Identifier: bibleitsstory58horn (find matches)
Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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him, dipped this coat in blood and brought it to Jacob, declaring they had found it thus in the wilderness, and adding, with resentful sarcasm, that Jacob might recognize it, though they did not. The father cried out that some wild beast must have devoured Joseph. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said. For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. The artist Schopin has powerfully conceived the scene. The strong and aged Israel is rent with anguish. This beloved one also has been torn from him. The women of the house cry out around him; little Benjamin clings to his father in affright. Before him stand the plotters, dark and anxious; will they be suspected? Presumably he who holds the coat is Reuben, the eldest, who was himself deceived; for he had sought Joseph in the pit and found him not, so that he thought the lad really slain. On him who had not intendedguilt, the crime lay heaviest.
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!^ if Wi *,n.. Jfi?. bf,d r-jiuii ,lr T (..!.■ A C lu- ^ 1 n. ro ,di ^o f<oi fubaf) anb tKamar BY THE NOTED FRENCH ARTIST, HORACE VERNET, DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL AT ROME, DIED 1863. And he said. What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff.—Gen., 38, 18. AFTER the disappearance of Joseph, Judah became the most important among the sons of Jacob. Reuben, blamed for this last disaster as well as for other earlier crimes, had been practically disinherited. Simeon and Levi, the next oldest of the brethren, had never been pardoned for their murder of the Shechemites. Hencet he birthright, the leadership for which in an earlier generation Jacob had striven with Esau, now passed to Judah, the fourth son of Leah. He became and remained the active head of the household. Following Judahs fortunes, the Bible tells how he too was punished for his wrong-doing, one of his eldest sons dying after the other. Tamar, the widow of the eldest, was rewedded to the

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