I'm on my fourth time through the bible too. This is the first time that I will have read the bible from Genesis through Revelation. Try to read 1 or 2 chapters a day. Started this latest project last September. Today I have read it through Jeremiah, Chapter 22. I agree with you in that what I read and understand in my own reading does not match a lot of what I read in the BDF. Somebody tries to make a point and throws up 20 or 30 verses. I really don't find the BDF to be spiritually edifying. Entertaining at times, sure. Amusing, often. Uplifting, no. Mostly, a lot of people trying to prove they'ew right and everyone else is wrong.