Six Hundred + Threescore + Six 60×6 Mentions in the Bible

Summary

Nearly everybody in the world is familiar with the number 666 from the Bible. In the KJV, this number is written as, Six hundred threescore and six. (Revelation 13:18)

In case you’re unfamiliar with “threescore” – a score is a group of 20 (just like a dozen is a group of 12). If you have three dozen eggs, you have 36 eggs in total. If you have threescore eggs, you have 60 total. Threescore is the same as 60.

In the entire Bible there are exactly 360 mentions of “six hundred“, “threescore” and “six.”

In the Entire Bible

six hundred = 65x
threescore = 93x
six = 202x

Total (65 + 93 + 202) = 360x = 60×6 mentions of “six hundred” + “threescore” + “six.”

In the Scriptures

One of the more peculiar things about the King James Bible is how both words “sixty” and “threescore” are used in the text, even though they share the same meaning. What’s most bizarre is the fact that “threescore” is first mentioned in the 666th verse of the Bible (Genesis 25:7). “Sixty” was already mentioned 6 times previously (all in Genesis 5), but for whatever reason, the 7th mention of “60” is written as “threescore” and appears in the 666th verse of the Bible.

The number 666 shows up 4 times in the Bible.

• 1 Kings 10:14 describes the 666 talents of gold that came to Solomon in one year, written as “six hundred threescore and six“
• 2 Chronicles 9:13 also describes the 666 talents of gold that came to Solomon in one year, written as “six hundred threescore and six“
• Ezra 2:13 describes the 666 children numbered to Adonikam’s house, written as “six hundred sixty and six“
• Revelation 13:18 describes 666 as the number of the beast, written as “Six hundred threescore and six“

That’s noteworthy because “threescore,” which appears on the 666th verse of the Bible, shows up in connection with Solomon (who became a type of the Antichrist), and the Beast (the Antichrist himself), but not Akonikam.

The fact that “six hundred” + “threescore” + “six” are mentioned a combined 360 times is even more interesting for several reasons:

• Solomon received 666 gold in one year, which is 360 days in the Bible.
• The Beast will be proceeded by an image of himself. That image was foreshadowed by a 60×6 image (60×6 = 360) made by Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon in Daniel 3.
  Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. (Daniel 3:1)
• Both Nebuchadnezzar’s 60×6 image and the Antichrist’s image is made in the kingdom of Babylon. Babylon in Revelation is described a “woman” 6 times (Rev 17:3,4,6,7,9,18) and “woman” is mentioned 60×6 times in the Bible.
• If you take the word “beast” in the Bible (180x = 60+60+60 mentions) and double it (just like the image will be a double of the beast), you get a total of: (180 x 2) = 360. We should also note that the number of the name of the beast (666) isn’t revealed until after the beast’s image is introduced a few verses before.

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Revelation 13:14-18

References

Visual Chart: 666 in the KJB / Under Solomon and Next to Nebuchadnezzar