Mark These Dates On Your
Calendar
Sunday, August 19th,
2012 I
will have the Antiquarian Rare Bible Display at Dr. Mark Poorman’s
church, Woodcrest Baptist Church, 6875 University Ave. NE, Fridley, MN. I will
be preaching a mini-King James Conference in the morning and evening service. Please come and join us if you are anywhere near. For directions visit - www.woodcrestbaptistchurch.org
August 20-21 (Monday and
Tuesday) –
Although the MIBPF is not affiliatew with the King James Bible Research
Council, they take our position and myself (Dr. David L Brown) and several
others are members. I invite you to join us for the -- Annual Preaching
Conference of the Midwest Independent Baptist Pastors’ Fellowship – Dr.
Lance Ketchum, Chairman - At Woodcrest Baptist Church, 6875 University Ave. NE,
Fridley, MN. Old Time Preaching on the topic – Separation: Holiness To Te Lord!
For more information email – Dr.Ketchum@msn.com
See their blog at – http://mibaptistpastorsfellowship.blogspot.com
October 29-30, 2012
(Monday and Tuesday) – The King James Bible Research Council Annual
Meeting will again be at the First
Baptist Church, 10550 South Howell Ave. in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Mark those
dates on your calendar. For more information email kjb.research.council@gmail.com,
see our web site www.kjbresearchcouncil.com,visit
our blot at http://kjbrc.blogspot.com
or our facebook page at www.facebook.com/KJBRC
2013 Southern Region Conference In Florida
Thursday February 28th and Friday March 1st is our Southern Region KJBRC Bible Conference in Plantation Florida
at Plantation Baptist Church, 11700
NW 28th Court, Plantation, FL 33323, Senior
Pastor Tom Hunter Jr. Check the Website for directions http://www.plantationbaptist.org/
I want to give a practical example of the accuracy of the KJV. In the book 'GREAT STONES' Jeremiah 43:9-10, we made a three and a half year search to find these stones buried by Jeremiah. Sir Flinders Petrie ("Father of Modern Archaeology") had tried to find them but failed, because he thought the "great" stones in these two verses meant that they were some large rocks. But the verse said they were held in one "hand" so they had to be small, and it was to be a sign and rocks buried in the ground whether large or small are not a sign as they could be found most anywhere. At any rate, 11 out of the 12 best selling Bibles in America have changed this verse! They did this because they were also having a hard time trying to visualize Jeremiah the prophet holding boulders in his one hand. Only the King James Bible had this verse right and did not change it. The other versions took the word “hand” out, or gave Jeremiah and extra hand “hands”, or added the word “some” stones, most all translated the word “great” as large, which it could be, but not if held in one “hand” as God’s word said.
ReplyDeleteI have asked Hebrew scholars if they know of any Hebrew manuscript (there are several thousand manuscripts) that has “hands”, or no word for hand in this verse, and no one knows of one. I would like to quote the Hebrew scholar Dr. D.E. Anderson, she is a professional translator and graduate of Reformation International Theological Seminary in Fellsmere, Florida. I asked if all Hebrew manuscripts have the word “hand” in the singular, and was told “I can't confirm absolutely that every manuscript has the singular,...[but this]....is the standard reading.” And, “every edition of the Hebrew that I have access to, including a facsimile of the Leningrad Codex and an original 1566 Bomberg, have 'hand' singular.”
There is a translation of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint, whose date is, depending on whom you read, about 250 B.C. For this verse the Septuagint does not have the word “hand”, but this is a Greek translation and the Old Testament was inspired in Hebrew. Eleven out of the top twelve best selling Bibles (including the New KJV, best selling list was 2008, the year the book 'GREAT STONES' came out) have translated “great stones” as “large stones”, and as I said this is a possibility, but the context would not allow this. Eight out of the top twelve Bibles have “some” stones. But this word “some” is not found in the Hebrew text. “There is no word in Hebrew in this phrase to indicate ‘some’; nor is there a Greek word in the Septuagint for ‘some’.” Dr. D.E. Anderson. (There are English translations of the Septuagint that have it both ways). How did this matter for our search of the “great stones”? I never would have found the “great stones” had I been reading one of these other versions, because I never would have bothered to look in the first place. I was not looking for “large stones,” or “some” stones, but “great stones,” and that were small enough to fit in one “hand”. Any one of these changes would have stopped me from looking and eight out of the top twelve Bibles had all three changes in them! None of the twelve had it right except the KJV. Under what authority did they make these changes? They did not find them in the Hebrew, it is not unlikely that the translators assumed it, and using 'conjectural emendation' rendered it that way. Makes you wonder how many other changes they “helped” us with?