Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

173 : Basic English : 2 Kings 7,8; Proverbs 1 1. Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria. 2. Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven,...

172 : Basic English : 2 Kings 5,6; Gospel of John 21 1. Now Naaman, chief of the army of the king of Aram, was a man of high position with his master, and greatly respected, because by him the Lord had given salvation to Aram; but he was a leper. 2. Now the Aramaeans had gone out in bands, and taken prisoner from Israel a little girl, who became servant to Naaman's wife. 3. And she said to her mas...

171 : Basic English : 2 Kings 3,4; Gospel of John 20 1. And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years. 2. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made. 3. But still he did the same si...

170 : Basic English : 2 Kings 1,2; Gospel of John 19 1. After the death of Ahab, Moab made itself free from the authority of Israel. 2. Now Ahaziah had a fall from the window of his room in Samaria, and was ill. And he sent men, and said to them, Put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, about the outcome of my disease, to see if I will get well or not. 3. But the angel of the Lord said to E...

169 : Basic English : 1 Kings 21,22; Gospel of John 18 1. Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria. 2. And Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vine-garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants, for it is near my house; and let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange, or, if it seems good to you, let me give you its value in mon...

168 : Basic English : 1 Kings 19,20; Gospel of John 17 1. Ahab gave Jezebel news of all Elijah had done, and how he had put all the prophets to death with the sword. 2. Then Jezebel sent a servant to Elijah, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. 3. And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and c...

167 : Basic English : 1 Kings 18; Gospel of John 16 1. Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth. 2. So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria. 3. And Ahab sent for Obadiah, the controller of the king's house. (Now Obadiah had the fear of the Lord before h...

166 : Basic English : 1 Kings 16,17; Gospel of John 15 1. And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, son of Hanani, protesting against Baasha and saying, 2. Because I took you up out of the dust, and made you ruler over my people Israel; and you have gone in the ways of Jeroboam, and made my people Israel do evil, moving me to wrath by their sins; 3. Truly, I will see that Baasha and all his family ar...

165 : Basic English : 1 Kings 14,15; Gospel of John 14 1. At that time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, became ill. 2. And Jeroboam said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not seem to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; see, Ahijah is there, the prophet who said I would be king over this people. 3. And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of hon...

164 : Basic English : 1 Kings 12,13; Gospel of John 13 1. And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king, 2. And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim; 3. And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said, 4...

163 : Basic English : 1 Kings 11; Gospel of John 12 1. Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites: 2. The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was uni...

162 : Basic English : 1 Kings 9,10; Gospel of John 11 1. Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected; 2. The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon; 3. And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house wh...

161 : Basic English : 1 Kings 8; Gospel of John 10 1. Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, and all the chiefs of the tribes, and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to him in Jerusalem to take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion. 2. And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Etha...

160 : Basic English : 1 Kings 7; Gospel of John 9 1. Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete. 2. And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars. 3. And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five sup...

159 : Basic English : 1 Kings 5,6; Gospel of John 8 1. Now Hiram, king of Tyre, hearing that Solomon had been made king in place of his father, sent his servants to him; for Hiram had ever been a friend to David. 2. And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying, 3. You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were ro...

158 : Basic English : 1 Kings 3,4; Gospel of John 7 1. Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete. 2. But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house h...

157 : Basic English : 1 Kings 2; Gospel of John 6 1. Now the time of David's death came near; and he gave orders to Solomon his son, saying, 2. I am going the way of all the earth: so be strong and be a man; 3. And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well...

156 : Basic English : 1 Kings 1; Gospel of John 5 1. Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold. 2. So his servants said to him, Let search be made for a young virgin for my lord the king, to take care of him and be waiting on him; and you may take her in your arms, and so my lord the king will be warm. 3. So after searching through all the l...

155 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 23,24; Gospel of John 4 1. Now these are the last words of David. David, the son of Jesse, says, the man who was lifted up on high, the man on whom the God of Jacob put the holy oil, the loved one of Israel's songs, says: 2. The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue. 3. The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: Wh...

154 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 22; Gospel of John 3 1. And David made a song to the Lord in these words, on the day when the Lord made him free from the hands of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul: 2. And he said, The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour, even mine; 3. My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my...

153 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 20,21; Gospel of John 2 1. Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel. 2. So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men...

152 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 18,19; Psalms 150; Gospel of John 1 1. And David had the people who were with him numbered, and he put over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds. 2. And David sent the people out, a third of them under the orders of Joab, and a third under the orders of Abishai, son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to t...

151 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 16,17; Psalms 148,149 1. And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine. 2. And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the...

150 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 14,15; Psalms 146,147 1. Now it was clear to Joab, the son of Zeruiah, that the king's heart was turning to Absalom. 2. And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been w...

149 : Basic English : 2 Samuel 12,13; Psalms 145 1. And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man. 2. The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds; 3. But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one...