Chapter XXVIII: Preface (11)

And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: and he said, "O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keepest covenant and mercy with {472} thy servants, that walk before thee with all their heart: who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou didst promise him: yea, thou hast spoken with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

"Now therefore, O Lord, the God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, 'There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me as thou hast walked before me.' Now therefore, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David my father. But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded!

"Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day: that thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof thou hast said, 'My name shall be there': to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray toward this place. And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yea, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place; and when thou hearest, forgive.

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JERUSALEM, FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES

From an old photograph in the possession of the Springfield Public
Library and used by kind permission.

The view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives in the days of the
city's glory, was one of splendor. Of this view in the time of
Christ a writer says, referring especially to the temple, "In the
setting even more than the rising sun, must the vast proportions,
the symmetry, and the sparkling sheen of this mass of snowy marble
and gold have stood out gloriously."
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"If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house: then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

"When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; if they turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication unto thee in this house: then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them: then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

"If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men); {476} that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

"Moreover concerning the stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name's sake (for they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy mighty hand, and of thy stretched out arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house: hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

"If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatsoever way thou shalt send them, and they pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name: then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

"If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, far off or near; yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, 'We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly'; if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, which carried them captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou {477} gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause; and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them: for they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: that thine eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them whensoever they cry unto thee. For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou hast spoken by Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God."

And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven. And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, "Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant. The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us nor forsake us: that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and keep his {478} commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers. And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require: that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord, he is God; there is none else. Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day."

And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord. And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.

A ROYAL PILGRIMAGE.

_The Visit of the Queen of Sheba_.

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions. And she came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hid from the king which he told her not. And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built, and the meat of his table and the seating of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.

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JERUSALEM, FROM THE CITADEL, LOOKING TOWARD THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.

From a picture in the possession of the Forbes Library and used by
kind permission.

This view reverses the position of the spectator in the previous
picture Looking from the citadel, the slope of the Mount of Olives
rises in the east.
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And she said to the king, "It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom. Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard. Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom. Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice."

And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

THE GREATNESS OF SOLOMON'S EMPIRE.

_Gold and Ivory Brought by Ship and Caravan_.

(For forty years Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, and during nearly all this time the land was peaceful and prosperous. The empire of Solomon was greater in extent than the territory {482} ruled over by any king which came after him. At last the great king died and was buried in Jerusalem, the city which his father had made the capital.)

And King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Elath, at the head of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon.

And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones. And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for the singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen, unto this day.

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold, beside that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mingled people, and of the governors of the country. And King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler. And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pounds of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold. There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind: {483} and there were arms on either side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms. And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom. And all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. And all the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

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NOTES

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NOTES.

ABRAHAM. HIS JOURNEYS.

_Ur of the Chaldees_ was an ancient city on the great plain of Babylon.

_Haran_. A city lying far to the north of Ur, northeast of Palestine, on the road from the east to the Mediterranean coast.

_Canaan, Palestine, the Land of Israel_, are all names which have been used at different times for the same country. Canaan is the oldest Biblical name. It means "the lowlands" near the Mediterranean, but was used for the whole country.

_Shechem_. A city in the middle of Canaan, in a valley between two mountains, Ebal and Gerizim.

_Oak of Mamre_. The name suggests an oak that was connected with a sacred place. Its exact site is not known, but it must be somewhere near Hebron.

_Beth-el_ was a sacred place, in later times very important. It is on the great road north and south, about twelve miles north of Jerusalem. _Ai_ was about two miles east, in the head of a valley which falls rapidly toward the Jordan.

_The South_ was used as the name of the country to the south of Canaan, as we use "the South" and "the West" to mean sections of our own country.

DIVISION OF THE LAND.

_Plain of the Jordan_. The river Jordan runs through a deep valley, which broadens out in its southern part into a plain. It was warm, rich and fertile. Here were situated the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

_Zoar_. One of the cities of the Plain of the Jordan, perhaps on higher ground than the others.

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_Hebron_, near which the oaks of Mamre were, lies about twenty miles south of Jerusalem. It was from very early time regarded as a sacred city. It is still a town of considerable size.

THE FIGHT OF THE FIVE KINGS.

_The five kings_ were from Babylonia and the mountain country of Elam beyond Babylonia. As the story stands, the king of Elam had conquered Babylonia and the land of Canaan. After a time, part of the land of Canaan revolted, and he came, with his Babylonian allies, to punish the rebellious Canaanites.

