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PUBLISHED BY THE<br>CHARLES FOSTER, PUBLISHING CO.,<br>No. 716 SANSOM STREET,<br>PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Copyright, 1886, BY CHARLES FOSTER.<br>Copyright, 1897, BY WILLIAM A. FOSTER.
BUILDING THE TOWER OF BABEL,—Genesis xi. 4.
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ABRAHAM'S SERVANT GIVING JEWELS TO REBEKAH.—Genesis xxiv. 22.
PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER FINDING THE INFANT MOSES.—Exodus ii. 5.
THE MARCH OF THE ISRAELITES THROUGH THE WILDERNESS.
MOSES BREAKS THE TABLES OF THE LAW.—Exodus xxxii. 19.
DAVID PLAYING THE HARP BEFORE KING SAUL.—1 Samuel xvi. 23.
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DANIEL IN THE DEN OF LIONS.
BIBLE PICTURES,<br>AND WHAT THEY TEACH US,<br>THE OLD TESTAMENT.<br>THIS is a picture of the garden of Eden. A man and a woman are in the garden. The man's name is Adam, and the woman's name is Eve. They are the first man and woman that God has made. There are no other persons in the world except them. And God has made this beautiful garden for them to live in. Adam and Eve may eat of every kind of fruit except one. But of that one God says they must not eat. 13
Adam and Eve are under the tree. The tree has fruit growing on it. This is the fruit they must not eat. A serpent is in the tree. It is speaking to Eve. It is persuading her to eat of the fruit. She picks some of it and eats, and gives it to Adam, and he eats too. So they both of them do what God has told them not to do. Though God has been so kind to them, they do not mind him.
Adam and Eve are being sent out of the garden of Eden. They are sent out because they ate the fruit that God told them not to eat. God is punishing them for this. An angel stands by the gate of the garden to keep them from going in there again. The angel has come down from heaven. He does not live in this world. He lives up in heaven where God lives. A great many angels live up in heaven. They are very good and never do anything wrong. They do whatever God tells them to do, and go wherever he tells them to go.
The garden God planted for Adam and Eve was a beautiful place. As long as they stayed there they had everything they wanted. Only the beasts and the birds were with them. The flowers were beautiful for them to look at, and the fruit they ate grew by itself, without their having to work to make it grow. But now they had to go and live in a place that was very different from this beautiful garden.
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Eve with her two little boys is sitting under the tree. Adam is digging in the ground. He has to work very hard to make the things grow that they want to eat. He did not have to work hard in the garden of Eden; there the things grew by themselves. How happy they were in the garden! Beautiful flowers bloomed around them, the birds sang to them, the wild beasts did not hurt them. If Adam and Eve had minded what God said they might have stayed in the garden. Now they are sorry for what they have done.
These are Eve's two little boys that we saw in the other picture. But now they have grown up to be men. One of them is named Cain, the other is named Abel. They are both of them saying their prayers to God. Abel is a good man, but Cain is a wicked man.
Cain hated Abel because God was pleased with Abel, but not with him. And one day when they were out in the field together Cain struck his brother and killed him. And the blood ran out of Abel's wounds and sank into the ground. After Cain had done this God spoke to him and asked him where Abel was. Then Cain told a lie and said that he did not know. But God saw all that Cain had done, and now, as a punishment for killing Abel, God said that Cain should have no home to live in; but he should wander about, and flee from one place to another, like a person who was all the time afraid that some one would kill him. And God set a mark on Cain. We do not know what sort of a mark it was, but it was something that other people could see, and when they saw it they knew it was wicked Cain who had killed his brother.
This man is named Noah. He is building a great boat called the ark. God told him to build it. Noah is a good man. He loves God and minds what God says to him. But all the rest of the people are wicked. They do not mind God and he is angry with them. He is going to send a great rain on the earth. The ground will be covered with deep water and all the people will be drowned.<br>But Noah will not be drowned. He will go into the ark. For it will be ready before the rain comes. It will take Noah a great many years to build the ark, but God will not send the rain until it is finished. Then Noah will take his sons and his daughters into the ark, and a great many birds and animals will go in with them.
The man watching the animals is Noah. He has finished the ark that God told him to build. It took him a great while to finish it. And all the time that he was working on it he used to talk to the wicked people who would not mind God. He begged them to mind him, and he told them about the rain that was coming after a while to drown every wicked person. But they would not listen to Noah or believe what he said. So now he cannot talk to them any more; he must go away and leave them alone. He is taking his sons and his daughters, and all the animals and birds, with him into the ark. There are a great many of them, but there is room for them all. The ark is very large. God makes the birds and the animals willing to go in. Noah has taken enough food for them to eat while they will be in the ark.<br>As soon as Noah and his family, and the animals, and the birds, were all safe in the ark, God shut the door. And after seven days the rain began, and it rained without stopping forty days and forty
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But all the rest of the people in the world, except those few who were in the ark, sank down under the water, and were drowned. And all the animals and birds, excepting those in the ark, were drowned too. It was because the people were wicked and would not obey God, that he sent the water to drown them. But Noah was a good man, and God saved him and his family alive.
Noah has opened the window of the ark. He sent out this dove in the morning to fly off and see if the ground was dry yet. The dove has come back in the evening. It has a green leaf in its mouth. Noah puts out his hand and takes the dove in. Noah sees the green leaf, and he knows that the trees are standing out of the water, and that the ground will soon be dry, and then it will be time for him, and all who are with him, to come out of the ark.
The earth is covered with water, and all the people, except Noah and his family who are in the ark, are drowned. The dove sees a green leaf.
Noah and his wife and his children are coming out of the ark. And the animals and the birds are coming out too. For the water has gone away, and the ground is dry enough for them to walk on, and they do not have to stay in the ark any more. They are looking up toward the sky, and thanking God for keeping them safe when the waters were all over the earth, and when all the other people were drowned. They have been shut up in the ark for many months. How glad they are now to walk on the dry land again!
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Noah is kneeling on the ground before an altar. There is a fire burning on the altar. Noah will offer up animals upon it as a sacrifice to God, who saved him and his family from being drowned in the flood.
This is the tower of Babel. It is a great, wide, and high tower. The people are all at work building it. They want to build it up as high as the sky. They say, Come, let us make bricks and build a tower that shall reach up to heaven! But God sees the tower, and he is not pleased with them for building it. He did not give them permission to build it. And now he will do a very wonderful thing to stop them. He will make them, all at once, speak in a different way from what they spoke before. They will use different words; they will not know what those words mean. They cannot go on building then, because they cannot understand one another. They will have to stop building before the tower is done.
These men have stopped building the tower. They will not make it any higher because they have begun to speak different words from those they used before. They cannot understand each other any more. Soon they will separate into companies and go away. Those only will live together who can speak the same language.
The people who live in the countries that we read about in the Bible do many things differently from the way we do them here. They do not dress in clothes like ours. They wear loose and flowing garments which are cooler and more comfortable than ours would be. When people who live in eastern countries meet, and want to greet each other, they do not shake hands as we do. They bend over, and bow down to each other. Sometimes they bow down all the way to the ground. This picture shows how they do when they meet.
The man who has a crown on his head is a king. His name is Melchisedek. He is holding up his hands and blessing Abraham; that is, he is asking God to be kind to Abraham and to give him good things. He knows that Abraham is a good man, who loves and minds God.
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Abraham is setting some food on the table. He is waiting on these three men. We call them men and they look like men, but they are not men. Two of them are angels, and one of them is the Lord. For the Lord has come down from heaven because he is going to send his angels to burn up the wicked city of Sodom.<br>Lot is bidding Abraham good-bye. Abraham is Lot's uncle. They both of them have flocks of sheep, and goats, and camels. But the men who take care of these flocks have been quarrelling with each other. So Lot says he will take his sheep, and his goats, and his camels, and go and live in some other place, where these men cannot quarrel any more. And now he is bidding Abraham good-bye. He is going to the city called Sodom. He does not know it is to be burned up.
The city of Sodom where Lot lives is being burned up. God sent his angels to burn it. But first the angels told Lot that the city was to be burned. For Lot was a good man. He minded what God said to him. The angels did not want him to be burned up with the wicked city. They told him he must make haste away. So Lot and his daughters are fleeing out of the city. They had not time to take many things with them. You see one of the daughters has a bundle on her head, it is all she could save from her home. They are making great haste, for fear the fire will reach them. But Lot's wife did not make haste. She stayed behind and looked back. Perhaps she wanted to go back to the wicked city, and she was turned into a pillar of salt. And as soon as Lot and his family had gone out of Sodom there came down fire from the skies and burned up the houses and the people who lived in them. Not one was saved alive, for all of them were wicked.
Abraham is in his house. Sarah and Hagar are standing before him. 3
Abraham is sending this woman away from his home. It is Hagar he is sending away. Her little boy is with her. She carries a bottle of water. Where will Hagar go ? She will go out into the lonely wilderness, where no one lives.
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This is Abraham. God loves him and has made him rich and great. He has given Abraham silver and gold and flocks of sheep and goats and camels. But Abraham said that God had not given him a son, to have all these things after Abraham should be dead.<br>Then God spoke to Abraham in the night and told him to come out of his house and look up at the sky. And God asked him if he could count those stars that he saw up in the sky. But there were too many; Abraham could not count them. Then God told Abraham that he would give him a son, and that his son should have children too. Abraham's children and his children's children, God said, should be like those stars —so many that nobody could count them.
This is Abraham and his son Isaac. God spoke to Abraham and told him to take his dear son Isaac and offer him up for a sacrifice, as if he were a sheep or goat, They are going to the place of sacrifice, and<br>Isaac is carrying the wood for the altar. Why did God tell Abraham to do this ? He wanted to see if he would obey him. But God will not let Abraham harm Isaac.
Abraham's servant is looking at the young woman who has filled her pitcher with water at the well. Her name is Rebekah. Abraham's servant will ask her for a drink of water out of her pitcher, and she will give it to him. Then he will know she is the young woman God has chosen to be Isaac's wife.
Abraham's servant has a present in his hand for Rebekah. It is an earring of gold. He is putting it in her ear. Then he asks her whether there is room at her father's house for him, and the men who are with him, to sleep, and whether there is straw and food for their camels. Rebekah tells him there is room and food for them.
