While the world continues to lose their minds about the Trump bibles, now this:
Elvis Presley’s personal Bible, found on his nightstand the night he died, fetched a whopping $125,000 at an auction over Memorial Day weekend, a sum that could buy a home in some parts of the U.S. The World Edition Bible, marked with Elvis’s favorite verses, started at a $30,000 bid and received 23 bids in total.
Among the verses personally highlighted by Elvis was Job 31:24-26: “If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; If I rejoiced because my wealth was great and because mine hand has gotten much; If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness.”
The Bible came with a letter from his cousin, Patsy Presley. “Shortly after Elvis’ passing, my uncle Vernon (Elvis’ dad) and I went up into Elvis’ bedroom at Graceland to organize and pack many of his personal belongings,” she wrote. “This Holy Bible was one of three Elvis had on his night table. After packing them, Uncle Vernon had me take them home for safekeeping and eventually gave them to me.”
The front cover features his full name, “Elvis Aaron Presley,” embossed in gold, and the inner content contains “a large amount of bookmarked pages and underlined passages that seemingly spoke to Elvis,” according to GWS Auctions, which managed the sale.
The Bible “was on his nightstand in his bedroom at Graceland on the night he passed,” GWS Auctions confirmed.
GWS Auctions also shared photos of pages that Elvis had underlined. He highlighted Genesis 1:31: “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” He also marked Isaiah 29:19: “The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.”
Elvis Presley died in 1977 at the age of 42. His stepbrother, Billy Stanley, told Fox News Digital, “A lot of people don’t realize that after every show, he would unwind by singing gospel songs until the sun came up. He was in touch with the Lord. A lot of people said, ‘Well, he did this and that.’ [But] we all fall short. We’re all human.”
Stanley added, “As Christians, most of us live under a magnifying glass. Well, Elvis lived under a microscope because he was a big star. It was tough. But the way I like to put it is … [he] had the devil on one shoulder and God on the other. And there was a constant battle going on in his head.”
