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198 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 26,27; Proverbs 26 1. For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph. 2. And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the oldest, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, 3. Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh. 4. And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the oldest, Jehozab...

197 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 24,25; Proverbs 25 1. Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 2. But Nadab and Abihu came to their end before their father, and had no children; so Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests. 3. And David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Itham...

196 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 22,23; Proverbs 24 1. Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for Israel's burned offerings. 2. And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God. 3. And he got together a great store of iron, for the...

195 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 19,20,21; Proverbs 23 1. Now it came about after this that death came to Nahash, the king of the children of Ammon, and his son became king in his place. 2. And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, because his father was a friend to me. So David sent men to him, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And the servants of Davi...

194 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 17,18; Proverbs 22 1. Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent. 2. And Nathan said to David, Do whatever is in your heart, for God is with you. 3. But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying, 4. Go and say to...

193 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 16; Proverbs 21 1. Then they took in the ark of God and put it inside the tent which David had put up for it; and they made offerings, burned offerings and peace-offerings before God. 2. And when David had come to an end of making the burned offerings and peace-offerings, he gave the people a blessing in the name of the Lord. 3. And he gave to everyone, every man...

192 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 13,14,15; Proverbs 20 1. Then David had discussions with the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and with every chief. 2. And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the...

191 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 12; Proverbs 19 1. Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still shut up, because of Saul, the son of Kish; they were among the strong men, his helpers in war. 2. They were armed with bows, and were able to send stones, and arrows from the bow, with right hand or left: they were Saul's brothers, of Benjamin. 3. Ahiezer was their chief, the...

190 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 10,11; Proverbs 18 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 went hard after Saul and his sons, and put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. 3. And the fight was going against Saul, and the archers came...

189 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 9; Proverbs 17 1. So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin. 2. Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim. 3. And in Jerusalem there were living some of the...

188 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 8; Proverbs 16 1. And Benjamin was the father of Bela his oldest son, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third, 2. Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. 3. And Bela had sons, Addar and Gera, the father of Ehud, 4. And Abishua and Naaman and Ahoah 5. And Gera and Shephuphan and Huram. ; AB church Lausanne

187 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 7; Proverbs 15 1. And of the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah, Jashub and Shimron, four. 2. And the sons of Tola: Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Ibsam and Shemuel, heads of their families; they were men of war; in the record of their generations their number in the time of David was twenty-two thousand, six hundred. 3. And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah;...

186 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 5,6; Proverbs 14 1. And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, (for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest. 2. Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from him came the ruler, the birthright w...

185 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 3,4; Proverbs 13 1. Now these were David's sons, whose birth took place in Hebron: the oldest Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite woman; 2. The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith; 3. The fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah his...

184 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 2; Proverbs 12 1. These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun; 2. Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 3. The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death. 4. And Tamar, hi...

183 : Basic English : 1 Chronicles 1; Proverbs 11 1. Adam, Seth, Enosh; 2. Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, 3. Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; 4. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5. The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. ; AB church Lausanne

182 : Basic English : 2 Kings 24,25; Proverbs 10 1. In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him. 2. And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the pro...

181 : Basic English : 2 Kings 22,23; Proverbs 9 1. Josiah was eight years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years; his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. 2. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left. 3. Now in the eighteenth year after he became...

180 : Basic English : 2 Kings 20,21; Proverbs 8 1. In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near. 2. Then, turning his face to the wall, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, 3. O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done wha...

179 : Basic English : 2 Kings 18,19; Proverbs 7 1. Now in the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, became king of Judah. 2. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah. 3. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done. 4. He had...

178 : Basic English : 2 Kings 17; Proverbs 6 1. In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hoshea, the son of Elah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for nine years. 2. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him. 3. Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings. 4. But Hoshea's broken faith...

177 : Basic English : 2 Kings 15,16; Proverbs 5 1. In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah. 2. He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 3. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done. 4....

176 : Basic English : 2 Kings 13,14; Proverbs 4 1. In the twenty-third year of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for seventeen years. 2. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do; he did not keep himself from them. 3. So the wrath of the Lord was...

175 : Basic English : 2 Kings 11,12; Proverbs 3 1. Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom put to death. 2. But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, secretly took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, with the woman who took care of him, away from among the king's sons who were put to death, and put him in the b...

174 : Basic English : 2 Kings 9,10; Proverbs 2 1. And Elisha the prophet sent for one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Make yourself ready for a journey, and take this bottle of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead. 2. And when you get there, go in search of Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi; and go in and make him get up from among his brothers, and take him to an...