The KJV is arguably the greatest piece of English literature ever. Let's take a look at one example: "A vertuous woman reioyceth her husband, and he shall fulfill the yeeres of his life in peace." Ecclesiasticus 26:2  What is that you say? That scripture isn't in your copy of the KJV? Why is that? It is because the original KJV of 1611 had the apocrypha(books not canonized). And as you can see, the language is a little different from your copy. Here is another example from the book of Psalms: "That men may knowe, that thou, whose name alone is IEHOVAH, art the most high ouer all the earth."Psalmes LXXXIII:18  What does this mean? It means that the King James Version Bible has been revised thru the ages to meet the demands of a changing language.

First, there were printer errors.

• There was the Wicked Bible which omitted "not" from 7 of the 10 Commandments.
• The Vinegar Bible with its parable of the vinegar
• The Unrighteous Bible where the unrighteous inherit the kingdom
• The Ears to Ear Bible and an assortment of others

• 1612
• Early editions used either "he" or "she" at Ruth 3:15
• 1613
• 1616
• In fact, between 1611 and 1644 there were 182 editions
• 1629 edition omitted the Apocrypha
• 1638 edition by Goad, Ward, Boyse and Mead
• 1659 William Kilburne found 20,000 errors in 6 different editions made in the 1650's
• 1660 marginal references introduced
• 1683 Dr.Anthony Scargood added 7,250 references
• 1727 thousands of errors were amended by the King's Printer
• 1762 italics extended by Therold and Paris and modernized the language
• 1769 extensive revision by B.Blayney
• The 1795 edition(Murderers Bible) rendered Mark 7:27 as "Let the chidren first be killed" (instead of filled).
• Blayney's edition became standard until....
• 1873 the Cambridge Paragraph Bible edited by Scrivener

Will the real King James Bible please stand up!

For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? Eccl.2:25
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing. Ps.5:6
Nevertheless even him [Solomon] did outlandish women cause to sin. Neh. 13:26
Solomon loved many strange women. 1Kings 11:1
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. Job 26:5
The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour. Job 36:33
Woe to them that...stay on horses. Is. 31:1; 10:20; 30:12; 50:12
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market. Ez. 27:25
I trow not. Luke 17:9
He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. John 15:2
We do you to wit of the grace of God. 2Cor. 8:1
I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified. 1Cor.4:4
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. 2Cor.6:12
Not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand. 2Cor.10:16
The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd. Eccl.12:11
For some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol. 2Cor.8:7

almug, algum, chode, charashim, chapt, earing, gat, habergeon, hosen, kab, ligure, leasing, maranatha, nard, neesed, pate, rabboni, raca, ring-staked, stacte, strake, sycamyne, thyme wood, trode, wimples, ouches, tatches, brigandine, ambassage, occurent, purtenance, bruit, fray, cracknels, nusings, mufflers, anathema, corban, talitha cumi, ephrata, aceldama, centurion, quarternion, sanctum sanctorum, let, wot, trow, sod and swaddling clothes.

Sheth and Seth; Pua and Puah; Cis and Kish; Agar and Hagar; Jeremiah, Jeremias and Jeremie; Enos and Enosh; Henoch and Enoch; Jered and Jared; Noe and Noah; Jonah, Jona and Jonas; Jepthae and Jepthah; Balak and Balac; Sara and Sarah; Gidion and Gideon; Elijah and Elias; Kora and Core; Elisha and Eliseus; Hosea and Osee; Isaiah, Esaias and Esay; Hezekiah and Ezekiah; Zechariah and Zecharias; Judas, Judah, Juda and Jude; Zera, Zara and Zarah; Marcus and Mark; Lucas and Luke; Timothy and Timotheus.

