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That work, however, in its entirety, was far +too costly for the larger and ever-widening circle of M. Dore's +admirers, and to meet the felt and often-expressed want of this +class, and to provide a volume of choice and valuable designs +upon sacred subjects for art-loving Biblical students generally, +this work was projected and has been carried forward. The aim has +been to introduce subjects of general interest—that is, those +relating to the most prominent events and personages of +Scripture—those most familiar to all readers; the plates being +chosen with special reference to the known taste of the American +people. To each cut is prefixed a page of letter-press—in, +narrative form, and containing generally a brief analysis of the +design. Aside from the labors of the editor and publishers, the +work, while in progress, was under the pains-taking and careful +scrutiny of artists and scholars not directly interested in the +undertaking, but still having a generous solicitude for its +success. It is hoped, therefore, that its general plan and +execution will render it acceptable both to the appreciative and +friendly patrons of the great artist, and to those who would wish +to possess such a work solely as a choice collection of +illustrations upon sacred themes.</p> +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2>GUSTAVE DORE.</h2></center> +<br> +<p>The subject of this sketch is, perhaps, the most original and +variously gifted designer the world has ever known. At an age +when most men have scarcely passed their novitiate in art, and +are still under the direction and discipline of their masters and +the schools, he had won a brilliant reputation, and readers and +scholars everywhere were gazing on his work with ever-increasing +wonder and delight at his fine fancy and multifarious gifts. He +has raised illustrative art to a dignity and importance before +unknown, and has developed capacities for the pencil before +unsuspected. He has laid all subjects tribute to his genius, +explored and embellished fields hitherto lying waste, and opened +new and shining paths and vistas where none before had trod. To +the works of the great he has added the lustre of his genius, +bringing their beauties into clearer view and warming them to a +fuller life.</p> + +<p>His delineations of character, in the different phases of +life, from the horrible to the grotesque, the grand to the comic, +attest the versatility of his powers; and, whatever faults may be +found by critics, the public will heartily render their quota of +admiration to his magic touch, his rich and facile rendering of +almost every thought that stirs, or lies yet dormant, in the +human heart. It is useless to attempt a sketch of his various +beauties; those who would know them best must seek them in the +treasure—house that his genius is constantly augmenting with +fresh gems and wealth. To one, however, of his most prominent +traits we will refer—his wonderful rendering of the powers of +Nature.</p> + +<p>His early wanderings in the wild and romantic passes of the +Vosges doubtless developed this inherent tendency of his mind. +There he wandered, and there, mayhap, imbibed that deep delight +of wood and valley, mountain—pass and rich ravine, whose variety +of form and detail seems endless to the enchanted eye. He has +caught the very spell of the wilderness; she has laid her hand +upon him, and he has gone forth with her blessing. So bold and +truthful and minute are his countless representations of forest +scenery; so delicate the tracery of branch and stem; so +patriarchal the giant boles of his woodland monarchs, that the' +gazer is at once satisfied and entranced. His vistas lie +slumbering with repose either in shadowy glade or fell ravine, +either with glint of lake or the glad, long course of some +rejoicing stream, and above all, supreme in a beauty all its own, +he spreads a canopy of peerless sky, or a wilderness, perhaps, of +angry storm, or peaceful stretches of soft, fleecy cloud, or +heavens serene and fair—another kingdom to his teeming art, +after the earth has rendered all her gifts.</p> + +<p>Paul Gustave Dore was born in the city of Strasburg, January +10, 1833. Of his boyhood we have no very particular account. At +eleven years of age, however, he essayed his first artistic +creation—a set' of lithographs, published in his native city. +The following year found him in Paris, entered as a 7. student at +the Charlemagne Lyceum. His first actual work began in 1848, when +his fine series of sketches, the "Labors of Hercules," was given +to the public through the medium of an illustrated, journal with +which he was for a long time connected as designer. In 1856 were +published the illustrations for Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" and +those for "The Wandering Jew "—the first humorous and grotesque +in the highest degree—indeed, showing a perfect abandonment to +fancy; the other weird and supernatural, with fierce battles, +shipwrecks, turbulent mobs, and nature in her most forbidding and +terrible aspects. Every incident or suggestion that could +possibly make the story more effective, or add to the horror of +the scenes was seized upon and portrayed with wonderful power. +These at once gave the young designer a great reputation, which +was still more enhanced by his subsequent works.</p> + +<p>With all his love for nature and his power of interpreting her +in her varying moods, Dore was a dreamer, and many of his finest +achievements were in the realm of the imagination. But he was at +home in the actual world also, as witness his designs for +"Atala," "London—a Pilgrimage," and many of the scenes in "Don +Quixote."</p> + +<p>When account is taken of the variety of his designs, and the +fact considered that in almost every task he attempted none had +ventured before him, the amount of work he accomplished is fairly +incredible. To enumerate the immense tasks he undertook—some +single volumes alone containing hundreds of illustrations—will +give some faint idea of his industry. Besides those already +mentioned are Montaigne, Dante, the Bible, Milton, Rabelais, +Tennyson's "Idyls of the King," "The Ancient Mariner, +Shakespeare, "Legende de Croquemitaine," La Fontaine's "Fables," +and others still.</p> + +<p>Take one of these works—the Dante, La Fontaine, or "Don +Quixote"—and glance at the pictures. The mere hand labor +involved in their production is surprising; but when the quality +of the work is properly estimated, what he accomplished seems +prodigious. No particular mention need be made of him as painter +or sculptor, for his reputation rests solely upon his work as an +illustrator.</p> + +<p>Dore's nature was exuberant and buoyant, and he was youthful +in appearance. He had a passion for music, possessed rare skill +as a violinist, and it is assumed that, had he failed to succeed +with his pencil, he could have won a brilliant reputation as a +musician.</p> + +<p>He was a bachelor, and lived a quiet, retired life with his +mother—married, as he expressed it, to her and his art. His +death occurred on January 23, 1883.</p> +<br><br><br><br> + +<center> +<table summary="Illustrations"> +<tr><td> +<h2>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> +<br> + +<a href="#front">GUSTAVE DORE</a><br> +<a href="#011">THE TRIAL OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM</a><br> +<a href="#012">THE BURIAL OF SARAH</a><br> +<a href="#013">ELIEZER AND REBEKAH</a><br> +<a href="#014">ISAAC BLESSING JACOB</a><br> +<a href="#015">JACOB TENDING THE FLOCKS</a><br> +<a href="#016">JOSEPH SOLD INTO EGYPT</a><br> +<a href="#017">JOSEPH INTERPRETING PHARAOH'S DREAM</a><br> +<a href="#018">JOSEPH MAKING HIMSELF KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN</a><br> +<a href="#019">MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES</a><br> +<a href="#020">THE WAR AGAINST GIBEON</a><br> +<a href="#021">SISERA SLAIN BY JAEL</a><br> + + + + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + + + + + +<br><br> +<a name="011"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE TRIAL OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/011.jpg"><img alt="011th.jpg (27K)" src="images/011th.jpg" height="461" width="370"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt +Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I +am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom +thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him +there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will +tell thee of.