Deuteronomy
34
959
28352
6
Joshua
24
658
18854
7
Judges
21
618
18966
8
Ruth
4
85
2574
9
1 Samuel
31
810
25048
10
2 Samuel
24
695
20600
11
1 Kings
22
816
24513
12
2 Kings
25
719
23517
13
1 Chronicles
29
942
20365
14
2 Chronicles
36
822
26069
15
Ezra
10
280
7440
16
Nehemiah
13
406
10480
17
Esther
10
167
5633
18
Job
42
1070
18098
19
Psalms
150
2461
42682
43716
20
Proverbs
31
915
15038
21
Ecclesiastes
12
222
5579
22
Song of Solomon 8
117
2658
23
Isaiah
66
1292
37036
24
Jeremiah
52
1364
42654
25
Lamentations
5
154
3411
26
Ezekiel
48
1273
39401
27
Daniel
12
357
11602
28
Hosea
14
197
5174
29
Joel
3
73
2033
30
Amos
9
146
4216
31
Obadiah
1
21
669
32
Jonah
4
48
1320
33
Micah
7
105
3152
34
Nahum
3
47
1284
35
Habakkuk
3
56
1475
36
Zephaniah
3
53
1616
37
Haggai
2
38
1130
38
Zechariah
14
211
6443
39
Malachi
4
55
1781
39
Old Testament
929
23145
609247
610281
161