Finest Bibles in the World

[ReformedDave]

Big claim but I just may have found it!!!!! I've gotten so tired of Bibles that you can't lay down and have them remain where you've turned and many times the binding is very bad. The paper is of poor quality and only lasts a couple of years. I've done some research and have come across what I believe to be the finest bible binders anywhere. This isn't an inexpensive enterprise but an investment. I've ordered an ESV and will be getting one for my pastor.

www.bibles-direct.com

For a review go here- www.jmarkbertrand.com/bibles/allans/index.htm

[Pressing-On]

Which one of these would be the best in the KJV?

King James Authorized Version KJV ::

World Reference
Oxford Reference
Cambridge Reference
Oxford Text
Cambridge Text
Interlinear KJV/RV

Goatskin leather, with red under gold page edges, maps and gazetteer. $75.00.

I paid the same price for my Thompson-Chain leather Bible - 22 years ago.

So, not a bad price!

[Michael The Disciple]

Cambridge is the best. I had several over the years. Just bought a new one this year I am so pleased with it. My second choice is World. I have a nice leather bound Bible from them.

[Pressing-On]

Cambridge is the best. I had several over the years. Just bought a new one this year I am so pleased with it. My second choice is World. I have a nice leather bound Bible from them.
I lost my Bible that I've had for 22 years!!! I've been looking for it for a month. I've torn the house apart - the truck and car! Looked and asked at church. I have no idea.

I've been reading out of an old one that has a lot of cross references and when I went to get mine - poof - it's gone.

I can't believe it!!! Where could it be?

[ReformedDave]

Which one of these would be the best in the KJV?

King James Authorized Version KJV ::

World Reference
Oxford Reference
Cambridge Reference
Oxford Text
Cambridge Text
Interlinear KJV/RV

Goatskin leather, with red under gold page edges, maps and gazetteer. $75.00.

I paid the same price for my Thompson-Chain leather Bible - 22 years ago.

So, not a bad price!

I believe that 75 pounds! Unless you did the currency converter.

[Pressing-On]

I believe that 75 pounds! Unless you did the currency converter.

:killinme Oh, Lord! I didn't think it could still cost the same. No I didn't.

Let me check. It would be around $151.

[ReformedDave]

Cambridge is the best. I had several over the years. Just bought a new one this year I am so pleased with it. My second choice is World. I have a nice leather bound Bible from them.


Allan buys the "pages" from the different Bible companies and guilds and sews them. Fantastic workmanship. Makes my Cambridge come in a distant second.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

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I paid the same price for my Thompson-Chain leather Bible - 22 years ago.


That Thompson Chain was hand-sewed.

I know a man who had WAP Thompson Chain Bible for sale in his Christian Bookstore. Seems they forgot to include 32 page of helps in the front before they were sewn. So they gave a good deal, and both my daughter and myself have one of these misfits with the WAP on the spine, but missing the Doctrinal Insert in the front.

They lay down flat on a table and fresh out of a box even all pages lay flat.

At some point, Thompson stopped having them sewn, and started using glue to bind them.... kept the cost low, but after a few years the glue is weakened and makes the Thompson quite inferior now.


My other personal Bible is a Zondervan Leather Bound and it is weakened after 30 yrs of use. The print is bigger for those of us above 40...:sshhh

[Malvaro]

been trying to find New Open Bible KJV - any colored leather

it's outta print and i can't find any online!!!! eeeeeekkkkkkkk

[Malvaro]

That Thompson Chain was hand-sewed.

I know a man who had WAP Thompson Chain Bible for sale in his Christian Bookstore. Seems they forgot to include 32 page of helps in the front before they were sewn. So they gave a good deal, and both my daughter and myself have one of these misfits with the WAP on the spine, but missing the Doctrinal Insert in the front.


I have one of those WAP Thompson Chains sitting on my bookshelf collecting dust....

[Ferd]

I love my thompson chain. working on my second one it is 7 years old and still look pretty new. it gets lots of use.

[seguidordejesus]

thompson chain is great! at least to use...don't know about its quality

[Scott Hutchinson]

I have done really well with Broadman-Holman like they sell at Lifeway.
I have a genuine leather bound KJV that I use for preaching, I also have one in NASB.
I have a Thomas Nelson KJV with center column references that is leather bound that I use for study alot.
I own two Cambridge KJVS one is a small French Morroco bound leather pitt minion ,and and the other is a genuine leather bound KJV, but I own alot of other Bibles as well.

[Praxeas]

I misread...I thought the title says finest BABES in the world....disappointed :killinme

[Pressing-On]

thompson chain is great! at least to use...don't know about its quality

I've hardly used any of the helps in that Bible. I don't even know why I bought it. Well, now I've lost it, so it doesn't matter. But, I want to KNOW WHERE IT IS!!! My songs, notes and everything are in it!!!! Somebody pray!

[ReformedDave]

I misread...I thought the title says finest BABES in the world....disappointed :killinme

Why don't you start that thread!:killinme

[Praxeas]

Why don't you start that thread!:killinme
Hmmmm.....:hypercoffee

[Ron]

I miss my Thompson Chain made by Eyre & Spottiswoode in Great Britain.
I bought one in the early Eighties and would like to replace it with the same but alas can not.

I have 5 Bibles currently.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

I have one of those WAP Thompson Chains sitting on my bookshelf collecting dust....

Well, do you have the doctrinal insert?

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

I love my thompson chain. working on my second one it is 7 years old and still look pretty new. it gets lots of use.

thompson chain is great! at least to use...don't know about its quality

The newer ones would not wear much different for a few years. Unless you only open them once a week, then you could have a $6 walmart bible!