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People who live in the country we read about in the Bible ride on camels. Camels are very strong and swift. They can go a long way over the hot sand of the desert without food or water.
Rebekah is riding on the camel. Abraham's servant is walking beside her. She is going with the servant to Abraham's home. But why does she leave her father and mother to go to Abraham's home ? It is because she is going to be married to Isaac. Isaac is Abraham's son. Abraham has sent his servant to find a wife for Isaac. And the servant came to the well and saw Rebekah. And when she had given him a drink from her pitcher, he went home with her and saw her father and mother. Then he talked with them and told them why he had come. He said that Abraham was his master and that God had made Abraham very rich; he had given him silver and gold and flocks and herds of cattle and camels. And all these things Isaac would have after Abraham was dead. Then the servant told them that Abraham had sent him to find a wife for Isaac, and he asked them if Rebekah might go with him to be Isaac's wife. And they asked her if she would go with the man, and she said she would go.
Rebekah has come to the land of Canaan, where Isaac lives. Isaac was walking in the field. He looked up and saw the camels coming. When they came nearer he saw Rebekah. Rebekah came down from the camel, and Isaac brought her into the house. Isaac loved Rebekah, and took her for his wife. God was very kind to Isaac and blessed him. And Isaac and Rebekah had two sons, whose names were Jacob and Esau.<br>Isaac has grown old. He cannot see. He has told his son Esau to go out in the woods and kill a deer, and cook some of the meat for him to eat. Then Isaac says he will bless Esau and tell him of all the things he is to have for his own, after his father is dead. So Esau has gone out into the woods to kill the deer for his father. But while Esau is gone, Jacob, Esau's brother, comes to his father. Jacob pretends that he is Esau, and his father cannot see; he feels the goat-skin on Jacob's hands and thinks he is Esau, because Esau had a rough, hairy skin, So he blesses Jacob and gives him the
Jacob has come away from his home, because Esau is angry with him. He is afraid of his brother Esau. It is night, and Jacob has no place to sleep. He lies down on the ground and takes some of the stones for his pillow. And he has a dream. He thinks he sees a great ladder that reaches up to the sky. Angels are going up and down the ladder. And God speaks to Jacob out of the sky, and tells him that he will take care of him, and keep him safe wherever he goes.
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Jacob has come to another country a long way from his own home. And he sees out in the field a young woman named Rachel. She stays out in the field to take care of her father's sheep. And now she has brought them to the well to give them a drink of water. But Jacob will help her; he will draw up water out of the well and give her sheep drink. Then he will go home with her to her father's house.
Jacob has come to Rachel's home. He is talking with her father. Her father's name is Laban. Jacob is asking Laban if Rachel may not be his wife. Laban says that if Jacob will stay and work for him a long time and take care of his flocks, then Rachel shall be his wife. So Jacob stayed and worked for Laban many years. He took care of Laban's sheep, and goats, and camels; and afterward Laban gave Rachel to him for his wife.
This is a shepherd leading his sheep. He is carrying a lamb in his arms.
Jacob has come to another country a long way from his own home. And he sees out in the field a young woman named Rachel. She stays out in the field to take care of her father's sheep. And now she has brought them to the well to give them a drink of water. But Jacob will help her; he will draw up water out of the well and give her sheep drink. Then he will go home with her to her father's house.
Jacob has come to Rachel's home. He is talking with her father. Her father's name is Laban. Jacob is asking Laban if Rachel may not be his wife. Laban says that if Jacob will stay and work for him a long time and ______________________________________ take care of his flocks, then Rachel shall be his wife. So Jacob stayed and worked for Laban many years. He took care of Laban's sheep, and goats, and camels; and afterward Laban gave Rachel to him for his wife.
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Rachel is riding on a camel. Jacob is walking by her side. Jacob's little children are coming too. He has left Laban's house where he has lived so long. He is going back to his father's house. It is many years since he has seen his father. Now he wants to go and see him before his father dies. Jacob has sheep, and camels, and goats of his own. He is taking these with him. It is a long way to the land where his father lives. But God will take care of Jacob and bring him safely there.
God has sent an angel to Jacob. Jacob is all alone. He sees the angel, but he is not afraid. He puts his arms around him and will not let him go. He begs the angel to bless him. And the angel lifts up his hand over Jacob's head, and blesses him.
Jacob meets his brother Esau. He has not seen Esau since the time when he got Esau's blessing. That was many years ago. Esau was very angry with Jacob then, and Jacob was afraid of him. And he went away from his home and lived with Laban, and took Rachel, Laban's daughter, to be his wife. Jacob has been living with Laban ever since that time. But now he wants to go back to his father's house. And Jacob is on his way back, but before he gets there he sees Esau coming toward him. Some men are with Esau, and Jacob is very much afraid. He is afraid Esau will kill him for taking away his blessing.<br>But Esau has forgiven Jacob, and now he runs to him and puts his arms around his neck and kisses him. And they cry together because they are so glad. And Jacob gave Esau a present of some sheep and goats and camels, for Jacob had a great many of these. Afterward Esau went away to his own home, and Jacob came to his father.
Jacob's sons are selling their brother. His name is Joseph. They are selling him to the men with the camels. These men will take Joseph away to another country called Egypt. Then Joseph's brothers will go back to their father and tell him that Joseph is dead.
Jacob's sons have come home after selling their brother Joseph. They are showing their father Joseph's coat. They have torn it in some places and have put goat's blood on it. They say to Jacob they found it like this in the field; he can tell, they say, whether it is Joseph's coat or not. Jacob knows it and cries, "It is my son Joseph's coat; some wild beast has killed him."
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Joseph is in the prison in Egypt. You see how strong the prison is. It is built of stone, with bolts and bars to keep the prisoners from getting out. Two men are in the prison with Joseph. They have chains on their hands and feet. But there are no chains on Joseph. For the keeper of the prison soon found out what a good man he was, so he lets him walk about wherever he chooses. These two men who are with Joseph are servants of the king. One night when they were asleep they both had strange dreams. Joseph is telling them what their dreams mean. One man's dream meant that in three days he should go out of prison and live in the king's house again. You see how glad he looks. But the other man's dream meant that in three days he should be killed; and he looks very sorrowful. Joseph was able to tell the meaning of these dreams, because God made him know what they meant.
The king of Egypt has had a dream, but his wise men cannot tell him what it means. He is troubled because no one can explain his dream. Then he sends to the prison for Joseph. And Joseph puts on his best clothes and comes quickly to the king. And God made Joseph know what the king's dream meant. Joseph is explaining it to the king. Then the king was pleased with Joseph when he had explained his dream and would not let him go back to the prison any more.
Joseph is dressed in beautiful clothes and has a chain of gold around his neck, and he is riding in a chariot. For the king has given him all these things because he told him about his dream. The king says that every person in the land of Egypt must mind what Joseph says.
Joseph's brothers have been to the land of Egypt to buy corn, because there is no corn for them to eat in the land of Canaan where they live. There is a famine in the land of Canaan, and the corn will not grow there. But there is plenty of corn in the land of Egypt where Joseph lives. So they took their asses and started to go to that land to buy some. And they saw Joseph in Egypt and bought corn of him, but it had been so long since they had seen him before, and now he was so rich and great, that they did not know him or think it was their brother. But Joseph knew them, though he did not tell them so. And when they paid their money for the corn he told his servants to put it back in their bags. And when Joseph's brothers stopped and opened their bags to feed their asses, they found the money. You see how surprised they look, for they cannot understand it.
Joseph's brothers have come into Egypt again to buy more corn. They have brought their little brother Benjamin with them, for he was not with them when they came the first time. And now Joseph tells them that he is their brother whom they sold so many years ago. Then they are frightened when they hear this, for they remember how cruel they were to him. and they are afraid he will punish them for what they did to him. You see they are kneeling down and begging him to forgive them. But Joseph tells them they need not be afraid, for he has forgiven them, and he still loves them, he says. He is stooping down and kissing his little brother Benjamin, he is so glad to see him. Then he talks with his brothers and asks them about his father, who is still living in the land of Canaan. And after he has talked with them he treats them very kindly, and has their bags filled with corn; then he sends them back safely to their homes.
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Joseph has sent for his father to come into Egypt. He rides out to meet him, and as soon as he meets him he gets down from his chariot, and runs to his father and puts his arms around his neck, and kisses him. Jacob, Joseph's father, is very old. He did not ever expect to see Joseph again. He thought Joseph was dead. How glad he is now to see his dear son once more! And Joseph is very kind to his father and to his brothers. He has sent for them all to come out of the land of Canaan, because there was no corn for them in that land. And he has brought them down into the land of Egypt, where there is plenty of food. And Joseph will bring them to the king, and the king will speak kindly to them. He will tell Joseph to give them some of the land of Egypt for their own, where they will have grass for their cattle, and where they can build houses for their wives and their little children to live in.
Jacob is blessing Joseph and his sons. He is asking God to be kind to them after he is dead; for Jacob knows he has not long to live.
Jacob has died. Joseph and his brothers have carried him back into the land of Canaan, where he used to live, for Jacob told them that he wanted to be buried in that land. So they have carried him to Canaan to bury him in the cave where Abraham and Sarah were buried, and which<br>Abraham bought of Ephron for four hundred pieces of silver. Joseph and his brothers went back to Egypt, and lived there, after they had buried their father. When Joseph was one hundred and ten years old he died. His brothers died also, but their children lived and became a great many people.
This little baby is in his mother's arms. She is an Israelite. She loves her little boy very much, but she is afraid to keep him with her. A wicked king now rules over Egypt. He kills all the little boys of the<br>Israelites. How will the baby's mother save him from being killed? She will put him in a little ark, or boat, and hide him by the river bank.
The little boy is floating on the water. He is in a little basket made of reeds, or rushes. It is woven together very tightly, and covered with pitch to keep out the water. The little baby's mother made the basket and put him in it. Then she laid it carefully among the bushes by the edge of the river.
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The king's daughter is walking beside the river. She sees a basket floating in the water. She sends a young woman to get it. They open the basket and find a little baby in it. The baby cries, and the king's daughter pities it. She takes it to her home and calls its name Moses, and she says that Moses shall be her son.
Moses has grown up to be a man. Now he is a shepherd, and takes care of sheep. He has taken his sheep up on a mountain to eat the grass there. He sees a fire burning in a bush. He comes toward it to look at it. He hears a voice speaking to him. It is God's voice speaking out of the fire to Moses. And Moses hides his face, for he is afraid to look upon God.