_Slime pits_. Pits of bitumen, a black, sometimes sticky mineral, which is found in the valley of Jordan.

_Dan_. A town in the north of Palestine. The story makes Abraham's chase of the kings extend all the length of the land afterwards held by the Hebrews.

_Hobah_. A town north of Damascus, not mentioned elsewhere in the Bible.

_Damascus_. A very old city, northeast of Palestine. It is situated in a beautiful spot, watered by two rivers, and has been the starting point of caravans for the east, west, and south since long before the days of Abraham.

_Melchizedek_. King of Salem. Salem was probably Jerusalem. Melchizedek was, like many other ancient kings, also the chief priest of his city. As such, it was right that he should bless the returning chief in war.

A COVENANT BETWEEN GOD AND ABRAHAM.

_Euphrates_. The greatest river of western Asia. It rises in the mountains of Armenia and flows to the Persian gulf. The Bible often calls it simply "the Great River."

_Beer-sheba_. The farthest town to the south in Palestine. "From Dan to Beer-sheba" was used to mean all the land from the north to the south.

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EN ROGEL, FROM THE SOUTH

From a photograph taken by Prof. H. G. Mitchell
and used by his kind permission.

A nearer view of the famous old well outside the walls of Jerusalem.
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_Wilderness of Paran_. The half desert country lying south of Palestine.

TESTING OF ABRAHAM.

_Land of Moriah_. An unknown region. The Jews later supposed that Isaac was sacrificed on the hill at Jerusalem on which Solomon built the temple, but the Bible itself does not affirm it.

_Sacrifices_ were offered on bare rocks or on altars built of stone or earth. At first they were a way of expressing fellowship with God. The people ate part of an offering, and the rest of it was burnt, to symbolize that it was God's share. Later the offering was something given to God. This last is the idea in the story of the sacrifice of Isaac.

DEATH AND BURIAL OF SARAH.

_Hittites_ and _children of Heth_ mean the Hittites, one of the tribes of peoples in Palestine before the arrival of the Hebrews. There was a great Hittite empire north of Palestine.

_Shekel_. An amount of money; in early times not a coin but a weight of money. In this story Abraham "weighed" the silver.

ISAAC AND REBEKAH.

_Mesopotamia_ means "between the rivers," the wide land far east between the Euphrates and the Tigris.

_Cave of Machpelah_. In early times caves were often used as burial places. The present inhabitants of Hebron believe the cave of Machpelah is under a building in their city.

JACOB.

_Pottage._ A sort of stew of lentils, a vegetable like beans.

_Birthright_. In many parts of the world, the oldest child has, by his birth, the right of becoming the head of the family {492} at the death of his father, with sometimes other rights and responsibilities.

_Paddan-aram_ or _Padan-aram_. "The country of Syria," lying northeast of Palestine, between Damascus and the river Euphrates.

_Pillars of stone_. Standing stones and heaps of stones were often set up at places held sacred. Oil was poured on such stones as an offering to God, or to express the idea that the places were holy. Such sacred places are found in almost all lands, and were very common in Palestine. The stones are still sometimes found standing.

_Jegar-sahadutha_ and _Galeed_ both mean "heap of witness," one in the language of Canaan, the other in that of Mesopotamia.

_Jabbok_. A stream flowing into the Jordan from the east.

_Peniel_. "Face of God." Sometimes spelled Penuel.

_Seir_. A section of country southeast of Palestine. It is high and rocky, sometimes called Mt. Seir.

_Succoth_, "booths." Its site is not known.

_Allon-bacuth_, "the oak of weeping"

JOSEPH.

_Dothan_. About ten miles north of Samaria. A story about Elisha is also located at Dothan. _Tales of Old Judea, 148_.

_Caravan_. A train of camels or horses. In the East people traveled together in caravans for protection against robbers.

_Egypt_. A land where civilization is very ancient. All through the Old Testament times it was a powerful kingdom. Its king was called, in the early stories of the Bible, the Pharaoh.

_Divining cup_. The custom of divining, that is, discovering hidden secrets by magic, was widespread in the ancient world. Sometimes cups of sacred water were used, and a special cup might be thought to have special value for divination.

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_Goshen_. A section in the northeast of Egypt, next to the Isthmus of Suez.

_Rameses_. A city in the land of Goshen. "The land of Rameses" is the country about this city.

_Embalming_ was a custom in Egypt. These people thought that their life in the next world depended on keeping the body from decay; so they filled the body with certain chemicals which kept it from the natural decay. The preserved body is called a mummy.

