07/09/2025 – FYI only : Common resources I use in bible study and my posts over the past four years. / Translation versions – Bible translation guide attached (screenshot below)
For commentary:
Bible footnotes on verses:
The Apologetics Study Bible – CSV (Holman) / The Evidence Bible – NKJV
Free commentary on the web:
John Gill commentary :
Gill has commentary for every single verse in the Bible. Navigate screens through book; chapter; verse. Link to John’s biography:
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Matthew Henry Commentary: two choices; complete or concise. I have the book of complete commentary, running roughly 2,000 pages:
https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/matthew-henry-complete
https://www.christianity.com/bible/commentary/matthew-henry-concise
Biography:
https://www.gotquestions.org/Matthew-Henry.html
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The Daily Study Bible Series (DSB) – New Testament – William Barclay – Revised Edition Copyright 1976 / First Edition 1953 / ISBN 0-664-21306-5
Barclay was a lecturer at University of Glasgow, Scotland. I remember growing up we had his commentary at our entry bookcase, covering a full shelf, with the color codes of green, blue and pink based on New Testament book type.
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Halley’s Bible Handbook – original copyright is 1927, my handbook is 1962. (Library of Congress Card Number: 32-8057)
Halley’s commentary is down to the chapter level. His supplemental contents include, but is not limited to maps; archaeological notes (dated now), Old Testament Chronology,… The book is interspersed throughout with (73) pages of photographic illustrations.
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Daily Devotionals – Four most frequent post sources over the last four years:
Jonathan Cahn’s “Sapphire” devotional that drops into my email in the wee hours of the morning , Monday through Friday. Here is the online link to subscribe to those daily weekday emails:
Daily email subscription requests:
https://win2012s-2.gothamweb.net/hopeoftheworld-org/Sapphires
I first was introduced to Jonathan right after 9/11, as he spoke in a large Houston church. I have read three of his books, one of which, I should bring back more often of late in my devotional posts: “The Book of Mysteries”, right up there with Oswald Chambers as the best devotional I have ever used, although they are quite different from one another. (ISBN: 978 – 1 – 62998-942-6).
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“My Utmost for His Highest” by Oswald Chambers. (ISBN: 0-929239-57-1)
https://www.gotquestions.org/Oswald-Chambers.html
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s daily devotional – one in the morning and one in the evening, available free online via the following link:
https://www.biblegateway.com/devotionals/morning-and-evening/today
Note – When you click on the link, it will automatically take you to the two devotions for that day.
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Here is a free online devotional that consists of bible verses built around a common theme for each day:
https://dailylightdevotional.org
Just click on the calendar day, and the devotional and the morning and evening devotionals will pop up for that day.
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I Use the “Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament Words” by W.E. Vine as a tool to: 1) Discover the meaning of more than 5,700 Biblical words in their original Hebrew and Greek.; 2) Complete with both Old and New Testament words in one easy-to-use volume; and, 3). A dictionary, commentary, and concordance. (I took these three from the bullet points on the cover.)
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Here is a useful guide that compares bible translations:
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Two Posts from great bible study resource works with a few screenshots in the body of the posts, dated 07/13/2025:
“All the Messianic Prophecies of the Bible” by Herbert Lockyer (ISBN # 0-310-28091-5) / Attached Appendices, pgs 525 – 528: A) Prophetic Foregleams from Word and Metaphors; B) Christ’s Quotations from the Prophets; and, C). Old Testament Prophetic Witness to Christ and Christian Truth.
“Rose Book of Bible Charts, Maps & Time Lines”-10th Anniversary Edition – Rose Publishing (ISBN 9781596360228) // Table of contents shown below – a very useful bible study tool!
Soli Deo Gloria!