</p> + +<p>And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, +and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and +clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up and went unto +the place of which God had told him. Then on the third day +Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off. And +Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and +I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. +And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon +Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand and a knife, and +they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his +father, and said, My father: and he, said, Here am I, my son. And +he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for +a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide +himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them +together. And they came to the place which God had told him of; +and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and +bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And +Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his +son. And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and +said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay +not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him: +for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not +withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. And Abraham lifted up +his eyes and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a +thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and +offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.</p> + +<p>And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it +is to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.</p> + +<p>And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven +the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the +Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not +withheld thy son, thine only son, that in blessing I will bless +thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of +heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed +shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all +the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my +voice.—Geneszs xxii. 1-18.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="012"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE BURIAL OF SARAH.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/012.jpg"><img alt="012th.jpg (28K)" src="images/012th.jpg" height="478" width="370"></a> +</center> +<br> + + +<p>And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old these +were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in +Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan and +Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.</p> + +<p>And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the +sons of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: +give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury +my dead out of my sight.</p> + +<p>And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, +Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the +choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold +from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.</p> + +<p>And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the +land, even to the children of Heth. And he communed with them, +saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my +sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, +that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which +is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he +shall give it me for a possession of a burying-place amongst +you.</p> + +<p>And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the +Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, +even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, Nay, my +lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is +therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people +give I it thee: bury thy dead.</p> + +<p>And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land. +And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the +land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I +will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will +bury my dead there.</p> + +<p>And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, My lord, hearken +unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver: what +is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.</p> + +<p>And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to +Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons +of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the +merchant.</p> + +<p>And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was +before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all +the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders +round about, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession in the +presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the +gate of his city.</p> + +<p>And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of +the field of Machpelah before Mamre; the same is Hebron in the +land of Canaan. And the field, and the cave that is therein, were +made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the +sons of Heth.—Genesis xxiii.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="013"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>ELIEZER AND REBEKAH.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/013.jpg"><img alt="013th.jpg (36K)" src="images/013th.jpg" height="474" width="382"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his +master, and sware to him concerning that matter.</p> + +<p>And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, +and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: +and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. And +he made his camels to kneel down, without the city by a well of +water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out +to draw water. And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I +pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my +master Abraham. Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and +the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw: water: and +let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let +down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall +say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same +be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and +thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my +master.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass before he had done speaking, that, behold, +Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the +wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her +shoulder. And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, +neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and +filled her pitcher and came up. And the servant ran to meet her, +and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy +pitcher. And she said, Drink, my lord; and she hasted, and let +down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. And when she +had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy +camels also, until they have done drinking. And she hasted and +emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well +to draw water, and drew for all his camels.