Kane Dane “Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.” (2 Kings 8:26, KJV) “Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. … Read more
The Angelic Miracle The underlined words pertaining to the angelic miracle are omitted in translations based on the Nestle-Aland/United Bible Society text: John 5:3-7 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season … Read more
“For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” (Matthew 24:28, KJV) “And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.” (Luke 17:37, KJV) “Eagles” is the literal translation of “αετοι” (Thayer, Strong’s). Yet many Bible … Read more
The KJV Old Testament is translated from the Ben Chayyim Masoretic text of the Hebrew scriptures. Some translations such as the NIV and ESV depart from the Hebrew scriptures in a number of places (e.g. Genesis 47:21, Genesis 49:10, Judges 14:15, Judges 16:13-14, 1 Samuel 1:24, 2 Samuel 7:16, 2 Samuel 15:7, 2 Samuel 24:13). … Read more
The history of naturalistic textual criticism The KJV is based on a Greek New Testament text called the Textus Receptus, first published by Desiderius Erasmus in 1516 and subsequently revised by a number of scholars. Most modern translations are based on the Nestle-Aland/United Bible Society (NA/UBS) text, published by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft (German Bible Society). … Read more