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The WallBuilders Show

Pilgrims, Kings, And Aiken Bibles

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What if the Founders didn’t reject the King James Bible at all—but rejected the politics that tried to own it? We open the archive and walk through the real story: why early American leaders printed Bibles in King James language while stripping the king’s name from the title page, how the Aitken Bible won congressional endorsement during the Revolution, and why Noah Webster’s 1833 update aimed to make Scripture plain for everyday readers. Along the way, we spotlight the Geneva Bible’s endurin...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Wobbler Show, The Intersection of Faith and Culture.

0:09.6

Thanks for joining us on this Thursday.

0:11.0

It's a Foundations of Freedom Thursday.

0:13.3

Of course, all issues, we approach them from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective,

0:17.5

but especially on Thursdays, you get to decide what that topic will be, and then we'll approach it from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective, but especially on Thursdays, you get to decide what that topic will be,

0:21.4

and then we'll approach it from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.

0:25.3

Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton, guys, we've got a lot of great questions.

0:28.7

We'll see how many we can get to. The first one is from James Moore, and he said,

0:33.9

because King James I wasn't a favorite among our founding fathers, they preferred

0:38.3

using the Geneva Bible.

0:40.1

Since both the Geneva Bible and King James Bible were used by troops during the Civil War,

0:44.2

in what years did the King James Bible begin to be more prominent among the people of the United

0:48.7

States?

0:49.3

All right, good Bible history question here, guys.

0:51.7

Well, yeah, it is a great question.

0:52.8

And, you know, guys, certainly as we can

0:55.3

dive into some of the thoughts of the transitions of translations, there's some really fun

1:00.3

examples like Noah Webster, who came up with the first modern translation of a Bible in the English

1:05.5

language. As Webster was doing his dictionary, one of the things that came out shortly after was

1:10.6

his English translation of the Bible.

1:13.0

And in the front, he pointed out that part of his research he had done with like the dictionary, for example,

1:18.8

there was a lot of words that in tracking some of the roots and origins, he realized that some of the words that were used in the Bible are not the words in common vernacular anymore.

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