. Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art . Solomon, the Wise Man. 187 And the king said, Cut the live child in two,and give half to one and half to the other. When the real moth-er of the child heard thesewords she criedout, O my lord,give her thechild, but do notkill it. But the oth-er said, Cut it inhalf, and let itnot be hers or mine. Then theking told hismen to give thechild to the onewho tried tosave its life, forhe knew thatshe was themoth-er. Andit was to findthis out that hesent the men for thechilds life. When Sol-o-mon had been
. Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art . Solomon, the Wise Man. 187 And the king said, Cut the live child in two,and give half to one and half to the other. When the real moth-er of the child heard thesewords she criedout, O my lord,give her thechild, but do notkill it. But the oth-er said, Cut it inhalf, and let itnot be hers or mine. Then theking told hismen to give thechild to the onewho tried tosave its life, forhe knew thatshe was themoth-er. Andit was to findthis out that hesent the men for thechilds life. When Sol-o-mon had been king for four years,. SHIPS OF SOL-O-MON. ;w ord, and not to take the 188 History of the Old Testament. he laid out the plan that Da-vid had made for thehouse of the Lord. He had a talk with Hi-ram the king of Tyre, andtold him that it was time to build the house. Andthe king of Tyre was glad, and did all he could toaid him. He sent Sol-o-mon great trees from thewoods, and sent him men to help in the work; menwho had skill with the ax, and with fine tools of allsorts. The house was built of stone, and each stone washewn from the rock, cut so as to fit in the wall ereit was brought to the place where it was to stand, sothat no ax nor tools should be used in the house whenit was put up. The walls of the rooms were in-laid with gold,and gems, and the floor of the place where the arkwas kept was of pure gold, and in front of the shrinewere loops and chains of fine gold. The doors of the house were made of the woodof the fir tree, and they were carved with great skill,and touched up with gold. It took Sol-o-mon
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