Bible in Basic English
"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?"
— 2 Samuel 23:5, Bible in Basic English
“Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he doesn't make it grow.”
The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.
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,
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.
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?
But the evil-doers, all of them, will be like thorns to be pushed away, because they may not be gripped in the hand:
But anyone touching them has to be armed with iron and the rod of a spear; and they will be burned with fire, every one of them.
These are the names of David's men of war: Ishbaal the Hachmonite, chief of the three; his axe was lifted up against eight hundred put to death at one time.