The Story of the KJV Bible and the *MORAL* of the Story...

                                              A portrait of King James I in royal regalia.


  In 1604 at the Hampton Court Conference outside of London, King James I, issued a degree for a new translation of the Bible. The first edition appeared in 1611. Click link, to read, "The Story of the King James Bible, published by Christianity.com."

Here is an excerpt from that article:

"Consider how preposterous it was to have a team of elite scholars writing for a largely illiterate public. We can only stand back in amazement at their achievement. Think how ludicrous the translation mandate was [to write THE KING JAMES BIBLE version]. It called for a product commissioned to reinforce a clear-cut royal political agenda, to be done by elite scholarly committees, reviewed by a self-serving bureaucracy, with ultimate approval reserved to an absolutist monarch.

"The final product [of THE KING JAMES BIBLE version] was intended primarily for public and popular consumption. It was to be read orally -- intended more to be heard in public than to be read in private."

Since this article is about one being E-D-U-C-A-T-E-D, then lets view the  *MORAL* of the study as a mathematical equation written like this:

                        "Study" as in "HEAR + READ + WRITE = *study* 
Romans 12:12 (HEAR) + 2 Timothy 2:15 (READ) + Habakkuk 2:2 (WRITE) = *study*
  
 

"And G2532 be G4964 G0 not G3361 conformed G4964 to this G5129 world: G165 but G235 be ye transformed G3339 by the renewing G342 of your G5216 mind, G3563 that G1519 ye G5209 may prove G1381 what G5101 is that good, G18 and G2532 acceptable, G2101 and G2532 perfect, G5046 will G2307 of God." G2316

~ Romans 12:12"

 "Study ^G4704 to shew ^G3936 thyself ^G4572 approved ^G1384 unto God, ^G2316 a workman ^G2040 that needeth not to be ashamed, ^G422 rightly dividing ^G3718 the word ^G3056 of truth." ^G225  
~ 2 Timothy 2:15   

"And the LORD H3068 answered H6030 me, and said, H559 Write H3789 the vision, H2377 and make it plain H874 upon tables, H3871 that he may run H7323 that readeth H7121 it."

~Habakkuk 2:2

"But G1161 be ye G1096 doers G4163 of the word, G3056 and G2532 not G3361 hearers G202 only, G3440 deceiving G3884 your own selves." G1438

~ James 1:22


>> For those unfamiliar or newbies to using Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, I say, you *don't* know what you have been missing in your examination of The Scriptures. Check out this article on the EASE and HOW TO of using Strong's hard copy book or this article on how to use Strong's with the BlueLetterBible.org . The vocabulary word being either "H" for the HEBREW root word or "G" for the GREEK root word. Try it, I guarantee you will treasure it, it is worth its weight in gold...<<

 Thus, the true intention of King James that, "It [THE KING JAMES BIBLE version] was to be read orally -- intended more to be heard in public than to be read in private," *IS* only a portion of the equation for one to *STUDY* the WORD himself [to be intimately involved with letting the WORD grow within you]. We must HEAR *and* READ *and* WRITE; and by doing all of these study habits *together*, then one can truly be not just a HEARER of the WORD but DOER also...

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