E-Sword is a free downloadable Bible from Rick Meyers featured at e-sword.net.http://www.e-sword.net/ Meyers brought about the E-Sword so that studying and teaching the Bible would be easier and more accessible. There are texts, maps, and pictures involved within the program.http://www.e-sword.net/

Initial installation download includes the King James Version, King James Version with Strong's numbers, and Strong's dictionary.http://www.e-sword.net/downloads.html The software is Microsoft compatible running on any of the following Windows operating systems on a Pentium based PC or equivalent: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista or Windows 7.http://www.e-sword.net/downloads.html

After initial installation, additional Bible versions and texts may be freely downloaded, as well. Those include:

1. American Standard Version
2. Bible in Basic English
3. Contemporary English Version
4. Douay-Rheims Bible (w/ Deuterocanon)
5. English Standard Version
6. Good News Translation
7. God's Word
8. International Standard Version
9. Jewish Publication Society Old Testament
10. King James Version (w/ Apocrypha)
11. Literal Translation of the Holy Bible
12. Modern King James Version
13. Revised Version
14. Darby Bible
15. English Majority Text Version
16. James Murdock New Testament
17. Webster Bible
18. Weymouth New Testament
19. Young's Literal Translation
20. Bishops' Bible, 1568 (w/ Apocrypha)
21. Geneva Bible, 1587 (w/ Apocrypha)
22. King James Bible, 1611 (w/ Apocrypha)
23. Greek New Testament (Majority Text)
24. Scrivener Textus Receptus
25. Robinson/Pierpont Byzantine Greek New Testament (w/ Strong's)
26. Textus Receptus Greek New Testament(w/ Strong's)
27. Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament (w/ Strong's)
28. Greek New Testament (w/ Variants)
29. Hebrew New Testament
30. Hebrew Old Testament (Tanach)
31. Hebrew Old Testament (w/ Strong's)
32. Greek Old Testament (Septuagint)
33. Latin Vulgate (w/ Deuterocanon)
34. Afrikaans Nuwe Vertaling
35. Afrikaans Ou Vertaling
36. Arabic Smith & Van Dyke Bible
37. Bulgarian Bible
38. Czech Bible Kralická
39. Chinese Union Version (Simplified)
40. Chinese Union Version (Traditional)
41. Jian Ming Sheng Jing (Traditional)
42. Danish Bible
43. Dutch Staten Vertaling
44. Finnish Pyhä Raamattu
45. French Darby Bible
46. French Louis Segond Bible
47. German Elberfelder Bible
48. German Luther Bible
49. German Neue Evangelistische Übertragung
50. German Schlachter Bible
51. Vamvas Modern Greek Bible
52. Hungarian Károli Bible
53. Icelandic Bible
54. Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
55. Indonesian Terjemahan Baru
56. Italian Nuova Riveduta
57. Italian Riveduta Luzzi
58. Japanese Kougo-yaku
59. Korean Revised Version
60. Norwegian Bible
61. Polish Uwspólczesniona Biblia Gdanska(New Testament)
62. Polish Biblia Gdanska
63. Portuguese João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada
64. Romanian Dumitru Cornilescu Translation
65. Romanian Orthodox Bible
66. Russian Synodal Text
67. Serbian Daničić Karadžić
68. Modricker Somali Bible
69. Spanish La Biblia de las Américas
70. Spanish Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy
71. Spanish Reina-Valera
72. Spanish Reina Valera Gómez
73. Spanish Sagradas Escrituras
74. Svenska Folkbibeln 98
75. Swedish Bible
76. Tagalog Ang Biblia
77. Thai King James Version
78. Turkish Kutsal Kitap
79. Ukrainian Bible
80. Vietnamese Bible
81. Y Beibl Cymraeg Newydd Argraffiad Diwygiedig (Revised New Welsh Bible)http://www.e-sword.net/bibles.html

Additional Bible texts are available for the e-Sword browser and may be purchased for a fee.http://www.e-sword.net/bibles.html

The Bible is divided into two parts. In the first part, called the Old Testament, God's "chosen people" are described. They are known as Hebrews, but are known later as Israelites or Jews. Around, 1800 B.C., God promises Abraham that He would make Abraham's descendants into a great nation. Following many generations, Abraham's descendants become slaves in Egypt. God provides a leader, named Moses, to lead the Hebrews out of slavery and to the Promised Land. During the escape from captivity, God gives Moses the Ten Commandments that is to be the basis of life for His people.

Although God expects His people to live by His commandments and glorify Him, they frequently fall into sin and idolatry. To bring His people back into line, God uses many of His prophets, including men like Elijah, Samuel, Jonah, Isaiah and others. Despite the failure of God's people, God is able to do His will on earth. Besides working at putting His people back in line with God's will, the prophets foretell the coming of the Messiah that would bring peace and prosperity.http://www.twopaths.com/summary.htm

In the second part of the Bible, called the New Testament, Jesus is introduced from his birth, through His life, ministry, death, resurrection, and to His ascension into heaven to be with God, His Father. Jesus is identified as the Messiah and as the Son of God. During His time on earth, Jesus travels from town to town, performs miracles of healing and preaches about the coming kingdom of God. He teaches that the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom that will eventually defeat all evil. Jesus tells of His second coming that will bring about the fulfillment of God's kingdom. The Jews had hoped that the Messiah would defeat their enemies on Earth. They were looking for a great military and political leader, which Jesus was not. As the Jews believed that by keeping the Ten Commandments and following the laws given in the Old Testament was sufficient so they reject the teachings of Jesus and saw Him as a threat to their religious establishment. The conflict leads to the crucifixion of Jesus. However, Jesus is resurrected after being dead for three days and is seen by many for 40 days before ascending into heaven.http://www.twopaths.com/summary.htm

Following Jesus' life on earth, Christianity is born through the believers and is lead by many of Jesus' former disciples. One man, who was not a disciple, but a persecutor of Christians, is confronted by Jesus on the road to Damascus. His name is Saul, but he becomes Paul after he accepts Jesus as his Lord and Savior. Paul goes on to write many letters to the various churches he was involved. His writings and the teaching of Jesus Christ form the foundation of church doctrine. Additionally, Paul takes the message of Christianity to the world outside of Judaism.http://www.twopaths.com/summary.htm

The above explains, very shortly, what the e-Sword bible consists of. The e-Sword goes into extensive detail about events in the Bible and has the entire Bible in its software.http://www.e-sword.net/