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diff --git a/8710.txt b/8710.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9677673 --- /dev/null +++ b/8710.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4459 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, +Complete, by Anonymous, Illustrated by Gustave Dore + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete + +Author: Anonymous + Illustrated by Gustave Dore + +Release Date: July 29, 2004 [EBook #8710] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DORE BIBLE GALLERY *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +THE DORE GALLERY OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS + + + +Illustrated by Gustave Dore + + +Complete + + +This volume, as its title indicates, is a collection of engravings +illustrative of the Bible--the designs being all from the pencil of the +greatest of modern delineators, Gustave Dore. The original work, from +which this collection has been made, met with an immediate and warm +recognition and acceptance among those whose means admitted of its +purchase, and its popularity has in no wise diminished since its first +publication, but has even extended to those who could only enjoy it +casually, or in fragmentary parts. 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. + + + + +GUSTAVE DORE. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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." + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + + + +LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS + +GUSTAVE DORE +THE CREATION OF EVE +THE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN +THE MURDER OF ABEL +THE DELUGE +NOAH CURSING HAM +THE TOWER OF BABEL +ABRAHAM ENTERTAINS THREE STRANGERS +THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM +THE EXPULSION OF HAGAR +HAGAR IN THE WILDERESS +THE TRIAL OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM +THE BURIAL OF SARAH +ELIEZER AND REBEKAH +ISAAC BLESSING JACOB +JACOB TENDING THE FLOCKS +JOSEPH SOLD INTO EGYPT +JOSEPH INTERPRETING PHARAOH'S DREAM +JOSEPH MAKING HIMSELF KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN +MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES +THE WAR AGAINST GIBEON +SISERA SLAIN BY JAEL +DEBORAH'S SONG OF TRIUMPH +JEPHTHAH MET BY HIS DAUGHTER +JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER AND HER COMPANIONS +SAMSON SLAYING THE LION +SAMSON AND DELILAH +THE DEATH OF SAMSON +NAOMI AND HER DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW +RUTH AND BOAZ +THE RETURN OF THE ARK +SAUL AND DAVID +DAVID SPARING SAUL +DEATH OF SAUL +THE DEATH OF ABSALOM +DAVID MOURNING OVER ABSALOM +SOLOMON +THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON +THE CEDARS DESTINED FOR THE TEMPLE +THE PROPHET SLAIN BY A LION +ELIJAH DESTROYING THE MESSENGERS OF AHAZIAH +ELIJAH'S ASCENT IN A CHARIOT OF FIRE +DEATH OF JEZEBEL +ESTHER CONFOUNDING HAMAN +ISAIAH +DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB'S HOST +BARUCH +EZEKIEL PROPHESYING +THE VISION OF EZEKIEL +DANIEL +THE FIERY FURNACE +BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST +DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN +THE PROPHET AMOS +JONAH CALLING NINEVEH TO REPENTANCE +DANIEL CONFOUNDING THE PRIESTS OF BEL +HELIODORUS PUNISHED IN THE TEMPLE +THE NATIVITY +THE STAR IN THE EAST +THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT +THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS +JESUS QUESTIONING THE DOCTORS +JESUS HEALING THE SICK +SERMON ON THE MOUNT +CHRIST STILLING THE TEMPEST +THE DUMB MAN POSSESSED +CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUE +THE DISCIPLES PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH +JESUS WALKING ON THE WATER +CHRIST'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM +JESUS AND THE TRIBUTE MONEY +THE WIDOW'S MITE +RAISING OF THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS +THE GOOD SAMARITAN +ARRIVAL OF THE SAMARITAN AT THE INN +THE PRODIGAL SON +LAZARUS AND THE RICH MAN +THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN +JESUS AND THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA +JESUS AND THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY +THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS +MARY MAGDALENE +THE LAST SUPPER +THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN +PRAYER OF JESUS IN THE GARDEN OF OLIVES +THE BETRAYAL +CHRIST FAINTING UNDER THE CROSS +THE FLAGELLATION +THE CRUCIFIXION +CLOSE OF THE CRUCIFIXION +THE BURIAL OF JESUS +THE ANGEL AT THE SEPULCHER +THE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS +THE ASCENSION +THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. STEPHEN +SAUL'S CONVERSION +THE DELIVERANCE OF ST. PETER +PAUL AT EPHESUS +PAUL MENACED BY THE JEWS +PAUL'S SHIPWRECK +DEATH ON THE PALE HORSE + + + + +THE CREATION OF EVE. + + +"And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I +will make him a helpmeet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to +fall on Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and closed up +the flesh instead thereof; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from +man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This +is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, +because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father +and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh." +Genesis ii, 18, 21-24. + +In these few words the Scriptures narrate the creation of the first +mother of our race. In "Paradise Lost," the poetic genius of Milton, +going more into detail, describes how Eve awoke to consciousness, and +found herself reposing under a shade of flowers, much wondering what she +was and whence she came. Wandering by the margin of a small lake, she +sees her own form mirrored in the clear waters, at which she wonders +more. But a voice is heard, leading her to him for whom she was made, who +lies sleeping under a grateful shade. It is at this point the artist +comes to interpret the poet's dream. Amid the varied and luxurious +foliage of Eden, in the vague light of the early dawn, Eve is presented, +coy and graceful, gazing on her sleeping Lord, while in the background is +faintly outlined the mystic form of Him in whose image they were created. + + + + +THE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN. + + +And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know +good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the +tree of life, and eat, and live forever: Therefore, the Lord God sent him +forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was +taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden +of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep +the way of the tree of life.--Genesis iii, 22-24 + +They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late +their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate, With +dreadful forces thronged, and fiery arms Some natural tears they dropped, +but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their +place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with +wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. + +Paradise Lost, Book XII. + + + + +THE MURDER OF ABEL. + + +And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I +have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel. And +Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in +process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the +ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the +firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect +unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had +not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the +Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance +fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest +not well, sin lieth at the door, and unto thee shall be his desire, and +thou shalt rule over him. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it +came to pass,--when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against +Abel his brother, and slew him. + +And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I +know not Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the +voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art +thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy +brother's blood from thy hand; When thou tillest the ground, it shall not +henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt +thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is +greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from +the face of the earth and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a +fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that +every one that findeth me shall slay me. And the Lord said unto him, +Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him +sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should +kill him. + +And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of +Nod, on the east of Eden.--Genesis iv, 1-16 + + + + +THE DELUGE. + + +In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the +seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the +great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain +was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. + +In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the +sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, +into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle +after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth +after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. +And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, +wherein is the breath of life. And they that went in, went in male and +female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in. + +And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, +and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters +prevailed, and were increased, greatly upon the earth; and the ark went +upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon +the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were +covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains +were covered. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, +and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth +upon the earth, and every man; all in whose nostrils was the breath of +life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance +was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle, +and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were +destroyed from the earth; and Noah only remained alive, and they that +were with him in the ark. + +And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty +days.--Genesis vii, 11-24. + + + + +NOAH CURSING HAM. + + +And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and +Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of +Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. + +And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he +drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. +And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told +his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid +it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the +nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw +not their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what +his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a +servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed +be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall +enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan +shall be his servant.--Genesis ix, 18-27. + + + + +THE TOWER OF BABEL. + + +And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. + +And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a +plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to +another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had +brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let +us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let +us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole +earth. + +And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children +of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they +have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be +restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go +down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one +another's speech. + +So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the +earth: and they left off to build the city. + +Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there +confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord +scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.--Genesis xi, 1-9. + + + + +ABRAHAM ENTERTAINS THREE STRANGERS. + + +In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. And all +the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the +stranger, were circumcised with him. + +And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the +tent door in the heat of the day; and he lift up his eyes and looked, +and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet +them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, and said, +My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray +thee, from thy servant: let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and +wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: And I will fetch a +morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: +for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou +hast said. + +And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready +quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the +hearth. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and +good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. And he +took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it +before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did +eat.--Genesis xvii, 26, 27; xviii 1-8. + +Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have +entertained angels unawares.--Hebrews xiii, 2. + + + + +THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM. + + +And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, +take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be +consumed in the iniquity of the city. And while he lingered, the men laid +hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of +his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him +forth, and set him without the city. + +And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he +said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all +the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. And Lot said +unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord. Behold now, thy servant hath found grace +in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed +unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some +evil take me and I die. Behold now this city is near to flee unto, and it +is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither (is it not a little one?) and +my soul shall live. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee +concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the +which thou hast spoken. Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do +anything till thou be come thither. + +Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. + +The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered unto Zoar. Then the +Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord +out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all +the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. + +But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of +salt. + +And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood +before the Lord and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all +the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the country went +up as the smoke of a furnace.--Genesis xix, 15-28. + + + + +THE EXPULSION OF HAGAR. + + +And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as +he had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old +age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called +the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, +Isaac. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as +God had commanded him. And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son +Isaac was born unto him. + +And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will +laugh with me. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah +should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old +age. And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast +the same day that Isaac was weaned. + +And Sarah, saw the son of Hagar, the Egyptian, which she had born unto +Abraham, mocking. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this +bondwoman and her son; for the son of this, bondwoman shall not be heir +with my son, even with Isaac. + +And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. +And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of +the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto +thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And +also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy +seed. + +And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of +water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, +and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of +Beer-sheba.--Genesis xxi, 1-14. + + + + +HAGAR IN THE WILDERNESS. + + +And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of +water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, +and sent her away; and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of +Beer-sheba. And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child +under one of the shrubs. And she went and sat her down over against him a +good way off, as it were a bow-shot: for she said, Let me not see the +death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice +and wept. And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called +to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear +not, for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up +the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation. +And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and +filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. And God was with +the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. +And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife +out of the land of Egypt.