JOSHUA.

_Shittim_. A place on the east of the Jordan. The site is not known.

_Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon_ are all in the southern part of Palestine, in what was later the kingdom of Judah.

_Book of Jashar_. A collection of poems of ancient heroes, from which also the beautiful lament of David over Saul is taken. _Hero Tales, 426_.

THE JUDGES.

_Hill country of Ephraim_. The mountain ridge in the central part of Palestine, which belonged to the tribe of Ephraim.

_Summer room_. A room built on the flat top of a house, to get the cool breezes in the hot summer days.

_Philistines_. A people who, like the Hebrews, migrated into the land of the Canaanites. They occupied the land along the coast of the Mediterranean. For a long time they were stronger in war than the Hebrews, and ruled over them. This name "Palestine" comes from "Philistine."

_Beating out wheat in the wine press_. Ordinarily in the East, wheat is threshed by being trodden out with oxen on a bare, hard piece of ground. It is usually in a prominent place, to get the wind for winnowing, and so could be easily seen by the {494} enemy. The wine press furnished a small, flat place where the little wheat they had could be threshed in secret.

_Angel of the Lord_. Any messenger from God, sometimes thought of in early times as being God himself in the form of a man.

_Ophrah_. A place in northern central Palestine, site not known.

_Baal and Asherah_. The Baals were the gods of the Canaanites. Each locality had its Baal (Lord), with an altar and a stone pillar, on some prominent place (the "high places" of the Bible). The asherah was a sacred tree or post standing near the stone pillar.

_Jezreel_. A beautifully situated town in northern central Palestine.

_Pitchers_. Jars in which were hidden torches. When the jars were broken with a crash, the torches suddenly flamed out in the darkness, and the noise and the unexpected light made a panic in the Midianite army.

SAUL.

_Mizpah_. A town on the east of Jordan. Probably the same place that is mentioned in the story of Jacob.

_Ramah_, "hill." A common name of places in Palestine.

_Vial_. A vessel in which was carried a sacred oil. A common way to honor a guest was to pour a little oil on his head. Kings and priests were set apart for their office by anointing with oil.

_Jabesh_. A city east of the Jordan. The people of the city did not forget the good deed of Saul. Many years later, when Saul was defeated and killed, brave men from this city traveled all night, took his body from the battlefield, and gave it an honorable funeral at Jabesh.

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JERUSALEM, FROM THE NORTHEAST

Used by special permission of the Detroit Photograph Company.

The view is taken from Mount Scopus, the northward extension of the
Mount of Olives. The valley between is the head of the Kidron.

This fine picture gives a distinct view of the modern city with its
walls and towers, and the valley which lies between.
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_Ammonites_. A people who lived on the east of the Jordan, with whom the Hebrews had made war.

_Michmash_. A small town about seven miles north of Jerusalem, on the edge of a deep ravine going down toward the Jordan.

_Eating with the blood_. The blood was not eaten by the Hebrews. They thought of it as the seat of life, and, since life belonged to God, man ought not to eat it.

_Familiar Spirit_. "Familiar" is here connected with "family," household. It means a spirit which is ready to serve one, like one of his servants. The woman with a "familiar spirit" was a "medium," who was supposed to be able to summon spirits.

DAVID.

_Cubit_. See Weights and Measures. Span. The half of a cubit, about nine inches.

_Gath_. A Philistine city on the plain west of the hills of Judaea.

_Armor_. The helmet of brass was not uncommon. The "coat of mail" was a close-fitting cloak, covered with brass scales, so as to allow free movement. The greaves were coverings for the shins and the knees. The armor of the Bible times was much simpler than that in Europe in the middle ages.

SOLOMON.

_Tyre_. A city on the coast of the Mediterranean, north of Palestine, for a long time the center of much commerce between Egypt, Asia, Greece, and the lands farther west. Its inhabitants were Phoenicians.

_Zidon_, like Tyre, a Phoenician coast city, rich and commercial.

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_Sheba_. A land in southern Arabia, which got wealth by trading between Egypt and the countries on the Mediterranean, and the distant south and east.

_Ophir_. A land about which there have been many opinions. Some have thought it in East Africa, some in the far east--India or the Malay Peninsula,--some in Southeast Arabia. Perhaps the last opinion is as probable as any.

_Almug_. A wood evidently valued for its rarity and beauty. What the wood was is not known, nor where it came from.

_Ezion-Geber_. A town at the head of the Eastern gulf, now called the Gulf of Akabah, of the Red Sea. In ancient times it was a port of commerce, but now there is no trade anywhere on this gulf.

