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, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Beracah and Jehu the Anathothite;

4. And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a great man among the thirty, and their chief; and Jeremiah and Jehaziel and Johanan and Jozabad the Gederathite;

5. Eluzai and Jerimoth and Bealiah and Shemariah and Shephatiah the Haruphite;

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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 across him, and he was wounded by the archers.

4. Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, falling on it himself.

5. And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and came to his death.

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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 sons of Judah, and of Benjamin, and of Ephraim and Manasseh;

4. Uthai, the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the sons of Perez, the son of Judah.

5. And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the oldest, and his sons.

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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.

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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; and the sons of Izrahiah: Michael and Obadiah and Joel and Isshiah, five; all of them chiefs.

4. And with them, recorded in generations by their families, were bands of fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for they had a great number of wives and sons.

5. And there were recorded among all the families of Issachar, great men of war, eighty-seven thousand.

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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 was Joseph's:)

3. The sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

4. The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

5. Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

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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 wife.

4. He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years.

5. And in Jerusalem he had four sons, Shimea and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon, by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel;

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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, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five.

5. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

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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.

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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 prophets.

3. Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;

4. And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

5. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

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