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Bible facts: March
A fact for each day of March, as the app shows it as «Fact of the day» in 2026, with its verse in the Berean Standard Bible.
- March 1
Purple, worn by the rich man in Jesus’ parable, was the costliest dye of the ancient world. It came from murex sea snails, and Tyre and Sidon were its great centers.
Luke 16:19Read the articleNow there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
- March 2
The judge Abdon had 40 sons and 30 grandsons, who rode on 70 donkeys.
Judg 12:14He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.
- March 3
The Aramaic word “Abba,” “Father,” appears three times in the New Testament: once in Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane and twice in Paul’s letters.
Mark 14:36See the place“Abba, Father,” He said, “all things are possible for You. Take this cup from Me. Yet not what I will, but what You will.”
- March 4
The tree Abraham planted at Beersheba, Hebrew eshel, is usually taken to be a tamarisk — one of the few trees that thrive in the dry, salty soil of the Negev.
Gen 21:33See the placeAnd Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
- March 5
At Jericho the army marched around the city once a day for six days, and seven times on the seventh, with seven priests blowing rams’ horns before the ark.
Josh 6:3–4Read the articleMarch around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark. Then on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.
- March 6
A clay cylinder written for Cyrus after he took Babylon tells how he sent deported peoples home and restored their shrines. It was dug up in Babylon in 1879 and is now in the British Museum.
Ezra 1:2–3Read the article“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.
- March 7
The Gospel of John never gives the name of Jesus’ mother: she is always “the mother of Jesus” or “his mother.”
John 2:1On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
- March 8
Noah’s ark was to be 300 cubits long, 50 wide and 30 high — about 134 by 22 by 13 meters, longer than a soccer field.
Gen 6:15Read the articleAnd this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
- March 9
People told Jesus the temple had taken 46 years to build; Herod’s rebuilding, begun about 20 BC, was completed only in the AD 60s.
John 2:20Read the article“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”
- March 10
Moses asked Edom to let Israel pass along the King’s Highway, an ancient road over the hills east of the Jordan and the Dead Sea. A modern road in Jordan still follows it and bears the name.
Num 20:17Please let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
- March 11
Jacob’s gift to his brother Esau was a procession of 550 animals — goats, sheep, camels, cattle and donkeys — not counting the camels’ young.
Gen 32:14–15Topic: Goats200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams, 30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
- March 12
Daniel and his friends asked for a 10-day test: only plant food and water instead of the king’s food. At the end they looked healthier than all the others.
Dan 1:12–15“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearances with those of the young men who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see.” So he consented to this and tested them for ten days. And at the end of ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young men who were eating the king’s food.
- March 13
Athaliah is the only woman who ruled Judah as its monarch. She held the throne for six years.
2 Kgs 11:3And Joash remained hidden with his nurse in the house of the LORD for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.
- March 14
The list of exiles who came back from Babylon appears twice, in Ezra and in Nehemiah, and both give the same total for the whole assembly: 42,360.
Ezra 2:64Read the articleThe whole assembly numbered 42,360,
- March 15
The Jordan, the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea lie in one long trench, the Jordan Rift Valley, formed where two plates of the earth’s crust slide past each other.
Deut 3:17See the placeThe Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
- March 16
Moses was told to make two trumpets of hammered silver to call the people together and set the camps moving; trumpets like them are carved on the Arch of Titus in Rome.
Num 10:2Read the article“Make two trumpets of hammered silver to be used for calling the congregation and for having the camps set out.
- March 17
The temple of Artemis at Ephesus was counted among the Seven Wonders of the World. Its site was found in 1869, and today a single column, put back together from fragments, marks the spot.
Acts 19:27See the placeThere is danger not only that our business will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her majesty deposed—she who is worshiped by all the province of Asia and the whole world.”
- March 18
Part of Proverbs was copied out by the men of King Hezekiah of Judah, more than two centuries after Solomon.
Prov 25:1These are additional proverbs of Solomon, which were copied by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah:
- March 19
The high priest’s breastpiece was folded into a square a span long and a span wide — about 23 centimeters — and held 12 stones in four rows of three.
Exod 28:16–17Read the articleIt must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide. And mount on it a setting of gemstones, four rows of stones: In the first row there shall be a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;
- March 20
Jacob was born holding on to the heel of his twin brother Esau, who came out first, red and covered with hair.
Gen 25:26After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
- March 21
Naaman’s river Abanah is usually identified with the Barada, which flows down from the Anti-Lebanon mountains through Damascus and has long watered the oasis around the city.
2 Kgs 5:12See the placeAre not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
- March 22
The Book of Jonah never names the kind of animal: the Hebrew says only “a great fish.” Matthew’s Greek uses kētos, a word for any huge sea creature.
Jonah 1:17Read the articleNow the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.
- March 23
A shepherd who lost a sheep to a lion brought back what was left — two legs or a piece of an ear — as proof for the owner.
Amos 3:12Read the articleThis is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.
- March 24
The apostle Thomas was also called Didymus. Both names mean “twin” — Thomas in Aramaic, Didymus in Greek.
John 11:16Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”
- March 25
The Book of Jashar, now lost, is quoted twice: for the sun standing still over Gibeon and for David’s lament over Saul and Jonathan.
Josh 10:13See the placeSo the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”
- March 26
Every man aged 20 or over who was counted gave the same half shekel, about 6 grams of silver. The rich were not to give more, nor the poor less.
Exod 30:14–15Read the articleEveryone twenty years of age or older who crosses over must give this offering to the LORD. In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.
- March 27
Purim fell on two dates: the Jews of the villages feasted on the 14th of Adar, those of Susa on the 15th — and cities walled in ancient times still keep the 15th.
Esth 9:18–19Read the articleThe Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy. This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.
- March 28
A clay seal impression just over a centimeter across, found in excavations at the Ophel in Jerusalem and published in 2015, reads “Belonging to Hezekiah son of Ahaz, king of Judah.”
2 Kgs 18:1In the third year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah.
- March 29
There were 276 people on board the ship that was taking Paul to Italy when it was wrecked off Malta.
Acts 27:37See the placeIn all, there were 276 of us on board.
- March 30
The midwife’s scarlet thread was dyed with kermes: scarlet and crimson came from a small insect that lives on a kind of oak.
Gen 38:28Read the articleAnd as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.
- March 31
At midnight Samson pulled up the doors of Gaza’s city gate, posts and bar and all, and carried them on his shoulders to a hilltop facing Hebron.
Judg 16:3But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
Sources
Berean Standard Bible · Public domain