</p> + +<p>And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether +the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the +man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two +bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold: and said, +Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee; is there room in +thy father's house for us to lodge in? And she said unto him, I +am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto +Nahor. She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and +provender enough, and room to lodge in.</p> + +<p>And the man bowed down his head and worshiped the Lord. And he +said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not +left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in +the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master's +brethren.</p> + +<p>And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these +things.—Genesis xxiv, 9-28.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="014"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>ISAAC BLESSING JACOB.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/014.jpg"><img alt="014th.jpg (34K)" src="images/014th.jpg" height="498" width="375"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes +were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau, his eldest +son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, +here am I. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day +of my death: Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy +quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some +venison; And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it +to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I +die.</p> + +<p>And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau +went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.</p> + +<p>And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard +thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, Bring me venison, +and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before +the Lord before my death. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice +according to that which I command thee. Go now to the flock, and +fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make +them savoury meat for thy father such as he loveth; And thou +shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may +bless thee before his death.</p> + +<p>And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother +is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: My father peradventure +will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall +bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.</p> + +<p>And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: +only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.</p> + +<p>And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and +his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. And +Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were +with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son: +And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands and +upon the smooth of his neck: And she gave the savoury meat and +the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son +Jacob.</p> + +<p>And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, +Here am I; who art thou, my son? And Jacob said unto his father, +I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest +me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul +may bless me. And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou +hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord +thy God brought it to me. And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I +pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very +son Esau or not. And Jacob went; near unto Isaac his father; and +he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands +are the hands of Esau. And he discerned him not, because his +hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed +him.</p> + +<p>And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. And +he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, +that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and +he did eat; and he brought him wine, and he drank. And his father +Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. And he +came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his +raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is +as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed: Therefore +God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, +and plenty of corn and wine: Let people serve thee, and nations +bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's +sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and +blessed be he that blesseth thee.—Genesis xxvii. 1-29.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="015"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>JACOB TENDING THE FLOCKS OF LABAN.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/015.jpg"><img alt="015th.jpg (28K)" src="images/015th.jpg" height="467" width="385"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her +father's sheep: for she kept them. And it came to pass, when +Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and +the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, +and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock +of Laban his mother's brother. And Jacob kissed Rachel, and +lifted up his voice, and wept. And Jacob told Rachel that he was +her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran +and told her father.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his +sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and +kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all +these things. And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and +my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month. And Laban +said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou +therefore serve me for naught? tell me, what shall thy wages +be?</p> + +<p>And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, +and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but +Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.</p> + +<p>And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven +years for Rachel thy younger daughter. And Laban said, It is +better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to +another man; abide with me.</p> + +<p>And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto +him but a few days, for the love he had for her. And Jacob said +unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I +may go in unto her.</p> + +<p>And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made +a feast. And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah +his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her. +And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid, for an +handmaid. And it came to pass that in the morning, behold, it was +Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? +did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou +beguiled me? And Laban said, It must not be so done in our +country, to give the younger before the firstborn. Fulfil her +week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou +shalt serve with me yet seven other years.</p> + +<p>And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week; and he gave him +Rachel his daughter to wife also. And Laban gave to Rachel his +daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. And he went in also +unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served +with him yet seven other years.—Genesis xxix, 9-30.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="016"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>JOSEPH SOLD INTO EGYPT.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/016.jpg"><img alt="016th.jpg (40K)" src="images/016th.jpg" height="469" width="380"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen +years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, and the lad +was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his +father's wives; and Joseph brought unto his father their evil +report. