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148 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 9,10,11; Psalms 144 1. And David said, Is there still anyone of Saul's family living, so that I may be a friend to him, because of Jonathan? 2. Now there was of Saul's people a servant named Ziba, and they sent him to David; and the king said to him, Are you Ziba? And he said, I am. 3. And the king said, Is there anyone of Saul's family still living, to whom I may be...

147 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 7,8; Psalms 142,143 1. Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side; 2. The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent. 3. And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you. 4. Now tha...

146 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 4,5,6; Psalms 140,141 1. And when Saul's son Ish-bosheth had news that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. 2. And Saul's son had two men, captains of bands, one named Baanah and the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the tribe of Benjamin; (for Beeroth was at one time taken to be part of Benjamin: 3. B...

145 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 2,3; Psalms 139 1. Now after this, David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go up into any of the towns of Judah? And the Lord said to him, Go up. And David said, Where am I to go? And he said, To Hebron. 2. So David went there, taking with him his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel. 3. And David took all his men with him, every...

144 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 31; 2 Samuel 1; Psalms 137,138 1. Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa. 2. And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and they put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. 3. And the fight was going badly for Saul, and the arche...

143 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 29,30; Psalms 136 1. Now the Philistines got all their army together at Aphek: and the Israelites put their forces in position by the fountain in Jezreel. 2. And the lords of the Philistines went on with their hundreds and their thousands, and David and his men came after with Achish. 3. Then the rulers of the Philistines said, What are these Hebrews doing here? And...

142 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 26,27,28; Psalms 133,134,135 1. And the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, and said, Is not David waiting secretly near us in the hill of Hachilah, before the waste land? 2. Then Saul went down to the waste land of Ziph, taking with him three thousand of the best men of Israel, to make search for David in the waste land of Ziph. 3. And Saul put up his tents on the hill...

141 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 24,25; Psalms 131,132 1. Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi. 2. Then Saul took three thousand of the best men out of all Israel, and went in search of David and his men on the rocks of the mountain goats. 3. And on the way he came to a place where sheep were kept, where there was a hol...

140 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 21,22,23; Psalms 128,129,130 1. Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was full of fear at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you by yourself, having no man with you? 2. And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has given me orders and has said to me, Say nothing to anyone about the business on which I am sending you and the orders...

139 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 20; Psalms 125,126,127 1. And David went in flight from Naioth in Ramah and came to Jonathan and said, What have I done? What is my crime and my sin against your father that he is attempting to take my life? 2. And he said to him, Far be the thought: you will not be put to death: see, my father does nothing, great or small, without giving me word of it: would he keep...

138 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 18,19; Psalms 122,123,124 1. Now after David's talk with Saul was ended, the soul of Jonathan was joined with the soul of David, and David became as dear to him as his very life. 2. And that day Saul took David and would not let him go back to his father's house. 3. Then Jonathan and David made an agreement together, because of Jonathan's love for David. 4. And Jonat...

137 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 17; Psalms 120,121 1. Now the Philistines got their armies together for war, and came together at Socoh in the land of Judah, and took up their position between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim. 2. And Saul and the men of Israel came together and took up their position in the valley of Elah, and put their forces in order against the Philistines. 3. The Philistines we...

136 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 15,16; Psalms 119 1. And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to put the holy oil on you and to make you king over his people, over Israel: so give ear now to the words of the Lord. 2. The Lord of armies says, I will give punishment to Amalek for what he did to Israel, fighting against him on the way when Israel came out of Egypt. 3. Go now and put Amalek to the swo...

135 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 14; Psalms 117,118 1. Now one day Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man who was with him, looking after his arms, Come, let us go over to the Philistine force over there. But he said nothing to his father. 2. And Saul was still waiting in the farthest part of Geba, under the fruit-tree in Migron: there were about six hundred men with him; 3. And Ahijah, th...

134 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 12,13; Psalms 116 1. And Samuel said to all Israel, You see that I have given ear to everything you said to me, and have made a king over you. 2. And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now. 3. Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before...

133 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 10,11; Psalms 114,115 1. Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on his head and gave him a kiss and said, Is not the Lord with the holy oil making you ruler over Israel, his people? and you will have authority over the people of the Lord, and you will make them safe from the hands of their attackers round about them, and this will be the sign for you: 2....

132 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 7,8,9; Psalms 112,113 1. So the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the ark of the Lord to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah, and they made his son Eleazar holy and put the ark in his care. 2. And the ark was in Kiriath-jearim for a long time, as much as twenty years: and all Israel was searching after the Lord with weeping. 3. Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with a...

131 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 4,5,6; Psalms 110,111 1. Now at that time the Philistines came together to make war against Israel, and the men of Israel went out to war against the Philistines and took up their position at the side of Eben-ezer: and the Philistines put their forces in position in Aphek. 2. And the Philistines put their forces in order against Israel, and the fighting was hard, and...

130 : Basic English : 1 Samuel 2,3; Psalms 108,109 1. And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation. 2. No other is holy as the Lord, for there is no other God but you: there is no Rock like our God. 3. Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings com...

129 : Basic English : Ruth 4; 1 Samuel 1; Psalms 107 1. And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated. 2. Then he got ten of the responsible men of the town, and said, Be seated here. And they took their seats. 3. The...

128 : Basic English : Ruth 2,3; Psalms 106 1. And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz. 2. And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter. 3. And she went, and came and took up the heads of grain in the...

127 : Basic English : Judges 21; Ruth 1; Psalms 105 1. Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin. 2. And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping. 3. And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been c...

126 : Basic English : Judges 20; Psalms 104 1. Then all the children of Israel took up arms, and the people came together like one man, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, before the Lord at Mizpah. 2. And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords. 3. (Now the childre...

125 : Basic English : Judges 18,19; Psalms 103 1. In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel. 2. So the children of Dan sent five men from among their number, strong men, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to take...

124 : Basic English : Judges 16,17; Psalms 101,102 1. Now Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a loose woman and went in to her. 2. And it was said to the Gazites, Samson is here. So they went round, watching for him all day at the doorway of the town, but at night they kept quiet, saying, When daylight comes we will put him to death. 3. And Samson was there till the middle of the night; then he...