{"id":239,"date":"2016-12-30T10:21:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T16:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2017-08-18T15:09:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:09:59","slug":"try-this-in-your-bible-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/try-this-in-your-bible-reading\/239\/","title":{"rendered":"Try this in your Bible reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you come across a verse that is hard to understand, <strong>don&#8217;t go straight to a commentary<\/strong>. I know, this may sound like a strange suggestion from someone who makes Bible Software, but just give this a try and see what happens. I am not suggesting that there is anything wrong with reading commentaries &#8212; that&#8217;s not what this is about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Try to make a habit of cross-referencing<\/strong> before you do anything else in SwordSearcher. Before you read your favorite commentators or start clicking on links in the Bible margin for topical references, check out some cross-references first. If you already do this regularly then you already know how satisfying this is during Bible study. If you never really did it this way before, give it a shot using the KJV-TSK in SwordSearcher [<a href=\"\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/video\/kjv-tsk.html\">video tutorial<\/a>]. It will help you with copious cross-references. Another helpful tool is the Find Related Verses function [<a href=\"\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/video\/qt\/find-related-verses.html\">video tutorial<\/a>], which helps you do Bible searches based on the words in a verse you are studying.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Brandon<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Psalm 119:18 <\/em><\/strong><em>Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you come across a verse that is hard to understand, don&#8217;t go straight to a commentary. I know, this may sound like a strange suggestion from someone who makes Bible Software, but just give this a try and see what happens. I am not suggesting that there is anything wrong with reading commentaries &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/try-this-in-your-bible-reading\/239\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Try this in your Bible reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[16,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}