The king wears a crown on his head. His name is Pharaoh. Moses and Aaron are standing up before the king. Just now Aaron had a rod in his hand; he threw it down on the ground, and it was changed into a serpent. Then the king's servants threw down their rods, and they were changed into serpents too. But Aaron's rod swallowed up all the other rods. God has sent Aaron to Pharaoh to do this wonderful thing.
This poor man is carrying a heavy load of bricks on his shoulder. The man with the whip is going to strike him because he does not go faster. A little way off another man is throwing a little child into the river, He wants to drown the little child. Its mother is trying to save it, but she cannot. Why are the men so cruel to these people ? It is because King Pharaoh tells them to be cruel. The people they are so cruel to are called Israelites. There are a great many Israelites in King Pharaoh's land; some of them are men, and some of them are women, and some of them are little children. King Pharaoh makes them work very hard. They have to dig clay out of the ground and to make bricks of it, and to build houses. They are tired and sick with working, but the king does not pity them. He makes them work harder than ever.
The angel is going through King Pharaoh's land. He is going through it in the night. The angel will go into King Pharaoh's house and make his son to die. He will go into all the people's houses and make their sons to die because they have been so cruel to the Israelites. But the angel will not go into the houses where the Israelites live, to make their sons die. God told the Israelites that the angel was coming, and he told them to kill a lamb, and take its blood and sprinkle it over the doors of the houses. And when the angel saw the blood, God said, he would not come into the house to hurt them. In the picture we see the blood sprinkled over the door and at each side of it. The angel sees the blood. He will pass over this house and not harm any one in it. We can see the family inside. They are eating the Feast of the Passover.
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This is the house of an Egyptian. How different it is from the house of the Israelites. The angel has been here. But when he saw there were no marks of blood on the door he did not pass over it.<br>The angel went into all the houses of the Egyptians and caused their oldest sons to die. God sent him to do this so Pharaoh would let the Israelites go away from Egypt.
Moses is standing on the shore of the sea. He and all the Israelites have just come out of King Pharaoh's land. They had to come across the sea. But they did not come across in boats. They walked through the sea. For the water went away from that place so that they could walk on the bottom of the sea. But when wicked Pharaoh and his soldiers followed after them to make them go back again, then the water came on Pharaoh and his soldiers, and drowned them all. God made the water come on them and drown them, but he did not let it drown the Israelites.
The quail and her young ones. The Israelites wanted some flesh to eat, but they had none. Then a great many quails came to the place where they were. There were so many quails that the ground was covered with them. Then the Israelites went out and caught them, and they brought them to their homes and ate them. It was God who sent the quails for the Israelites to eat.<br>The Israelites are picking up something off of the ground. It is manna they are picking up. God has sent it for them to eat. It is small and round and white, and tastes as if it had honey in it. Every morning God sends enough manna for all the men, and women, and little children to eat that day. God never forgets to send it, but he sends only enough for one day. And the Israelites go out in the morning and gather it off of the ground and put it in jars and bowls, and they carry it to their homes, and make cakes of it and eat it.
Moses has struck the rock with his rod, and water is coming out. For the people had no water to drink. Then God told Moses to strike the rock, and he said the water would come. So Moses struck the rock with his rod, and water came out of it, enough for all the Israelites to drink. They are catching it in bowls and cups and drinking it. For they are thirsty, and weak, and sick, because it has been so long since they had any water. God was good and kind to the Israelites to send them water out of the rock. He never forgets to be kind to his people.
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Moses is holding up his rod in his hand, and because his arms are tired, two men are helping him hold them up. Why is Moses doing this? Because some bad men, called Amalekites, have come to fight with the<br>Israelites. As soon as the Amalekites came, Moses went up on the top of this hill, and held up his rod, and as long as he held it up God helped the Israelites. So Moses held it up until they had driven the Amalekites away.
What are these people doing ? They are praying to a golden idol. They have made it in the shape of a calf, and are bowing down to it, and asking it to help them. The people are Israelites. God helped them when they lived in Egypt. When Pharaoh was cruel to them and made them work very hard, God made Pharaoh let the Israelites go. God made the Red Sea dry for the Israelites to pass through. He gave them water to drink and manna to eat in the wilderness. Yet now they have forgotten God and are bowing down and praying to an idol which they made themselves. They are doing like the heathen people who are their enemies, and who live in the country they are passing through.
Moses has a tablet of stone in his hand. It has some writing on it. He is throwing it down on the ground. Why does he do this ? I will tell you. Moses has been up on yonder mountain. God told him to go up, and while he was there God spoke to him and gave him two tablets of stone. They had the ten commandments written on them. God had written them there with his own hand. They were to teach the people what God wanted them to do. Now Moses is bringing them down from the mountain. But when he comes he finds all the people doing wickedly. They have made an idol out of gold. It is in the shape of a calf. And they have taken the calf for their god, and are praying to it. This is very wicked, for God has told them they must not pray to idols. And now when Moses is bringing them the tablets which God has sent to them, he sees all the people praying to the golden calf. And Moses is very angry. He says they do not deserve to have the tablets which God has sent, and he throws them down on the gr
Moses has been up on the mountain again. Before he went up God told him to make two new tables of stone like those that were broken; and God wrote the ten commandments on these two tables also. You and I must obey these commandments as carefully as the Israelites did in the old time. In this picture we see Moses. He has come down from the mountain with the two tables in his hands. He is showing them to the people. The people are kneeling down and promising to obey them. They say they will not worship idols any more.
This is the tabernacle, or church, that the Israelites built. God told them how to build it. It is something like a tent. There are posts or pillars along its sides. Curtains are spread over these for its roof. The curtains are of different colors, and some of them have beautiful embroidered work on them. The fence around the tabernacle is made in the same way, of curtains fastened to pillars. When the Israelites want to go on their journey they take the tabernacle down and carry all the different parts of it to the place where they are going to make their camp. Then they set it up in the middle of the camp where all the people will be. The tabernacle is a very holy place, because the ark is kept in it, and because the cloud of the Lord always rests above it. No one can go into the tabernacle except the priests, The people say their prayers outside of it. The flags in the picture show where the people put up their tents all around the tabernacle.
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These are some of the things that were made to go into the tabernacle. They are all very beautiful. The table is made of gold. It has twelve loaves of bread on it called shew-bread. There is a golden box too ; it is called the ark. It has two angels on its lid. The angels are made out of pure gold. And there is a golden candlestick, to burn and give light, inside of the tabernacle.
These are the ministers, or priests, that stay at the tabernacle, and attend to God's worship there. And they take care of the tabernacle and of all the things that are in it. There are a great many priests who stay at the tabernacle. One of them is called the high-priest. He is the principal one. All the other priests have to mind him. He wears a beautiful dress. We see how he is dressed in the picture.
This man is offering up a burnt sacrifice to God. When an Israelite wanted to thank God for having helped him, he took a lamb out of his flock, and killed it, and put it on an altar. Then he set fire to it and burned it up. This was called a burnt sacrifice. In the tabernacle which the Israelites built, the priests offered up a sacrifice of two lambs every day. This was for all the people.
This is an idol named Molech. A great many people used to pray to this idol. It had the head of a calf, and was made of brass, and it was hollow inside. There was a place in the side to make a fire in it. When it got very hot the wicked people used to put their little children in its arms. The little children were burned to death there. This man in the picture is just going to put a little child in the idol's arms. Other men are blowing on trumpets and beating on drums, and making a great noise, so that no one can hear the poor little child cry.
The people are all carrying branches of trees. They have been out in the woods and cut off the branches. They are going to make little tents, or booths, out of them, in the streets and on the tops of their houses. Then they will come away from their homes and live in these booths for seven days. And all that time they will have a feast. God told them to build these green booths and to have this feast. It is called the Feast of Tabernacles. All the people are very happy while they are having the Feast of Tabernacles. God loves his children to be happy.
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These men are carrying a bunch of grapes so large and heavy that they have to hang it on a pole, and carry it between them. They are in the country called Canaan. They are going back to tell the people about it, for the Israelites want to go and live there.
These men and women are going down under the ground. The ground has opened, and it is swallowing them up. They have been wicked. They have not minded Moses and Aaron, and they have tried to keep all the rest of the people from minding them. Yet God told them they must mind Moses and Aaron. And now God is punishing them for their sin. While some of the wicked men are being swallowed up in the ground, the rest are being burned in the fire that God has sent. Moses is standing and speaking to the people about them.
Moses holds some sticks, or rods, in his hands. The men that we see in the picture brought them to him. After they had brought them Moses wrote the name of each man on his rod. On one rod the name of Aaron was written. Then he put them into the tabernacle, and left them there all night to see what would happen to them. Now we know that rods cannot grow after they have been cut off from the tree. But one of these rods did grow. For in the morning, when Moses brought them all out to show them to the men, one of them had budded and blossomed and had almonds growing on it. We see the rod in Moses' hand. It was the rod that had Aaron's name on it. God made this rod to grow so that the people might know Aaron was the one he had chosen for his high-priest. For the wicked men who would not mind Moses and Aaron had said that Aaron ought not to be high-priest. So Moses put that rod back into the tabernacle to keep it there always.
Moses is standing up and pointing to a great snake, or serpent. The serpent is made of brass. It is fastened to the top of a pole. Moses is telling the people to look at it. For some live serpents have come among the people and are biting them. The serpents are poisonous. They are biting both men and women, and whoever is bitten by them dies. And<br>God has told Moses to make this serpent out of brass, and to set it up on a pole, and whoever looks at it, God says, shall get well. And now Moses is pointing to the serpent of brass, and telling the people who are bitten to look at it, so that they may get well. It was because the people had done wrong and disobeyed God, that the poisonous serpents came into the camp and bit them.
The man who is riding on the ass is named Balaam. He is a prophet, but he is not a good man. A wicked king has sent for Balaam. He wants him to curse the people called Israelites. The king thinks that if Balaam curses them God will destroy them. Balaam ought not to curse the Israelites, for they are God's people. But the king offered to give him a great deal of silver and gold if he would come to him and curse them. So Balaam saddled his ass and started to go. You see in the picture that when Balaam got part way to the king's country an angel met him with a sword in his hand. The ass saw the angel first, and he fell down for fear. But Balaam beat the ass. Then God made the ass speak; it said to Balaam, Why have you beaten me these three times ? And Balaam looked up and saw the angel standing in the way. Then the angel told him he might go on to the king's country, but he must be very careful to speak only those words that the angel told him.