--Genesis xxi. 14-21. + + + + +THE TRIAL OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM. + + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + + + +THE BURIAL OF SARAH. + + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + + + +ELIEZER AND REBEKAH. + + +And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and +sware to him concerning that matter. + +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. + +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. + +And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the Lord had +made his journey prosperous or not. + +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. + +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. + +And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these +things.--Genesis xxiv, 9-28. + + + + +ISAAC BLESSING JACOB. + + +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. + +And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the +field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. + +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. + +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. + +And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my +voice, and go fetch me them. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + + + +JACOB TENDING THE FLOCKS OF LABAN. + + +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. + +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? + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + + + +JOSEPH SOLD INTO EGYPT. + + +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. + +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. + +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. + +And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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 + + + + +JOSEPH INTERPRETING PHARAOH'S DREAM. + + +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. + +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. + +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. + +[At the suggestion of his chief butler Pharaoh sends for Joseph and +relates to him his dreams, which Joseph interprets as follows:] + +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. + +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. + + + + +JOSEPH MAKING HIMSELF KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN. + + +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. + +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. + +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. + +And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's +brethren are come and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. + +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. + + + + +MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES. + + +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. + +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. + +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. + + + + +THE WAR AGAINST GIBEON. + + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + + + +SISERA SLAIN BY JAEL. + + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. Judges iv, 2-22. + + + + +DEBORAH'S SONG OF TRIUMPH. + + +Then sang Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam on that day, saying:-- + +Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, When the people willingly +offered themselves. Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, +will sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel. +Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, When thou marchedst out of the field +of Edom, The earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also +dropped water. The mountains melted from before the Lord, Even that Sinai +from before the Lord God of Israel. + +********************************* + +Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be; Blessed +shall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, and she gave him +milk; She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the +nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she +smote Sisera, She smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken +through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: At her +feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. The +mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, +Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his +chariots? Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to +herself, Have they not sped? Have they not divided the prey; To every man +a damsel or two; To Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers +colours of needlework, Of divers colours of needlework on both sides, +meet for the necks of them that take the spoil? So let all thine enemies +perish, O Lord: But let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth +forth in his might. Judges v, 2-5, 24-31 + + + + +JEPHTHAH MET BY HIS DAUGHTER. + + +Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over +Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh +of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon. + +And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without +fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, +that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I +return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's, +and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. + +So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; +and the Lord delivered them into his hands. And he smote them from Aroer, +even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of +the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon +were subdued before the children of Israel. + +And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter +came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only +child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. Judges xi, 29-34. + + + + +JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER AND HER COMPANIONS + + +And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, +Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of +them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I +cannot go back. + +And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the +Lord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; +forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, +even of the children of Ammon. And she said unto her father, Let this +thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down +upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows. + +And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with +her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. + +And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her +father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she +knew no man. + +And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly +to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. +Judges xi, 35-40. + + + + +SAMSON SLAYING THE LION. + + +Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and +came to the vineyards of Timnath; and, behold, a young lion roared +against him. And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he +rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand; but +he told not his father or his mother what he had done. Judges xiv, 5-6. + + + + +SAMSON AND DELILAH. + + +And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of +Sorek, whose name was Delilah. + +And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, +Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means +we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we +will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. + +And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great +strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. And +Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were +never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. Then the lords +of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been +dried, and she bound him with them. Now there were men lying in wait, +abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines +be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is +broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known. + +And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me +lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he +said unto her, If they bind me fast with clew ropes that never were +occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. Delilah therefore +took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The +Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in +the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread. + +And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me +lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If +thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web. And she fastened it +with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. +And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam +and with the web. + +And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart +is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told +me wherein thy great strength lieth. And it came to pass, when she +pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was +vexed unto death; that he told her all his heart, and said unto her, +There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite +unto God from my mother's womb if I be shaven, then my strength will go +from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man. + +And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and +called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for +he hath showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came +up unto her, and brought money in their hand. And she made him sleep upon +her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the +seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength +went from him. And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he +awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, +and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him. +Judges xvi, 4-20. + + + + +THE DEATH OF SAMSON. + + +But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down +to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the +prison house. + +Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. + +Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a +great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our +God hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. And when the people +saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered +into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew +many of us. And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they +said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for +Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him +between the pillars. And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the +hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, +that I may lean upon them. Now the house was full of men and women; and +all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof +about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport. + +And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I +pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I +may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. And Samson +took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on +which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other +with his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he +bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and +upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his +death were more than they which he slew in his life. + +Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took +him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the +burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty +years.--Judges xvi; 21-31 + + + + +NAOMI AND HER DAUGHTERS IN LAW. + + +Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a +famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn +in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. And the name +of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of +his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And +they came into the country of Moab, and continued there. And Elimelech +Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. And they took +them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the +name of the other Ruth: and they dwelt there about ten years. And Mahlon +and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two +sons and her husband. + +Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the +country of Moab for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the +Lord had visited his people in giving them bread. Wherefore she went +forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with +her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah. + +And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her +mother's house the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the +dead, and with me. The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you +in the house of her husband. + +Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept. And they +said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. + +And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are +there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? Turn +again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If +I should say, I have hope, if I should have a husband also to night, and +should also bear sons; would ye tarry for them till they were grown? +would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it +grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out +against me. + +And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her +mother in law but Ruth cleave unto her. + +And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and +unto her gods return thou after thy sister in law. + +And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following +after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I +will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou +diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and +more also, if ought but death part thee and me. + +When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, then she +left speaking unto her. + +So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem.--Ruth i, 1-19. + + + + +RUTH AND BOAZ. + + +And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the +family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz. + +And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and +glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she +said unto her, Go, my daughter. And she went, and came and gleaned in the +field after the reapers; and her hap was to light on a part of the field +belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech. + +And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The +Lord be with you. And they answered him, The Lord bless thee. Then said +Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is +this? And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It +is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of +Moab: and she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers +among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning +until now, that she tarried a little in the house. + +Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean +in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my +maidens: let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou +after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch +thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that +which the young men have drawn. + +Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto +him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take +knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? + +And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all +that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine +husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land +of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not +heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee +of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. + +Then she said, Let me find favor in thy sight, my lord; for that thou +hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine +handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens. + +And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the +bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: +and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and +left. And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, +saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: and +let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, +that she may glean them and rebuke her not. + +So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had +gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.--Ruth ii, 1-17. + + + + +THE RETURN OF THE ARK. + + +And the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven +months. And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, +saying, What shall we do to the ark of the Lord? tell us wherewith we +shall send it to his place. And they said, If ye send away the ark of the +God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass +offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his +hand is not removed from you. Then said they, What shall be the trespass +offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden +emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of +the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords. +Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice +that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: +peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your +gods, and from off your land. Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as +the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought +wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they +departed? Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on +which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring +their calves home from them: and take the ark of the Lord, and lay it +upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a +trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, +that it may go. And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to +Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we +shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that +happened to us. + +And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, +and shut up their calves at home: and they laid the ark of the Lord upon +the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their +emerods. And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, +and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to +the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went +after them, unto the border of Beth-shemesh. And they of Beth-shemesh +were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their +eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it. And the cart came into the +field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great +stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt +offering unto the Lord. + +And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was +with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great +stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed +sacrifices the same day unto the Lord.--1 Samuel vi, 1-5. + + + + +SAUL AND DAVID. + + +And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that +the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved +him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no +more home to his father's house. + +Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own +soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and +gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, +and to his girdle. + +And David went out withersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself +wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the +sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants. + +And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the +slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of +Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, +and with instruments of music. And the women answered one another as they +played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten +thousands. + +And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, +"They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have +ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?" And +Saul eyed David from that day and forward. + +And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came +upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played +with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. +And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the +wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.--1 Samuel +xviii, I-II. + + + + +DAVID SPARING SAUL. + + +And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the +Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the +wilderness of Engedi. Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all +Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild +goats. And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and +Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the +sides of the cave. + +And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the Lord said +unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou +mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and +cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily. And it came to pass afterward, +that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt. And he +said unto his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my +master, the Lord's anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, +seeing he is the anointed of the Lord. + +So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to +rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way. +David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after +Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David +stooped with his face to the earth and bowed himself. + +And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, +Behold, David seeketh thy hurt? Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how +that the Lord had delivered thee to-day into mine hand in the cave: and +some bade me kill thee; but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not +put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the Lord's anointed. +Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for +in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou +and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I +have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it. The +Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine +hand shall not be upon thee. As saith the proverb of the ancients, +Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon +thee. After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou +pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. The Lord therefore be judge, and +judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me +out of thine hand. + +And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words +unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul +lifted up his voice, and wept. And he said to David, Thou art more +righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded +thee evil. And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well, +with me: forasmuch as when the Lord had delivered me into thine hand, +thou killedst me not. For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go +well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done +unto me this day. And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be +king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand. +Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord, that thou wilt not cut off my +seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's +house. + +And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat +them up unto the hold.--2 Samuel xxiv, 2--22. + + + + +DEATH OF SAUL. + + +Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled +from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. And the +Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the +Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchshua, Saul's sons. + +And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he +was sore wounded of the archers. Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, +Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised +come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; +for he was sore afraid. Therefore, Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. +And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon +his sword, and died with him. + +So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, +that same day together. + +And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and +they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, +and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; +and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. And it came to pass on the +morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found +Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa. And they cut off his +head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the +Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and +among the people. And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth and +they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. + +And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the +Philistines had done to Saul; all the valiant men arose, and went all +night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall +of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there. And they took +their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven +days. 1 Samuel xxxi. + + + + +THE DEATH OF ABSALOM. + + +And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of +thousands and captains of hundreds over them. And David set forth a third +part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the +hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part +under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I +will surely go forth with you myself also. + +But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, +they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for +us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better +that thou succor us out of the city. + +And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the +king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and +by thousands. And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, +Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all +the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning +Absalom. + +So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was +in the wood of Ephraim; where the people of Israel were slain before the +servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day, of +twenty thousand men. For the battle was there scattered over the face of +all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the +sword devoured. + +And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and +the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught +hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; +and the mule that was under him went away. + +And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold I saw Absalom +hanged in an oak. + +And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, +and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have +given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle. + +And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of +silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the +king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and +Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom. Otherwise I +should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no +matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldst have set thyself +against me. + +Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts +in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was +yet alive in the midst of the oak. And ten young men that bare Joab's +armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him. And Joab blew the +trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab +held back the people. And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great +pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all +Israel fled every one to his tent.--2 Samuel xviii, 1-17. + + + + +DAVID MOURNING OVER ABSALOM. + + +Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king +tidings, how that the Lord hath avenged him of his enemies. And Joab said +unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear +tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the +king's son is dead. Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou +hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran. Then said Ahimaaz +the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, +also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, +seeing that thou hast no tidings ready? But howsoever, said he let me +run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, +and overran Cushi. + +And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof +over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and +behold a man running alone. And the watchman cried, and told the king. +And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he +came apace, and drew near. And the watchman saw another man running: and +the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running +alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings. And the watchman +said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of +Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh +with good tidings. + +And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down +to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed be the Lord +thy God, which hath delivereth up the men that lifted up their hand +against my lord the king. And the king said, Is the young man Absalom +safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy +servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was. And the king +said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood +still. + +And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for +the Lord bath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against +thee. And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And +Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise +against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is. + +And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, +and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son +Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son! + +And it was told Joab, Behold the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom. +And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: +for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son. +And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people +being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. + +But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my +son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!--2 Samuel xviii, 19 33; xix, 1-4. + + + + +SOLOMON + + +And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he +was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to +David. And these be the names of those that were born unto him in +Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, Ibhar also, and +Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, and Elishama, and Eliada, and +Eliphalet.--2 Samuel v. 13-16. + +And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay +with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the +Lord loved him.--2 Samuel xii, 24. + +So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. And +the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years +reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem. + +Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was +established greatly.--1 Kings ii, 10-12. + +And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and +largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. And +Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east +country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men; than +Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: +and his fame was in all nations round about. And he spake three thousand +proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, +from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that +springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of +creeping things, and of fishes. And there came of all people to hear the +wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his +wisdom.--2 Kings iv, 29-34. + + + + +THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON. + + +Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood +before him. + +And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; +and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. And it came to pass +the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered +also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, +save we two in the house. And this woman's child died in the night; +because she overlaid it. And she arose at midnight, and took my son from +beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid +her dead child in my bosom. And when I rose in the morning to give my +child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the +morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear. + +And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is +thy son. + +And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and, the living is my son. + +Thus they spake before the king. + +Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy +son is the dead--and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and +my son is the living. And the king said, Bring me a sword. + +And they brought a sword before the king. + +And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the +one, and half to the other. + +Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her +bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living +child, and in no wise slay it. + +But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. + +Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no +wise slay it she is the mother thereof. + +And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they +feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do +judgment. 1 Kings iii, 16-28. + + + + +THE CEDARS DESTINED FOR THE TEMPLE. + + +And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard +that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was +ever a lover of David. + +And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, Thou knowest how that David my father +could not build a house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars +which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the +soles of his feet. But now the Lord my God hath given me rest on every +side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent. And, behold: +I purpose to build a house unto the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord +spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy +throne in thy room, he shall build a house unto my name. Now therefore +command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants +shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for the +servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that +there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the +Sidonians. + +And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he +rejoiced greatly and said, Blessed be the Lord this day, which hath given +unto David a wise son over this great, people. And Hiram sent to Solomon, +saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I +will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber +of fir: My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea; and +I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt +appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt +receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my +household. + +So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his +desire. + +And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his +household and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram +year by year. + +And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace +between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together. + +And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty +thousand men. And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by +courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and +Adoniram was over the levy. And Solomon had three score and ten thousand +that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains beside +the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand +and three-hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work. +And the king commanded and they brought great stones, costly stones, and +hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the' house. And Solomon's +builders, and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stone-squarers; so +they prepared timber and stones to build the house.