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How to use Connections
Read the rainbow. Each arc joins two chapters that readers of OpenBible.info have linked: sometimes a prophecy and its fulfillment or a direct quotation, more often a shared word or idea. The bars along the bottom are every chapter in order, Genesis on the left and Revelation on the right. Taller bars mean longer chapters. Red arcs join chapters close together; violet arcs span the whole Bible.
Pick a chapter. Drag your finger along the bars, or choose a book and chapter from the menus. That chapter's arcs light up and the rest fade.
Follow a thread. Scroll down and tap any verse. The passages it points to open underneath, with the text right there. The number beside each verse is how many connections Chronicle lists for it (up to 12), most-voted first. These are ranked by readers’ votes, not checked one by one, and a passage’s parallel in another Gospel isn’t always among them.
While you read. In Read & Listen, verses whose top cross-reference has the most reader votes are tinted blue with a small ◠ beside the verse number. Tap the ◠ to see what that verse connects to, without losing your place.
Start where you are. Tap Where you're reading to jump straight to the chapter you're on in the reading plan.
A good habit: after each day's reading, open Connections, tap Where you're reading, and follow the one or two verses that stood out to you. Nothing here moves your place in the reading plan.
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC-BY), drawn from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and ranked by readers' votes. Verse text: the translation you're reading in (the Berean Standard Bible while you're on the ESV), all public domain. The rainbow follows Chris Harrison & Christoph Römhild's Bible Cross-References (2007).
PeopleSame name · different person?
Stand FirmIt is written
SourcesWhere everything comes from
Chronicle mixes three kinds of things, and you should always know which is which: the Bible text itself, the work of named scholars, and things written for Chronicle, some of it by AI. Here is every part of the app and where it came from.
BSB: Berean Standard Bible, public domain since 2023 (bereanbible.com).
KJV: King James Version, public domain (Pure Cambridge Edition).
ASV: American Standard Version (1901), public domain.
What’s ours
Nothing. The text is shown exactly as published. (In the KJV, the brackets that mark words the translators added are left out.)
Narration
ScriptureAI voice
ESV
Crossway’s own human-narrated ESV recording.
BSB, KJV, ASV & the book introductions
Read aloud by an AI voice made with ElevenLabs. It reads the words exactly as written, but it is not a person.
When that voice isn’t available
Your phone’s own built-in voice reads instead.
The chronological reading order
Written for ChronicleAI-assisted
Where it comes from
Built for Chronicle from the Bible’s own clues: dates in the text, psalm titles (“when he fled from Absalom”), and the parallel accounts in Kings and Chronicles, set on one consistent scholarly chronology (below).
How Chronicle dates things
The Bible rarely gives a year, so every date here is an estimate, and Chronicle follows one consistent set of them. Where it matters, the note under the passage names whose view a date is and the main alternative.
The exodus: c. 1446 BC, the early date, from 1 Kings 6:1 (480 years before Solomon began the temple). Many scholars, evangelicals among them, prefer about 1260 BC; the patriarchs, the wilderness, Joshua and the Judges move with it.
The kings of Israel and Judah: Edwin Thiele, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings (the kingdom divides in 931/930 BC). Other reconstructions differ by a few years.
Exile and return: Samaria falls in 722 BC (some say 720) and Jerusalem in 586 BC (some say 587); the second temple is finished in 515 BC (often given as 516).
Jesus: born c. 6–4 BC, before Herod the Great died; ministry from about AD 27; crucified in AD 30. Many scholars hold AD 33 instead.
The letters: the traditional authors and dates are used, and each note says where they are debated (the Pastoral Letters and 2 Peter, for example).
Quotations
Words in quotation marks in titles and notes are exact Bible wording, usually from the ESV, otherwise from the BSB, KJV or ASV.
Who made it
Put together with AI help. Where a placement isn’t obvious, the reason is shown under the passage (on most readings, tap “About this reading”), and placements scholars debate are flagged.
Worth knowing
Other chronological Bibles order some passages differently, especially Job and many of the Psalms. That’s normal; nobody knows every date.
Book introductions
Written for ChronicleAI
Who wrote them
Written for Chronicle by AI, not copied from any study Bible, and checked against the text in October 2026.
Authors and dates
Where scholars differ, the introduction gives the traditional view and marks it (“traditionally…”, “authorship debated”), with the main alternative. Dates follow Chronicle’s chronology (see How Chronicle dates things above). Quotations are from the Berean Standard Bible, marked (BSB).
How to use them
Like a friend’s summary before you read: helpful, but not an authority. The book itself is the authority.
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AI
Where answers come from
An AI model (Meta’s Llama 3.3, run on Cloudflare). Nobody checks the answers before you see them.