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The women are kneeling down before Moses. They are asking him for something. They are the daughters of Zelophehad. Their father is dead. They have no brothers. They are asking for a share of the land promised to the men of the Israelites. Moses will give it to them.
This man who is running has no coat on. He is running with all his might. He has thrown away his coat so that he could run the faster. He was in the woods cutting down a tree, and his axe slipped out of his hand and struck another man who was standing near, so that he died. He did not mean to hurt the man, and he is very sorry for it. But now the dead man's brother is running after him with a sword in his hand to kill him. The brother does not wait to ask whether the man did it on purpose. But he is very angry. He will kill him with his sword if he can catch him. But he cannot catch him, for he has reached the gate of the city, and there a kind man has caught him by the hand. He will take him into the city and give him a house to live in where no one can hurt him. For this is the city of refuge. It is the place where a person who has killed another by accident may come and be safe. But if the man had killed the other one on purpose, and because he hated him, then they would not take h
These two men are running up to the roof of the house to hide. The woman is helping them. Her name is Rahab. The men are Israelites. They have come to the city to spy ; to see how many people live there, and how rich they are. The city is named Jericho. Soldiers will look for the men to kill them.
The two men are letting themselves down from the house. They have been hidden on the roof. The woman hid them there. The soldiers came to take the two men and kill them; but they could not find them. As soon as the soldiers were gone the men let themselves down by ropes outside of the city wall, where no one could see them. God is going to give this city to Joshua and to the Israelites.
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The people are crossing over a river. God told them to cross over it. As soon as they came to the edge of the river, the water went away, so that they could walk over on dry ground. We can see the water standing up like a wall waiting till they have gone over. It was God who made the water do this. The priests are carrying something on their shoulders through the river. It is the golden box called the ark. The ark has a cover on it, so that we cannot see the golden angels that are fastened to its lid. The man on horseback is named Joshua. He is their captain, as Moses used to be. But now Moses is dead.
The Israelites are on the bank of the river. It is the river Jordan. They are watching the men carrying the ark across. This old man is blind; he cannot see. They are telling him that God has turned back the water so they can cross on dry ground.
The men are picking up stones and making a great pile of them. Why do they do this ? Because they want the Israelites to remember, always, when they see the stones, that it was at this place God turned back the water, and helped them to cross the Jordan.
These men are digging in the ground. They find some gold and silver hidden there. This gold and silver belonged to God. But a man stole it and hid it. The man knew it belonged to God, and he should have given it to the priests at the tabernacle. Instead of this he hid it in the ground under his tent. He wanted to keep it for himself. But God saw what he did and told Joshua, and Joshua sent men to find the silver and gold. They have found it now. The name of this wicked man is Achan. He will be put to death for what he has done.
The man on horseback is Joshua. He has soldiers with him. They are going into this city to take it. God has told them to go. He is making the walls of the city fall down, so that they can go into it and take it for their own. The name of the city is Jericho. The people who live in Jericho are wicked and God is taking their city from them. It is the city where the two men were hidden on the roof of the house.
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This woman is throwing a great stone on a man's head. The man's name is Abimelech. He is a bad man. He has brought soldiers with him to burn up the city and to kill all the people. But this woman is up on the top of the house, and she takes a great stone in her hands and throws it down on Abimelech's head, and hurts him so that he dies.
This man is named Samson. He was walking along the road by himself and a lion came out of the woods to kill him. But Samson caught hold of the lion with his hands, and he killed the lion. For Samson was stronger than the lion. There was not another man as strong as Samson. It was God who made him so strong, so that he could fight against the people who wanted to hurt the Israelites.
But after this Samson did not mind God. He did what God told him not to do. Then God punished him by taking away his great strength from him. And the men who hated him came and put chains of brass on him and took him away with them, for he could not get off from them.
Samson is carrying away the heavy gates of a city. The city was named Gaza. Samson came into the city to stay there all night. But the men of the city hated him. They said, In the morning when he wants to go away again, we will kill him. So they shut the gates of the city that he might not get out. But he got up in the night and came to the gates, and when he found they were shut, he pulled them down and put them on his shoulder and carried them a good way off to the top of a hill. And nobody dared to stop him.
The men who took Samson brought him into the prison and shut him up there. And they were very cruel to him, for they put out his eyes, so that he could not see. Then they made him turn a great mill-stone round and round to grind up their corn. Here is a picture of Samson in the prison. The cruel people are looking in and laughing at him, and making fun of him.
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After Samson had been in the prison a good while his great strength began to come back to him. But the people did not know this. One day they had a feast in their idol's temple, and the cruel people cried out, Bring Samson here, that we may see him and make fun of him! So poor blind Samson was led from the prison into the idol's temple, and he stood between two great pillars that held up the house. And Sam- son said to the boy who led him by the hand, Let me feel the pillars. Now the house was full of men and women, and some were even up on the roof. They had come to see Samson and mock him. Then Samson put his arms around the pillars and pulled them together with all his might until they broke, and the house fell down on all the people and killed them, and Samson was killed with them.
This man's name is Boaz. It is his field where the corn is growing. The young woman is asking him if she may not pick up a little corn. She wants to take it home for her mother and herself to eat. For they are poor. And Boaz speaks kindly to her. He tells her to take as much corn as she wants. The young woman's name is Ruth. She is gentle and good, and Boaz loves her, and asks her to be his wife, and afterward they are married to each other.
Job is lifting up his hands in great trouble. His servants are telling him sad news. One has just told him that robbers have taken away his oxen. Another tells him that his sheep are all killed. Another says that some men have taken away his camels. And another servant is coming to tell him that his sons and his daughters are dead. They were in the house eating and drinking together, and a great wind blew the house down, and it fell on them and killed them When Job heard these things he was very sorry. Yet he said it was God who let these troubles come to him, so it must be right for them to come, and he would not find fault with God.
Job has still more trouble. For after his children and his riches have been taken from him, then sickness conies to him. Dreadful sores, called boils, break out all over his body, so that he is in pain and cannot sleep by night or by day. Then three of his friends come to see him, and they sit down near to him, but they hardly know him, he looks so sick and is so much changed.
God takes away Job's sickness and makes him well again. And he gives him more sheep and camels and oxen for those that were lost And God gives him sons and daughters too. Then Job's brothers and sisters and friends come to see him, and they all give him presents of money and of gold. Because Job is a good man and loves God, God is so kind to him. And now his trouble has all gone; he is well and happy again, and richer than he was before.
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The ship is in a storm. God sent this storm because there is a man in the ship that did not mind him. The man's name is Jonah. God told Jonah to go to a city called Nineveh, and to tell the wicked people who lived there that in forty days God would punish them for their sins.<br>But Jonah did not want to go. He sailed out on the sea in this ship instead. The sailors have found out that Jonah did not mind God, and that the storm has come on his account. They take Jonah up and throw him into the sea. Then the storm goes away.
God sent a great fish to the side of the ship to swallow up Jonah as soon as he should be cast into the sea. Jonah was in the fish three days and three nights, but God kept him alive, And Jonah prayed to God while he was in the fish and asked God to forgive him. So God forgave Jonah, and told the fish to cast him out on dry land again. Then God spoke to him a second time, and said, Go to Nineveh, that great city, and tell the people that in forty days, because they are so wicked their city will be destroyed. This time Jonah did not disobey God, but he rose up and went to Nineveh as God told him. And when the king of Nineveh and all the people heard what Jonah said, they stopped doing wickedly and prayed that God would forgive them. So God forgave them and did not send his punishment upon them.
This is a picture of two women in their house. They are Israelites. They wear the loose and flowing dress that is worn in the countries we read about in the Bible. One of the women holds a little baby in her arms. The baby's mother is sitting beside her. She loves her little boy very much.
This woman is in the tabernacle. Her name is Hannah. She is praying to God. She is asking God to give her a son. She says that if God will give her a son, then the little boy shall come and stay at the tabernacle and wait on God's high-priest. The high-priest is named Eli. He is sitting on a seat in the tabernacle. He hears Hannah praying, and asks God to give her the thing that she prays to him for. God will hear Hannah's prayer, and give her a son.
This little boy is the son that God gave to Hannah. His name is Samuel. Hannah has brought him to the tabernacle, so that he may stay there and wait on the high-priest. Eli is glad because he will have Samuel to stay at the tabernacle. He asks God to be kind to Hannah and her husband for giving little Samuel to him.
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God called to Samuel in the night while he was asleep. Samuel thought it was Eli who called him, and he ran to Eli and said, Here I am, for you called me! But Eli had not called the child. Eli knew it was God who was calling him. And he told Samuel when the voice called again to answer, Speak, for thy servant heareth! So the voice called again, and Samuel answered the words that Eli had told him. Then God told Samuel that because Eli's two sons had been wicked and Eli had not stopped them, but had let them go on in their wickedness, God would send a dreadful punishment on Eli and his sons.
Eli falls down backward from his seat and is killed. It is because this messenger has just brought him word that the ark has been taken from the Israelites by the people called Philistines, and that his two sons are dead. Eli was a good man, but his sons were bad men. What God said to little Samuel has come true.
These are some of the wicked Philistines, who have taken the ark away from the Israelites. They have put the ark in the house where they keep their idol. Their idol's name is Dagon. The Philistines pray to it. They have brought the ark into Dagon's house and left it there all night. And in the morning they find the idol fallen down on the ground, on its face, before the ark. And Dagon's head and his hands are cut off. It was God who made the idol fall down. He sends sickness too among the Philistines because they are keeping the ark from the Israelites.
The Philistines are afraid to keep the ark any longer. They have laid it on this cart, and fastened the cows to the cart. In this way they will send it back to the Israelites. There is no man driving the cows. They are left to go by themselves wherever they choose, but God will make them go the right way.
