Joel Johnson

This is just a quick post outlining how I added automatic Bible verse hyperlinks to my Blogger website. The idea behind this is that it will automatically pick up any text which appears as a reference to a passage of Scripture (e.g. Eph 1:5) and will show a pop-up box displaying the full verse text.  There are a number of free plugins which are specifically designed for this. A few that I found when I went looking were BibleLink , BLB ScriptTagger by Blue Letter Bible, and Bible Gateway's Ref Tag Tool .  In the end, I went with the Blue Letter Bible plugin because it looked the simplest to add to my website and it was the first one that I tried that worked. I also like how the Blue Letter Bible site incorporates a bunch of other features (e.g. lexicons) which makes it very convenient for the reader if they want to dive deep into specific words in the verse.  If you also want to add automatic Bible verse hyperlinks to your Blogger website, here are the steps to follow:...

King Josiah stamping out idolatry by burning the bones of the false priests Today I’d like to take you back to the year 640 BC, to the city of Jerusalem - the royal city of King David. But by this time David had been dead for 330 years, and things had changed dramatically. A lot can happen in three centuries. If you want to compare it to Australia’s history, consider that the First Fleet arrived here in 1788, only 237 years ago. Think of how much has changed since then - both for good and for bad.  So it has been three centuries since the heyday of the combined kingdom under David and then under Solomon. The northern kingdom of Israel has been scattered and in captivity since the Assyrians invaded there 80 years prior. The largely desolate land to the north - where the nation of Israel used to be - stands as a stark reminder of God’s judgement. And yet the people living in Judah haven’t paid attention to this message; in fact, by this time they were living even more wicked lives th...