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Read Scripture in the world it describes.

Lands & Lineage sets the Bible beside a map of its world. As you read, see where each passage takes place, who is involved, and what the historical sources say, with every claim cited.

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The overview Reading, journeys, narration, the original languages, translations, research and family trees, in a minute. With sound.
1,342
places, each with its own page
3,145
people, with their families
4,454
articles, fully cited
274
hours of narration

Reading

Scripture and its world, side by side.

Read from Genesis to Revelation in one continuous scroll. The map follows along, showing each passage’s places beneath the borders of its own time, and journeys such as Paul’s unfold as you read.

Prefer to listen? The narration moves the map just as reading does.

Acts 17 beside a map of Macedonia, with Amphipolis, Apollonia and Thessalonica marked.
Acts 17 The passage on the left; on the right, the places it names on a map of the first century.

Translations

Two translations, compared word by word.

Read in the Berean Standard Bible or the King James Version. Compare any verse to see both side by side, with the words they translate differently traced back to the Hebrew or Greek beneath them.

1 Corinthians 13:4 in the BSB and the KJV, above a table of the Greek words they translate differently, such as agapē, rendered love and charity.
1 Corinthians 13:4 “Love is patient” and “charity suffereth long”: one Greek verse, translated two ways.

Hebrew and Greek

The original words behind every verse.

See the Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek beneath any verse, word by word in the order of the English. Choose a word for its definition, how it is translated, and every verse in which it appears.

John 1:1 word by word in Greek, with the lexicon entry for logos open below it.
John 1:1 Logos, “Word”: its definition, and the 318 verses that use it.

Notes and bookmarks

Keep your own notes as you read.

Select a verse, or drag across several, to write a note or to mark your place with one of four coloured bookmarks. On a phone, press and hold a verse.

A note being written on Acts 17:11, beside a map showing Berea and Thessalonica.
Acts 17:11 A note on the Bereans, with Berea itself on the map.

Places

Every place, located and explained.

Each of the 1,342 places named in Scripture has its own page: where it was, how confident scholars are of its location, and what Scripture and the reference works say about it.

The page for Ephesus, with its location on the map and an article about the city.
Ephesus Location, certainty and history, on one page.

People

The people of Scripture, in their families.

Follow the people of the Bible through their family trees, from one generation to the next. Every name opens a page of its own.

The family tree of Jesse: Boaz and Ruth, Obed, Jesse and Nahash, and their ten children.
Jesse From Boaz and Ruth to Jesse’s children, David among them.

Sources

Grounded in sources you can check.

Articles on places, people and peoples draw on Scripture and classic reference works, and every statement is footnoted to its source, so you can read it for yourself.

An article on Ephesus with scripture references inline and numbered footnotes.
Ephesus Scripture cited inline, with the reference works as footnotes.

Research

Ask questions. Get cited answers.

Ask about a person, a place, an event or a doctrine, or select a passage as you read and ask about it there. Answers draw on Scripture and its original languages, the historic creeds and confessions, and trusted reference works, with every claim cited and each step of the research shown.

A research answer on the two Greek verbs for love in John 21:15–17, citing the Greek text, the passage and lexicon entries.
John 21:15–17 Asked from the reader: the two Greek words for love, with the lexicon entries cited.

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