如何在Laravel 5.6中使用现有表？

I am extremely new to Laravel (like 2 days in learning it) and I've worked my through most of the Intro to Laravel laracast.

I thought today i'd give a my own project a go.

I want to be able to use an existing table in Laravel. For instance, I have a bible table called 'kjv'. It has the following columns:

CREATE TABLE `kjv` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `book` varchar(140) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `chapter` smallint(6) DEFAULT NULL,
  `verse` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `contents` mediumtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci,
  `in-red` mediumtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci,
  `all-red` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

And i've imported that into my laravel database.

The thing is, I dont want to create a new migration, as that would overwrite the data.

I want to be able to use the data in my project, so how would I go about this? I'm guessing I need a model, but I have no idea what i'd write in there. Do I need a controller also?

I'd like to be able to start with a 'get verse' function in the model, so lets say, something along the lines of:

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

use App\KJV;

class KJV extends Model
{
    //

    public function verse($id) {

        $verse = KJV::find($id);

        return view("verse");

    }

}

Of course, I'm really guessing here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Specify the table name in the KJV model:

protected $table = 'kjv';

Then this code will work:

KJV::find($id);

After you have your database set, either with migrations or just importing the database structure, you then create model which will contain all the attributes and relationships that you have. To use CRUD functionalities I suggest you use Resource Controllers, after that you need to create a connection between a router and that resource controller, which you can find on that link just below the header