• Amplified Bible: Complete Old & New Testament

  • By: PFL
  • Narrated by: Steven B. Stevens
  • Length: 82 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (384 ratings)

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Amplified Bible: Complete Old & New Testament

By: PFL
Narrated by: Steven B. Stevens
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“Break Through the Language Barrier, Expand Your Understanding”

The Amplified Bible is a Literal Equivalent translation that, by using synonyms and definitions, both explains and expands the meaning of words in the text. This unique system of translation allows the reader to more completely and clearly grasp the meaning as it was understood in the original Hebrew and Greek languages.

For example, the Greek word pisteuo, which the vast majority of versions render as “believe.” That simple translation, however, hardly does justice to the many meanings contained in the Greek pisteuo: “to adhere to, cleave to; to trust to have faith in; to rely on, to depend on.”

©1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 The Lockman Foundation (P)2007 TAW Global, LLC

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Chapter Locations

I like listening to this version of the Bible. It does a great job expounding on the underlying meaning of the original language. However, I found the lack of reference to where books and chapters were very frustrating. So I created the following list for my reference. Hopefully some of you find this helpful.

Old Testament

Part 1
Genesis 1-50 2-51
Exodus 1-40 52-91

Part 2
Leviticus 1-27 92-118
Numbers 1-36 119-154
Deuteronomy 1-34 155-188

Part 3
Joshua 1-24 189-212
Judges 1-21 213-233
Ruth 1-4 234-237
1 Samuel 1-31 238-268

Part 4
2 Samuel 1-24 269-292
1 Kings 1-22 293-314
2 Kings 1-25 315-339

Part 5
1 Chronicles 1-29 340-368
2 Chronicles 1-36 369-404
Ezra 1-10 405-414
Nehemiah 1-13 415-427
Esther 1-9 428-436

Part 6
Esther 10 437
Job 1-42 438-479

Part 7
Psalms 1-99 480-578

Part 8
Psalms 100-150 579-629
Proverbs 1-31 630-660
Ecclesiastes 1-12 661-672

Part 9
Song of Solomon 1-8 673-680
Isaiah 1-66 681-746

Part 10
Jeremiah 1-52 747-798
Lamentations 1-5 799-803

Part 11
Ezekiel 1-48 804-851
Daniel 1-12 852-863
Hosea 1-14 864-877
Joel 1-3 878-880
Amos 1-9 881-889
Obadiah 1 890
Jonah 1-4 891-894
Micah 1-7 895-901

Part 12
Nahum 1-3 902-904
Habakkuk 1-3 905-907
Zephaniah 1-3 908-910
Haggai 1-2 911-912
Zechariah 1-14 913-926
Malachi 1-4 927-930

New Testament

Part 13
Matthew 1-28 931-958
Mark 1-16 959-974
Luke 1-24 975-998
John 1-21 999-1019

Part 14
Acts 1-28 1020-1047
Romans 1-16 1048-1063
1 Corinthians 1-16 1064-1079
2 Corinthians 1-13 1080-1092
Galatians 1-6 1093-1098
Ephesians 1-6 1099-1104
Philippians 1-4 1105-1108
Colossians 1-4 1109-1112

Part 15
1 Thessalonians 1-5 1113-1117
2 Thessalonians 1-3 1118-1120
1 Timothy 1-6 1121-1126
2 Timothy 1-4 1127-1130
Titus 1-3 1131-1133
Philemon 1 1134
Hebrews 1-13 1135-1147
James 1-5 1148-1152
1 Peter 1-5 1153-1157
2 Peter 1-3 1158-1160
1 John 1-5 1161-1165
2 John 1 1166
3 John 1 1167
Jude 1 1168
Revelation 1-22 1169-1190

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No Chapter Headings - Can be frustrating

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

You cannot navigate to a Chapter or Verse in this bible, you have to guess in which section it might be. This can be very frustrating.

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Amazing

This is simply amazing. Completely corrected my evil and wicked view of life and change my life. Praise and glory be to God who put the idea of getting book into my mind. Please whoever comes across this book please listen to it and God will do the rest.

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Beautiful and most meaningful

The Amplified version is the best version for grasping the meaning of Scripture. It expounds on the meaning of the translation of the Hebrew and Greek.

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Upgrade, to stop the guessing of chapter versus etc.........

I enjoyed that there is a audio version I'm frustrated that with guesting part what chapter versus etc. To me that needs a total upgrade period. I would have given higher Mark if I didn't have to guess.

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Come on Amazon!!! We expect better from you!!! Is anybody listening.

I tried two different versions of the audio Bible before reading the reviews of other versions and they all have the same problems. I am so grateful that we have the Bible on audio available, but I believe they could be vastly and easily improved. I think the first issue is that those creating the app doesn't understand how the Bible is read. This version (my fav), is even worse than the last. Some of the things that need correcting were mentoined in many of the reviews I read, so clearly those responsible are not listening. A few tried to give helpful hints, which although appreciated, don't fix the many problems. This is 2019, and with the many excellent resources at Amazon's disposal, these issues should be able to be corrected.

1. The Bible contains books within the whole book.
2. Each book has chapters, and each line is numbered (verses).
3. The entire book is divided into two sections.
4. The Bible is read repeatedly, and not always in the same order. People may want to read just one particular verse.
5. Some people, such as myself, like to have it playing throughout the night while we sleep. We go to sleep listening to it, and we awake listening to it.
6. Each Book and chapter needs to be identified by name of the book and chapter number.
7. Don't try to divide Bible into sections of your choosing " for easier downloading". People don't care how long it takes to download if it's right afterwards, and we don't have to listen to the credits before each section.

If you just had to divide it, you could have divided it into the Old and New Testaments, books of the law, books of poetry, major and minor prophets, the Gospels, or Pauline letters, for example. That way at least, it would be easier to scroll to the place you're looking for.
8. For those of us who do listen while we sleep, it would be so great if it had a feature that you can select so that when you come to the end of the book it loops back to the beginning and doesn't just stop at the end. I know this technology exists because this is what can be done with music--choosing which song you want to listen to within an album, and clicking the loop icon so it repeats.

Not even the Word of Promise version (which has all but the last feature on their CDs), is correctly formatted in Audiobook. Come on Amazon!!! We expect better from you!!!

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No chapter headings

It's too bad that there are no headings in the written chapters section. It'd be easier to find your location when searching for a particular verse

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A few strange interpretations here!

This is a Bible for use by a mature Christian, certainly not recommended for a new Christian like you would think. Sometimes the "amplifications" are so wrong I just wanted to close this and never open it again. I believe any true student of the Bible will find many errors. I cannot recommend this book.

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Why no book titles?

Very disturbing that it's only listed by chapters and not the books of the Bible. It's very confusing and doesn't make sense. Other than that it's great

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CHAPTERS

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Bible book names are not listed so you can choose where to play. Am using Alexa to listen so needed to know how many chapters are in the entire BIBLE! Once you find the divisions, it is great to listen to this version. Anyone else have a better way to know where the various books begin and end?

Was Amplified Bible: Complete Old & New Testament worth the listening time?

Always! You learn better when you use the extra sensory feature of sound as well as sight.

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