Samuel has grown up to be a man. He is pouring oil out of a bottle on this young man's head. The young man's name is Saul Saul is going to be king over the people. When any man was made king he had oil poured on his head. God
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This was called anointing him. told Samuel to anoint Saul. It was<br>God who chose Saul to be king.<br>Jonathan is King Saul's son. He is climbing up the rocks. Another young man is with him.<br>They have brought their swords and shields. They are going to fight against the men on the top of the hill. Those, men are bad men. They have come to rob the Israelites and do them harm. God will help Jonathan and the young man who is with him, to fight against them and drive them away.
David takes care of his father's sheep. He stays with them in the day and in the night. He keeps them from being lost, and he will not let any wild beast kill them. Sometimes when he is alone out in the field he plays on the harp. He knows how to play on the harp very well, and he can make sweet music.
King Saul is sitting down with his spear in his hand. His son Jonathan is standing by his side, and David is playing the harp before him. The king has sent for David to come and play on his harp, because he has heard that David could make sweet music. Jonathan is listening too. He is glad to hear the music of David's harp. For he loves David and David loves him. We shall read afterward how kind Jonathan was to David.
David is picking up some stones to throw out of his sling. He carries his sling in his hand. He is only a shepherd boy, and yet he is going to fight with the giant. The giant's name is Goliath; he is larger and stronger than any other man. The giant has a sword and a spear to fight with, but David has nothing except his sling and these few stones that he is picking up out of the brook. But God will help David.<br>When the giant saw that David was only a shepherd boy, he thought him not worth fighting with, and he came toward him with his sword and his spear to kill him. But David made haste and ran toward the giant, and he took a stone out of his bag and put it into his sling, and threw it at the giant, and it struck him in the forehead, and sank into his flesh, so that he fell down on his face to the ground. Then David ran and stood on the giant and took his sword from him and killed him. And when all the wicked men who were with the giant saw that their leader was killed, they fled aw
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King Saul is throwing his spear at David; he is trying to kill him. Why does the king try to kill David? It is because all the people praise him for killing the giant. The king does not like to hear David praised. He wants all the praise himself. So while David is playing the harp before him he throws his spear at him. He wants it to go through David's body and fasten him to the wall. But David steps out of the way of the spear, and it does not hurt him. And the king throws his spear at David again, but he steps aside a second time and the spear does him no harm. And after this Saul is afraid of David because he sees that God is David's friend. But God is not Saul's friend, because Saul is a wicked man. Jonathan, the king's son, loves David, and is very sorry for what his father has done to him.
Saul sent some soldiers to David's house. They are waiting at the door. They think David will come out and then they will kill him. But David's wife knew the soldiers were there. She is helping David to get down by a rope from the window. The soldiers do not see him.
David and Jonathan are bidding each other good-bye. David has to make haste and go away to some other place where Saul cannot find him, for Saul wants to take him and kill him. Jonathan is very sorry for David. He has tried to persuade his father to be kind to David, but his father will not listen to what Jonathan says. And now Jonathan is helping David to get away from his father.
David is living out in the woods and fields where Saul cannot find him. Some other men have come there to stay with David. But sometimes they have hardly enough to eat. This woman has brought David a present of some meat, and corn, and bread. Her name is Abigail. Her servants are carrying these things on their shoulders and laying them down before David. Abigail is a rich woman. She is kind and good to David and to the men who are with him.
King Saul is asleep in his tent at night. David and one of his men have come very softly into the tent. They are taking away Saul's spear, but he is so fast asleep that he does not know it. David might kill Saul while he is asleep, but, though Saul wants to kill David, David does not want to kill him. David is a good man. He loves God, and he tries every day to do what will please him. Here is a battle. A great many soldiers are fighting with spears and swords. Saul is in the battle. But he is not fighting. Look, where he has pointed his sword against his own breast, and now he is falling on it, to make it run into his body and kill him ! Why does King Saul do so wicked a thing ? It is because the battle is going against him. God does not help him, for Saul has not minded God or tried to please him.
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King Saul is asleep in his tent at night. David and one of his men have come very softly into the tent. They are taking away Saul's spear, but he is so fast asleep that he does not know it. David might kill Saul while he is asleep, but, though Saul wants to kill David, David does not want to kill him. David is a good man. He loves God, and he tries every day to do what will please him. Here is a battle. A great many soldiers are fighting with spears and swords. Saul is in the battle. But he is not fighting. Look, where he has pointed his sword against his own breast, and now he is falling on it, to make it run into his body and kill him ! Why does King Saul do so wicked a thing ? It is because the battle is going against him. God does not help him, for Saul has not minded God or tried to please him.
Some oil is being poured on David's head; he is being anointed. He is going to be king. God has chosen him for king in Saul's place, for Saul is dead. And all the people are glad. They want David for their king, and they are willing to mind him. After the oil has been poured on him, then the crown that the young man is holding will be put on David's head.
David is glad and happy. He is playing on the harp, and the men that follow him are blowing trumpets. After them some oxen are coming. They are drawing a cart. On the cart is the golden box called the ark. This is the ark you remember the Israelites carried through the wilderness in their journey from Egypt, The ark was a very holy thing. When it was first brought inside the tabernacle God came in a cloud, into the tabernacle, above the ark. We have read how the ark was afterwards taken away from the Israelites by the Philistines. They put it in their idol's house. But in the morning the Philistines found their idol cut in pieces, so they were afraid to keep the ark any longer. They sent it back in a cart drawn by two cows. And now David is bringing it to the new church, or tabernacle he has built. The people had grown to care little for their ark. But David spoke to them and asked them to go with him to get it. It was right for David to do this and God blessed him for it. He is happy
King David is holding down his head and hiding his face. It is because he has done wrong. He is ashamed, and although he is king he is unhappy and afraid. The man who is speaking to him is Nathan, the prophet. God has sent him to David to tell him that God knows of his sin, and is angry with him for it.
And Nathan came to David and told him a story about this man that we see in the picture. He was very poor, and had nothing except one little lamb that he had brought up and taken care of. It grew up with his children, and he fed it from his table, and it drank out of his cup and seemed to him like a daughter. And because he was so kind to it, the lamb loved him and his children
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This rich man had a great many sheep and lambs. But when he wanted to make a feast for his friend, he did not take one of his own lambs, but he went to the poor man's house and took his pet lamb, and had it killed and cooked for his table. When David heard this story he was angry with the rich man. He said the rich man should be punished for the wrong he had done. But Nathan told David that he too had done wrong, and that God was angry with him and would punish him.
David is lying down on the ground. He is praying to God. His little child is sick. Its mother is holding its head in her lap. David will not rise up and eat anything ; he is lying on the ground all night praying to God, because he loves his little child so much and is so anxious for it to get well. Yet it will not get well, but will die. God is punishing David in this way for the wrong things he has done. David is very sorry for them now. He wishes he had not done them, but this cannot keep away his punishment that his sin has brought on him.
David is making haste away from Jerusalem, the city where he lives. He has left his home and is in great trouble, and he does not know where to go. Why is he so much troubled ? Because his son Absalom has turned against him. Absalom wants to put his father away from being king. He wants to be king himself. Absalom has taken soldiers with him and gone into David's house. He would be glad even to kill his father, so that he may be king over the people.<br>And David is afraid of Absalom. He has fled away from his house because Absalom is there. David's servants have come with him. They love him and will not leave him. But one wicked man who hates David stands on the other side of the road and throws stones at him and curses him.<br>After David had left his home, some of the priests sent two young men to tell him that he should make haste, for fear Absalom would come after him and kill him. And the young men started to go to David. But Absalom sent men to catch them. Then the two young men go
Absalom's long hair has caught in the branches of a tree. The beast he was riding on has gone away and left him hanging to the branches. Then some men come and run their spears into his body and kill him. For Absalom brought soldiers with him and followed after his father, and he came near to the place where his father was. Then the men who were with David went out to fight with Absalom and his soldiers. And there was a great battle. But God gave David's men the victory, and a great many of Absalom's men were put to death. For God did not mean to let David be killed, but he meant to punish Absalom for being so cruel to his father.<br>And the battle was in a wood. And as Absalom was making haste away his hair caught in the branches of an oak, and, as we have read, he was left hanging there until some men came and killed him. Afterward they took him down and threw his dead body into a pit, and piled a great heap of stones over him.
David has been waiting to hear what news there would be from the battle. And now a messenger has come to tell him that Absalom is killed. And David is in great trouble. Although Absalom has been so cruel to his father, yet his father loves him as much as ever. David mourns and cries for him. He goes into a room alone, and cries out loud, 0, my son Absalom, my son Absalom! I wish God had let me die instead of you, 0 Absalom, my son, my son!
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You see in this picture Solomon the son of David being anointed king. He is kneeling before Zadok the priest. Zadok has a horn full of oil in his hand which he is going to pour on Solomon's head. On one side is King David leaning on his harp. Why is it that they are making Solomon king while David is still alive ? It is because David is a very old man now, and he does not want to be king any longer. And he has decided that Solomon, who is a good son and not like wicked Absalom, shall be king in his place. So David has told his servants to bring his own mule, that he used to ride on, and to put Solomon on it, and to take him to the place where Zadok should anoint him. And as soon as he was anointed, David said they should blow the trumpet and cry out, God save King Solomon ! After that they were to bring Solomon to the house where David's throne was, that he might sit on the throne and be king over all the Israelites. So David's servants did as he told them. They took Solomon and made
This is a cedar tree. It grows on the mountain called Lebanon. A great many such trees grow on that mountain. Men cut them down with axes, and they use the wood in building houses. Solomon will want many of these trees for the church that he is going to have built. He will send men to stay on the mountain and cut the trees down. Then they will drag them to the sea, and float them along until they come near to that city of Jerusalem where the church is to stand.
These men are at work building the new church for Solomon. Solomon is telling them how they must build it. They will put gold and silver and precious stones in it, and the church will be very beautiful. The name of the new church will be the temple.
The temple is finished and the priests are carrying the ark into it. The ark is covered over, and we cannot see the golden angels on the lid. We cannot see inside of it.<br>The two tablets of stone that God gave to Moses are in the ark, and so is the rod that had Aaron's name on it, and that grew and budded in the night. King Solomon is walking in front of the priests who are carrying the ark. He is showing them the way they shall go. A good way off we see other priests blowing on trumpets. This is to show how glad all the priests and the people are that the beautiful new temple is finished. The temple is God's house. Solomon had thousands of men at work in building it, and it took them seven years to finish it.