--1 Kings v. + + + + +THE PROPHET SLAIN BY A LION. + + +Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him +all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words +which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father. +And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen +what way the man of God went, which came, from Judah. And he said unto +his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the, ass: and he rode +thereon, and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an +oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from +Judah? And he said, I am. Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and +eat bread. And he, said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: +neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place: for it +was said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink +water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. He said +unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by +the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, +that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him. So he went +back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water. + +And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lord +came unto the prophet that brought him back: and he cried unto the man of +God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou +hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment +which the Lord thy God commanded thee, but camest back, and hast eaten +bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to +thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcass shall not come unto +the sepulchre of thy fathers. + +And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, +that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had +brought back. + +And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his +carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood +by the carcass. + +And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcass cast in the way, and the +lion standing by the carcass: and they came and told it in the city where +the old prophet dwelt. And when the prophet that brought him back from +the way heard thereof, he said, It is; the man of God, who was +disobedient unto the word of the Lord: therefore the Lord hath delivered +him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the +word of the Lord, which he spake unto him. And he spake to his sons, +saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him. + +And he went and found his carcass cast in the way, and the ass and the +lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten the carcass, nor +torn the ass.--2 Kings xiii, II-28. + + + + +ELIJAH DESTROYING THE MESSENGERS OF AHAZIAH. + + +And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in +Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, +enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this +disease. + +But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to +meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not +because there is not a God in Israel, that 'ye go to enquire of +Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus saith the Lord, Thou; +shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt +surely die. And Elijah departed. + +And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are +ye now turned back? And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet +us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say +unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Is it not because there is not a God in +Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? +therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone +up, but shalt surely die. And he said unto them, What manner of man was +he which came up to meet you, and told you these words? And they answered +him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his +loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. + +Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he +went up to him and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake +unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down. And Elijah +answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let +fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there +came down fire from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. + +Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And +he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, +Come down quickly. And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man +of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. +And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. + +And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the +third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before +Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, +let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy +sight. Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two +captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life +now be precious in thy sight. + +And the angel of the lord said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not +afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king. And he +said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast sent +messengers to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it not because +there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt +not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely +die. + +So he died according to the word of the Lord which Elijah had spoken.--2 +Kings i, 2-17. + + + + +ELIJAH'S ASCENT IN A CHARIOT OF FIRE. + + +And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a +whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. And Elijah said unto +Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Beth-el. +And Elisha said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I +will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el. + +And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, +and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master +from thy head to-day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace. +And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord +hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul +liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho. + +And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and +said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from +thy head to-day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace. And +Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me +to Jordan. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I +will not leave thee. And they two went on. + +And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar +off and they two stood by Jordan. + +And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the +waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went +over on dry ground. + +And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto +Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. +And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon +me. And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see +me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it +shall not be so. + +And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, +there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them +both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.--2 Kings ii, +I-II. + + + + +THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL. + + +And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted +her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. And as Jehu +entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master? + +And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? +who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw +her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on +the wall, and on the horses and he trod her under foot. And when he was +come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, +and bury her: for she is a king's daughter. And they went to bury her: +but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms +of her hands. Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This +is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the +Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of +Jezebel: and the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the +field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is +Jezebel.--2 Kings ix, 30-37. + + + + +ESTHER CONFOUNDING HAMAN. + + +So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. + +And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of +wine What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: +and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of +the kingdom. + +Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in thy +sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my +petition, and my people at my request: for we are sold, I and my people, +to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for +bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue although the enemy could not +countervail the king's damage. + +Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is +he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? + +And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. + +Then, Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. And the king +arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace +garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the +queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. + +Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the +banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. +Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? + +As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. And +Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the +gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had +spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king +said, Hang him thereon. + +So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. +Then was the king's wrath pacified.--Esther vii. + + + + +ISAIAH. + + +Isaiah (in Hebrew, Yeshayahu, "Salvation of God"), the earliest and most +sublime of the four greater Hebrew prophets, was the son of Amoz (2 Kings +xix, 2-20; Isaiah xxxvii, 2), and he uttered his oracles during the +reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The dates +of his birth and death are unknown, but he lived from about 760 B.C. to +about 700 B.C. He was married and had three sons--the children referred +to in Isaiah viii, 18; and he appears to have resided near Jerusalem. + +But by most competent critics it is now held that the last twenty-seven +chapters (40-66) of the book bearing his name were the work, not of the +prophet, but of a later writer who is commonly styled the second or +Deutero-Isaiah. In this portion of the book, Cyrus, who was not born till +after 600 B.C., is mentioned by name (Isaiah, xliv, 28; xlv, i); and +events which did not take place till a century after the prophet's death +are referred to as happening contemporaneously with the writer's account +of them. The style of these last twenty-seven chapters, also, is +different, and the tone is more elevated and spiritual. + +Dore's ideal portrait is more suited to the second or pseudo-Isaiah, than +to the real one. + + + + +DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB'S HOST. + + +Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall +not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it +with shield, nor cast a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the +same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord. +For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my +servant David's sake. + +And it came to pass that night that the angel of the Lord went out, and +smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five +thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all +dead corpses. + +So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt +at Nineveh. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of +Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with +the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his +son reigned in his stead.--2 Kings xix, 32-37 + + + + +BARUCH. + + +And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah +king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, +Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have +spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the +nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even +unto this day. It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil +which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his +evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. + +Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the +mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto +him, upon a roll of a book. Jeremiah xxxvi; 1-4. + +The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, +when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in +the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, +Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch; thou didst +say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted +in my sighing, and I find no rest. + +Thus shalt thou say unto him, The Lord saith thus; Behold, that which I +have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck +up, even this whole land. And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek +them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: +but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou +goesth. Jeremiah xlv, 1-5. + + + + +EZEKIEL PROPHESYING. + + +Ezekiel, the third of the great Hebrew prophets, was the son of the +priest Buzi. (Ezekiel i, 3). He was probably born about 620 or 630 years +before Christ, and was consequently a contemporary of Jeremiah and +Daniel, to the latter of whom he alludes in chapters xiv, 14-20 and +xxviii, 3. When Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzar in 597 B.C. (2 +Kings xxiv, 8-16; Jeremiah xxix, 1-2; Ezekiel xvii, 12; xix, 9), Ezekiel +was carried captive along with Jehoiachin, or Jeconiah, king of Judah, +and thousands of other Jewish prisoners, to Babylonia, or as he himself +calls it, "the land of the Chaldeans." (Ezekiel i, 3). Here, along with +his exiled fellow-countrymen, he lived on the banks of the river Chebar +(Ezekiel i, 1-3), in a house of his own (viii, i). Here also he married, +and here, too, his wife, "the desire of his eyes," was taken from him +"with a stroke" (Ezekiel xxiv, 15-18). His prophetic career extended over +twenty-two years, from about 592 B.C. to about 570 B.C. + +The book bearing his name is written in a mystical and symbolical style, +and abounds with visions and difficult allegories which indicate on the +part of the author the possession of a vivid and sublime imagination. +Ezekiel's authorship of it has been questioned. The Talmud attributes it +to the Great Synagogue, of which Ezekiel was not a member. It is +divisible into two portions. The first (chapters i-xxiv) was written +before, and the second (chapters xxv-xlviii) after, the destruction of +Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C, the eleventh year of the +prophet's captivity (Ezekiel xxvi, 1-2; XI, i). The present text is very +imperfect, being corrupted by the interpolation of glosses and other +additions by later hands. + +Dore's picture represents the prophet uttering his oracles to his +fellow-exiles ("them of the captivity"), or to the "elders of Judah," or +"elders of Israel," on one of the occasions to which he himself alludes +(viii, I; xi, 25; xiv, I; xx, I). + + + + +THE VISION OF EZEKIEL. + + +The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the +Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, +and caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very +many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. + +And he said unto me; Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O +Lord God, thou knowest. + +Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye +dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these +bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: +And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and +cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live and ye +shall know that I am the Lord. + +So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a +noise, and behold a shaking, and the, bones came together, bone to his +bone. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, +and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. + +Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and +say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O +breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. + +So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and +they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. + +Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of +Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we +are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus +saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and +cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of +Israel. