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THE BIBLE STORY

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Joseph, the Prime Minister, Greeting his family.

"And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while."

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{7} THE BIBLE STORY

VOLUME TWO

HERO TALES

ARRANGED AND EDITED BY

REV. NEWTON MARSHALL HALL, D.D.

MINISTER OF THE NORTH CHURCH, SPRINGFIELD, Ma.s.sACHUSETTS

AND

REV. IRVING FRANCIS WOOD, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION AT SMITH COLLEGE

_Authors of "The Early Days of Israel" "Advanced Bible Studies" Etc_.

THE KING-RICHARDSON COMPANY

SPRINGFIELD, Ma.s.sACHUSETTS

CHICAGO CLEVELAND

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COPYRIGHT, 1906, COPYRIGHT, 1917,

BY THE KING-RICHARDSON COMPANY,

SPRINGFIELD, Ma.s.s.

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PREFACE

This volume contains those Old Testament stories of heroic lives, which never lose their charm. No better nor more fascinating stories were ever written than those of Abraham, and Joseph, and Gideon, and Moses. In the ordinary volume, however, they are scattered over many chapters and even books, and the reader has great difficulty in piecing them together.

Here they are told as continuous narratives, with ill.u.s.trations of the famous places, which enhance their charm. We believe that the old heroic figures will come, in this way, before the children, and older people as well, with a vividness and reality never before realized.

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CONTENTS

PAGE

THE PATRIARCHS.

1 Abraham 21

2 Isaac 49

3 Jacob 60

4 Joseph 91

THE GREAT CAPTAINS.

1 Moses 137

2 Joshua 277

THE JUDGES.

1 Ehud 315

2 Gideon 319

3 Abimelech 332

4 Samuel 338

THE GREAT KINGS.

1 Saul 349

2 David 382

3 Solomon 452

NOTES 485