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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this for you,Elisha said, but he will give you the victory over the Moabites, and you shalldestroy their cities, and cut down their trees, and fill up their -wells, and spoilthe best of their land. And the words of Elisha came true, for the next morningthe Lord caused water to flow into the valley, so that the ditches were filledwith it. When the Moabites heard that the kings of Israel, of Judah, and of Edom,had come up against them, they gathered all their army together and came nearthe camp of Israel. And the sun shone on the water in the ditches, and madeit look red. Then the Moabites thought that their enemies had been fightingwith one another, and that this was their blood. And they said, Let us go andtake the spoil they have left. So they came near the camp; but when they sawthe armies that were there, they were afraid and fled. And the men of Israelrose up and followed them, even into their own country. There they spoiled theland, and afterward came back to their own homes. 156
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CHILDREN MOCK ELISHA, AND BEARS COME OUT OF THE WOOD AND TEAR THEM. ±-- II Kings ii. 28. Elisha Foretells the End of the Siege. ~\ ENEADAD, king of Syria, made war against Israel. He gathered his army J) together and went up to fight against the city of Samaria. His soldiers besieged it, and -would let no bread be brought in for the men of Israel, and there was a great famine in the city. And as king Jehoram walked among his soldiers on the top of the wall, a woman called out to him, saying, Help me, 0 king! He said, What aileth thee ? She answered, This woman who is with me,said to me the other day, Give thy little son, that we may eat him to-day, and 1 will give my son to-morrow. So we killed my son and did eat him. And Isaid to her the next day, Give thy son that we may eat him; and she wrould not,but took him and hid him. When king Jehoram heard the -words of the woman, he rent his clothes, forit grieved him to know that the famine -was so dreadful in the city, and thatsuch a thi

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