SHOVELS
Shovels for Digging Deeper
These sites will help you dig deeper!
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Wow! This site is wonderful for digging into the Bible. Austin has compiled and organized all sorts of freely available commentaries. The site is very well organized. I particularly like the way you can quickly navigate to find what you want in the verse-by-verse commentary.
Lumina.Bible includes these translations: New English Translation (NET), ESV, HCSB, International Standard Version, and NASB. This site makes it easy to view the 60,000 footnotes in the NET. You can see the original Hebrew and Greek and each word is defined for you, and if you are viewing the NET, you can see how each word is translated. And don't miss Thomas Constable's Notes on every book of the Bible! This is a treasure of 40 years of scholarly research by Thomas L. Constable, who retired from Dallas Theological Seminary in 2011. One of the great features of Constable's Notes is that he quotes for so many other great resources. Register for an ID and the site will remember your colored highlights, the content of your tabs, and the notes you make!
This is a good site for accessing the Holman (HCSB) Study Bible via the Library icon on the left. Researching the meaning of source language words is easy to do. Register for an ID and the site will remember your colored highlights, the content of your tabs, and the notes you make!
If you click on a blue verse number at this site, you will get a comparison page that shows that verse in all of their translations, and then it gives you several older commentaries. I often find useful information in the Pulpit Commentary, and not so much in Matthew Henry. In verse comparison mode, click on the Hebrew or Greek heading and you will see a very useful interlinear page for the verse. I find this especially useful for OT Hebrew verses. (The word order is top to bottom, not right to left!)
This site is great for studying Hebrew or Greek, especially Greek. Also, if you are looking for other languages, this site has a huge list. (Our TSI Plain Indonesian is not yet one of them.)
This site includes the Lexham English Bible (LEB) and the Faithlife Study Bible from Logos. The study Bible includes information from distinguished scholars. They are sometimes not as conservative as the two study sites that lead this list.
http://ibiblemaps.com/ Interactive Bible Maps, with a good index of OT and NT maps.
Another useful site for researching the original biblical texts: blueletterbible.org
For versions, you can also check out BibleGateway.com.
And for commentaries check out StudyLight.org.
My favorite app for researching the Byzantine Text of the NT: ebible.org/study
Got Questions?
A great resource for finding answers to perplexing questions about the Bible is GotQuestions.org. You will often find that the GotQuestions site will appear if you just ask Google your common Bible questions. They are reliable for most things, but one exception is questions about textual matters in the NT.
Dr. Bob Utley's Free Bible Commentary is a fantastic resource! I recommend that every student of the Bible read his introductions to each Bible book. Also, it is easy to use his menu system to find the chapter where you have a question, then his bolded text will help you find the verse you want information about. The great thing about Dr. Utley's commentary is that he doesn't just expound about his favorite interpretation, but he gives you the information needed to help you make an informed decision.
This is the site to go to for wonderful animated Bible videos. It would be a great idea to watch the video summary of each Bible book before reading it.