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your +graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and shall put +my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own +land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed +it, saith the Lord.--Ezekiel xxxvii, 1-14. + + + + +DANIEL. + + +Respecting the parentage or family of Daniel, the fourth of the great +Hebrew prophets, nothing is known, though he appears to have been of +noble if not of royal descent (Daniel i, 3). When, in the third year of +the reign of King Jehoiakim (607, 606, 605, or 604 B.C.), Jerusalem was +first taken by Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel, then a youth, was among the +captives carried to Babylon. By the king's orders, he, with others of the +Jewish youth, was educated for three years (Daniel i, 3-7). At this time +Daniel acquired the power of interpreting dreams (i, 17), which he used +with such advantage in expounding a dream of Nebuchadnezzar, that he was +made ruler over the whole province of Babylon (Daniel ii, 46-48). +Daniel's interpretation of Belshazzar's famous vision having been +fulfilled by the capture of Babylon by Darius, that conqueror promoted +Daniel to the highest office in the kingdom (Daniel vi, 1-3). The prophet +also prospered greatly during the reign of Cyrus (Daniel vi, 28). + +The book of Daniel is written partly in Chaldaic or Syriac (the +vernacular Aramaic language spoken by the people of Palestine), and +partly in sacred Hebrew. It is manifestly divisible into two portions. +The first (chapters i-vi) narrating the details of the prophet's life, +and the second (chapters vii-xii) setting forth his apocalyptic visions. +Much doubt has been cast upon the authenticity of the work. The evident +reference in the eleventh chapter to the conquest of Persia by Alexander +the Great, which took place about 330 B.C., or more than two hundred +years after Daniel flourished, has led many modern critics to believe +that the work was composed in the time of the Maccabees. + +Dore's picture appears to be intended to represent the prophet meditating +over one of the many visions which came to him. + + + + +THE FIERY FURNACE. + + +Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. +They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever. +There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the +province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king, +have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden +image which thou hast set up. + +Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, +Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king. + +Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, +and Abed-nego? do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image +which I have set up? Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the +sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and +all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; +well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the +midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver +you out of my hands? + +Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O +Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it +be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery +furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be +it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship +the golden image which thou hast set up. + +Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was +changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and +commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it +was wont to be heated. And he commanded the most mighty men that were in +his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into +the burning fiery furnace. + +Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, +and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning +fiery furnace. Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent and +the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took +up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. And these three men, Shadrach, +Meshach, and Abed-nego fell down bound into the midst of the burning +fiery furnace. + +Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and +spake, and said unto his counselors, Did not we cast three men bound into +the midst of the fire? They answered, and said unto the king, True, O +king. + +He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of +the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the +Son of God. + +Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, +and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the +most high God, come forth and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and +Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire. And the princes, +governors, and captains, and the king's counselors, being gathered +together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was +a hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the +smell of fire had passed on them.--Daniel iii, 8, 9, 12-27. + + + + +BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST. + + +Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and +drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, +commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father +Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that +the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink +therein. Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the +temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his +princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine +and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, +and of stone. + +In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over +against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's +palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's +countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the +joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. + +[On the failure of his astrologers and soothsayers to interpret the +writing, the king, at the suggestion of his queen, sends for Daniel, who +interprets it as follows:] + +O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, +and majesty, and glory, and honor: and for the majesty that he gave him, +all peoples, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom +he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he +set up; and whom he would he put down. But when his heart was lifted up, +and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, +and they took his glory from him and he was driven from the sons of men; +and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the +wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with +the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the +kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. + +And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou +knewest all this; but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; +and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and +thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and +thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and +stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy +breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified. + +Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was +written. + +And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. +This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy +kingdom and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art +found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and +Persians. + +In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius +the Median took the kingdom.--Daniel v. + + + + +DANIEL IN THE LIONS' DEN. + + +Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; +and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled +upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his +God, as he did aforetime. + +Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making +supplication before his God. Then they came near, and spake before the +king concerning the king's decree Hast thou not signed a decree, that +every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, +save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. + +The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of +the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. + +Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the +children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the +decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. + +Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with +himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till +the going down of the sun to deliver him. + +Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O +king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor +statute which the king establisheth may be changed. Then the king +commanded, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. +Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest +continually, he will deliver thee. And a stone was brought, and laid upon +the mouth of the den and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with +the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning +Daniel. + +Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither +were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from +him. Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste +unto the den of lions. And when he came to the den, he cried with a +lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O +Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest +continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? + +Then said Daniel unto the King, O king, live forever. My God hath sent +his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: +forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, +O king, have I done no hurt. + +Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should +take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and +no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God. And +the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, +and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their +wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones +in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.--Daniel vi. + + + + +THE PROPHET AMOS. + + +Amos, one of the earliest of the Hebrew prophets, flourished during the +reign of Uzziah, about 790 B.C., and was consequently a contemporary of +Hosea and Joel. In his youth he lived at Tekoa, about six miles south of +Bethlehem, in Judaea, and was a herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit +(Amos i, i; vii, 14). This occupation he gave up for that of prophet +(vii, 15), and he came forward to denounce the idolatry then prevalent in +Judah, Israel, and the surrounding kingdoms. + +The first six chapters of his book contain his denunciations of idolatry; +the other three, his symbolical vision of the overthrow of the people of +Israel, and a promise of their restoration. The style is remarkable for +clearness and strength, and for its picturesque use of images drawn from +the rural and pastoral life which the prophet had led in his youth. + + + + +JONAH CALLING NINEVEH TO REPENTANCE. + + +And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, +go unto to Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching +that I bid thee. + +So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. +Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. And Jonah +began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet +forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. + +So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on +sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word +came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid +his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And +he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree +of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor +flock taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water: but let man and +beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them +turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their +hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his +fierce anger, that we perish not? + +And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God +repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he +did it not.--Jonah iii. + + + + +DANIEL CONFOUNDING THE PRIESTS OF BEL. + + +Now the Babylonians had an idol called Bel: and there were spent upon him +every day, twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and +sixty vessels of wine. The king also worshipped him, and went every day +to adore him: but Daniel adored his God. And the king said unto him: Why +dost thou not adore Bel? And he answered, and said to him Because I do +not worship idols made with hands, but the living God, that created +heaven and earth, and hath power over all flesh. And the king said to +him: Doth not Bel seem to thee to be a living God? Seest thou not how +much he eateth and drinketh every day? Then Daniel smiled and said: O +king, be not deceived: for this is but clay within, and brass without, +neither hath he eaten at any time. + +And the king being angry called for his priests, and said to them: If you +tell me not, who it is that eateth up these expenses, you shall die. But +if you can show that Bel eateth these things, Daniel shall die, because +he hath blasphemed against Bel. + +And Daniel said to the king: Be it done according to thy word. + +Now the priests of Bel were seventy besides their wives and little ones +and children. And they went with Daniel into the temple of Bel. And the +priests of Bel said: Behold, we go out: and do thou, O king, set on the +meats, and make ready, the wine, and shut the door fast, and seal it with +thy own ring: and when thou comest in the morning, if thou findest not +that Bel hath eaten all up, we will suffer death, or else Daniel that +hath lied against us. + +And they little regarded it, because they had made under the table a +secret entrance, and they always came in by it, and consumed those +things. + +So it came to pass after they were gone out, the king set the meats +before Bel: and Daniel commanded his servants, and they brought ashes, +and he sifted them all over the temple before the king: and going forth +they shut the door, and having sealed it with the king's ring, they +departed. + +But the priests went in by night, according to their custom, with their +wives and their children: and they eat and drank all up. + +And the king rose early in the morning, and Daniel with him. And the king +said: Are the seals whole, Daniel? and he answered: They are whole, O +king. And as soon as he had opened the door, the king looked upon the +table, and cried out with a loud voice Great art thou, O Bel, and there +is not any deceit with thee. And Daniel laughed: and he held the king +that he should not go in: and he said: Behold the pavement, mark whose +footsteps these are. And the king said: I see the footsteps of men, and +women, and children. And the king was angry. Then he took the priests, +and their wives, and their children: and they showed him the private +doors by which they came in, and consumed the things that were on the +table. + +The king therefore put them to death, and delivered Bel into the power of +Daniel: who destroyed him, and his temple.--Daniel xiv, I-21 (Douay +Version). + + + + +HELIODORUS PUNISHED IN THE TEMPLE. + + +But Heliodorus executed that which he had resolved on, himself being +present in the same place with his guard about the treasury. + +But the spirit of the Almighty God gave a great evidence of his presence, +so that all that had presumed to obey him, falling down by the power of +God, were struck with fainting and dread. For there appeared to them a +horse with a terrible rider upon him, adorned with a very rich covering: +and he ran fiercely and struck Heliodorus with his fore-feet, and he that +sat upon him seemed to have armor of gold. Moreover, there appeared two +other young men, beautiful and strong, bright and glorious, and in comely +apparel: who stood by him, on either side, and scourged him without +ceasing with many stripes. + +And Heliodorus suddenly fell to the ground, and they took him up covered +with great darkness, and having put him into a litter they carried him +out. So he that came with many servants, and all his guard into the +aforesaid treasury, was carried out, no one being able to help him, the +manifest power of God being known. And he indeed by the power of God lay +speechless, and without all hope of recovery.--2 Maccabees iii, 23-29. + + + + +THE NATIVITY. + + +And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from +Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was +first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be +taxed, every one into his own city. + +And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into +Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he +was of the house and lineage of David:) to be taxed with Mary, his +espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they +were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And +she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling +clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in +the inn. + +And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, +keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord +came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and +they were sore afraid: And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, +behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all +people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, +which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall +find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And +suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host +praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth +peace, good will toward men. + +And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, +the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and +see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto +us. And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe +lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the +saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard +it, wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But +Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. And the +shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that +they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. + +And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, +his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was +conceived in the womb.