Bible verses
The AI isn’t allowed to quote the Bible from memory. It first picks the passages it needs; Chronicle checks each one exists and hands it the exact words from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), which are shown beneath the answer. Any reference or quotation in the answer that Chronicle can’t match to those passages is pointed out under it.
Worth knowing
It can be wrong, and it can sound sure when it shouldn’t. Check what it says against the text.
Learn Theology
AI lessonHistoric sources
The lesson
Written by the same AI model as Ask, from a short summary written for Chronicle.
Bible verses
Each topic has a set of passages chosen and checked for Chronicle, including the ones each side of a debate relies on. The lesson is given their exact BSB words, may cite only those, and is checked afterwards; the passages are shown beneath it.
The quotes beneath it
Word for word from the historic creeds and confessions, never written by AI: the Apostles’, Nicene and Athanasian Creeds, the Chalcedonian Definition, the Second Council of Orange, the Augsburg Confession, Luther’s Small Catechism, the Council of Trent, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, the Thirty-Nine Articles, the Articles of Remonstrance, the Canons of Dort, the Westminster Shorter Catechism, the Baptist Confession of 1689 and the New Hampshire Baptist Confession, plus Anselm and Wesley. All public domain, mostly from Philip Schaff’s Creeds of Christendom on CCEL.org. Each quote is checked word for word against the edition cited, by computer (last full check: 9 October 2026, 57 of 57). The Council of Orange line is Philip Schaff’s English summary of its canon, and is labelled that way.
On purpose
Where Christians disagree (baptism, communion, election, the atonement, the end times, the Spirit’s gifts), the main views are named side by side: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant. Chronicle doesn’t pick a team. Some traditions are described but not yet quoted (the topic says so); where historic Christian faith is settled, such as the Trinity and the resurrection, the lesson says so plainly.
Connections & blue verses
ScholarshipCrowd-ranked
Where it comes from
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), built mostly on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain, 1800s) and ranked by readers’ votes. Chronicle hasn’t checked the links one by one: some are quotations or parallels, many are shared words or themes. The rainbow shows about 58,000 chapter-to-chapter links with at least 5 votes.
What’s ours
The cutoff for blue verses: a verse is tinted when its strongest connection has 30 or more votes (about 1 verse in 16). The rainbow follows Chris Harrison & Christoph Römhild’s Bible Cross-References (2007).
Words of Jesus in red
ScriptureMatched by computer
ESV
Crossway’s own red-letter markings.
KJV, ASV, BSB
Taken from the red-letter marks in a public-domain KJV (eBible.org), then matched onto the other translations by computer: 100% of verses for the KJV, 99.9% for the ASV, 99.1% for the BSB. A handful of BSB and ASV verses may be slightly off.
People
ScholarshipAI descriptionsChronicle notes
Where it comes from
TIPNR by STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0): who is who, their families and every verse.
Who decides who’s who
Tyndale’s scholars. Where their call is debated, the card says so and links to their reasoning.
The short descriptions
AI-written: STEPBible adapted them from the output of an AI model (Claude 3 Opus, 2024), as its own data file says. They are not Tyndale’s scholarship. Chronicle checked a sample in October 2026 and corrected the ones it found wrong; those cards say “Description corrected by Chronicle.” The rest are marked as AI-written.
What’s ours
The “Possibly the same person” and “Scholars disagree” notes, written for Chronicle with AI and checked against the text: well-known debates like the two Rufuses or Jesus’ brothers.
Changes from the source
Chronicle corrected some descriptions, tribes and family links that the Bible text doesn’t support (for example, Zechariah son of Jeroboam was not Israel’s last king; Hoshea was). It also removed verse references the text doesn’t contain, such as the KJV’s closing notes on some letters, and moved psalm titles from “verse 0” to verse 1. Every change is listed in Chronicle’s build script.
Stand Firm
ScriptureWritten for ChronicleAI-assisted
The words
Scripture, in the translation you choose, fetched the same way as every other passage.
Which verses go together
Chosen for Chronicle with AI help, then checked twice against each verse’s context, so no verse is made to say something it doesn’t. Where a verse applies a principle rather than naming the temptation (gambling, for example), the card says so.
Licences & thanks
Shared under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY): cross-references from OpenBible.info; people data from STEPBible.org / Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), reformatted for Chronicle.
The BSB, KJV, ASV, the historic creeds and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge are in the public domain.
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Learn a doctrine in plain language — with the real words of the creeds beneath. Pick a topic to begin.
The lesson is AI-taught, but the quoted sources beneath it are verbatim from the actual creeds and confessions (public domain, via CCEL) — never written by the AI. Weigh it all against Scripture itself.