Sound Commentary

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The first several broadcasts, in what I hope to be many commentaries, will deal with the history of the Bible. How did we get that KJV, or NIV, or ASV, and on and on. Who wrote it, more importantly, who interpreted it? Who was King James, who were his 26 men that he commissioned to decipher and come up with one version for the people to use.

First and foremost, I cannot read a lick of Hebrew or Greek, but I can research, study, and pray about it and then seem to somehow have an understanding that I hope to impart to others. Biblical Hebrew, or Ancient Hebrew, language was used in the original writings of the Old Testament; did you know that the Biblical

Hebrew only had about 8,700 words? Our language has about half a million words. Individuals that focus in on one word in the KJV or any Bible version, are putting a lot on the line.

Here is an example: Genesis 6:16 King James Version (KJV)

“A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.”

Not too hard to understand, pretty simple and comprehensible. However, a word for word translation of the same in Hebrew reads like this:

“A light you do to an ark and to a cubit you complete it from to over it and a door of the ark in its side you put unders twenty and thirty you do”

Wow, sweeping difference huh? Now, just who was it that decided it would be rendered as we see it in the KJV, so we could understand it? I have read that over 50 men participated in the translation, some say 47, 50. 51, 54. I have also read that really there were 26 of the 54 appointees who actually did work, sounds like our culture today actually.

It should be an interesting study, might rankle the KJV only crowd though. You know, if the KJV was good enough for Paul it is good enough for me! But it will not be all about the KJV, nor will it knock it too bad, as I too believe of the available versions we have today, the KJV is among the best.