THE PROMISED LAND

The Scarlet Thread in the Window

Why the Walls of Jericho fell down flat
The Crafty Gibeonites

The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon

Jephthah's Daughter.

Samson's Riddle

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"With the Jawbone of an Ass, Heaps upon

Heaps!"

Samson the Mighty and the Gate of Gaza
"The Philistines be upon thee, Samson!"
The Gentile Daughter

How Ruth gleaned in the Field of Boaz
The Child Samuel

THE THREE GREAT KINGS

"Nay, but we will have a King over us!"

The Message of the Three Arrows

How Saul was delivered into David's Hand

The Witch of Endor.

The House of the Lord God of Israel

King Solomon's Choice

The Judgment of Solomon

The Treasures of King Solomon

The Queen of Sheba.

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THE KINGDOM OF THE TEN TRIBES

The New Garment rent in Twelve Pieces
How the Ten Tribes rebelled, and made a

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Naaman the Leper and the Little Maid of

Israel

The Punishment of Gehazi

The Driving of Jehu, the Son of Nimshi
And God prepared a Great Fish

The Doom of Nineveh

The Gourd and God's Pity

The Ten Tribes carried away.

THE KINGDOM OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH

The Evil Reign of Rehoboam.

The Little Hidden King

How the Angel of the Lord smote the Assyrians

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STORIES OF SOME WHO DID NOT RETURN

How Queen Vashti would not.

Esther the Beautiful

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"And if I perish, I perish!"

The Golden Sceptre

The Gallows Fifty Cubits High

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Queen Esther's Feast

HEAR O YE NATIONS

THE MESSIAH

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A. The Place of the Bible in the
Education of Children, from the Writings of
John Milton, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin,
Abraham Lincoln, Lord Bryce, Wesley,
Luther, and other eminent men

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