King Solomon is kneeling down and thanking God for letting him build the temple. And he is asking God if he will not always hear the people when they pray to him there. If the people should do wrong and God should punish them by keeping their corn from growing well, or by sending sickness or trouble upon them, Solomon asks if God will not forgive them when they come to the temple and confess their sin.
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Solomon is sitting on his throne. Only kings and queens have thrones. This woman who is sitting by Solomon is a queen. She lives in another country far away. She has come to visit him. She has many servants with her. They rode on camels and brought beautiful presents for Solomon. They are bringing those presents into the room and setting them down before the king. Solomon will give her presents too, and then she will go back to her own home.
Solomon is kneeling down and holding his hands out. He is praying. But he is not praying to God; he is praying to an idol. The idol is on the top of the pillar in front of him. It is made of wood or stone, or perhaps of gold or silver. It looks something like a man, but it cannot move, or speak, or do anything. Yet Solomon is praying to it. Can this be the good King Solomon who minded God and who built the temple? Yes, it is the same. But he did not keep on minding God. He took wicked women for his wives, and they have persuaded him to do this great sin. And God is angry with him and will punish him for it.
This calf is an idol. A wicked king named Jeroboam made it out of gold, and he built a house for it to be kept in. He sent bad men to stay at this house and take care of his idol. He called them priests, like the priests at the temple. But he would not let the people go to the temple to pray to God. He made them come to the idol's house to pray to it. And the people were wicked too, for they were willing to do as the king told them; and they came to the idol's house, and prayed to it, but did not go to God's temple any more.
This man is named Elijah. He is a prophet. He loves God and does everything that God tells him to do. Elijah is all alone out in the woods. The brook that is running by his side gives him water to drink, and the ravens that we see in the picture bring him bread and meat to eat every day, in the morning and in the evening. Elijah is hiding out here in the woods because he is afraid ; he is afraid of some wicked people who are hunting him to kill him. But God is taking care of him.
The lion has killed the man who lies on the ground. He was riding on the ass, and the lion came out of the woods and killed him. The man was going to his home, but God had told him not to go by this way, It was because he had done what God told him not to do that the lion came and killed him.
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Elijah has come away from the place where he was hiding out in the woods. The brook that he drank from dried up because there was no rain, and he had no water to drink. Then God said that he should go to the city of Zarephath and there a widow woman would feed him. So he has come to the gate of the city. The woman is at the gate. Elijah is asking her for a piece of bread. Now, the woman has only a very little flour left in the bottom of her barrel, and she was just going to bake it for herself and her son to eat, but as Elijah has asked her she will bake it for him. And God will send more flour into the barrel for her because she has given his prophet some bread.
This little boy who lies on the bed is the son of the poor woman who gave bread to Elijah. After Elijah came to her house the boy got sick and died. Then his mother came and told Elijah, and he said, Give me your son ! And he took him out of her arms and carried him up into his own room, and laid him on his bed. And Elijah prayed and said, 0 Lord, I beseech thee let this child be made alive! And the Lord heard Elijah's prayer and made the little boy alive again. And Elijah brought him down and gave him to his mother.
Elijah is asleep. He is hiding again from the wicked people who want to kill him. There is no brook here for him to drink out of, and there are no birds to bring him food in the morning and evening. But God has sent an angel to bring him food. As soon as the angel came he wakened Elijah, and Elijah rose up and ate and drank, and then lay down and slept again. And now the angel has come a second time, and touches him and tells him to eat, so that he may be strong enough to go on the journey where God will send him.
Elijah is in a cave alone. God is speaking to him. God tells him to leave the cave and go to another place. As he goes he is to anoint Elisha to be a prophet after him, because the time is coming near when God will take Elijah away from this world up to heaven.
As Elijah goes on his way he meets Elisha ploughing with his oxen in the field. And Elijah as he passes by throws his mantle or cloak over Elisha. And the Lord makes Elisha understand what this means. It means he must leave his home and go with Elijah. So Elisha leaves the oxen and runs after Elijah; and says to him, Let me go first, I pray thee, and kiss my father and my mother good-bye, and then I will come with thee. Then Elisha went to his home to bid his father and mother good-bye, but afterward he came back to Elijah and went with him, to be prophet after Elijah should be taken away.
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King Ahab is talking to the man who is turning away from him. The man's name is Naboth. He does not want to hear what King Ahab says. For the king wants to buy Naboth's field. But Naboth does not want to sell his field. He says his father gave it to him, and he does not want to part with it. The little boy holds a basket with a bag of money in it. It is the king's money. He wants to pay it to Naboth for his field, but Naboth will not take the money. The king is angry with Naboth because he will not sell his field to him.
King Ahab is kneeling down on the ground and hiding his face. He is afraid because he has done a very wicked thing. He has killed good Naboth and taken his field away from him. Elijah is telling Ahab that God will punish him for doing this.
Ahab is riding in his chariot in the midst of battle. Many soldiers are fighting against him with swords and spears and arrows. One of them has shot an arrow that has gone into Ahab's body. Ahab will die of the wound that the arrow has made. God is punishing him for killing Naboth and taking away his field.
Elijah and Elisha are walking through the river Jordan. The water has gone away from this part of the river, so that they can walk on the bottom of the river, on dry ground. The great high waves are standing up on each side of them, but they do not come down to drown Elijah and Elisha. God makes the water stand up on each side of them, and he will not let it come down until they have gone through the river safely to the other side.
God has sent a chariot and horses for Elijah. Elijah gets into the chariot, and it carries him up to heaven. See the angel driving the chariot! It is not such a one as you and I have ever seen. It is a heavenly chariot, more beautiful, and looks as if it were made of fire.<br>Elijah is holding out his arms. He seems to be crying out with joy that he will reach heaven so soon. Elisha is looking up after him as if he would love to go too. But he must stay behind and be prophet in Elijah's place, for God has many things for him to do.
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In this picture we see some little children who are mocking Elisha and making fun of him. For after Elijah was taken up in the chariot to heaven, Elisha was left all alone. And he went away from the place where Elijah left him, and crossed over the river Jordan again, and went to a city called Bethel. And as he was going some children came out from their homes and called him names and cried out after him. They called him "bald head," and told him to go up in the chariot as Elijah had done. And Elisha, when he heard them, stopped and turned back, and he asked God to punish them for their sin. And as soon as Elisha had done this there came two fierce bears out of the woods that tore forty-two of them to pieces. It was God who sent the bears to punish these wicked children for mocking and making fun of his holy prophet.
This is Elisha's servant. His name is Gehazi. He is laying the staff that Elisha walks with on the boy's face. The boy is dead. He is the son of a woman who has been very kind to Elisha. One day the boy went out into the field to his father among the reapers. And while he was there he got sick and cried out to his father, My head! my head ! Then his father said to one of the young men, Carry him to his mother. When the young man had carried him into the house to her, she held him on her lap till noon, and then he died. Then his mother made haste to go to Elisha the prophet, and told him that her son was dead. And Elisha told Gehazi to take his staff and go quickly and lay it on the dead boy's face. For Elisha thought that perhaps when Gehazi did this the Lord would make the boy alive again. But very soon Gehazi came back and said he had laid the staff on the boy's face, but he did not awake; he was still dead.
The boy is alive again, his mother has her arms around him, and the prophet is standing in the door. For when his servant told Elisha that the boy did not wake, then Elisha went himself to the house and up into the room where the child was. And he prayed to God, and God made him alive, and Elisha gave him to his mother. Now all her trouble is gone and she is glad and happy.
The man in the river is named Naaman. He had a very dreadful disease called the leprosy. It made sores come out over his body. No doctor could cure him, and he came to Elisha to be cured. Elisha told him to go and bathe in the river Jordan. And now he is bathing there, and he will be well. All these men who are with him are his servants, for Naaman is a very great and rich man. His chariot is waiting for him until he comes out of the river. It was God who made the water cure Namaan, because Elisha prayed it might cure him.
Elisha has a staff, or stick, in his hand. He is standing near the water. Some young men are with him. They are cutting down trees to build a house, and one of them has lost his axe. It slipped out of his hand and sank in the deep water where he could not see it or reach it. Then he was very sorry, for the axe did not belong to him; it was borrowed. And he came and told Elisha.<br>Then Elisha threw his stick in the water, and the axe came up and floated on the top of the water. And the young man put out his hand and took it. It was God who made the heavy iron axe swim for Elisha, because Elisha was God's prophet.
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Elisha is lying on the bed. He is sick, and the time has come for him to die. The man who is shooting an arrow is the king. He has come to see Elisha before he dies. Elisha tells the king to open the window and shoot an arrow out of it, as if he were shooting at his enemies. Elisha says that God will help the king to fight against his enemies.
This man was dead. His friends were carrying him to his grave to bury him. But before they reached his grave they saw a band of robbers coming toward them. Then they were afraid, and because Elisha's grave was nearer than the grave which had been made ready for the man, they stopped and lowered the dead man into that. But as soon as he touched Elisha's dead body the man they were burying came to life. We see him in the picture coming up out of the grave and tearing the grave-clothes from him. The men who were burying him are frightened to see him come to life again.
These soldiers have come to fight against the city of Jerusalem. They carry spears and swords and shields to fight with. The city has a high wall built up all around it. The people have shut the gates to keep the soldiers out. But they have broken down the wall and made an opening through it. And now they are going through the opening into the city, and the people cannot stop them. They will go into the king's house and into the temple and take out all the silver and gold that they find there, and carry these away with them to their own land.
All these men and women and little children are going away from their homes. They do not want to go, but the soldiers with spears and swords are making them go. Why do all these people have to leave their own land ? It is because they have done what God told them not to do; they have been unkind to each other, and have prayed to idols instead of to God, and now they are being punished for these things.
The little boy in the picture is named Joash. He is only seven years old. This woman is his grandmother. She is very cruel. Joash had some brothers, and she killed them so that she might be queen. She meant to kill Joash too, but the high-priest hid him in the temple where she could not find him. But after a while the high-priest brought him out and showed him to the other priests and to the men called Levites who stayed at the temple. And one day the Levites came to the temple and kept guard all around it with spears in their hands, so that no one might go in. And they brought little Joash out of the chamber where he had been hidden so long and put the crown on his head. Then they blew on trumpets and cried, God save the king! We can see them in the picture making Joash king. But the wicked queen was put to death.
