Category: bible
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Eli and Samuel
ELI AND SAMUEL Elkanah went up to Shiloh yearly to offer sacrifice: and when Samuel was old enough, Hannah went with her husband and took her little boy with her. They came to Eli the high priest, and Hannah said: “Oh, my Lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here praying. For this…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: God’s Measure
GOD’S MEASURE Here I have some measures. This is a rule, we call it a folding foot rule. Here is a square. And here is a tape measure. There are other measures, quarts and pecks and bushels. Then there are liquid measures, quarts and gallons and barrels. There are also measures of weight, ounces, pounds…
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Hannah Praying Before the Lord
HANNAH PRAYING BEFORE THE LORD The Tabernacle, which had been set up by the Israelites in the wilderness, was after the conquest of Canaan erected at Shiloh, a city about ten miles south of Shechem. There it remained for more than three hundred years. No Temple was at Jerusalem in those days, so the Jewish…
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Boaz and Ruth
BOAZ AND RUTH When Naomi returned to Bethlehem she was poor. The poor were allowed at harvest time to follow the reapers; gleaning or gathering up the stray ears of corn. One day, Ruth obtained permission from her mother-in-law to go gleaning, and went to glean in the field of a rich man named Boaz,…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: What the Trees said to Me
WHAT THE TREES SAID TO ME Across the street from my home is a large and beautiful park. It has inviting, winding paths, great quantities of flowers and many varieties of trees. Early one summer day, before most people were up, I strolled through the park. I thought I was all alone, but suddenly I…
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Ruth and Naomi
RUTH AND NAOMI Naomi was the wife of a Jew named Elimelech, who left his own city of Bethlehem to go into the land of Moab, because there was a famine in Canaan. Some time afterwards he died, leaving Naomi a widow with two sons, all dwellers in a strange land. Her sons married two…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: Good Advice
GOOD ADVICE Most of us, men and women as well as girls and boys, do not take kindly to advice. We very much prefer that people keep their advice to themselves. There are times, however, when we are compelled to listen to advice, because of the source. Here is a bit of advice that commands…
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The Death of Samson
THE DEATH OF SAMSON Samson’s birth was foretold by an angel. He was to grow up a Nazarite, forbidden to drink strong drink, neither was his head to be shaved. His strength was very great; but his marriage was sinful, and his doings with the idolatrous Philistines terrible. Though an Israelite and a judge, I…
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The Defeat of the Midianites
THE DEFEAT OF THE MIDIANITES Large numbers of the Israelites gathered around Gideon, prepared to fight against the Midianites, who were encamped in a valley, “like grasshoppers for multitude.” How Gideon’s host was reduced till only three hundred men remained, and the wonderful dream he heard related, when he and his servant went down as…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: God’s Clock
GOD’S CLOCK Do you own a watch? If you do not now you will some day. I have a friend whose watch came to him in this wise. His father said to him, “When you graduate from High School I will give you a watch.” Is there a “town clock” where you live? Is it…