If the KJV was updated what would you suggest?

Change "Easter" in Acts 12:4 to "Passover"

 

I have also heard that...

The Free Reformed Churches in their 2004 Synod Report had set up a committee to examine the possibility of establishing a multi denominational "soft" revision on the KJV, removing the archaisms and such from the text and replacing them with modern words. The project has not been picked up on by any other denomination yet although the Free Church Continuing and the Protestant Reformed Church have shown an interest. Perhaps they will all look at it again in a few years. I for one would be interested in such a revision.

...the Churches consulted were the Free Reformed Churches, the Heritage Reformed Churches, the Free Church Continuing, the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland, and the Protestant Reformed Church. Individuals were also approached, such as J. Beeke, Iain Murray, and Sinclair Ferguson.

 

If the KJV was updated . . .

You mean, like, to a "New King James Version"?

 

My first real bible when I was saved. I really enjoyed it.

 

Good job. It should have sold a lot better than it did. I think the Scofield notes may have hindered sales. </font>[/QUOTE]I never thought about it, but you are probably right. I wonder if this bible would have sold if it had been available without Scofield's notes?

 

Many people are misled by"I will cause their captivity to return again", as that reading leads them to think God's gonna cause some nation to make the Jews captives once more-and it becomes more confusing as they read on about the BLESSINGS God's gonna give them.

Actually, I would update the whole KJV into current English. After all it was written in the best then-current English of 1604.

 

Noah Webster updated the KJV in 1833.

D. A. Waite, a KJV defender, observed that Noah Webster (1758-1843) "was an excellent man who knew many languages and he worked on the King James Bible" (DEFENDING THE KJB, p. 231). Waite maintained that Webster's "is basically the King James Bible except in certain areas where he attempted to clarify some points" (Ibid.). David Cloud also listed Noah Webster as a defender of the KJV (FOR LOVE OF THE BIBLE, p. 66).

David Daniell observed: “Noah Webster’s Bible is straight KJV with minute alterations” (BIBLE IN ENGLISH, p. 651). The Publisher's Preface in the 1987 reprint of Webster's revision stated: "Although Webster had mastered twenty languages, including Hebrew and Greek, he did not retranslate the KJV but thoroughly clarified and corrected its English" (p. 3). Darlow and Moule noted that Webster "professes to give a careful revision of King James' version" and that "the alterations affect (1) errors in grammar, (2) obsolete or unseemly words and phrases, and (3) certain mistranslations" (Historical Catalogue, I, p. 350).

