Notes · 2026-08-31

What ToastScripture is (and isn't)

ToastScripture is a study wiki for the Bible. Open any chapter and every verse becomes a hub: tap the ✦ beside it to pull up its cross-references, the people and places named in it, where on the map that happened, the Hebrew or Greek words behind the English, and centuries of public-domain commentary.

Where the material comes from

Nothing here is written from scratch except these notes. The site stitches together openly-licensed scholarship:

• The text — the World English Bible, the King James Version, and the American Standard Version of 1901. All three are public domain. Switch between them, or show two side by side, from the bar at the top of any chapter.
• Cross-references — roughly 340,000 verse-to-verse links from openbible.info, ranked by how strongly readers have voted for each connection.
• People, places and events — the Theographic Bible Metadata project: about 3,000 named figures and 1,200 located sites, each tied back to every verse that mentions it.
• Word studies — Strong's Hebrew and Greek dictionaries, keyed to a curated word-by-word tagging of the original languages from STEPBible and Tyndale House. Click any word in the interlinear strip to see its full range of meaning and everywhere else it appears.
• Commentary — Matthew Henry (1710) and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871).

A word of caution

This is a reference tool, not an authority. Dictionaries reflect the scholarship of their era; commentators disagree with each other and sometimes with the text. Read them as conversation partners. Where a note here was drafted with help from a language model, it says so.