BibleHearthAttributions and Licences
BibleHearth reproduces other people's work on its commentary pages. This page says whose, under what licence, and what we changed. Where a work is not openly licensed we link to it instead of copying it — which is why some excellent commentaries appear here as links rather than text.
Commentaries reproduced on this site
Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Author
- Tyndale House Publishers, released openly in 2023
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0 — © Tyndale House Publishers
- Changes we made
- Converted to web markup and split into paragraphs, and scripture references were turned into links. No wording was altered, abridged or added to.
This licence is share-alike. The Tyndale Open Study Notes text on this site, and any adaptation of it, stays available under the same licence. Our own summaries, outlines and answers are separate work and are not covered by it.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible
- Author
- Matthew Henry, 1706–1714
- Licence
- Public domain
- Changes we made
- Converted to web markup and split into paragraphs, and scripture references were turned into links. No wording was altered, abridged or added to.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
- Author
- Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, 1871
- Licence
- Public domain
- Changes we made
- Converted to web markup and split into paragraphs, and scripture references were turned into links. No wording was altered, abridged or added to.
Commentaries we link to but do not reproduce
The Gospel Coalition Bible Commentary
Free to read and genuinely good, but not openly licensed. The Gospel Coalition permits unaltered excerpts with a backlink; it does not permit republishing a commentary wholesale, so we link to the relevant book from every chapter page instead.
BibleProject
Their animated book overviews are the single best free introduction to a book of the Bible. Their terms of use permit embedding and linking with attribution and prohibit derivative works, so we link to the video that covers the chapter you are reading.
Scripture
Bible text is served from the YouVersion Platform under licence from each translation's publisher. The required copyright notice for a translation appears on every page that shows its text. Scripture is never reproduced on this site outside those licensed surfaces.
Topical verse lists
Verse selections and explanations on the topic pages are our own, informed by Nave's Topical Bible (1897) and Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), both public domain.
Our own writing
Chapter summaries, outlines, glossaries, cautions and question answers are written by BibleHearth. Where they sit on the same page as a share-alike source they remain separate work: they are grounded in the commentaries but are not adaptations of them.