Identifier: biblepanoramaorh00fost (find matches)
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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been broken down and burned. And the people built again the altar of the Lord, which stood in the courtof the temple. They made haste to build it that they might worship God, andask for his help, because they were afraid of the heathen nations around them.As soon as the altar was built they offered up burnt offerings on it every day,a lamb in the morning, and a lamb in the evening, as the children of Israel usedto do, before they were carried away to Babylon. Then they made ready to build the temple, and hired men of Tyre, as Solomon had done, to cut down cedar trees on mount Lebanon, and make rafts of them and float them, by the sea, near to Jerusalem. They gave these men meat and drink, and oil, while they -worked for them; and they paid money to carpenters and masons who began to build the house. When the first stones of it -were laid, the priests and Levites played on trumpets and cymbals, and sang songs of praise. And the people were glad and shouted with a great shout. 194 1 ■
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CYRUS RESTORES THE VESSELS TAKEN EROM THE TEMPLE BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR. iQjj Ezra V. 14. The Samaritans Trouble the Jews. WHEN the Jews began to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem, people calledSamaritans, who had been sent by the king of Assyria to live in thecities left by the ten tribes of Israel, when they were carried awaycaptive, came and asked that they might help in the building. Now the Samaritans worshipped idols, though they pretended to serve God. Then Zerubbabel and Jeshua the high priest, and the chief men of Israel,answered the Samaritans, and said, You have nothing to do with the buildingof the Lords house. We will build it ourselves, as Cyrus, king of Persia, hascommanded us. At this answer the Samaritans were angry, and did all theycould to stop the Jews, and hired men to speak to the kings officers againstthem. They did this as long as Cyrus lived. Alter Cyrus died Artaxerxes was made king. Then the Samaritans wrote aletter to him, saying, that the Jews were rebuilding Jer

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