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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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im of the wonderful things God haddone; that it was he who had made the earth, the sea, and the sky. When God had told Job of all these wonderful works, he asked whether Jobwas able to do such things, or whether he was wise enough to teach God whathe should do ? Then Job saw how he had sinned in finding fault with God. Hesaid, I am wicked, and have spoken of things that I do not understand; there-fore I repent of my sin, and bow down in the dust before thee. After a while the Lord took away Jobs sickness. Then all his brothers, and sisters, and friends, came to him, and they, had a feast in his house. And every man gave him a piece of money and an earring of gold. And now the Lord blessed Job more than he had done before he sent his troubles upon him, and gave him twice as great riches. For Job had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, two thousand oxen, and a thousand asses. He had also seven sons, and three daughters, and in all the land there were no women so beautiful. 112
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JOBS THREE FRIENDS COME To SEE HIM IN BIS AFFLICTION. 113 .!<.» II. 11. Jonah is Cast into the Sea. NINEVEH was one of the mightiest cities of the old times. In it weretemples, palaces, and houses for a great multitude of people; and beau-tiful gardens, also. Around the city were Avails a hundred feet high.These walls were so thick that on their top, three chariots, drawn by horses,might be driven side by side; and towers were built above the Avails, all aroundthe city. There were fifteen hundred towers, each one being two hundred feethigh. On the top of the Avails, and in the towers, the Assyrian soldiers stood,to shoot arrows and darts at their enemies when they came to fight againstNineveh. But Nineveh was a very wicked city. And God spoke to the prophet Jonah, saying, Arise and go to Nineveh, thatgreat city, and tell the people of the punishment that is coming upon them fortheir sins. But Jonah did not want to go so he fled to Joppa, a city by the sea,and there he went into a

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