Free Bible Study Software

Posted by Mrs. Mecomber

March 2, 2008

I love to study the Bible. For a long time, all I had was my very good study Bible. I amassed several study books, like Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, the Interliner Bible with the Hebrew and Greek words, and some Bible dictionaries and commentaries. It was quite the event, studying the Bible! I had to have a lot of space to spread out all those books, and I wrote all my notes by hand in a notebook.

Modern technology has made studying the Bible much faster and easier. I have surfed around a little, looking for Bible study software. Some stuff costs several hundreds of dollars! I could never afford something like that.

A guy named Rick Meyers thought the same thing. So he invented his own program, called E-Sword. It is amazing! And it’s free! E-Sword has the basic King James Bible in the program, with String’s Concordance. From that basic program, you can download a variety of plugins as you want them or need them. Maps, dictionaries, commentaries, tips, books, everything! I am amazed! I have John Wesley’s commentaries on the New Testament, Charles Finney’s Systematic Theology, and Josephus’ works. There is a ton more, too. And Rick offers it all free. It’s a wonderful program, I’ve been using it for almost seven years now.