3. KJV Chronological Life Application Study Bible, Second Edition. God. 2025. 2128 pages. [Source: Bought (Gift)] [5 stars, bible review]
First sentence: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
What you should know about this Bible?
The Chronological Life Application Study Bible is available in the King James Version AND the New Living Translation.
This is the second edition of the Chronological Life Application Study Bible. It has a few new features including more insight from Jewish scholars. The first edition has been out of print for quite a while.
It is double column. It is black letter. The Words of Christ appear in black--not red.
There are study notes, profiles of characters, maps, charts, articles, appendices.
Being a life application Bible, the notes are more on the application side as opposed to scholarly, academic, or contextual.
What didn't work for me personally:
I found some of the notes to be highly, highly, highly speculative. It is okay just to admit you have no idea 'how to read' a passage. I am thinking particularly of Song of Songs or Song of Solomon. The notes are 99.9% speculative fluff. There is NO WAY to read the passage and come to their conclusions without a lot of imagination and speculation and just reading into the text.
I found the amount of notes to text to be overwhelming--again depending on the book. Anytime a page of the Bible is 90% notes and 10% Scripture, I just find it TOO overwhelming to read any of the notes at all.
I have realized I don't really enjoy the chronological approach to reading Scripture. I just don't. Some may. I don't.