• dabhar('word' or 'thing') is rendered by 84 different English words.
• panim('face') by 34 different English words.
• sim('to set' or 'place') by 59 different English words
• nasah('to lift up') by 46
• abhar('to pass over') by 48
• rabh('much' or 'many') by 44
• tobh('good') by 41
• shubh('to turn back') by 60
• katargein('to make void) by 17
• passover is translated Easter in Acts 12:4

Cockatrice
Isaiah 14:29 serpent-RSV   Snake-NWT
Isaiah 11:8   serpents-RSV & NWT
Isaiah 59:5   adders-RSV   snake NWT

Unicorn
Deut. 33:17   wild ox-RSV   wild bull-NWT
Psalms 22:21   wild oxen-RSV   wild bulls-NWT
Isaiah 34:7   wild oxen-RSV  wild bulls-NWT

Satyr
Isaiah 13:21   goat-shaped demon-NWT   wild goats[like demons]-Amplified Bible
Isaiah 34:14   goat-shaped demon-NWT   shaggy wild goat-Amplified Bible

1John 5:7"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one." Omitted by most other versions

1Timothy 3:16"God was manifest in the flesh"
                        "He who was revealed in the flesh" NASB, NWT, RSV etc

Revelation 1:11"I am the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last" Omitted by most others

Matthew 5:22 "hellfire"    Should be "gehenna" NWT, Youngs Literal Translation

Psalms 16:10 "hell"   Should be "sheol" NWT, Youngs Literal Translation

Acts 2:27 "hell" Should be "hades" NWT, Youngs Literal Translation

2Peter 2:4 "hell" Should be "tartarus" NWT, Youngs Literal Translation

Headings at Psalm 93 and Isaiah 51 mention Christ.

The Divine Name "Jehovah" is used only at Exodus 6:3, Psalms 83:18; Isaiah 12:2; 26:4, but it is omitted everywhere else and replaced by LORD in capital letters.

• The Greek text used for the King James Version, which is the Textus Receptus, took less than a year to produce by Erasmus.
• The Received Text(Textus Receptus, TR) ...."was not based on early manuscripts, not reliably edited, and consequently not trustworthy." N. Geisler/W. Nix A General Introduction to the Bible
• Since the KJV uses Elijah and Elias for the same person(see above), Mormon prophet Joseph Smith interestingly had a vision of both(Doctrine and Covenants 110:12-16)!
• King James was a flaming homosexual with a preference for boys.
• There are over 30 different editions of the Textus Receptus(TR) and none are 100% identical.
• "The King James translators knew Greek less well than they knew Latin so they constantly relied on the Latin to get themselves through the Greek."...Dr. Wallace
• The original KJV had a calendar of annual Holy days which all believers were to follow such as: Purification of the virgin Mary, annunciation of our Lady, Innocents day, etc..
• In 1851 the American Bible Society compared six different editions of the King James Bible and discovered over 24,000 variations between the editions of the same Bible translation! How could there be an inerrant King James Bible when even the different editions of the King James Bible had ten's of thousands of variant readings!?
• Erasmus, the originator of the so-called "inerrant" Greek text later to be called the "Textus Receptus" dedicated his work to Pope Leo X
• The teaching that the King James translators had a perfect Greek text is denied by the translators themselves. In the original edition of 1611 are marginal notes as follows: Note on Luke 17:36, "This 36th verse is wanting in most of the Greek copies." Note on Acts 25:6 where their text reads: "When he had tarried among them more than ten days," they inserted the following marginal note: "or, as some copies read, 'no more than eight or ten days.'"
• There are no paragraph marks after Acts 20:36
• Some believe the translators were influenced by the Socinians (Unitarians) because of their referring to the holy spirit as an "it" (John 1:32; Romans 8:16, 26; I Peter 1:11). See Emery H. Bancroft, CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY, [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1961; revised edition], pp. 147-8)

 

Does anyone know that the K.J version was written in 1610.
Did you know Shakespere was 46 at the time? Connection?
Well, in Psalms 46, the 46th word is shake, from the end of the scripture, ignore Selah, count
backwards 46 words and the word is "spear".
Also, the 14th word is "will". Go to the rear and count back to words 32 and 31(14+32=46) and
get I am. Put them all together and get his signature,
"Will-I am Shake-spear.
Then check any decent encyclopedia and see where King James summoned the greatest writers
of the day to "translate" the Word.
(In all fairness to the above submission, Will probably used the Geneva Bible)

"We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn.  Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls.  Early associations endear, but they also confuse.  Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations."

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