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These men and women are kneeling down and holding up their hands. They are praying to the idol that is before them, and asking it for help. They have turned away from the one true God, whom they ought to pray to. Behind them stands the good priest with a book in his hand. It has the ten commandments written in it. He is telling them how wicked it is to worship idols. But they will riot listen to him. You see some men with angry faces. They have taken up great stones to throw at the priest. But they cannot frighten him or drive him away, so they will throw the stones at him and wound him and hurt him till he falls down dead. God sees the wicked things they are doing, and will punish them for it. The king is standing beside the idol, looking on while the people do these things. He does not stop them, for he prays to idols himself, and he hates the good priest who tells him he is doing wickedly.
The picture of a well. In the countries we read about in the Bible the brooks and streams do not run through the fields as they do here. The people have to dig wells deep in the ground. It is very hot there and they need much water. The women come with pitchers on their heads. They let these down by ropes into the well, to fill them. We see a man bringing some camels to give them a drink.
The man on the top of the steps is reading to the people. He is reading God's words to them, so that they may know what it is that God wants them to do. They are listening attentively to those words, and they promise to mind them.
This is King Hezekiah. He is kneeling down in the temple. The king of another country called Assyria has sent him a letter saying that he is coming with a great many soldiers to fight against Hezekiah and his people. Hezekiah has read the letter and is troubled. He has brought it in his hand to the temple and spread it out for the Lord to see. Hezekiah has put off his beautiful clothes and put on very coarse clothes made of sackcloth. He does not want to seem rich and great when he comes before the Lord, but poor and like a servant. And now he is telling God what the wicked king says, and he asks God not to let him come into his land. And God listens to Hezekiah, and tells him that he will send a great punishment on the king of Assyria and make him go back to his own land. And there, God says, he shall be put to death.
An angel has come down from heaven in the night. He has a sword in his hand. The soldiers are afraid of him, and are trying to flee away from him, for he is killing them. They are strong and brave, they have swords to fight with; but they cannot fight against the angel. God has sent the angel to kill them, for these are the soldiers that the wicked king of Assyria has brought to fight against good King Hezekiah and his people. We can see Hezekiah praying in the temple and asking God to help him, while the angel is killing his enemies.
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King Hezekiah is not troubled now. He is dressed in his royal robes and wears his crown on his head. Some men have come to see him from a far country called Babylon. King Hezekiah has brought them into his house and he is showing them his spears and his shields, his gold and his silver, and all the beautiful things that he has. He wants the men to see how rich and great he is. When we saw him kneeling down in the temple he was in trouble and he was very humble. But now his trouble has gone away and he has grown proud. But God was more pleased with him when he was humble and praying for help.
The picture of a sheep-pen. It is built of stone and has a wall around it, and a house at one end for the sheep to go into. The shepherd is leading his flock of sheep to the door of the pen. He goes before the sheep, and they follow him. Each sheep has its name, and it comes when the shepherd calls it. He stays with the sheep all the time, in the night as well as in the day, to save them from getting lost and to keep the wild beasts from killing them.
The soldiers with spears in their hands are taking this man away from his home. He is a king; his name is Manasseh. They have tied his hands behind him, so that he has to go with them. Manasseh has been wicked. He has made idols and prayed to them, and taught the people to pray to them. He has killed good men who did him no harm. And now God is punishing him for these things. But after the soldiers have taken Manasseh far away from his home, then he will be sorry for all the wicked things he has done. He will ask God to forgive him.<br>God will forgive him, and bring him back to his home again.
King Josiah is sitting on the high seat called his throne. He is listening to the man who is reading. The man is reading from the roll that he holds in his hands. God's words are written on the roll.<br>King Josiah is listening to those words. He loves to hear them. He minds what God says, and he teaches all the people to mind him. Josiah is a good king. God is pleased with him, and loves him.
Jeremiah is being lowered down into the dungeon. These wicked men have tied a rope around him and they are letting him down by it. Yet Jeremiah is a good man. He is a prophet. God has sent him to tell these men of the punishment that will come on them if they do not mind him. But they are angry with Jeremiah. They want to kill him. They have asked the king if they may not put him into this deep pit. The king has given them leave. So they are lowering him down. There is mire at the bottom, and Jeremiah will sink into the mire. But God will remember him and send men to take him out again.
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Jeremiah has been taken up out of the dungeon. He is talking to the king and telling him what God wants him to do. The king will not do what Jeremiah tells him. Some soldiers will soon come and take him and put chains around him. Then they will carry him far away from his home, and they will never let him come back there again.
Ezekiel, the prophet, is lying down on the ground. Why does he do this ? It is to make the people look at him and ask him what he means. For he wants to teach them something, and God has told him to teach them in this way.
These people have been taken out of the city and their houses set on fire. They are the children of Israel. They lived in Jerusalem, but their enemies came and fought against them, and took their city, as Jeremiah said they would. They will be carried away to another country called Babylon, and will have to live there for many years. 10
This is a picture of Jerusalem after the king of Babylon came and took it. He broke down the walls and burned the houses. No person is left in the city. Those who were not killed by the soldiers were carried away to Babylon. All is lonely and quiet, for no people are left.
The children of Israel have been brought to Babylon, and are being sold as slaves. They will have to live among strangers and work very hard.
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These men are very sad and sorrowful. They are far away from their •own land. They are in a strange city. God has punished them for praying to idols and doing wickedly. They have no king any more, and no country of their own. But they are sorry for having done wrong, and after awhile God will forgive them. God does not mean wholly to destroy them, but only to punish them for a time, until they repent. Then he will take them for his people again and let them go back to their own land. God will send Ezekiel the prophet to tell them that he will do this.
This is Ezekiel, the prophet. He has a vision, or dream. He thinks he has come into a lonely valley by himself. The ground is covered with bones, They are dead men's bones. Ezekiel is spreading out his arms toward them, and speaking to them. God has told him to speak to these dry bones. Then, God says, he will make them alive again. All these dead men will come to life and stand up on their feet. No one but God could make them alive. God will make you, and me, and everybody come up out of our graves at the Judgment-Day.
These are Daniel's three friends. They have grown older and larger. They are going away quickly from this place. The other people are not going away. They are praying to that great image that the king has set up. The image is made of gold. The wicked king has told all the people that they must kneel down and pray to the image. But Daniel's three friends will not pray to it. They are making haste away to some other place where they cannot see the image. What will the king do to them when he finds they will not mind him and pray to the golden image that he has set up?
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The king had a feast, and all the great men came to it. And they sat at the table eating and drinking. And they talked about the idols that they prayed to. These idols were made out of silver and gold. And while they were praising their idols and eating and drinking, all at once there came a hand that wrote some words on the wall. The king saw the hand that wrote, but he could not understand the words. Then he sent for his wise men to come and explain them, but they could not.<br>And the king was troubled because no one could explain them to him. Then he sent for Daniel, and Daniel came and told him what the words meant. He said that because the king had forgotten God, and prayed to idols instead of praying to him, God was angry with him and would not let him be king any longer. And what Daniel said came true, for that same night a great many soldiers came and they killed the king and made another man king in his place.
Daniel is in the lions' den. This is the way he was put in. Some wicked men persuaded the king to say that nobody must pray to God for thirty days. But Daniel prayed to God three times every day. And the men watched Daniel in his chamber, and when they saw him praying they told the king, and got the king to let them put Daniel in the den to punish him. They hoped the lions would kill him. But the king was very sorry. He could not sleep all night. Early in the morning he came to the den and called to know if Daniel was alive. Daniel answered that God had kept the lions from hurting him. Then the king took Daniel out; but the wicked men were thrown into the den, and the lions killed them.
This is King Nebuchadnezzar. He is walking on the top of his house. He is looking at the great city of Babylon. Everybody in that great city has to mind him. The king is very proud. He says to himself, See this great city that I have built! It is my city, I am a great king! Nobody else in the world is as great as I am! But God hears the wicked words that the king is speaking, and God says that Nebuchadnezzar shall not be king any more. God will punish him for being so proud and for thinking that he is as great as God.
Nebuchadnezzar is put down from being king. He is not king any more. God has taken away his senses from him. He does not even know how to stand up and walk like a man, but he walks like a beast. He has gone out to live with the wild asses in the field, and to eat grass like oxen, and to sleep on the ground like them. But after many days God will give him his mind once more, and Nebuchadnezzar will be sorry for being proud and wicked. Then all the great men who were his servants before will come to look for him. They will mind him as they used to do, and he will be king over Babylon again. And Nebuchadnezzar will tell all the people what God has done to him, and how great and good God is.
Where are all these people going ? They are going back to their own land. We have read how soldiers came and fought against the Israelites, and burned up their houses, and took the people away from their homes. They were sad and sorry then, but now God is letting them go back.
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These are the people who have just come back to their homes, and they are beginning already to build a new temple. The soldiers that burned up their houses, burned up the temple too. It was the beautiful temple that Solomon built. But now the people are going to build a new temple. The priest who is looking up and lifting up his hands is praying that God will help them build it. The other priests are blowing trumpets to show how glad all the people are that they have come back to their homes, and that they are going to have a new temple, where they can go to pray to God.
These people are glad and happy, for they are in their own homes again at Jerusalem. They can walk about the streets, and the children can play there. There are no soldiers now to make them afraid.
The king is standing up. He is holding the hand of a beautiful young woman. She is kneeling on a cushion before him. The young woman's name is Esther. The king is holding a crown in his other hand. He will put it on Esther's head, for he is going to take her for his wife and make her the queen. She will live in the king's beautiful house, and have a great many servants to wait on her.
Who is this man that is holding his head up so high and looking so proud ? He is one of the king's servants. His name is Haman. He thinks himself very great, and he wants all the other servants to bow down to him. And all the other servants do bow down to him except Mordecai. Look at Mor-decai standing a little way off, under the wall! He stands up straight, and will not bow down to Haman. Haman is very angry because Mordecai will not bow down to him. He is going to the king to ask if he may not punish Mordecai. He would be glad if he were able to kill him.
This is Esther. She has the crown on her head, for now she is queen. Mordecai is her uncle. He has told her how wicked Haman wants to kill him and all his relations. Esther is telling the king about it. The king will not let Haman do the cruel things that he wants to do to Mordecai. Here is the king's horse. Who is riding it? It is Mordecai. He is riding the king's horse and wearing the king's crown. Did the king say he might do this ? Yes, and he said that Haman must lead the horse while Mordecai rode it through the streets of the city. Instead of killing Mordecai, as he wanted to do, Haman has to wait on him and be his servant.
