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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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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 the people, And I myself will certainly go out with you.
3. But the people said, It is better for you not to go out: for if we are put to flight, they will not give a thought to us, and if death overtakes half of us, it will be nothing to them: but you are of more value than ten thousand of us: so it is better for you to be ready to come to our help from this town.
4. And the king said to them, I will do whatever seems best to you. So the king took his place by the door of the town, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
5. And the king gave orders to Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Because of me, be gentle to the young man Absalom. And this order about Absalom was given in the hearing of all the people.
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