_Red Sea_. Between Egypt and Arabia. In the time of Solomon there was commerce on it with Southern Arabia, Eastern Africa, and perhaps with 'Countries still farther away. Part of Solomon's wealth came from his share in this commerce.

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TABLE OF MEASURES.

Palm Span Cubit Value in Inches
Palm. 1 3

Span. 3 1 9

Cubit 6 2 1 18

WEIGHTS.

_A shekel_. The English equivalent of this weight is not known. It varied at different times in the history of Israel. According to our estimate a shekel was about 0.3 of an avoirdupois ounce. Probably the earliest standard of weight was a grain of wheat and the early Babylonian shekel was equal to 180 grains of wheat. According to this estimate the weight of Goliath's coat of brass was about 90 pounds and the weight of his spearhead about 10 pounds.

_A mina_. A weight equal to 60 shekels.

_A talent_. A weight equal to 60 minas.

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MEMORY VERSES

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MEMORY VERSES.

_One for Each Week of the Year_.

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.--_Psalms 90:1,2_.

If God be for us, who can be against us?--_Romans 8:31_.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.--_Ephesians 6:13_.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.--_I Timothy 6:12_.

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.--_Psalms 24:7_.

The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.--_Psalms 97:1_.

The Lord is my strength and my shield.--_Psalms 28:7_.

Only be thou strong and very courageous.--_Joshua 1:7_.

The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation; he is my God, and I will prepare him an {504} habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.--_Exodus 15:2_.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.--_Philippians 3:13,14_.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.--_Ephesians 6:10_.

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me."--_Matthew 16:24_.

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.--_I Corinthians 9:24_.

He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it.--_Matthew 10:39_.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.--_Romans 8:18_.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.--_Romans 13:12_.

He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.--_Luke 11:23_.

We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of God we will setup our banners.--_Psalms 20:5_.

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His banner over me was love.--_Song of Solomon 2:4_.

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.--_I Corinthians 9:25_.

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.--_I Corinthians 16:13_.

Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.--_Matthew 20:27_.

For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power. --_I Corinthians 4:20_.

Give unto the Lord, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength.--_I Chronicles 16:28_.

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer. --_II Samuel 22:2_.

I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.--_Psalms 91:2_.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection.--_I Corinthians 9:26, 27_.

Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. --_Hebrews 11:33,34_.

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Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.--_II Timothy 2:3_.

Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.--_Revelations 2:10_.

Walk worthily of God, who calleth you unto his kingdom and glory. --_I Thessalonians 2:12_.

Hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised.--_Hebrews 10:23_.

Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.--_Ephesians 6:11_.

I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me. --_Philippians 4:13_.

Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching.--_Luke 12:37_.

Take ye heed, watch and pray.--_Mark 13:33_.

He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.--_Matthew 10:38_.

Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name forever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory.--_Psalms 72:18,19_.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.--_Proverbs 16:32_.

Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, {507} and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.--_Hebrews 12:1_.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let men say among the nations, the Lord reigneth.--_I Chronicles 16:31_.

Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.--_Isaiah 42:10_.

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.--_Psalms 28:9_.

Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man. --_Psalms 60:11_.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. --_John 8:32_.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.--_Galatians 5:1_.

But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble.--_Psalms 37:39_.

The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. --_Psalms 118:14_.

He giveth power to the faint: and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.--_Isaiah 40:29_.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or {508} nakedness, or sword? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.--_Romans 8:35,37_.

Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.--_Luke 12:32_.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.--_II Timothy 4:7_.

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[Start of "VOLUME THREE: TALES OF OLD JUDAEA"]

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THE BIBLE STORY

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BUILDING THE ARK

"Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shall thou make in the ark
and shall cover it within and without with pitch. And this is how
thou shalt make it; the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the
breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits."
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THE BIBLE STORY

VOLUME THREE

TALES OF OLD JUDAEA

ARRANGED AND EDITED BY

REV. NEWTON MARSHALL HALL, D.D.

MINISTER OF THE NORTH CHURCH, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS

AND

REV. IRVING FRANCIS WOOD, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION AT SMITH COLLEGE

_Authors of "The Early Days of Israel" "Advanced Bible Studies" Etc_.

THE KING-RICHARDSON COMPANY SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS

CHICAGO CLEVELAND

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COPYRIGHT, 1906, COPYRIGHT, 1917,

BY THE KING-RICHARDSON COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

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