King James Version

King James Version, Giant Print, End of Verse Reference, Special Helps. 1976. Nelson 882BR. 1962 pages. [Source: Bought]

First sentence: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

I absolutely loved, loved, loved this one. It was love at first sight. Yes, I love the King James Version. But there was something special about this one that made me love it even more than you might expect.

This one has a padded cover. It is surprisingly light weight despite being giant print. Now "light weight" might be a relative term, obviously. But I have read and carried other "Super Giant" or "Giant Print" bibles that were bulky and just HEAVY. I don't know how this one is so "giant" and yet not bulky. But it was. It is.

Is there ghosting? Yes. Some. Some pages are more obvious than others. But for the most part it was never a distraction. Perhaps because the font color was so dark. The black is genuinely BLACK. The red [Words of Christ] are a very DARK red. Very easy on the eyes all things considered. The text colors were not faded or faint.

This one is two columns. Words of Christ in red--as I mentioned before. It is verse by verse.

This one has some bells and whistles. More than you might expect for being "text only." This one features end of verse references. Not a TON of references. There are plenty of verses without any references at all. But when references do appear they are at the end of the verse--a handful. This one also defines some archaic words. Again not a great amount. Perhaps not as many as one would want if one was struggling with readability. Sometimes the words they choose to define are easy to understand without any helps. While other words that are more difficult they chose not to define.

This one features a substantial family section--pages to fill out with personal information.

The back matter is surprisingly MORE than what I was expecting.
What is the Bible? (one page article)
Prophecies of the Messiah Fulfilled in Jesus Christ (nine page table/chart)
Bible in a year reading plan (four pages)
Summary of the books of the Bible (eight pages)
How to Study the Bible (thirteen page article)
first mentioned things in the Bible (two page index)
concordance (eighty-six pages)
eight color maps
As for the translation, it is the King James Version (which I personally adore).… (més)

very cool, anyways heres my ranking of all the books

s tier
1. Ecclesiastes (emo existentialism for the win)
2. 1 Samuel (ghosts and witches and homoeroticism and actual character arcs and other cool things)
3. Revelation (this is some tolkien shit)
4. Job (my favorite paul schrader movie)
5.John (john said i’m not like the other evangelists)
6. Genesis (jacob was a terrible person lol but slay for fathering all of israel ig)

a tier
7. Acts (aka paul gives us a tour of the roman empire)
8. Luke (if this isn’t your favorite synoptic gospel you’re wrong)
9. Matthew (watered down luke still slaps ig)
10. 2 Samuel (daddy issues)
11. Judges (lots and lots of violence)
12. Mark (watered down matthew still slaps ig)
13. Exodus (it's no prince of egypt but i mean what is)
14. Psalms (actually pretty beautiful idk if we needed 150 of them tho)
15. Song of Solomon (when will i find love)

b tier
16. Esther (all these characters are psychopaths and need therapy)
17. 1 Kings (sick handel reference)
18. Jeremiah (jeremiah: predicts the destruction of the king and his people
the king: gets mad
jeremiah: surprised pikachu gif)
19. Ruth (short and sweet)
20. 2 Kings (you have to lie on top of a guy to heal him seems a bit gay to me)
21. Lamentations (oh boo hoo your city was destroyed your people were enslaved and your own god turned on you, cry about it)
22. Hebrews (embraces the world and god in a beautiful - if sometimes - boring way. choosing not to believe that paul wrote this)
23. Jonah (damn this book is trippy in more ways than one)
24. Isaiah (i like a good prophecy but didn’t need 66 chapters of this)
25. 2 Corinthians (paul has rights just this once)
26. Proverbs (very cool but this felt longer than psalms even tho its 3 times shorter)
27. James (hate the idea of patience in suffering but this books hates rich people so W)
28. 1 John (sick lars von trier reference)

c tier
29. Daniel (it's pretty bleh imo, i understand why some people love it tho)
30. Ezekiel (the last couple chapters start sounding suspiciously like *those* 3 books of the torah, ezekiel bestie you’re better than that)
31. Galatians (obsessed with an entire bible book being about why people shouldn’t have to be circumsised)
32. Nehemiah (honestly after the misery of the previous like 5 books this was a welcome change)
33. Joshua (ahaha so many people die in this book)
34. Romans (in which paul explains that free will doesn’t exist but you can still go to hell)
35. Joel (trying to think of something interesting to say but its such a nothing book)
36. Ezra (at least its short)
37. 1 Timothy (some interesting lines from paul for once)
38. Zechariah (see joel)
39. 1 Corinthians (ok paul thats enough misogyny for today)
40. 2 Peter (k)

d tier
41. Ephesians (ok paul thats enough misogyny for today pt 2)
42. Haggai (yall need to stop building new temples and start freeing your slaves, helping the poor, etc)
43. 1 Peter (everything after acts is just all the same i dont get how someone was like yeah these are all necessary)
44. Hosea (umm interesting choice of allegory)
45. Micah (ok that's good, yeah that's good, ok alright, ok. okay. alright. okAY ITS ENOUGH PROPHETS)
46. Colossians (we only needed 2 paul letters tops to get the gist instead of 15 change my mind)
47. Amos (just imagine the wonders god could work if he spent his days helping the people he created instead of threatening and abusing them constantly lmao just a thought!)
48. 2 Timothy (guys umm guys i think paul might love jesus and hate women idk tho)
49. Phillippians (more paul bs dont need to say anything else)
50. Zephaniah (we’ve read this exact same schtick at least 15 times @ god)
51. 2 Thessalonians (dont care not listening)
52. 1 Thessalonians (dont care not listening ur longer than 2)
53. 2 Chronicles (deja vu pt 1)
54. Nahum (nahum to the tune of sufjan singing “don't do to me what you did to nineveh”)
55. Malachi (aaand the old testament goes out with a whimper)
56. 1 Chronicles (deja vu pt 2)
57. Jude (he made it bad and let me down :/)
58. Philemon (short books my beloved but paul wrote you)
59. Titus (short books my beloved but paul wrote you youre longer)
60. Habakkuk (habakkuk wyd stop inciting god to mass murder he's already violent enough)
61. Obadiah (oh yeah one time i read an entire book in under a minute hbu)
62. 2 John (^ but 45 seconds this time)
63. 3 John (^ but 30 seconds this time)

shit tier
64. Numbers (they do be counting people)
65. Deuteronomy (i’d cry if i had to listen to hours of moses giving a speech about which seafood you can eat and the correct way to sacrifice lambs)
66. Leviticus (gay people are the devil)… (més)