BibleHearthBible Commentary
A study page for every chapter of the Bible. Each one lays the chapter out in order, explains the words that need explaining, and then gives you what three commentaries wrote about it — in full, free, with no account and no paywall. If you are new to reading the Bible, start with the Tyndale notes on any page: they are written in plain modern English.
Chapters written up in full
These chapters have a summary, an outline, a plain-English glossary and answers to the questions people actually ask about them.
Old Testament
New Testament
The commentaries on these pages
Listed in the order they appear on a chapter page, which is plainest first.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Short, plain-English notes written for people reading the Bible for the first time. They explain what a word meant to its original audience, why a detail is there, and where else in Scripture the same idea shows up. If you only read one set of notes on this page, read this one.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible
A pastor writing for his own congregation three hundred years ago. Henry is less interested in historical background than in what a chapter asks of the person reading it, which is why he is still quoted in sermons today. He is warm, direct, and unafraid to apply a text to you.
Written in the early 1700s. The sentences are long and some words have shifted meaning since — "conversation" means how a person lives, "want" means to lack something. Read it slowly; it rewards that.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Three Scottish scholars working phrase by phrase through the whole Bible. Where a translation had to choose one English wording, they tell you what the Hebrew or Greek actually says and what the alternatives were. Useful when you want to know why two Bibles word the same verse differently.
Written in 1871 and organised around short quoted phrases followed by a dash, then the explanation. It reads more like reference notes than prose, and it assumes you have the verse in front of you.
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