The Linked Bible

Attributions

Every external source this site's content or data is built from, kept up to date as sources are added. Where a license requires attribution, this page is it.

Bible text and structure

World English Bible

Verse text throughout the site.

CC0 (public domain dedication)

OpenBible.info

Verse-level cross-references, and place coordinates for the map feature wherever Pleiades' own name-matching couldn't unambiguously resolve a place (about two-thirds of the mapped places).

CC BY 4.0

Theographic Bible Metadata

Base data for people, places, and books, and the family-tree relationships behind the genealogy charts.

CC BY-SA 4.0

Reference and commentary content

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Prose for many concept pages, and the largest single source of person-page content (1897).

Public domain

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

Book and chapter commentary (1706–1721), via the Free Use Bible API.

Public domain

Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)

A small number of Matthew Henry book/chapter gaps the Free Use Bible API didn't cover.

Public domain

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)

The primary source for most concept pages, and a substantial share of person pages.

Public domain

Wikipedia

The primary source for place-page prose, and any book/chapter Matthew Henry doesn't cover.

CC BY-SA 4.0

Sermons

SermonIndex.net

Sermon titles, summaries, speaker info, and audio linked from chapter and concept pages.

Free to use, non-commercial; attribution appreciated

SermonIndex hosts sermons entrusted to it by preachers and ministries; the underlying recordings remain the property of their original speakers. Used here strictly for non-commercial, edifying purposes, consistent with SermonIndex's own terms.

Images and maps

Wikimedia Commons

Person portrait images.

Individually licensed, mostly public-domain artwork

A general-assumption license note rather than a per-image audit — most portraits of historical/biblical figures on Commons are reproductions of public-domain artwork, but this hasn't been individually verified image by image.

Pleiades

Primary source for place coordinates on the map feature (see OpenBible.info above for the fallback source).

CC BY 3.0

CARTO

Map tile rendering (English-language place labels, unlike the OpenStreetMap standard tile style).

Free for non-commercial use with an API key; attribution required

OpenStreetMap

The underlying map data CARTO's tiles are rendered from.

ODbL — © OpenStreetMap contributors