Fun With Bible Numbers: Fun Books, #1

By Katheryn Maddox Haddad

FAMILY TIME: Did you know Abraham was 150 years old when Shem, Noah's son, died? Esther was Queen of the Persian Empire when Nehemiah was there? Paul traveled nearly 4000 miles on his second missionary trip?  CHURCH BULLETINS: Did you know the Israelites entered Egypt 10 years after Isaac died? Jews paid nearly half their yearly wages to redeem their first-born? The ungrateful servant of Jesus' parable owed millions of dollars?  DEVOTIONALS: Did you know the angel wings over the Ark of the Covenant in Solomon's temple were 15 feet across? Jesus was 18 years old when Jarius' daughter was born? The hailstones that fell in Revelation weighed 100 pounds each?  GIFTS: Did you know Jacob and Esau were 15 years old when grandfather Abraham died? Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold covered the temple's Most Holy Place? The good Samaritan paid the innkeeper about $4 to keep the injured man?  ADULT GAMES: Did you know Solomon's yearly income was around a trillion dollars US currency in 2015? Jesus walked on water nearly 3 miles to reach his disciples' boat? Taken literally, heaven is 7,272,000 feet high?  ATTENTION GETTERS: Did you know the population of Jerusalem in Nehemiah's time was nearly 50,000? If the apostles were the only ones baptizing the 3,000 people on the Day of Pentecost, they had to baptize 1 every 2 minutes for 10 hours?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Katheryn Maddox Haddad
• Release date: Sep 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781952261053

Katheryn Maddox Haddad

Katheryn Maddox Haddad spends an average of 300 hours researching before she writes a book-ancient historians such as Josephus, archaeological digs so she can know the layout of cities, their language culture and politics. She grew up in the northern United States and now lives in Arizona where she doesn't have to shovel sunshine. She basks in 100-degree weather, palm trees, cacti, and a computer with most of the letters worn off. With a bachelor's degree in English, Bible and social science from Harding University and part of a master's degree in Bible, including Greek, from the Harding Graduate School of Theology, she also has a master's degree in management and human relations from Abilene University. She is author of forty-eight books, both non-fiction and fiction. Her newspaper column appeared for several years in newspapers in Texas and North Carolina ~ Little Known Facts About the Bible ~ and she has written for numerous Christian publications. For several years, she has been sending out every morning a daily scripture and short inspirational thought to some 30,000 people around the world. She spends half her day writing, and the other half teaching English over the internet worldwide using the Bible as textbook. She has taught over 6000 Muslims through World English Institute. Students she has converted to Christianity are in hiding in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Somalia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Palestine. "They are my heroes," she declares.

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FUN WITH BIBLE NUMBERS

525 Bible Arithmetic Problems

Katheryn Maddox Haddad

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Volume I & 2: Beginner-Intermediate & Colonial-Medieval

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BIBLE TIMES MEASUREMENTS

Money

Capacity

Length

Formatting

OLD TESTAMENT

Law and History

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Just History

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

I Samuel

II Samuel

Kings and Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Poetry

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

Major (Long) Prophets

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Minor (Short) Prophets

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Obadiah

Jonah

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi

NEW  TESTAMENT

Life of Jesus Christ

Matthew

Mark

Luke

JOHN

Early Years of the Church

Acts of the Apostles

Letters by Apostle Paul to Early Church

Romans

I Corinthians

II Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Philippians

Colossians

Thessalonians

Timothy

Titus

Philemon

Letters by Other Apostles

Hebrews

By James

By Peter

By John

By Jude

Revelation

By John

General Bible

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BIBLE TIMES MEASUREMENTS

During Bible times, most measurements were estimates. We think during David's reign he had a standard by which all other weights were determined, but not every king did this. To confuse things further, today's 

equivalents are ever changing as inflation does. The wide variations will account for the fact that common Bible center references on scriptures that involve measurements have different amounts depending on when the Bible was published and by whom.

Money

Money was valued by weight and metal used. A talent of gold was the same size as a talent of silver, but they had different weights and therefore different values. Talents were more like gold bullion. A talent of gold weighed about 150 pounds. A talent of silver weighed about 75 pounds.

My determination of today's values to their money was based on the average price of gold and silver on the stock market. If you have older books giving values of Bible coins, it will probably give you lower values, not having accounted for inflation and deflation. Silver seemed to be the standard, much as silver is the standard in United States money - silver dollar, half dollar, quarter and dime. I do not believe gold was mentioned in the Bible outside of being bullion (talents) much like the gold in the United States is handled (we do not have gold coins).

Since the listing below is based on the use of silver in coins, let me first give you the value of one talent of gold with an average of $1200 per ounce: $840,000. One pound of gold is valued at $19,200.

These problems are based on United States currency. Whereas US money has a base of 100 (100 cents to a dollar), Bible times money had a base of 60, but not followed as closely.  The following are the normal silver-based money values with silver valuing at $18 per ounce ($288 per pound).

Capacity

A few comments on the listing below. The hin was a pot about l gallon in size, depending on who made it. The word ephah comes from a word meaning basket, and was about 6 gallons and about the most one person could carry in a basket. The word homer is literally translated donkey, and represented 6-1/2 to 10 bushels (much debate on its size still today), which was about how much a donkey could carry, obviously depending on the size of the donkey. Another word subject to debate is bath which is translated daughter. Some commentaries claim this was because the daughters carried the water, but one might wonder if it was because the daughters liked taking baths; it represents 6 gallons. Below are the Hebrew and U.S. liquid and dry equivalents:

Length

You were lucky during Bible times if you were a large person and purchasing something by length. Length measurements were based on the hand standard. Isn't strange that the Americans followed the foot standard? We originally marked things off with the pace, or long stride. People in Bible times originally marked things off with the cubit, or distance from tip of fingers to elbow. In order to avoid confusion, we today have decided that the average cubit was probably 18 inches. We today have a land mile and a longer nautical mile. They then had a regular cubit and a long cubit which you will see in Ezekiel. Here are the common length measurements:

Formatting

At this time is not possible to maintain the formatting exactly the way it is in print format.