20 Fun Facts

The complete Bible. Sung. Here's what that adds up to.

  1. Pick a different song every day and you won't repeat one for 143 years. A baby who starts today finishes the library at age 143 — having never heard the same song twice.
  2. The collection holds 52,316 chapter recordings — 22 musical styles × 2 voices × all 1,189 chapters of the Bible. Every chapter sung, no skips. And that number won't last long — more styles are on the way!
  3. Played end to end, that's about six months of nonstop music — roughly 4,500 hours, day and night, without repeating.
  4. A church that sang one chapter every Sunday would need over 1,000 years to get through what's on the site right now.
  5. It's about 33 million words of Scripture set to music — each of the 44 renditions sings all ~750,000 words of the Bible, cover to cover. Even the genealogies: somewhere in the library, "and Obed begat Jesse" has a jazz arrangement.
  6. The shortest song is Psalm 117 — just two verses — and it happens to be the exact middle chapter of the Bible: chapter 595 of 1,189. The longest is its neighbor two doors down: Psalm 119, with 176 verses.
  7. Jonah is available as a sea shanty. A sailor's story, finally in sailors' music.
  8. Twenty-two styles, from Choir of Angels to Hip-Hop — also Gregorian Echoes, Gospel, Rap, Contemporary Pop, Reggae, Country, Jazz, Latin, African Dance, Hard Rock, R&B/Soul, Barbershop Quartet, Dramatic/Opera, and more.
  9. You can hear John 3 — the "For God so loved the world" chapter — 44 different ways: every style, in both a male and a female voice.
  10. Kids get their own choir. The Children's Choir rendition is sung in children's voices — boys and girls — through the entire Bible.
  11. The whole Bible is sung in Spanish too — twice: the complete Reina-Valera Scriptures as "Alabanza" and as "Balada Pop Latina," 4,756 Spanish chapters in all.
  12. Burned to CDs, the library would fill about 3,400 discs — a stack of jewel cases eleven stories tall.
  13. Under 20 minutes of listening a day sings you through the entire Bible in one year. About three chapters a day does it.
  14. The words sing along with you — tap "View Bible Text" and the chapter's full text appears while it plays.
  15. Every song has its own link. Share one, and your friend lands on that exact chapter, in that exact style and voice — like handing someone a track, not a homework assignment.
  16. Free apps for iPhone and Android — or none at all. Get TheSinging.Bible from the App Store or Google Play, or just add the website to your phone's home screen: it opens full-screen with its own icon.
  17. Sixty-six books, roughly 40 authors, written across some 1,500 years — now one continuous songbook in your pocket.
  18. The site practices what it sings. Its theme verse is Colossians 3:16 — "Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you…" — the verse that tells believers to sing the Word.
  19. Choose your voice. Every chapter in the library exists in both a male and a female rendition — same words, different singer.
  20. The Bible itself commands this project about 400 times — that's roughly how often Scripture mentions singing, songs, or making music to the Lord. This site just took it literally.
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"Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you…"Colossians 3:16