The art Bible, comprising the Old and new Testaments : with numerous illustrations . onevery good pieceof land cast everyman his stone,and filled it; andthey stopped allthe wells of water,and felled all thegood trees: onlyin Kir-harasethleft they thestones thereof;howbeit the sling-ers went aboutit, and smote it. 26 H And whenthe king of Moabsaw that thebattle was toosore for him, hetook with himseven hundred men that drew swords, tobreak thi^ough even unto the king of Edom:but they could not. 27 Then he took his eldest son that shouldhave reigned in his stead, and offered himfor a burnt-offer
The art Bible, comprising the Old and new Testaments : with numerous illustrations . onevery good pieceof land cast everyman his stone,and filled it; andthey stopped allthe wells of water,and felled all thegood trees: onlyin Kir-harasethleft they thestones thereof;howbeit the sling-ers went aboutit, and smote it. 26 H And whenthe king of Moabsaw that thebattle was toosore for him, hetook with himseven hundred men that drew swords, tobreak thi^ough even unto the king of Edom:but they could not. 27 Then he took his eldest son that shouldhave reigned in his stead, and offered himfor a burnt-offering upon the wall. Andthere was great indignation against Israel:and they departed from him, and returnedto their own land. CHAPTER 4. 1 Elisha miittiplieth the widows oil. 8 He giveth ason to the good Shunaminite. 18 He raiseth againher dead son. 38 At Gilgal he healeth the deadlypottage. 42 He miraculously satisfleth an hundredmen with twenty barley loaves. VrOW there cried a certain woman of the1\ wives of the sons of the prophets untoElisha, saying. Thy servant mv husband is. hicrease of the widowh oil. dead ; and thouknowest that thyservant did fearthe Lord : andthe creditor iscome to take un-to him my twosons to be bond-men. 2 And Elishasaid unto her,What shall I dofor thee? tell me,what hast thouin the house %And she said,Thine handmaidhath not anything in thehouse, save a j)otof oil. 3 Then he said,Go, borrow theevessels abroad ofall thy neigh-bours, even emptyvessels; borrownot a few. 4 And whenthou art come in,thou shalt shutthe door uponthee and uponthy sons, andshalt pour outinto all those ves-sels, and thoushalt set aside which is Photo from original in the Louvre, Paris THE MOABITE STONE,Narrating acts of Mesha, king of Moab, 890. thatfull. 5 Sofromshutuponupon wentand doorand sons. she him, the her her who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out. 6 And it came to pass, when the vesselswere full, that she said unto her son, Bringme yet a vessel. And he
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