Identifier: sweetstoriesofgo00poll (find matches)
Title: Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pollard, Josephine, 1834-1892. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible stories, English
Publisher: New York, Akron, Ohio (etc.) The Werner company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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bed. And E-li-sha said, Take the bow and the darts.And the king took them. And E-li-sha said, Putthy hands on the bow. And the king did so, andE-li-sha put his hands on the kings hands. ThenE-li-sha said, Throw wide the east win-dow. Andwhen this was done he said shoot. And the kingshot; and E-li-sha told him that he should set Is-ra-el free from its foes. Then he said to the king, Take the darts. And Elisha, 209 he took them. And E-li-sha said, Strike them onthe ground. And the king struck them on theground three times, and no more. And theman of God waswroth with him,and said, Thoushouldst havestruck five orsix times, forthen thouwouldst havelaid the Sy-ri-ans low, nowthou shalt smitethem but threetimes. And E-li-sha died, andwas laid in theground. Andone day as someof the folkswent out with a dead man to lay him in the gravethat was dug for him, they saw a band of thievesfrom the land of Mo-ab and did not dare to go on.So they put the dead man in the grave where E-li- Y. F. B.—14
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THE AR-ROW OF DE-LIV-ER-ANCE. 210 History of tke Old Testament. sha lay. And as soon as the corpse touched thebones of E-li-sha the man came to life and stoodon his feet. CHAPTER XVIII. JONAH, THE MAN WHO TRIED TO HIDE FROM GOD. There was a seer in Is-ra-el whose name wasJo-nah. And the Lord told Jo-nah to go to Nin-e-veh, a large town where there was great need of goodmen. But Jo-nah did not care to go there, so heran down to J op-pa and found a ship there that wouldset sail for Tar-shish in a few days. So he paid hisfare, and went on board the ship to go to Tar-shish.where he seemed to think the Lord would not findhim. But as soon as the ship was well on its way, theLord sent forth a great wind, and the waves rosehigh, and the storm beat the ship, and it was blownhere and there as if it were a toy. And those onboard of her were in great fear, and cried out to theirgods, and threw all the goods that were in the shipin-to the sea, so that she would not sink. Jo-nah was down in the hol

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