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 which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

4. As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

5. Then I will make the seat of your rule over Israel certain for ever, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

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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 Ethanim, the seventh month.

3. And all the responsible men of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

4. They took up the ark of the Lord, and the Tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests and the Levites took up.

5. And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there, were with him before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

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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 supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.

4. There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.

5. And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.

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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 round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.

4. But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; no one is making trouble, and no evil is taking place.

5. And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.

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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 had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

3. And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.

4. And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.

5. In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you.

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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 in all you do and wherever you go,

4. So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

5. Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause.

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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 land of Israel for a fair young girl, they saw Abishag the Shunammite, and took her to the king.

4. Now she was very beautiful; and she took care of the king, waiting on him at all times; but the king had no connection with her.

5. Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, lifting himself up in pride, said, I will become king; and he made ready his carriages of war and his horsemen, with fifty runners to go before him.

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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: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,

4. It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

5. For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?

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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 safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man.

4. I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.

5. For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;

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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 of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.

3. And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

4. Then the king said to Amasa, Get all the men of Judah together, and in three days be here yourself.

5. So Amasa went to get all the men of Judah together, but he took longer than the time David had given him.

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