--Luke ii. + + + + +THE STAR IN THE EAST. + + +Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the +king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, +Where is he that born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the +east, and are come to worship him. + +When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all +Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and +scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should +be born. And they said unto him; In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is +written by the prophet, And thou Bethlehem! in the land of Juda, are not +the least among the princes of Juda: for out of the shall come a +Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. + +Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them +diligently, what time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem, +and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have +found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also. +When they had heard the king, they parted; and, lo, the star, which they +saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the +young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding +great joy.--Matthew ii, I-10. + + + + +THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. + + +And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to +Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his +mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: +for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. + +When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and +departed into Egypt: and was there until the death of Herod: that it +might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, +Out of Egypt have I called my son.--Matthew ii 13-15. + + + + +THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS. + + +Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding +wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, +and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to +the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men. + +Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, +In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great +mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, +because they are not.--Matthew ii, 16-18. + + + + +JESUS QUESTIONING THE DOCTORS. + + +Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the +passover. + +And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the +custom of the feast. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they +returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his +mother, knew not of it. But they, supposing him to have been in the +company, went a day's journey and they sought him among their kinsfolk +and acquaintance. And when they found him not, they turned back again to +Jerusalem, seeking him. + +And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, +sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them +questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding +and answers. + +And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, +Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have +sought thee sorrowing. And he said unto them, How is it that, ye sought +me? wist ye not that I must be about my father's business? And they +understood not the saying which he spake unto them. + +And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto +them but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. + +And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. +Luke ii, 41-52. + + + + +JESUS HEALING THE SICK. + + +And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and +preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness +and all manner of disease among the people. And his fame went throughout +all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with +divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, +and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy;--and he +healed them.--Matthew iv, 23--24. + + + + +SERMON ON THE MOUNT. + + +And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from +Decapolis and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan. + +And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was +set, his disciples came unto him. And he opened his mouth and taught +them. + +And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were +astonished at his doctrine: For he taught them as one having authority, +and not as the scribes. + +When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed +him.--Matthew iv, 25; v, 1-2, 28-29, viii, I. + + + + +CHRIST STILLING THE TEMPEST. + + +And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, +behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship +was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. And his disciples came to +him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. And he saith unto +them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and +rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men +marveled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the +sea obey him?--Matthew viii, 23-27. + + + + +THE DUMB MAN POSSESSED. + + +As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a +devil. And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the +multitudes marveled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel. + +But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the +devils.--Matthew ix, 32-34 + + + + +CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUE. + + +And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he +departed thence. And when he was come into his own country, he taught +them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, +Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? Is not this the +carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren James, +and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with +us? Whence then hath this man all these things? + +And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not +without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house. + +And he did not many mighty works there because of their +unbelief.--Matthew xiii, 53-58 + + + + +THE DISCIPLES PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH. + + +And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath +day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn. + +And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day +that which is not lawful? + +And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had +need, and was an hungered, he, and they that were with him? How he went +into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did +eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and +gave also to them which were with him? And he said unto them, The sabbath +was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man +is Lord also of the sabbath.--Mark ii, 23-28. + + + + +JESUS WALKING ON THE WATER. + + +And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray. And +when, even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone +on the land. And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary +unto them: and about the fourths watch of the night he cometh unto them, +walking upon the sea, and would have passed: by them. But when they saw +him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried +out: for they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked +with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid. + +And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they +were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered. For they +considered not the miracle of the loaves; for their heart was +hardened.--Mark vi, 46-52. + + + + +CHRIST'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM. + + +And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto +the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, saying unto them, Go +into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass +tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring the unto me. And if any +man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and +straightway he will send them. + +All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the +prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh +unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass'; and a colt the foal of an ass. + +And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them, and brought the +ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him +thereon. + +And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut +down branches; from the trees, and strewed them in the way. And the +multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to +the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; +Hosanna in the highest. + +And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who +is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of +Galilee.--Matthew xxi, I-II. + + + + +JESUS AND THE TRIBUTE MONEY. + + +And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to +catch him in his words. + +And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art +true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, +but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to +Caesar, or not? Shall we give, or shall we not give? + +But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring +me a penny, that I may see it. And they brought it. + +And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they +said unto him, Caesar's. + +And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are +Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. + +And they marveled at him.--Mark xii, 13-17. + + + + +THE WIDOW'S MITE. + + +And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast +money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. + +And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which +make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto +them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than +all they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of +their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even +all her living.--Mark xii, 13-17 + + + + +RAISING OF THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS. + + +And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by +name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet, and besought him greatly, +saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come +and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed and she shall live. And +Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him. + +And a certain woman which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had +suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, +and was nothing bettered, but rather grew, worse, when she had heard of +Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said, +If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the +fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was +healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that +virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who +touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the +multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And he looked +round about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman fearing +and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before +him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her Daughter, thy faith +hath made the whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. + +While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house +certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master +any further? As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith +unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe. And he +suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the +brother of James. And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the +synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. +And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and +weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to +scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the +mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where +the damsel was lying. And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto +her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, +arise. And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the +age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment. + +And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded +that something should be given her to eat.--Mark v, 22-43. + + + + +THE GOOD SAMARITAN. + + +But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my +neighbor? + +And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to +Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and +wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there +came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on +the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and +looked on him, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, +as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had +compassion on him. And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in +oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, +and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two +pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; +and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. +Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell +among the thieves? + +And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. + +Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.--Luke x, 29-37. + + + + +ARRIVAL OF THE SAMARITAN AT THE INN. + + +But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was; and when he +saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his +wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and +brought him to an inn, and took care of him. Luke x, 33-34 + + + + +THE PRODIGAL SON. + + +Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of +God over one sinner that repenteth. + +And he said, a certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to +his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And +he divided unto them his living. + +And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took +his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with +riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in +that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to +a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. +And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did +eat: and no man gave unto him. + +And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my +father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will +arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned +against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy +son: make me as one of thy hired servants. + +And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way +off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his +neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned +against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy +son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and +put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And +bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: +for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. +And they began to be merry. + +Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the +house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and +asked what these things meant. + +And he said unto him, thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the +fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. + +And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and +intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years +do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and +yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: +but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with +harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. + +And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is +thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy +brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.--Luke +xv, 10-32 + + + + +LAZARUS AND THE RICH MAN. + + +There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, +and fared sumptuously every day: + +And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, +full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the +rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. + +And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels +into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell +he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and +Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy +on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water +and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. + +But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy +good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, +and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is +a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you +cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. + +Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him +to my father's house: for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto +them, lest they also come into this place of torment. + +Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear +them. + +And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the +dead, they will repent. + +And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither +will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.