121 : Basic English : Judges 10,11; Gospel of Luke 22 1. Now after Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, became the saviour of Israel; he was living in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim. 2. He was judge over Israel for twenty-three years; and at his death his body was put to rest in the earth in Shamir. 3. And after him came Jair the Gileadite, who was judge over Israel for twenty-two years. 4. And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses;...

120 : Basic English : Judges 9; Gospel of Luke 21 1. Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father, 2. Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh. 3. So his mother's family said all this about him in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem: and...

119 : Basic English : Judges 7,8; Gospel of Luke 20 1. Then Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, and all the people with him, got up early and put up their tents by the side of the water-spring of Harod; the tents of Midian were on the north side of him, under the hill of Moreh in the valley. 2. And the Lord said to Gideon, So great is the number of your people, that if I give the Midianites into their hands they will be uplifted in pride over me and will say, I myself have been my saviour. 3. So...

118 : Basic English : Judges 6; Gospel of Luke 19 1. And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years. 2. And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places. 3. And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against...

117 : Basic English : Judges 4,5; Gospel of Luke 18 1. And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead. 2. And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who was ruling in Hazor; the captain of his army was Sisera, who was living in Harosheth of the Gentiles. 3. Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel. 4. Now...

116 : Basic English : Judges 2,3; Gospel of Luke 17 1. Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me: 2. And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done? 3. And so I have said, I will not...

115 : Basic English : Joshua 24; Judges 1; Gospel of Luke 16 1. Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God. 2. And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they...

114 : Basic English : Joshua 22,23; Gospel of Luke 15 1. Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 2. And said to them, You have kept all the orders of Moses, the Lord's servant, and have done everything I gave you orders to do: 3. You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God. 4. And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to...

113 : Basic English : Joshua 20,21; Gospel of Luke 14 1. And the Lord said to Joshua, 2. Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses, 3. So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood. 4. And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place...

112 : Basic English : Joshua 19; Gospel of Luke 13 1. And the second heritage came out for the tribe of Simeon by their families; and their heritage was in the middle of the heritage of the children of Judah. 2. And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah 3. And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem 4. And Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah 5. And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah ; AB church Lausanne

111 : Basic English : Joshua 16,17,18; Gospel of Luke 12 1. And the limit of the land marked out for the children of Joseph went out from Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, in the waste land, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el; 2. And it goes out from Beth-el to Luz, and on as far as the limit of the Archites to Ataroth; 3. And it goes down to the west to the limit of the Japhletites, to the limit of Beth-horon the lower, as far as Gezer;...

110 : Basic English : Joshua 15; Gospel of Luke 11 1. Now the part of the land marked out for the children of Judah by families, went up to the edge of Edom, as far as the waste land of Zin to the south, to the farthest point of it on the south. 2. Their south limit was from the farthest part of the Salt Sea, from the inlet looking to the south: 3. From there it goes south of the slope up to Akrabbim, and on to Zin, then south past Kadesh-barnea, and on by Hezron and up to Addar, turning...

109 : Basic English : Joshua 13,14; Gospel of Luke 10 1. Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken. 2. This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites; 3. From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the...

108 : Basic English : Joshua 11,12; Gospel of Luke 9 1. Now Jabin, king of Hazor, hearing of these things, sent to Jobab, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, 2. And to the kings on the north in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the highlands of Dor on the west, 3. And to the Canaanites on the east and on the west, and to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the...

107 : Basic English : Joshua 9,10; Gospel of Luke 8 1. Now on hearing the news of these things, all the kings on the west side of Jordan, in the hill-country and the lowlands and by the Great Sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, 2. Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel. 3. And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, 4. Acting with deceit, got food...

106 : Basic English : Joshua 7,8; Gospel of Luke 7 1. But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel. 2. Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was...

105 : Basic English : Joshua 5,6; Gospel of Luke 6 1. Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel. 2. At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children...

104 : Basic English : Joshua 3,4; Gospel of Luke 5 1. Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over. 2. And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents, 3. Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and...

103 : Basic English : Joshua 1,2; Gospel of Luke 4 1. Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying, 2. Moses my servant is dead; so now get up! Go over Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel. 3. Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you, as I said to Moses. 4. From the waste land and this mountain Lebanon, as far as the great...

102 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 33,34; Gospel of Luke 3 1. Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of Israel before his death. 2. He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples. 3. All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings. 4. Moses gave us a law, a heritage...

101 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 31,32; Gospel of Luke 2 1. So Moses said all these things to Israel. 2. Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over Jordan. 3. The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said. 4. The Lord will...

100 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 29,30; Psalms 99,100; Gospel of Luke 1 1. These are the words of the agreement which Moses was ordered by the Lord to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the agreement which he made with them in Horeb. 2. And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land; 3. The great tests which your eyes saw, and the...

99 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 28; Psalms 97,98 1. Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth: 2. And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God. 3. A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field. 4. A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and...

98 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 25,26,27; Psalms 95,96 1. If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer. 2. And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime. 3. He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother...