My device is Android 4.4.4 KitKat; it needs to upgrade to v5 Lollipop.

However, it does give me an idea to see if v5 is available for download. on micro disk; even Samsung Kies does not help.

Online Bible app does provide search functions that meets the basic needs on KitKat; I can live with that.

Hey! I never thought of that at all

I've (still) got a Samsung Note Pro (12.2" screen), which has Lollipop on it, and was originally KitKat. So, yeah. I reckon that will and should work.

Let us how you get on with that upgrade.

Blessings,

Xitsonga 1989 complete Bible.

Hi Olaf,

Thanks for giving the correct name of that Bible, as at least everyone will know what the correct spelling is for that that Bible.

Bottom line is that one can see there's a huge difference between Tsonga/Xitsonga  and Tonga. Just not the same, hey mate.

Blessings,

Hey Guys,

 

I have come across two bibles that are missing 1 Samuel 13:1 

 

The Bible in Basic English and The Good News Bible

 

I was doing a compare of 1 Samuel 13:1 and I noticed that those two bibles that are in E-sword were not in the compare list, so I went to each one individually and both bibles start at verse 2, with verse 1 just not there.

 

is there any rhyme or reason for this, and are there other translations that are also missing verse 1?

 

As always thanks.

It's not so much as Bibles are missing verses; rather it's the way the verses have been arranged.

Some translations have combined verses into another verse, or have even simply cut out a verse and added the text into another verse.

You must remember that Chapter and Verse divisions are relatively a "modern" invention. Here is an article from Got Questions on the historicity of Chapter and Verse divisions:

The chapter divisions commonly used today were developed by Stephen Langton, an Archbishop of Canterbury. Langton put the modern chapter divisions into place in around A.D. 1227. The Wycliffe English Bible of 1382 was the first Bible to use this chapter pattern. Since the Wycliffe Bible, nearly all Bible translations have followed Langton’s chapter divisions.

The Hebrew Old Testament was divided into verses by a Jewish rabbi by the name of Nathan in A.D. 1448. Robert Estienne, who was also known as Stephanus, was the first to divide the New Testament into standard numbered verses, in 1555. Stephanus essentially used Nathan’s verse divisions for the Old Testament. Since that time, beginning with the Geneva Bible, the chapter and verse divisions employed by Stephanus have been accepted into nearly all the Bible versions.

Note that there is not an actual official agreed set standard as to how many chapters and verses there should be in the Bible. The Roman Catholic Bible and the Tanakh (Jewish OT) has 1 extra chapter (psalm) in the Book of Psalms. It can be as many as whatever you may want to have, or not have if that's the way you want to go. And that I find amazing.

Trust you find this information helpful to you.

Blessings,

When it comes to OT Translations, my thoughts the best one's to go for are those translated from the Jewish Tanakh. The reason is that these have not been changed by Jewish scribes and are always have been consistently accurate since year dot.

Good evening.

I am wondering if there is a way I can view strong tool tips just as in e sword for windows.
I have e sword x but they don't seem to show when I hover a strong number and when I click it, it doesn't show in the lexicons.

I have attached to screenshots one showing the tool tip in windows and another not showing the tool tip on mac

 

I am using e sword x 9.2

Thank you so much

The probable cause for tootips not showing on e-Sword X is that you don't have a Strong's numbered Greek/Hebrew Lexicon (lexi) installed on your machine. Another possibility is that you haven't selected the Strong's Lexicon. So, it might pay to either check to see if you have it installed and/or selected.

Blessings,

Hi, I purchased a commentary resource from E-study source and used the downloader on my phone into e-sword because the downloader in e-sword on my windows 10 machine does not seem to download resources from e-study source. Is there a way for me to copy the files from my android into e-sword on my windows 10 system. Can someone please help!

Thanks

Wendle

There's no need to. If you made a purchase of any resource for your phone, that is a one off payment. All other subsequent downloads on any other device you're running e-Sword on is free. So just use the download manager, click on the resource you want to download, and enter in the licence code and then hit the OK button, and you should be OK.

Bleesings,