Old Testament, Connected: Every Verse, Every Conference Talk, and the Hebrew Behind the English

Every chapter of the Old Testament, every verse, connected to the general conference talks that use it. Old Testament, Connected is free, and it follows the Come, Follow Me 2026 schedule week by week. It covers all 929 chapters from Genesis to Malachi, plus the 13 chapters of Moses and Abraham that the Church studies alongside Genesis.

Start with a chapter

Pick any chapter, from Moses 1 to Malachi 4. Each one opens with a short summary, its reading sections and a bar for every verse showing how often conference speakers have used it. Moses 1 leads the way with 184 talks, and Moses 1:39 alone has 133. Abraham 3:25 has 64, Proverbs 3:5 has 47, Isaiah 1:18 has 38 and Malachi 3:10 has 36.

The Old Testament is also full of quiet chapters. 463 of the 942 have no conference talk linked to them at all since April 2000. Those chapters still get everything else below, so they are a good place to find something new.

Tap a verse

Tap any verse and the Talks card opens first. You'll see every general conference talk from April 2000 through October 2026 that uses that verse, with a short summary and its sketch note in full marker color. Isaiah 53:5, "with his stripes we are healed," has 28.

Hebrew, explained

Underlined words open a short word study. When a word is in Webster's 1828 dictionary, that definition comes first, showing what the English meant when the King James text was still everyday language. Under it is the Hebrew word study: the Hebrew word, a simple "Say it" spelling, the form used in this verse, how the King James translators rendered it elsewhere, how often it appears, and a short explanation. There are 7,886 Hebrew studies and 764 Webster's 1828 entries across the reader.

The names of God

The King James Version prints the divine name as LORD in small capitals. The Names of God layer, on by default, marks LORD (Jehovah), God (Elohim), Lord (Adonai) and other titles in the text, 1,711 places in all, with a short note on Jehovah as the premortal Jesus Christ.

Scripture talking to scripture

The Connections tab shows where the New Testament uses the words of each verse: 421 checked quotations and close echoes, such as Isaiah 7:14 in Matthew 1:23 and Joel 2:28 in Acts 2:17. It also links each chapter to related New Testament passages, to the Book of Mormon and Restoration scripture, and to other Old Testament chapters. New Testament and Book of Mormon chapter pages now link back to the Old Testament chapters they quote.

The Text tab shows where the Book of Mormon quotes Isaiah and Malachi with different wording, word by word, and where the Joseph Smith Translation changed a chapter. Genesis 1 through 6 link to their parallel chapters in Moses 2 through 8, and Genesis 1, 2, 11, 12 and 15 link to Abraham.

Where and when

Each chapter ends with a map of the places it names and a timeline strip showing where it falls in Bible history, from the Creation to the return from Babylon. 889 places appear across 668 chapters. Dates come from the Church's Bible Chronology, which gives no calculated dates before Saul, so the earlier eras are shown without dates.

For study and for teaching

Every chapter links to its Come, Follow Me 2026 week, the Scripture Helps entry, the seminary lesson and the BYU Studies reading list for that week. The 24 Doctrinal Mastery passages are marked where they appear. The Teach & sketch tab has a study trail, discussion questions and a sketch-note prompt for each chapter.

How it was built

The scripture text is the King James Version (public domain). Hebrew is the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain) with STEPBible tagging and lexicon data (CC BY 4.0). Cross references and place identifications come from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0), and the maps use Natural Earth (public domain). Talk links come from every general conference talk from April 2000 through October 2026. Latter-day Saint scholarship, other Christian commentary and Jewish interpretation are labeled separately. Talk text is never reproduced; every card links to the original on the Church's site. This is an independent study tool and does not speak for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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