The following are some O. T. examples of the updatings or revisions made by Noah Webster: "creeping animal" for "creeping thing" (Gen. 1:24), "food" for "meat" (Gen. 1:29), "Cush" for "Ethiopia" (Gen. 2:13), "were checked" for "asswaged" (Gen. 8:1), "show" for "shew" (Gen. 12:1), "provisions" for "victuals" (Gen. 14:11), "certainly" for "of a surety" (Gen. 15:13), "eighty six" for "fourscore and six" (Gen. 16:16), “brought“ for “fetcht“ (Gen. 18:7), "evening" for "even" (Gen. 19:1), “cleft“ for “clave“ (Gen. 22:3), "sixty" for "threescore" (Gen. 25:26), "perhaps" for "peradventure" (Gen. 27:12), "scarcely" for "scarce" (Gen. 27:30), "peeled" for "pilled" (Gen. 30:37), "cows" for "kine" (Gen. 32:15), “he himself lodged“ for “himself lodged“ (Gen. 32:21), "people" for "folk" (Gen. 33:15), “cleaved“ for “clave“ (Gen. 34:3), "aught" for "ought" (Gen. 39:6), "custody" for "ward" (Gen. 40:3), “forgot“ for “forgat“ (Gen. 40:23), "will" for “shall" (Gen. 41:16), “Far be it“ for “God forbid“ (Gen. 44:7), “load“ for “lade“ (Gen. 45:17), "expired" for "yielded up the ghost" (Gen. 49:33), "diminish" for "minish" (Exod. 5:19), "boil" for "seethe" (Exod. 16:23), "toward God" for "to God-ward" (Exod. 18:19), "accustomed" for "wont" (Exod. 21:29), "buttons" for "taches" (Exod. 26:6), "engrave" for "grave" (Exod. 28:9), “male children“ for “menchildren“ (Exod. 34:23), "towards the mercy-seat" for "to the mercy seatward" (Exod. 37:9), "out of it" for "thereout" (Lev. 2:2), “avenger“ for “revenger“ (Num. 35:19), "into which" for "whereunto" (Num. 36:4), “didst break“ for “brakest“ (Deut. 10:2), “venture“ for “adventure“ (Deut. 28:56), “Select from“ for “Give out from“ (Josh. 18:4), “its“ for “her“ (Josh. 21:30), "from it" for "therefrom" (Josh. 23:6), "outlived" for "overlived" (Josh. 24:31), "a Benjaminite" for "a Benjamite" (Jud. 3:15), “near“ for “hard“ (Jud. 9:52), "till" for "ear" (1 Sam. 8:12), "strictly" for "straitly" (1 Sam. 14:28), "about which" for "whereabout" (1 Sam. 21:2), "outran" for "overran" (2 Sam. 18:23), “I think“ for “Me thinketh“ (2 Sam. 18:27), "support" for "stay" (2 Sam. 22:19), "three pounds" for "three pound" (1 Kings 10:17), "adorned her head" for "tired her head" (2 Kings 9:30), "a separate house" for "a several house" (2 Kings 15:5), "my own possessions" for "mine own proper good" (1 Chron. 29:3), “numbered“ for “told out“ (2 Chron. 2:2), "attentive" for "attent" (2 Chron. 6:40), "Ephron" for "Ephrain" (2 Chron. 13:19), “fathers‘ house“ for “father‘s house“ (Ezra 2:59), "revealeth" for "discovereth" (Job 12:22), "ask" for "demand" (Job 42:4), "falsehood" for "leasing" (Ps. 5:6), “encompass“ for “compass“ (Ps. 7:7), "held" for "holden" (Ps. 18:35), "Blow the trumpet" for "Blow up the trumpet" (Ps. 81:3), “part“ for “parts“ (Ps. 78:66), "helped" for "holpen" (Ps. 86:17), “prayer come before thee“ for “prayer prevent thee“ (Ps. 88:13), “come before“ for “prevented“ (Ps. 119:147), "strengthen" for "strengthenedst" (Ps. 138:3), "imperfect" for "unperfect" (Ps. 139:16), “adder‘s poison“ for “adders‘ poison“ (Ps. 140:3), “ransom of a man‘s life is“ for “ransom of a man‘s life are“ (Prov. 13:8), "plant" for "hay" (Prov. 27:25), “merchant‘s ships“ for “merchants‘ ships“ (Prov. 31:14), “skillful“ for “cunning“ (Song of Solomon 7:1), "seraphim" for "seraphims" (Isa. 6:2), “vetches“ for “fitches“ (Isa. 28:25), "Edom" for "Idumea" (Isa. 34:5), "the sound of the noise" for "the noise of the bruit" (Jer. 10:22), "JEHOVAH" for "THE LORD" (Jer. 23:6), "the scribe's pen-knife" for "the penknife" (Jer. 36:23), “cherubim‘s“ for “cherubims‘” (Ezek. 10:5), “insatiable“ for “unsatiable“ (Ezek. 16:28), "paint" for "paintedst" (Ezek. 23:40), "Alas the day" for "Woe worth the day" (Ezek. 30:2), "shady cover" for "shadowing shroud" (Ezek. 31:3), "since" for "sith" (Ezek. 35:6), "Phut" for "Libya" (Ezek. 38:5), "outer" for "utter" (Ezek. 40:31, 47:2), “potter‘s clay“ for “potters‘ clay“ (Dan. 2:41), "anger" for "choler" (Dan. 8:7), "vats" for "fats" (Joel 2:24), "a hundred and twenty" for "sixscore" (Jonah 4:11), and "to JEHOVAH" for "unto the LORD" (Micah 4:13).

The 1833 Webster's has the following rendering of 1 Samuel 25:22: "So and more also do God to the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any male person."

 

I would reinsert the original translators' notes into the center or margin or footer.

 

If the KJV was updated...

The KJV has been updated, and several times, I might add. With the exception of the NKJV, it seems none of the KJV updates have caught on, despite their varing degrees of modernization.

There are also the Revised King James Version New Testament, the Third Millennium Bible, the Twenty-first Century King James Version (KJ21), and the Webster Bible. And these are just some of the KJV revisions that have never become very popular.

 

ALL of the above.

 

I found 2 different Granville Sharp Rules. They disagree each other.

So are modern versions.

 

No thank you.

 

Here is the funniest KJV boo-boo of all:

2 Kings 19:35 (KJV1769):
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians
an hundred fourscore and five thousand:
and when they1 arose early in the morning,
behold, they2 were all dead corpses.

Of course, it is only funny if you
resolve the first "they1" as "the Assyrians"
and the second "they2" as "the Assyrians"
so it reads:

2 Kings 19:35 (KJV1769):
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians
an hundred fourscore and five thousand:
and when the Assyrians arose early in the morning,
behold, the Assyrians were all dead corpses.

Compare to the clarity of the HCSB = The Holman Christian Standard Bible
2 Kings 19:35 (HCSB):

That night the angel of the Lord went out
and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians.
When the people got up the [next] morning-there
were all the dead bodies!


But I love to praise Jesus in 17th Century talk:
:wavey: Praise Iesus, the Christ :wavey:

 

From this source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Sharp

We read:

//Granville Sharp's Rule: "When the copulative kai connects two nouns of the same case, if the article ho, or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle . . . ." (Sharp, Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article, 2).//

Askjo: //I found 2 different Granville Sharp Rules. They disagree each other.//

And the other rule you found is?