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Bible facts: July
A fact for each day of July, as the app shows it as «Fact of the day» in 2026, with its verse in the Berean Standard Bible.
- July 1
The two stone tablets Moses carried down the mountain were inscribed on both sides, front and back.
Exod 32:15Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.
- July 2
Each day Solomon’s court went through 90 cors of flour and meal — roughly 16,000 to 20,000 liters — along with 30 head of cattle and 100 sheep.
1 Kgs 4:22–23Read the articleSolomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal, ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.
- July 3
The first city builder the Bible names is Cain. He named the city Enoch, after his son.
Gen 4:17And Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.
- July 4
Straight Street, where Saul stayed in the house of Judas, still runs from east to west across the old city of Damascus, along the line of a Roman colonnaded street.
Acts 9:11See the place“Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.
- July 5
The locusts covered all of Egypt and ate every green plant. A desert locust swarm covering 1 square kilometer can eat as much food in a day as about 35,000 people.
Exod 10:15Topic: LocustsThey covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
- July 6
Lamps were small clay vessels of olive oil with a flax wick. In Jesus’ parable the wise bridesmaids brought spare oil in flasks; the foolish brought none.
Matt 25:3–4Read the articleThe foolish ones took their lamps but did not take along any extra oil. But the wise ones took oil in flasks along with their lamps.
- July 7
Manasseh became king at 12 and reigned 55 years — the longest reign of any king of Judah or Israel.
2 Chr 33:1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.
- July 8
Paul’s letter to the Romans was written down by another man. Near its end he adds his own greeting: “I, Tertius…”
Rom 16:22I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord.
- July 9
Mount Hermon, about 2,800 meters high, is snow-capped much of the year. Its neighbors had their own names for it, such as Senir among the Amorites.
Deut 3:9See the placewhich the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—
- July 10
Flute players were hired for mourning: Jesus found them at a synagogue leader’s house, and the Mishnah asks even the poorest man to hire two for his wife’s funeral.
Matt 9:23Read the articleWhen Jesus entered the house of the synagogue leader, He saw the flute players and the noisy crowd.
- July 11
The white limestone synagogue visible at Capernaum today was built centuries after Jesus. Beneath it lie black basalt foundations that its excavators date to the 1st century.
Luke 7:5See the placefor he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”
- July 12
The Israelites ate manna for 40 years, until they came to land where people lived.
Exod 16:35The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
- July 13
A cloak taken as security for a loan had to be returned by sunset: for many it was the only covering they had to sleep in.
Exod 22:26–27Read the articleIf you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
- July 14
Joseph was 30 when he entered Pharaoh’s service, David was 30 when he became king, and the Gospel of Luke says Jesus was about 30 when his ministry began.
Luke 3:23Jesus Himself was about thirty years old when He began His ministry. He was regarded as the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,
- July 15
Gezer came to Solomon as a wedding gift: a pharaoh captured and burned the city, then gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
1 Kgs 9:16See the placePharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
- July 16
The hail in Egypt ruined the barley, already in the ear, and the flax, but the wheat was spared because it ripens later.
Exod 9:31–32Read the article(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom; but the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, because they are late crops.)
- July 17
John the Baptist told tax collectors to collect no more than they were ordered to, and told soldiers to wrong no one, accuse no one falsely and be content with their pay.
Luke 3:12–14Read the articleEven tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?” “Collect no more than you are authorized,” he answered. Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
- July 18
A servant girl named Rhoda was so overjoyed to hear Peter’s voice at the gate that she ran in to tell the others and forgot to open it.
Acts 12:14When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that she forgot to open the gate, but ran inside and announced, “Peter is standing at the gate!”
- July 19
Speaking in Athens, Paul quotes Greek poets. “We are His offspring” is a line from Aratus, a poet of the 3rd century BC.
Acts 17:28See the place‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
- July 20
The gold that came to Solomon each year weighed 666 talents — roughly 20 to 24 metric tons.
1 Kgs 10:14Read the articleThe weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,
- July 21
The tabernacle’s lampstand was hammered out of a single piece of pure gold, and with its utensils it took a talent — some 30 to 36 kilograms.
Exod 25:39Read the articleThe lampstand and all these utensils shall be made from a talent of pure gold.
- July 22
By about 700 BC, King Sennacherib had ringed Nineveh with walls about 12 km around, pierced by 15 gates. Their remains lie in today’s Mosul in Iraq.
Jonah 3:3See the placeThis time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.
- July 23
The longest chapter of the Bible is a psalm of 176 verses. Just two psalms before it stands the shortest psalm, only two verses long.
Ps 119:1Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
- July 24
When Nineveh fasted, the king ordered that no one taste food or water — not even the herds and flocks.
Jonah 3:7–8Read the articleThen he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink. Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.
- July 25
Asahel, the brother of Joab and Abishai, was as fast on his feet as a wild gazelle.
2 Sam 2:18The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,
- July 26
In Egypt, Joseph spoke to his brothers through an interpreter, so they did not realize he understood everything they said to one another.
Gen 42:23They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
- July 27
Samuel called for thunder and rain at the wheat harvest, in early summer, a season when rain in Israel rarely falls.
1 Sam 12:17–18Topic: Rain and droughtIs it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.” So Samuel called to the LORD, and on that day the LORD sent thunder and rain. As a result, all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
- July 28
Even during a long siege, the law forbade cutting down a city’s fruit trees: the army could eat their fruit but must not take an axe to them.
Deut 20:19Read the articleWhen you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
- July 29
King Mesha of Moab left his own account of breaking free from Israel on a black basalt stone found at Dhiban, in today’s Jordan, in 1868. It names Omri, king of Israel, and is now in the Louvre.
2 Kgs 3:5But after the death of Ahab, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
- July 30
Unable to speak, Zechariah asked for a writing tablet to name his newborn son: “His name is John.”
Luke 1:63Zechariah asked for a tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And they were all amazed.
- July 31
Emmaus lay 60 stadia from Jerusalem — about 11 kilometers, a walk of two or three hours.
Luke 24:13Read the articleThat same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
Sources
Berean Standard Bible · Public domain