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THE CONNECTED SCRIPTURESA living study collection · KJV
Every passage
opens a world.
“Explore Scripture alongside the people, kingdoms and events of world history.”
Scripture connects to Scripture. People to places. Kingdoms to the history they left behind.
What else was happening in the world? Follow biblical people and events into their wider historical setting through timelines, maps and ancient records. Cross-references support your reading along the way.
Begin with a discoveryACROSS THE TESTAMENTS Scripture cross-references
GENESISOLD TESTAMENT · NEW TESTAMENTREVELATION
YOUR NEXT DISCOVERY
BIBLICAL NAME · SCRIPTURE & NAME STUDY
Explore the verse links and connected names preserved in the Obsidian index.
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31,102 KJV verses in 66 books and 1,189 chapters. Cross-reference records from Stephen Smith’s OpenBible.info / Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · CC BY 4.0. Name entries and shared-verse connections come from our existing Obsidian Bible network; dictionary meanings: Hitchcock / Brady Stephenson (CC BY 4.0). Connections are study aids, distinct from Scripture and external historical evidence. Every total opens the underlying collection.
Related project: Biblical Connections explores connections within Scripture using the same OpenBible dataset. Historical Bible focuses on the people, kingdoms and events of the surrounding world.
ROMAN JUDEA · 1ST CENTURY AD
A name in the Gospel. A name carved in stone.
Luke names Pontius Pilate as governor of Judea. A surviving Roman inscription names him too. Start with that meeting of text and stone.
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02 MEET THE HISTORICAL RECORD
GO DEEPER
Open the wider study.
Explore any person, period, or passage without hurry.
Browse the people & world empires
Choose a period or empire, then a person. Dates are approximate where indicated; this browsing guide is not a proportional timeline.
WORLD EMPIRES
PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE
The person & their world
Rulers, records & historical context
Read further in Scripture
People connected to this story
Explore the biblical names dictionary
Awe and careful reading belong together.
Scripture, surviving records, historical reconstruction, and theological connections answer different questions. Each historical card identifies its kind of evidence. A shared name or date establishes a connection; the scope of each source still matters.
About the text & this collection
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Scripture preserves the original {chapter:verse} markers, bracketed translator additions, and LORD typography. The current historical collection is a curated starting point of 12 profiles, not an exhaustive history. Dates and identifications may be debated. Historical commentary is separate from the biblical text.