Identifier: biblepanoramaorh00fost (find matches)
Title: The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Foster, William A. (from old catalog)
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to one another, The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay-with us. And they carried it to Gath, but there came a great sickness amongthe people of that city also. And the Philistines kept the ark for seven months,but during all that time the Lord sent great trouble upon them. Then theycalled for their wise men, and asked how they should send it back to the landof Israel, for they were afraid to keep it any longer. And the wise men told the Philistines to make a new cart, and take twocows and. tie them to it, and lay the ark upon the cart, and send it away, lettingthe cows draw it wherever they chose, without any one to guide them. The Philistines did as their wise men said. And as soon as the cows ■were let loose they went straight into the land of Israel, lowing as they went, and they came to a city called Beth-she-mesh. The children of Israel -who lived there, were reaping their wheat in the valley near to the city. And they looked up and saw the ark. and rejoiced to see it. 118
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r. The People Ask foe a King. 7TFTER Eli was dead the Lord made Samuel judge over the people. And the 7^\ children of Israel sinned again, for they worshipped, the idols Baal and Ashtaroth, and the Philistines made war upon them. Then the men of Israel were afraid, and they said to Samuel, Cease not to pray to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us. And Samuel prayed, and the Lord heard him, and gave the men of Israel the victory over the Philistines. When Samuel was grown old, he made his two sons judges, that they might helphim in ruling over the land. But they did not rule justly, as their father had done. And all the elders of Israel came to Samuel, at Ramah, and told him that he•was now old, and that his sons did wickedly; and they asked him to choose forthem a king, that they might be like the other nations around them. It waswrong in them to ask for a king, because the Lord was their king, and Samuelwas the judge whom he had set over them. And the Lord commanded Samuel

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