Then Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting. And he reigned over Israel. Lord, the God of our ancestors, ( H) are you not the God who is in heaven? ( I) You rule over all the kingdoms ( J) of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you. ( K) 7 Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land ( L) before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend? ( M) 8 They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary ( N) for your Name, saying, 9 ‘If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment, or plague or famine, ( O) we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.’ When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped. 25 So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder, and they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing [ d] and also articles of value—more than they could take away. There was so much plunder that it took three days to collect it. 26 On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berakah, where they praised the Lord. This is why it is called the Valley of Berakah [ e] to this day. The books of the Bible were initially written and copied by hand on papyrus scrolls. [12] No originals have survived. The age of the original composition of the texts is therefore difficult to determine and heavily debated. Using a combined linguistic and historiographical approach, Hendel and Joosten date the oldest parts of the Hebrew Bible (the Song of Deborah in Judges 5 and the Samson story of Judges 16 and 1 Samuel) to having been composed in the premonarchial early Iron Age ( c. 1200 BCE). [13] The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in the caves of Qumran in 1947, are copies that can be dated to between 250 BCE and 100 CE. They are the oldest existing copies of the books of the Hebrew Bible of any length that are not fragments. [14]

Brennen, Collin (August 18, 2016). "AJJ – The Bible 2". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved June 12, 2020. The first stage was completed remarkably early if one accepts Albert C. Sundberg [ de]'s view that "canon" and "scripture" are separate things, with "scripture" having been recognized by ancient Christians long before "canon" was. [159] Barton says Theodor Zahn concluded "there was already a Christian canon by the end of the first century", but this is not the canon of later centuries. [160] Accordingly, Sundberg asserts that in the first centuries, there was no criterion for inclusion in the "sacred writings" beyond inspiration, and that no one in the first century had the idea of a closed canon. [161] The gospels were accepted by early believers as handed down from those Apostles who had known Jesus and been taught by him. [162] Later biblical criticism has questioned the authorship and datings of the gospels.All biblical texts were treated with reverence and care by those that copied them, yet there are transmission errors, called variants, in all biblical manuscripts. [57] [58] A variant is any deviation between two texts. Textual critic Daniel B. Wallace explains that "Each deviation counts as one variant, regardless of how many MSS [manuscripts] attest to it." [59] Hebrew scholar Emanuel Tov says the term is not evaluative; it is a recognition that the paths of development of different texts have separated. [60]

The English word Bible is derived from Koinē Greek: τὰ βιβλία, romanized: ta biblia, meaning "the books" (singular βιβλίον, biblion). [2]Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord ( AU) and Messiah.” ( AV)

The Hebrew Bible has 39 books, written over a long period of time, and is the literary archive of the ancient nation of Israel. It was traditionally arranged in three sections. Send me also cedar, juniper and algum [ c] logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber there. My servants will work with yours 9 to provide me with plenty of lumber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent. 10 I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors [ d] of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors [ e] of barley, twenty thousand baths [ f] of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil. ( R)”Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth [ a] and no plant had yet sprung up, ( I) for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth ( J) and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams [ b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed ( K) a man [ c] ( L) from the dust ( M) of the ground ( N) and breathed into his nostrils the breath ( O) of life, ( P) and the man became a living being. ( Q) Two of them (Daniel and Ezra) are the only books in the Tanakh with significant portions in Aramaic. Acts 2:24 : ver 32; Ac 13:30, 33, 34, 37; 17:31; Ro 6:4; 8:11; 10:9; 1Co 6:14; 15:15; Eph 1:20; Col 2:12; Heb 13:20; 1Pe 1:21

The other events of Jehoshaphat’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in the annals of Jehu ( AM) son of Hanani, which are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel.Send me cedar logs ( F) as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in. 4 Now I am about to build a temple ( G) for the Name of the Lord my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense ( H) before him, for setting out the consecrated bread ( I) regularly, and for making burnt offerings ( J) every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, ( K) at the New Moons ( L) and at the appointed festivals of the Lord our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.