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Title: Children of the Old Testament

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: July 28, 2007 [EBook #22162]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: Joseph sold by his brethren.]

CHILDREN

OF THE

OLD TESTAMENT

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, LTD.

London, Edinburgh, and New York

1908

CONTENTS.

JOSEPH THE DREAMER
THE STORY OF BENJAMIN
THE CHILD MOSES
RUTH THE GLEANER
THE CHILD SAMUEL
DAVID THE SHEPHERD YOUTH
KING DAVID'S LITTLE BOY
ELIJAH AND THE WIDOW'S SON
THE SHUNAMMITE'S BOY
A LITTLE JEWISH MAID

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Joseph sold by his brethren . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

The babe among the bulrushes

Ruth and Naomi

The child Samuel

David and Goliath

Naaman at the house of Elisha

CHILDREN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.

JOSEPH THE DREAMER.

Two boys, Joseph and Benjamin, sons of a rich Eastern shepherd, lived
in their father's wide tent in the great valley of Hebron. Joseph was
about seventeen years of age, and tall and strong, so that he could
drive sheep, herd cattle, and work in the harvest field. Benjamin was
a little red-cheeked boy of five, with merry brown eyes, and his
brother Joseph loved him very dearly, for their mother was dead. The
father of the boys, whose name was Jacob, had thousands of sheep and
hundreds of camels, asses, and cattle, so that he was looked upon as a
very rich man; and he had ten grown-up sons, who roamed about the
country feeding the sheep in the green valleys and by the water-brooks.

Joseph was dearly loved by Jacob, because the boy had been born when
his father was an old man; and that was one reason why his older
brothers hated Joseph and did all they could to annoy him. Perhaps
they feared that their father would leave all his wealth to his
favourite son, and you know that this sometimes makes quarrels among
brothers and sisters.

Now Jacob showed his special love for Joseph by making him a coat of
many col