Best Commentaries on Each Book of the Bible

I live in a small house. I work in a small office in a small church. For those reasons and others I will never have a huge library. When I add a book I almost always remove a book, a practice that allows me to focus on quality over quantity. Over the past couple of years I have focused on building a collection of commentaries that will include only the best volumes on each book of the Bible. I know when I’m in way over my head, so before I began I collected every good resource I could find that rated and reviewed commentaries. I studied them and then began my collection on the basis of what the experts told me. Since I did all of that work, and since I continue to keep up with the project, I thought it might be helpful to share the recommendations.

My focus is on newer commentaries (at least in part because most of the classics are now freely or cheaply available) and I am offering approximately 5 recommendations for each book of the Bible, alternating between the Old Testament and the New.

  1. Best Commentaries on Genesis
  2. Best Commentaries on Matthew
  3. Best Commentaries on Exodus
  4. Best Commentaries on Mark
  5. Best Commentaries on Leviticus
  6. Best Commentaries on Luke
  7. Best Commentaries on Numbers
  8. Best Commentaries on John
  9. Best Commentaries on Deuteronomy
  10. Best Commentaries on Acts
  11. Best Commentaries on Joshua
  12. Best Commentaries on Romans
  13. Best Commentaries on Judges
  14. Best Commentaries on 1 Corinthians
  15. Best Commentaries on Ruth
  16. Best Commentaries on 2 Corinthians
  17. Best Commentaries on 1 & 2 Samuel
  18. Best Commentaries on Galatians
  19. Best Commentaries on 1 & 2 Kings
  20. Best Commentaries on Ephesians
  21. Best Commentaries on 1 & 2 Chronicles
  22. Best Commentaries on Philippians
  23. Best Commentaries on Ezra & Nehemiah
  24. Best Commentaries Colossians & Philemon
  25. Best Commentaries on Esther
  26. Best Commentaries on 1 & 2 Thessalonians
  27. Best Commentaries on Job
  28. Best Commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles
  29. Best Commentaries on Psalms
  30. Best Commentaries on Hebrews
  31. Best Commentaries on Proverbs
  32. Best Commentaries on James
  33. Best Commentaries on Ecclesiastes
  34. Best Commentaries on 1 Peter
  35. Best Commentaries on Song of Solomon
  36. Best Commentaries on 2 Peter & Jude
  37. Best Commentaries on Isaiah
  38. Best Commentaries on 1, 2, 3 John
  39. Best Commentaries on Jeremiah
  40. Best Commentaries on Revelation
  41. Best Commentaries on Lamentations
  42. Best Commentaries on Ezekiel
  43. Best Commentaries on Daniel