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This is Esther. She has the crown on her head, for now she is queen. Mordecai is her uncle. He has told her how wicked Haman wants to kill him and all his relations. Esther is telling the king about it. The king will not let Haman do the cruel things that he wants to do to Mordecai. Here is the king's horse. Who is riding it? It is Mordecai. He is riding the king's horse and wearing the king's crown. Did the king say he might do this ? Yes, and he said that Haman must lead the horse while Mordecai rode it through the streets of the city. Instead of killing Mordecai, as he wanted to do, Haman has to wait on him and be his servant.
This is the picture of a camel. Camels live in countries where it is very warm. Sometimes there is very little water to drink in those countries, and camels can go a long time without drinking any. They can go four or five days without a drink of water, and all that time they can carry heavy loads on their backs. God made them able to go without water, so that they could work for the men who live in those hot coun- tries. Camels are very strange-looking animals; they have long necks and queer-looking faces, and great humps on their backs. The camel that you see in the picture is not one of the kind that carries heavy loads, but one that men ride on as we do on horses. They go very fast. The man riding on this one is the king's messenger. The king has sent him with a message, and no one must stop him.
The king is sitting in his palace and the queen is beside him. The man who is kneeling down before him is his cup-bearer; this means that whenever the king wants to drink this man hands him his cup. For when the king wants anything he does not get up and wait on himself like you or me. He has somebody to wait on him. And one day when the cup-bearer was waiting on the king, the king said to him, Why does your face look so sad to-day ? Surely you have some trouble in your heart that you have not told me. What is it that you want me to do for you ? Then the cup-bearer answered that he wanted the king to let him go far away, to the city of Jerusalem, where he was born, that he might build up its walls, for although the Jews had gone back there they had not been able to make the city as it was before. Its walls had been burned and broken down by enemies. And the king said he might go.
The cup-bearer has come to the city of Jerusalem. It was a long journey there, but the king sent soldiers and horsemen to guard him by the way. He is not cup-bearer now ; he is governor of the city, for the king said he should be governor. His name is Nehemiah. We see him on horseback in the picture. He has come out in the night to look at the Walls of the city where they have been broken down and burned. He will have them built up, so that no robbers or bad men can come into the city to do the people harm. All the men in the city, and even some of the women there, will work at the walls until they are built up again.
The new wall is being built. These men are at work on it. But some of them have swords by their sides, and one of them is blowing a trumpet. What does this mean ? It means that some bad men who do not want a wall built, are coming to stop them. We can see those men on the hill a good way off. They have spears and swords and bows and arrows. But the men who are building the wall are watching them, and those bad men will be afraid to come any nearer.
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Two oxen are drawing a cart. It does not look like the carts that we see. And the man who drives it is not dressed in such clothes as we wear. He lives in another country far away from here. He has been with his cart out in the field, and loaded it with grain. And now he is hauling the grain to the barn to put it away carefully there. They use such strange-looking carts as this in the countries that we read about in the Bible.
In the old times the Israelites had a feast called the Feast of Trumpets. On the night when the new moon was to come in the sky men stood upon the hills around Jerusalem to watch for it. As soon as they saw it they made haste into the city to bring the news.<br>Then fires were kindled on the tops of the hills, so that all the people in the land might know that the feast had begun. The people crowded to the temple to pray, and the silver trumpets were blown, and every one rested from his work as he did on the Sabbath day. God told the people to have this feast once every year.
All the people are gathered together that the priest may read to them. The priest's name is Ezra. He is reading God's words to the people. God spoke these words to Moses many years ago, and Moses wrote them down in a book. Moses is dead now, and he cannot read to the people any more. But the priest can read the same words to them out of the book. And now Ezra stands up on a pulpit made out of wood, where all the people can see him. And he opens the book and reads to the men and women and little children who stand listening to him. Other priests help Ezra. They explain God's words to the people, so that they may all understand what it is that God wants them to do. And when the people hear God's words, and remember how often they have not minded him, they are very sorry. They mourn and weep for the wrong things they have done. They ask God to forgive them and not to punish them as they deserve. God will forgive them if they are sorry for their sins and will do them no more.
A picture of angels. We do not know how the angels look. We know they are perfectly good and happy, and that they live up in heaven. And so when we draw pictures of them we draw them as beautiful as we can. And we do not know that they have wings, but we draw them with wings because they can go swiftly wherever God tells them to go, no matter how far it is.<br>Perhaps the angels are near us sometimes when we do not know it. For God sends them to help those persons who love him. When we are very sick perhaps they come into our room and by our bed, to take away our pain and make us well. Or when we are going along some street or some road where we would be hurt if we went on, perhaps they come and take our hand and lead us another way, although we cannot see them or feel their touch.<br>But after we die, if we are God's children, we shall see them. For then they will come and take us up to heaven. There we shall live with them and be as happy and as good as they are. Let us remember this
FROM THE PAINTING BY B. PLOCKHORST.<br>THE ANGEL'S GIFT.
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FROM THE PAINTING BY W. KAULBACH.<br>THE ANGEL MESSENGER.
THE HEAVENLY DAWN.
For ages the Gospel Story has inspired the genius of artists, and among the famous pictures of the world the most renowned are those of sacred subjects. Raphael, Titian, Leonardo da Vinci, Correggio and their fellows in earlier times; and Hofmann, Plockhorst, Bodenhausen, Bouguereau and others of a later day, have given noble examples of their art which call forth the admiration of every one.<br>While the illustrations in this book are intended chiefly to elucidate and make plain to the reader the Bible Stories which accompany them, it has been thought proper to include also reproductions of some of these celebrated pictures. A number of the most beautiful examples of sacred art have therefore been photo-engraved, and faithful copies of them printed in this volume.
FROM THE PAINTING BY GUIDO.<br>THE ANGEL APPEARS TO MARY.
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FROM THE PAINTING BY F. GOODALL.<br>THE HOLY MOTHER.
FROM THE PAINTING BY H. HOFMANN.<br>THE HOLY NIGHT AT BETHLEHEM.
FROM THE PAINTING BY E. HEBERT.<br>MARY AND THE INFANT JESUS.
FROM THE PAINTING BY B. PLOCKHORST.<br>THE ANGEL APPEARS TO THE SHEPHERDS.
FROM THE PAINTING BY M. FEUERSTEIN.<br>THE SHEPHERDS COME TO JESUS IN THE STABLE AT BETHLEHEM.
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FROM THE PAINTING BY F. ROEBER.<br>THE HOLY FAMILY.
FROM THE PAINTING BY M. FURST.<br>THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT.
FROM THE PAINTING BY H. HOFMANN<br>JESUS IN THE TEMPLE WITH THE LEARNED MEN.
BIBLE PICTURES,<br>AND WHAT THEY TEACH US.<br>THE NEW TESTAMENT.<br>You see an angel in the picture speaking to a young woman whose name is Mary. The angel has come down from heaven to speak to Mary. When she saw the angel coming she was afraid. But the angel told her not to be afraid, for God was pleased with her, and would give her a son, and she should call his name JESUS. And Jesus should be great, the angel said, for he would be the son of God.
FROM THE PAINTING BY W, A. BOUGUEREAU.<br>THE SHEPHERDS AND THE HOLY CHILD.
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FROM THE PAINTING BY F. ITTENBACH.<br>God has given Mary a son. Mary, and Joseph her husband, are in the city of Bethlehem. They do not live in Bethlehem; they came to stay only a little while, and they went to the inn, where travellers stop, to sleep. But the inn was full; there was no room for them, so they came into a stable to sleep. And God gave Mary the son the angel had promised her. It was not in a beautiful house such as kings have that Jesus was born. His mother had no bed or cradle to lay him in. So when she had wrapped some clothes around him she laid him in the manger.
These shepherds are out in the field taking care of their sheep. It is in the night-time. The sheep are asleep and everything is still. But all at once the shepherds hear a voice. They look up and see an angel speaking to them. At first the shepherds are very much frightened, just as you and I would be if we suddenly saw an angel standing before us. But the angel says, Fear not, for I bring good news to you and to all the people. To-day, in the city of Bethlehem, a Saviour is born; his name is Christ the Lord. If you go to Bethlehem you can see him lying in a manger. After the angel had said this a great many more angels came into the sky, and they all cried out together these beautiful words, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. Then the angels went away up into heaven again.
The shepherds have come to see Jesus in the stable. For as soon as the angels were gone from them, up into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let us go now and see this little child that the angel has told us about. So they left their sheep out in the field, and made haste to Bethlehem. And they went into the stable, and there they saw Jesus, in the manger, where his mother had laid him. And they were glad when they saw him.
The shepherds are going back to their sheep in the field. But as they go they stop and tell all the people where they have been, and what they have seen, and what the angel told them about Jesus.
These are wise men. They have come from another country a long way off. Why did the wise men leave their homes and come so far ? It was to see Jesus they came. And God has sent a star before them to show them the way. The star is moving along, up in the sky, and it will stop right over the house where Jesus is.
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The wise men have come into the house, and they see Mary, and Joseph, and the little child. They have brought beautiful presents from that country where they live. And now they take out those presents, and give them to Jesus, and they bow down before him. They give him three things, gold, and frankincense and myrrh. And after they had given him these things, the wise men went back to their own homes.
FROM THE PAINTING BY H. HOFMANN.<br>THE WISE MEN FROM THE EAST COME TO SEE JESUS.
It is night and Joseph is asleep, and Mary and her baby are asleep. But while all is still an angel comes into the room. God has sent the angel to wake Joseph and tell him that he must rise up and make haste, and take Mary and the little child away, because wicked men are coining to kill him. He must take them to another country, the angel says. The name of that country is Egypt.
Mary, with Jesus in her arms, is riding on the ass. Joseph walks by her side with his staff in his hand. They are going where the angel told Joseph to go, into the land of Egypt It is a long way there, but God will take care of them, and bring them safely to that land.
FROM THE PAINTING BY W. A. BOUGUEREAU.<br>JOSEPH TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD AND His MOTHER AND WENT INTO EGYPT. 13
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