--Luke xvi, 19-31 + + + + +THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN. + + +And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that +they were righteous, and despised others. + +Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the +other a publican; The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I +thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, +adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give +tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would +not lift up as much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, +saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to +his house justified rather than the other: for every: one that exalteth +himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. +Luke xviii, 9-14. + + + + +JESUS AND THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA. + + +Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the +parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was +there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the +well: and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to +draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. + +(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) + +Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a +Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have +no dealings with the Samaritans. + +Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and +who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked +of him, and he would have given thee living water. + +The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the +well is deep from whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou +greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof +himself, and his children, and his cattle? + +Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall +thirst again but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him +shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a +well of water springing up into everlasting life. + +The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, +neither come hither to draw. + +Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman +answered and said, I have no husband. + +Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: for thou +hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in +that saidst thou truly. + +The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our +fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the +place where men ought to worship. + +Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall +neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye +worship ye know not what: we know what we worship; for salvation is of +the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall +worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to +worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him +in spirit and in truth. + +The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called +Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. + +Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. + +And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the +woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? + +The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and +saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things, that ever I +did: is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city, and came +unto him.--John iv 5-30 + + + + +JESUS AND THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY. + + +Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came +again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, +and taught them. + +And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; +and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this +woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law +commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they +said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. + +But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as +though he heard them not. + +So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto +them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at +her. + +And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. + +And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went +out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last; and Jesus +was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had +lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman +where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She said, No +man, Lord. + +And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. +--john viii, 1-11 + + + + +THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS. + + +Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where +Martha met him. The Jews then which were with her in the house, and +comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, +followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there. Then when +Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, +saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. + +When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which +came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, +Where have ye laid him? + +They said unto him, Lord, come and see. + +Jesus wept. + +Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him! And some of them said, Could +not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even +this man should not have died? + +Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a +cave and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. + +Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this +time he stinketh for he hath been dead four days. + +Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest +believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? + +Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. + +And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou +hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the +people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast +sent me. + +And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come +forth. + +And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: +and his face was bound about with a napkin. + +Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. + +Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which +Jesus did, believed on him.--John xi, 30-45 + + + + +MARY MAGDALENE. + + +Of Mary "called Magdalene" (Luke viii, 2) but few particulars are +recorded in scripture. We first hear of her as having been delivered by +Jesus of seven devils (Luke viii, 1-3; Mark xvi, 9). Impelled, no doubt, +by gratitude for her deliverance, she becomes one of his followers, +accompanying him thenceforward in all his wanderings faithfully till his +death. She was the first person to whom he appeared after his +resurrection (Mark xvi, 9; John xx, 1, 11-18) The common belief that she +was a fallen woman is destitute of the slightest foundation. On the +contrary, the references to her as being in the company of such women as +Joanna, the wife of Herod's steward, Salome, the mother of James and +John, and Mary, the mother of Jesus (Luke viii, 3; Mark xvi, 40; John +xix, 25), strongly discountenance such a supposition. The error, which +had no other source than ecclesiastical tradition, has been fostered and +perpetuated by the stupid blunder of the translators of the authorized +version in identifying her with the "sinner" who is described in Luke +vii, 37-50 as washing the feet of Jesus with her tears (see head-note to +Luke vii). + +The Roman Catholic notion that this "sinner" was Mary the sister of +Lazarus is almost equally groundless (see Douay Bible, head-note to +Matthew xxvi, and the foot-note references to Luke vii, 37, found in most +Catholic Bibles). The only reason for this identification is that the +anointing by the "sinner" is described as taking place in the house of a +Pharisee named Simon (Luke vii, 36, 39-40 43-44); that the anointing by +the unnamed woman, as described in Matthew xxvi, 6-13 and Mark xiv, 3-9, +took place in the house of one "Simon the leper," in Bethany; and that +Mary, the sister of Lazarus, is described in John xi, 2, and xii, 3-8, as +anointing Jesus in a house (apparently that of Lazarus himself) in +Bethany, when a conversation ensues altogether different from that +recorded in Luke vii, but similar to that related in Matthew xxvi, and +Mark xiv, save that the objection to the anointing of Jesus is made, not +by "his disciples" (Matthew xxvi, 8), not by "some that had indignation" +(Mark xiv, 4), but by "one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son" +(John xii, 4). The demeanor of Mary, the sister of Lazarus, is, however, +by no means that of a fallen and sinful though penitent woman but that of +a pious and good one (see Luke x, 39, 42; John xi, 28-33; xii, 3). + +Dore's illustration, which portrays Mary Magdalene as a heartbroken and +despairing sinner, shows that he has fallen into the common error. + + + + +THE LAST SUPPER. + + +Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to +Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat +the passover? And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto +him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at +thy house with my disciples. And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed +them; and they made ready the passover. + +Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve. And as they did +eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. + +And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say +unto him, Lord, is it I? + +And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, +the same shall betray me. The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: +but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been +good for that man if he had not been born. Then Judas, which betrayed +him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast +said. + +And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, +and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And +he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye +all of it; for this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for +many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink +henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new +with you in my Father's kingdom. + +And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of +Olives.--Matthew xxvi, 17-30. + + + + +THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN. + + +And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and +his disciples all followed him. And when he was at the place, he said +unto them, Pray that ye enter not in temptation. + +And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, +and prayed Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: +nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. + +And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. + +And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it +were great drops, of blood falling down to the ground. + +And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found +them sleeping for sorrow, and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and +pray, lest ye enter into temptation--Luke xxii, 39-46. + + + + +PRAYER OF, JESUS IN THE GARDEN OF' OLIVES. + + +Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith +unto, the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. And he took +with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and +very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even +unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. + +And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O +my Father, if be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as +I will, but as thou wilt. + +And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto +Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye +enter not into temptation the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is +weak. + +He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if +this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. + +And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. + +And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying +the same words. + +Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and +take your rest behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is +betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise let us be going: behold, he is +at hand that doth betray me. Matthew xxvi, 36-46 + + + + +THE BETRAYAL. + + +And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take +your rest it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is +betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise up, let us go; lo, he that +betrayeth me is at hand. + +And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and +with him great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests +and the scribes and the elders. And he that betrayed him had given them a +token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and +lead him away safely. And as soon as he was come, he goeth straight way +to him, and saith, Master, master; and kissed him. + +And they laid their hands on him, and took him. And one of them that +stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut +off his ear. And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as +against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me? I was daily with +you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not but the scriptures must be +fulfilled. + +And they all forsook him, and fled.--Mark xiv, 41-50 + + + + +CHRIST FAINTING UNDER THE CROSS. + + +The incident depicted in this illustration seems to be as apocryphal as +that embodied in the artist's picture of Mary Magdalene. There is +absolutely no warrant in scripture for the notion that Christ fainted +under the burden of the cross. The only foundation for such an idea to +found in the Bible is contained in the head note to Mark xv, which is +quite unwarranted by the text. According to the three synoptic gospels +the cross was borne not by Christ, but by Simon, a Cyrenian (see Matthew +xxvii, 32; Mark xv, 2 1; Luke xxiii, 26). According to the fourth +evangelist, Jesus bore the cross without assistance the whole distance to +the place crucifixion (John xix, 16-18). In not one of the four +narratives is there so much as a hint that he fainted under the burden. + + + + +THE FLAGELLATION. + + +Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he +deliver him to be crucified.--Matthew xxvii, 26. + +And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto +them, and deliver Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.--Mark +xv, 15. + +Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. John xix. + + + + +THE CRUCIFIXION. + + +And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a +place of a skull they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and +when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. And they crucified him, +and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which +was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon +my vesture did they cast lots. And sitting down they watched him there; +and set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING +OF THE JEWS. + +Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, +and another on the left. + +And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, and saying, +Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save +thyself. If thou be the Son of God come down from the cross. + +Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, +said, He saved others: himself he cannot save. If he be the King of +Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He +trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he +said, I am the Son of God. + +The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his +teeth.--Matthew xxvii, 33--44. + + + + +CLOSE OF THE CRUCIFIXION. + + +Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the +ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, +saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why +hast thou forsaken me? + +Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man +calleth for Elias. And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, +and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. +The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. + +Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. + +And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the +bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were +opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of +the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and +appeared unto many. + +Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw +the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, +saying, Truly this was the Son of God. + +And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from +Galilee, ministering unto him: among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary +the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's +children.--Matthew xxvii, 45-56. + + + + +THE BURIAL OF JESUS. + + +When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, +who also himself was Jesus' disciple he went to Pilate, and begged the +body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when +Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid +it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled +a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. + +And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against +the sepulchre.--Matthew xxvii, 57-61 + + + + +THE ANGEL AT THE SEPULCHRE. + + +In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of +the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. + +And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord +descended from, heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, +and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment +white as snow: and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as +dead men. + +And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know +that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, +as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and +tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead and, behold, he goeth +before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. + +And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and +did run to bring his disciples word.