About this edition

This web edition presents The Chronological Study Bible (New King James Version), published in 2008 by Thomas Nelson, Inc., as a reading and study site for UECF.NET. Every page of the print edition was processed: the complete NKJV Scripture text in the book’s chronological arrangement (nine epochs, from “Before the Patriarchs” to “The Church Age”), the transitions that introduce each reading, the background notes, the category notes on daily life and culture, the time capsules, time panels, time charts, feature articles, in-text maps and illustrations, the epoch and section introductions, the front-matter essays, the glossary, the index of cultural and historical topics, and the image credits.

Nothing has been rewritten. The Scripture wording is the NKJV text exactly as printed, including the italicized supplied words, the small-capital Lord, the textual footnotes, and the paragraph and poetry layout. The study material is the editors’ own text, reproduced verbatim. Where the print edition sets a feature as a graphic (time panels, maps, charts), the graphic itself is shown, with a text version provided for search and accessibility.

Copyright and source

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The Chronological Study Bible copyright © 2008 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Portions formerly published as The Life and Times Historical Reference Bible, copyright © 1997 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. The full copyright statement of the print edition is reproduced on the Introduction page, and the illustration and photography credits on the Credits page.

Licensing review — please read before public publication

The print edition’s copyright page grants a limited permission for quoting the NKJV text: up to 1,000 verses may be quoted without written permission, provided they amount to less than 50% of any single book of the Bible and less than 50% of the work in which they appear, and are acknowledged with the standard notice. A complete online Bible is far outside that grant, and the study features (notes, transitions, time capsules, charts, panels, maps and the chronological arrangement itself) carry no quotation grant at all; the photographs are additionally credited to third-party agencies and photographers.

Before this site is made public on uecf.net, UECF.NET should therefore obtain written permission from Thomas Nelson (HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Bible Rights and Permissions) covering the NKJV text, the study features and the images, or restrict access to what the permission allows. This page and the project report list the specific items to review. This is a plain-language flag prepared as part of a technical build, not legal advice.

How the site is organized

Timeline (chronological order). The sidebar follows the print edition: Epoch → section → readings. Each reading is one chapter (or the part of a chapter that appears at that point in the chronology). Previous/Next moves through the whole Bible in chronological order. Epoch and section introductions are readings of their own.
Books (canonical order). The Books tab and the book/chapter selectors let you look up any chapter of any book; the site opens the reading where that chapter appears in the chronology. When a chapter is read in several places (for example in the Gospel harmony or in Jeremiah), the reading lists the other parts.
Study features in the flow of the text. Transitions, background notes, category notes, time capsules, panels, charts, maps and illustrations appear where they fall in the print edition. The Study guide panel lists every feature in the current reading and the textual notes.
References are links. Scripture references inside notes, transitions and charts (for example “Gen. 12:4” or “1 Chr. 15:25–28”) open the passage in its chronological reading.
Search (Ctrl/⌘ K) covers every verse and every study feature, and understands references such as John 3:16.
Resources. The introduction essays, the glossary, the index of cultural and historical topics (linked to the background notes), an index of every map, panel, chart and note, and the image credits.

Extraction accuracy

The text was extracted from the print edition’s own typesetting data (fonts, sizes and positions), not by optical character recognition. The chapter and verse sequence of the whole Bible was verified programmatically: all 1,189 chapters are present, every chapter’s verses run continuously from 1 to its last verse, and the extracted passage boundaries were checked against the print edition’s Index of Scripture Passages. Hyphenation at line ends was resolved with a vocabulary built from the edition itself. The one part of the print edition that is not reproduced as text is the Concordance (printed pages 1469–1664), which is stored in the PDF as page images rather than text; the site’s full-text search covers the same ground.

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