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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...

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....