The information is simply false,
The information is not simply false because this misinformed poster makes an unproven allegation.
This edit per mod t the quotation specifically and directly stated "
Masoretic text", not Hebrew text. The earlier printed editions of the Hebrew Old Testament text are not called the Masoretic text so the quotation would not refer to them; therefore, those Hebrew text editions would not make the statement false as this bogus allegation incorrectly tries to suggest.
Several or even many KJV-only authors have referred to the second Bomberg edition edited by Jacob ben Chayim as "the Masoretic text".
D. A. Waite maintained that "the Old Testament basis of our KING JAMES BIBLE" was this Second Rabbinic Bible edited by ben Chayim (
Defending the KJB, pp. 27, 38). Waite asserted that the Ben Chayyim Masoretic Text “is the text that underlies the King James Bible” (p. 27). Waite commented: “It is a sad day when a supposedly Bible-believing evangelical will emend the traditional Masoretic text itself” (p. 38). Waite wrote: “We do want to go back to the Hebrew and Greek text that God has preserved for us and from which the King James Bible was taken the Masoretic Ben Chayyim Hebrew and the Traditional received Textus Receptus Greek” (
Central Seminary Refuted, p. 20). Waite asserted: “The Masoretic Hebrew Text is the ONLY text to follow in the Old Testament! All others must be rejected!“ (
NKJV Compared to KJV, p. xiii). Waite wrote: “The Hebrew Old Testament to use is that which underlies the King James Bible. It is the Daniel Bomberg edition of 1524-25 which was the standard for the next 400 years” (
Critical Answer to James Price‘s, p. 83). H. D. Williams indicated that the traditional Hebrew text is “the Masoretic, Ben Chayyim, Second Great Rabbinic (not the first) edition Hebrew text published by Daniel Bomberg” (
Word-for-Word, p. xix). Dennis Kwok claimed: “The King James Old Testament is translated from the Traditional Masoretic Hebrew Old Testament text (Ben Chayyim)“ (
Verbal Plenary Preservation, p. 77). In the introductory “definitions” in the KJV-only book entitled
Thou Shalt Keep Them that is edited by Kent Brandenburg, this is stated: “the Old Testament text behind the King James Version is the Ben Chayyim MT” (p. 11). Thomas Holland wrote: “It was his [referring to Jacob ben Chayyim] text that was used by the translators of the King James Version for their work in the Old Testament” (
Crowned, p. 114). David Cloud referred to “the Ben Chayyim Masoretic text” and also referred to “the importance of having all the words of God” … “preserved for us in the Masoretic Hebrew” (
Faith, pp. 170, 371). James Sightler maintained that “the Ben Chayyim Masoretic Text” “was used for the KJV” (
Testimony Founded For Ever, p. 272). Michael Bates wrote: “The Ben Chayyim Masoretic Text is the Hebrew Text underlying the KJV” (
Inspiration, p. 341). James Kahler wrote: “This work, known as the Ben Chayyim Masoretic Text, the Daniel Bomberg edition, or the Second Great Rabbinic Bible, is the Hebrew text from which the Old Testament of the King James Version was translated” (
Charted History, p. 10). Steve Combs maintained that “the source text of the King James Bible was the Hebrew Masoretic text edited by Jacob Ben Chayim” (
Practical Theology, p. 102). In the preface of his commentary on Genesis, Peter Ruckman wrote that “we shall accept Jacob Ben Hayyim’s text (Bomberg, 1524) as reliable” (p. vi). David W. Daniels wrote: “The best manuscript, used by the King James Bible, was the Ben Chayyim, also called the ‘Bomberg Text’” (
Answers to your Bible Version Questions, p. 178). Tim Fellure claimed that “God raised up Daniel Bomberg and Jacob Ben Chayyim to produce the standard Old Testament Masoretic text” (
Neither Jot nor Tittle, p. 125). Tim Fellure asserted that “the Ben Chayyim Masoretic Text stood unrivalled for over four hundred years as the only acceptable Hebrew Bible” (p. 133). Concerning sources used for making the KJV, Fellure wrote: “The primary Old Testament text was Ben Chayyim Second Rabbinic Bible of 1524-25” (p. 175). James Rasbeary wrote: “The King James Old Testament was translated from the
Ben Chayyim Masoretic Text” (
What’s Wrong, p. 48). An article entitled “How We Got our English Bible” in the fourth edition of
The Rock of Ages Study Bible asserted that the KJV “is the only translation based on the
ben Chayyim Hebrew text” (p. xxiv).