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I was studying Psa 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. KJV

and checking out the cross-refs....who actually makes them?

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Makes what, the cross-references?  That is done when you compare one part of the bible to another for support and clarity.  Have you looked at www.biblegateway.com and allow the site to show cross references?

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1 minute ago, OneLight said:

Makes what, the cross-references?  That is done when you compare one part of the bible to another for support and clarity.  Have you looked at www.biblegateway.com and allow the site to show cross references?

bud, I was referring to the writers of the refs....are they the translators?

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2 minutes ago, a tryer said:

bud, I was referring to the writers of the refs....are they the translators?

Yes, they could be, or they could be the editors themselves as not all bibles have cross-references, even if they are from the same translation.

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thank you very much...I have something else troubling me. How do you keep a happy feeling without getting smug?

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I guess that depends on where your happiness came from.  I know that I can't turn happiness on and off like a light switch, so I have no reason to be smug about how I feel.  As with all feelings, I try to understand why I am feeling this way when I first notice the change.

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The Lord gave a word for you OneLight...

Proverbs 14:8New International Version (NIV)

The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways,
    but the folly of fools is deception.

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On 10/19/2017 at 3:33 PM, a tryer said:

I was studying Psa 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. KJV

and checking out the cross-refs....who actually makes them?

Hired scholars make them, at the pleasure of the group making the printing of a particular Bible possible, often the publishing company. Thompson Chain Bible, Nelson Study  Bible; the publisher's name gets advanced  and some loyalty to it built by the study method provided in the Bible by a particular publishing house. Yet others are the work of  one group under the lead of a pastor/teacher, as in the Ryrie Study Bible

Part of exposition is the learning of the settings, the places, the traditions, the additional instances of  use of  the same word, or mention of same subject, for the purpose of confirming interpretation of the word of God as it pertains to a subject of interest and study.

So who makes them? At the ultimate, I suppose God has made it  desirable to have such references.

The more of the OT that is familiar to the reader the fewer cross references are necessary for the brain does the cross referencing  for that reader of the Bible. Conversely the less known the greater is te benefit of cross referencing.  

There are several mehods of referencing too; by common original language word, or by common subject, or even by same human author, or in the case of the gospels the  main points of each  author that are also contained in the other's record of the events.

About the very first thing each Bible contains is the explanation, by it's writers, of  the supplements the study guides, giving their purpose who wrote them and why they wrote them, and how their aids to reading and leaning work. For example in the Ryrie Study Bible there is two pages written by C.C.R.  that concludes with  " I wrote the study guides to meet a variety of needs of many people... Then there are some pages explaining principles of use and method and purpose of each. 

 

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Not all study Bibles are especially good. Some are rather horrible!!!  I have one that comes to mind, "The Possibility Thinkers Bible".  It gets used to advance a cause of the particular "pastor of a group" that had it assembled for that purpose.

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8 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Not all study Bibles are especially good. Some are rather horrible!!!  I have one that comes to mind, "The Possibility Thinkers Bible".  It gets used to advance a cause of the particular "pastor of a group" that had it assembled for that purpose.

interesting bud, esp your previous post...there is a God-industry but a discerning mind honours God. I use https://www.blueletterbible.org/ and https://www.biblegateway.com/ and prefer His Bible to comment on itself. Gonna check out Ryrie Study Bible

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