:preach

[Steadfast]

I have one of the new Nelson Signature Series bibles... super soft leather and lays out good. Great bible.

Confession is good for the soul: 95% of my reading is on the computer as I can quickly bounce between over 30 different bibles and read their opinions of the same scripture. Ironically, when I do read from a regular bible it's from a generic one my Grandmother bought me from a door to door bible salesman that she paid $18.00 for when I first came into the Church. Its red and weighs about 1,580 pounds. :sshhh I never preached in a pulpit with it that I can remember (red isn't preacherfied) but its the one treasure that both my sons would want if I would give it up. It's come through serious car wrecks, tornados and hurricanes and it appears that the most damage has been done by tears and highlighters. I've used it from the day I came into the Church some 28 years ago... marked all up... few pages torn... but I'm still in love.

[TK Burk]

Big claim but I just may have found it!!!!! I've gotten so tired of Bibles that you can't lay down and have them remain where you've turned and many times the binding is very bad. The paper is of poor quality and only lasts a couple of years. I've done some research and have come across what I believe to be the finest bible binders anywhere. This isn't an inexpensive enterprise but an investment. I've ordered an ESV and will be getting one for my pastor.

www.bibles-direct.com

For a review go here- www.jmarkbertrand.com/bibles/allans/index.htm

I purchased a RL Allan Bible last year. They are every bit as good as they are advertised to be. I ordered the Oxford Reference
Longprimer Edition (*53). It features Highland goatskin with overlapping (full yapp) covers, leather lined inside in dark blue, with dictionary of proper names, subject index and concordance. This all makes one very great Bible! It is glove-soft! The only issue I have is that the spacing between the lines of text is too tight. This makes reading it a bit difficult. Especially if you use it in a pulpit. I much prefer the Cambridge widemargin. The goatskin version is as soft as Allan's, though it is not leather lined.

[Falla39]

I've hardly used any of the helps in that Bible. I don't even know why I bought it. Well, now I've lost it, so it doesn't matter. But, I want to KNOW WHERE IT IS!!! My songs, notes and everything are in it!!!! Somebody pray!

Sis. Pressing-On,

When I saw you had lost your Bible I felt like praying that

you would find it. So, Lord, would You please let (allow, permit)

Sis. Pressing-On to find her Bible of 22 yrs., in Jesus Name!!!

Someone agree with me, in Jesus Name!

Blessings,

Falla39

[Ron]

Sis. Pressing-On,

When I saw you had lost your Bible I felt like praying that

you would find it. So, Lord, would You please let (allow, permit)

Sis. Pressing-On to find her Bible of 22 yrs., in Jesus Name!!!

Someone agree with me, in Jesus Name!

Blessings,

Falla39

Amen Sister I agree!

Besides, I wouldn't want her to go around undefended without her sword!

[Falla39]

[QUOTE=Steadfast;211539][SIZE="4"][COLOR="Blue"]I have one of the new Nelson Signature Series bibles... super soft leather and lays out good. Great bible.

Bro. Steadfast,

I was so pleased when our eldest son took the money his dad and

I gave him for his June 4th birthday, and purchased a new Nelson

Signature Series Bible with super soft leather. He had us fill in the

to and from and the occasion, while sitting beside him at Texas District

Campmeeting this year. That is where I met you for the first time.

Blessings,

Falla39

[ChTatum]

We always give our high school graduates a Thompson chain.

I have bought 2-3 from WAP that have not impressed me, pages not "in line", pages appearing to pressed with a fold in them, quality not consistent.

So now I buy them from a local Bible book store.

I miss the 32 page insert, but feel much better about the quality. They can hear the important parts of the 32 page insert from their pastor.


That would be me.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Brother Dave where can you view a page from one of this Bibles on the web site?

[Falla39]

Amen Sister I agree!

Besides, I wouldn't want her to go around undefended without her sword!

Thank you, Bro. Ron!

Absolutely, she definitely needs her "trusty" sword. The one she

is accustomed to handling!!!:thumbsup

Blessings,

Falla39

[Steve Epley]

I have one of the new Nelson Signature Series bibles... super soft leather and lays out good. Great bible.

Confession is good for the soul: 95% of my reading is on the computer as I can quickly bounce between over 30 different bibles and read their opinions of the same scripture. Ironically, when I do read from a regular bible it's from a generic one my Grandmother bought me from a door to door bible salesman that she paid $18.00 for when I first came into the Church. Its red and weighs about 1,580 pounds. :sshhh I never preached in a pulpit with it that I can remember (red isn't preacherfied) but its the one treasure that both my sons would want if I would give it up. It's come through serious car wrecks, tornados and hurricanes and it appears that the most damage has been done by tears and highlighters. I've used it from the day I came into the Church some 28 years ago... marked all up... few pages torn... but I'm still in love.

I bought a Nelson I love it that leather is so soft.

[Michael The Disciple]

Just checked Nelson Signature Bible price online. 149 dollars on sale. I think I will stick with my 35 dollar on sale Cambridge.

[jwharv]

http://subjectbible.com/


I got this Bible a few years back. I like it. Praise God it was also free.......

[Steve Epley]

I bought mine for $125 and it was worth every nickle.

[ReformedDave]

Just received my ESV from Allan's Bibles. It is as good as advertised. Wow!

[ReformedDave]

I'm REALLY enjoying the quality of this Bible. It is worth EVERY cent.

[Felicity]

Thanks so much for this thread and the info and links provided!