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, +because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of +many colors. And when his brethren saw that their father loved +him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not +speak peaceably unto him.</p> + +<p>And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and +they hated him yet the more. And he said unto them, Hear, I pray +you, this dream which I have dreamed. For, behold, we were +binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also +stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and +made obeisance to my sheaf. And his brethren said to him, Shalt +thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion +over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for +his words.</p> + +<p>And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, +and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the +sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. And +he told it to his father and to his brethren; and his father +rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast +dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to +bow down ourselves to thee to the earth. And his brethren envied +him; but his father observed the saying.</p> + +<p>And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in +Shechem.</p> + +<p>And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. +And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto +them, they conspired against him to slay him. And they said one +to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now, therefore, and +let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, +Some evil beast hath devoured him; and we shall see what will +become of his dreams. And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him +out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him. And Reuben +said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is +in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid +him out of their hands to deliver him to his father again.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, +that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colors +that was on him; and they took him and cast him into a pit; and +the pit was empty, there was no water in it. And they sat down to +eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, +a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels +bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to +Egypt. And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we +slay our brother, and conceal his blood? Come, and let us sell +him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he +is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.</p> + +<p>Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and +lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the +Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver; and they brought Joseph +into Egypt.</p> + +<p>And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an +officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.—Genesis xxxvii, +2—12, 17-28, 36</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="017"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>JOSEPH INTERPRETING PHARAOH'S DREAM.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/017.jpg"><img alt="017th.jpg (33K)" src="images/017th.jpg" height="483" width="376"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh +dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. And, behold, there +came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and +fat-fleshed; and they fed in a meadow. And, behold, seven other +kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and +lean-fleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the +river. And the ill favored and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the +seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.</p> + +<p>And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven +ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. And, behold, +seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after +them. And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full +ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was +troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, +and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; +but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.</p> + +<p>[At the suggestion of his chief butler Pharaoh sends for +Joseph and relates to him his dreams, which Joseph interprets as +follows:]</p> + +<p>And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God +hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do. The seven good kine +are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the +dream is one. And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came +up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted +with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. This is the +thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do +he sheweth unto Pharaoh. Behold, there come seven years of great +plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise +after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be +forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the +land; and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of +that famine following; for it shall be very grievous. And for +that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice it is because the +thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to +pass.</p> + +<p>Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, +and set him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh do this, and let +him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of +the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them +gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up +corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the +cities. And that food shall be for store to the land against the +seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that +the land perish not through the famine.—Genesis xli. 1-36.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="018"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>JOSEPH MAKING HIMSELF KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/018.jpg"><img alt="018th.jpg (35K)" src="images/018th.jpg" height="491" width="374"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that +stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. +And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known +unto his brethren. And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the +house of Pharaoh heard.</p> + +<p>And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father +yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were +troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come +near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am +Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be +not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: +for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two +years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five +years, in which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. And +God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, +and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not +you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to +Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all +the land of Egypt. Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto +him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all +Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: And thou shalt dwell in the +land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy +children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy +herds, and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish thee; for +yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, +and all that thou hast, come to poverty. And, behold, your eyes +see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth +that speaketh unto you. And ye shall tell my father of all my +glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste +and bring down my father hither.