For more than a decade I’ve wanted an easy way to make Bible references like these: Amos 9:7; Ruth 4:7 link to the Bible or to popup the verses cited, I put a lot of work into doing that for the Amos commentary.

Now, thanks to the nice folk at Logos, who I expect will benefit from their kindness through lots of links I have been able to add this facility to this blog, and to my others,. It automatically takes most Bible references I type and uses Sean’s clever Bibleref system to add the verse as a popup, and make the reference a link to the passage. My only two disappointments are

• that apparently it does this without rewriting the source code for the page, so probably Google etc. will not be able to use this semantic markup maybe in a later implementation?
• and that somehow though I asked for the version to be TNIV it shows up as New Living… maybe this is a temporary glitch, rather than a sign from heaven as to which really is the New Inspired Version to follow the NIV which followed the AV.