--Matthew xxviii, 1-8. + + + + +THE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS. + + +And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus +which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. + +And they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it +came to pass that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus +himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were holden that +they should not know him. + +And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye +have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? + +And the one of them, whose, name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, +Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things +which are come to pass there in these days? + +And he said unto them, What things? + +And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet +mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: And how the chief +priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have +crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have +redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to-day is the third day since these +things were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us +astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; and when they found not +his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, +which said that he was alive. And certain of them which were with us went +to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him +they saw not. + +Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that +the prophets have spoken: ought not Christ to have suffered these things, +and to enter into his glory? + +And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in +all the scriptures the things concerning himself. + +And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as +though he would have gone further. But they constrained him, saying, +Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he +went in to tarry with them. + +And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and +blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and +they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. + +And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he +talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? + +And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the +eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, The Lord +is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. + +And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of +them in breaking of bread.--Luke xxiv, 13-35. + + + + +THE ASCENSION. + + +Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came +unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and +certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the +sepulchre. * * * + +And they remembered his words. And returned from the sepulchre, and told +all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest. * * * + +And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, +which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked +together of all these things which had happened. * * * + +And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the +eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, The Lord +is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. And they told what things +were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread. +And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and +saith unto them, Peace be unto you. * * * + +And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in +the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. + +And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and +blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted +from them, and carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him, and +returned to Jerusalem with great joy. Luke xxiv, 1-2, 8-9, 13-14, 33-36, +49-52. + +The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began +both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that +he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom +he had chosen: to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by +many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of +the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: and, being assembled +together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from +Jerusalem, but, wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye +have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be +baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. + +When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, +wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel? And he said +unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the +Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that +the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both +in Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part +of the earth. + +And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up: +and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked +steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in +white apparel.--Acts i, 1-10 + + + + +THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. STEPHEN. + + +And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles +among the people. + +Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue +of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of +Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. And they were not able to +resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. Then they suborned +men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses +and against God. And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the +scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the +council. And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to +speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: for we have +heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and +shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. + +And all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face +as it had been the face of an angel. + +Then said the high priest, Are these things so? + +And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: [Stephen here makes his +defense, concluding with a terrible, denunciation of the Jews as being +stiffnecked and persecutors of their prophets, and as betrayers and +murderers of Jesus Christ.] + +When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they, +gnashed on him with their teeth. + +But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, +and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, +and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing +on the right hand of God. + +Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran +upon him with one accord, and cast him out of, the city, and stoned him: +and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose +name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, +Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. + +And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin +to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. + +And Saul was consenting unto his death.--Acts vi, 8-15; vii, 1-2, 54-56; +viii, 1. + + + + +SAUL'S CONVERSION. + + +And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the +disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him +letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, +whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. + +And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined +round about him a light from heaven: and he fell to the earth, and heard +a voice, saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he +said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou +persecutest it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he +trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And +the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told +thee what thou must do. + +And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, +but seeing no man. + +And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no +man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. And he +was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. + +And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him +said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. + +And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called +Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of +Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, and hath seen in a vision a man named +Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his +sight. Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how +much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: and here he hath +authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. But +the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to +bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: +for I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. + +And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his +hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto +thee in the way as thou camest, hash sent me, that thou mightest receive +thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. And immediately there fell +from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and +arose and was baptized. And when he had received meat, he was +strengthened. + +Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. And +straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of +God.--Acts ix, 1-20. + + + + +THE DELIVERANCE OF ST. PETER. + + +Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex +certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the +sword. + +And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take +Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had +apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four +quarternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him +forth to the people. + +Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing +of the church unto God for him. + +And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was +sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers +before the door kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came +upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the +side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell +off from his hands. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind +on thy sandals: And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment +about thee, and follow me. And he went out, and followed him; and wist +not that it was true which was done by the angel but thought he saw a +vision. When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto +the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own +accord and they went out and passed on through one street and forthwith +the angel departed from him. + +And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that +the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of +Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.--Acts xii, +1-11 + + + + +PAUL AT EPHESUS. + + +And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having +passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus; and finding certain +disciples, he said unto them, Have ye, received the Holy Ghost since ye +believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether +there be any Holy Ghost. And he, said unto them, Unto what then were ye +baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. Then said Paul, John verily +baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that +they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on +Christ Jesus. + +When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. +And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; +and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. And all the men were about +twelve. + +And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three +months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of +God. + +But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that +way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the +disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. And this +continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia +heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. + +And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: so that from his +body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases +departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them. + +Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over +them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure +you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. And there were seven sons of one Sceva, +a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. And the evil spirit +answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? And the +man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and +prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and +wounded. + +And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; +and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. +And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many +of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and +burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found +it fifty thousand pieces of silver. + +So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.--Acts xix, 1--20. + + + + +PAUL MENACED BY THE JEWS. + + +Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow +on them; them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with +them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those +things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that +thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law. + +Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them +entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of +purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of +them. + +And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, +when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid +hands on him, crying out, Men of Israel, help: this is the man, that +teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this +place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted +this holy place. (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus +an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) + +And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took +Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut. +And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain +of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar: who immediately took +soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them and when they saw the +chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul. Then the chief +captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two +chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done. And some cried one +thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the +certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle. +And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the +soldiers for the violence of the people. For the multitude of the people +followed after, crying, Away with him. + +And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief +captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek? Art not +thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest +out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers? But Paul +said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen +of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people. + +And when he had given him license, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned +with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, +he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue.--Acts xxi, 23-40. + + + + +PAUL'S SHIPWRECK. + + +And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, +saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued +fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I pray you to take some meat; +for this is for your health: for there shall not a hair fall from the +head of any of you. + +And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in +presence of them all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat. Then +were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat. + +And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls. + +And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the +wheat into the sea. And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they +discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, +if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. And when they had taken up +the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the +rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward +shore. And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship +aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmovable, but the +hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. And the soldiers' +counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and +escape. But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their +purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves +first into the sea, and get to land: and the rest, some on boards, and +some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they +escaped all safe to land. + +And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called +Melita. + +And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a +fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because +of the cold.--Acts xxvii, 33-44; xxviii, 1-2 + + + + +DEATH ON THE PALE HORSE. + + +And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth +beast say, Come and see. + +And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was +Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the +fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with +death, and with the beasts of the earth. 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