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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dedGideon to tell the men in his army, that all who felt afraid might go back totheir homes. When Gideon told them this, twenty-two thousand went from thecamp of Israel, and there were left ten thousand men. And the Lord spoke to Gideon again, saying, There are yet too many. Bringthem down to the water, and I will shew thee there which of them shall go withthee to the battle. So Gideon brought them to the water. Now all the menwere thirsty and began to drink. But they drank in different ways—some liftingthe water in their hands to their mouths, and some stooping down and puttingtheir mouths into the water. Then the Lord commanded Gideon to put thosewho drank out of their hands, apart, by themselves; and when he had done sothere were three hundred of them. Gideon took these three hundred men and came with them near to the camp of the Midianites in the middle of the night. The Midianites fled. And Gideon and his three hundred men came up with them, and gained the victory over them. 92
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C/3 a - a —c EhPi t—i H = o 0 o i o o Abimelech is made King at Shechem. T ~Y ^HEIST Gid.eon was dead, the children of Israel forgot how kind the Lord\ \ had been to them, in setting them free from the Midianites, and theyturned away from him to worship the idol Baal. Then Abimelech,Gideons son, went to the city of Shechem, where the people had set up an imageof Baal, and he asked them to make him their king; and they did as he askedthem and made him their king. They gave him seventy pieces of silver also,out of their idols temple; with these he hired wicked men, to go with him andhelp him in making himself king over all the rest of the people. But after Abimelech had been king for three years, God sent trouble uponhim and the people of Shechem. The Bible tells us that he sent an evil spiritbetween them. And when Abimelech had gone away from the city, the peopleset men to watch for him, as he should come back, that they might kill him. But the governor of the city, who was Abimele

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