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I have a few items that may help some people doing Bible study, and a few links, too.

I've put together a graphical map of the geneology of the thrones of Israel and Judah during 1-2 Kings.

My favorite Bible Study tool is Xiphos. It is available for Linux/FreeBSD/etc and Windows (Xp and higher)! Tell your friends! Xiphos 3.1.2 and sword 1.6.1 are now available For openSuse 11.2 on x86_64: xiphos-3.1.2-2.x86_64.suse112.rpm Sword RPM: sword-1.6.1-2.x86_64.suse112.rpm ...if you want to recompile xiphos, you'll need: sword-devel-1.6.1-2.x86_64.suse112.rpm For openSuse 11.1 on x86_64: xiphos-3.1.2-1.x86_64.suse111.rpm Sword RPM: sword-1.6.1-1.x86_64.suse111.rpm ...if you want to recompile xiphos, you'll need: sword-devel-1.6.1-1.x86_64.suse111.rpm Xiphos packages for openSuse 11.0 and 10.3 on x86_64 are still built, but I don't have enough web space. You can email me and I'll send them along. RPMs for openSuse 10.2 or i586 are no longer built, but I can help walk you through the process. Either way, you'll need modules: Modules from Crosswire found here Xiphos also has a nice module repository here You may want additional (Beta) Modules from here

to build a SUSE 10.3 (or higher) rpm for sword/xiphos, Make sure to install libicu, libicu-devel, curl, curl-devel (in std dist) and icu (from repo only) along with gnome devel stuff, libMagick++-devel, and the latest mozilla-xulrunner181 and mozilla-xulrunner181-devel (from repo). It's fine to have mozilla-xulrunner190 installed, but you can't have mozilla-xulrunner190-devel installed or it will confuse the config program. Also install gtkhtml2 and gtkhtml2-devel. Build Sword Fix the sword.spec and sword.spec.in files uncomment: Requires: icu >= 2.6 On an x86_64 architecture, change all instances of /usr/lib to /usr/lib64 for i586: ./usrinst.sh --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-utilities --with-curl --disable-debug --enable-shared --with-conf --with-icu for x86_64: ./usrinst.sh --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-utilities --with-curl --disable-debug --enable-shared --with-conf --with-icu ./configure rpmbuild -bb sword.spec Build Xiphos Fix the xiphos.spec and xiphos.spec.in files Requires: gtkhtml2 >= 3.0 BuildRequires: gtkhtml2-devel >= 3.0 BuildRequires: gnome-spell2 ./configure --prefix=%{prefix} --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-exporter %{prefix}/share/doc/xiphos-3.1.?/* then run: rpmbuild -bb xiphos.spec