(April 2, 2016 at 9:53 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(April 2, 2016 at 1:01 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: That verse refers to "power" as in "authority", the word used is mulk which can be translated as kingdom as well. Not that I disagree that God can take power in the other sense from who he wants and give to he wants, but just wanted to correct you on that.Why do people have to translate the Bible and the Koran everytime they read them? If they are such experts then they should publish their own translations as being the correct ones. And who numbered the chapters and verses?
Power can sometimes refer to authority so maybe that is why they translated there as that?
http://www.gotquestions.org/divided-Bibl...erses.html
Quote:Answer: When the books of the Bible were originally written, they did not contain chapter or verse references. The Bible was divided into chapters and verses to help us find Scriptures more quickly and easily. It is much easier to find "John chapter 3, verse 16" than it is to find "for God so loved the world..." In a few places, chapter breaks are poorly placed and as a result divide content that should flow together. Overall, though, the chapter and verse divisions are very helpful.
The chapter divisions commonly used today were developed by Stephen Langton, an Archbishop of Canterbury. Langton put the modern chapter divisions into place in around A.D. 1227. The Wycliffe English Bible of 1382 was the first Bible to use this chapter pattern. Since the Wycliffe Bible, nearly all Bible translations have followed Langton's chapter divisions.
The Hebrew Old Testament was divided into verses by a Jewish rabbi by the name of Nathan in A.D. 1448. Robert Estienne, who was also known as Stephanus, was the first to divide the New Testament into standard numbered verses, in 1555. Stephanus essentially used Nathan's verse divisions for the Old Testament. Since that time, beginning with the Geneva Bible, the chapter and verse divisions employed by Stephanus have been accepted into nearly all the Bible versions.