</p> + +<p>And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and +Benjamin wept upon his neck. Moreover he kissed all his brethren, +and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with +him.</p> + +<p>And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, +Joseph's brethren are come and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his +servants.</p> + +<p>And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, say unto thy brethren, This do +ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; +and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I +will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the +fat of the land.—Genesis xlv, 1-18.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="019"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/019.jpg"><img alt="019th.jpg (26K)" src="images/019th.jpg" height="464" width="387"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a +daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and +when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three +months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him +an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and +put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the +river's brink. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would +be done to him.</p> + +<p>And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the +river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when +she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. +And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the +babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one +of the Hebrews' children. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's +daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew +women, that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh's +daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the +child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this +child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. +And the woman took the child and nursed it.</p> + +<p>And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's +daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: +and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.—Exodus ii, +1-10.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="020"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE WAR AGAINST GIBEON.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/020.jpg"><img alt="020th.jpg (77K)" src="images/020th.jpg" height="504" width="648"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of +Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of +Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and +went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, +and made war against it.</p> + +<p>And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, +saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us +quickly, and save us and help us: for all the kings of the +Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together +against us.</p> + +<p>So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war +with him, and all the mighty men of valor. And the Lord said unto +Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; +there shall not a man of them stand before thee. Joshua therefore +came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night. And +the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a +great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that +goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto +Makkedah. And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, +and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the Lord cast down +great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: +they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the +children of Israel slew with the sword.</p> + +<p>Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord +delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he +said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; +and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, +and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon +their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the +sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hastened not to go +down about a whole day. And there was no day like that before it +or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man: for +the Lord fought for Israel.</p> + +<p>And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to +Gilgal. But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave +at Makkedah. And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are +found hid in a cave at Makkedah. And Joshua said, Roll great +stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep +them: and stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite +the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities; +for the Lord your God hath delivered them into your hand.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel +had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till +they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered +into fenced cities. Joshua x, 5-20.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="021"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>SISERA SLAIN BY JAEL.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/021.jpg"><img alt="021th.jpg (32K)" src="images/021th.jpg" height="485" width="374"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab, the +father-in-law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and +pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by +Kedesh.</p> + +<p>And they shewed Sisera that Barak, the son of Abinoam, was +gone up to Mount Tabor. And Sisera gathered together all his +chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people +that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river +of Kishon.</p> + +<p>And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which +the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the Lord +gone out before thee? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and +ten thousand men after him.</p> + +<p>And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots and all +his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera +lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet. But +Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto +Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon +the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.</p> + +<p>Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael, the +wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the +king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. And Jael went +out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in +to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the +tent, she covered him with a mantle. And he said unto her, Give +me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And +she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him. +Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it +shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is +there any man here? that thou shalt say, No. Then Jael, Heber's +wife, took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, +and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, +and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and +weary. So he died.</p> + +<p>And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet +him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom +thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay +dead, and the nail was in his temples. 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