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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not believe Gods promise, that hewould never send another flood on the earth, and thought, if he should sendone, this tower would be so high that the waters could not overflow it, andthey would climb up into it and be safe. Or perhaps they built it as a sortof temple, or church, not to worship God in, but idols. And the Lord came down from heaven to see the tower which the peoplewere building, and he saw it and was displeased. Then he did a wonderfulthing to stop them. He made them, all at once, begin to speak in differentlanguages, such as they had never spoken before. They could not go onbuilding now, because they were not able to understand each others words.Therefore they had to cease building before the tower was done. The tower which they tried to build, but which God would not allow them to finish, was called the tower of Babel. Babel means confusion. When the people began to talk in different languages, so that they could not understand each other, it made confusion there. 24
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THE PEOPLE BUILD A TOWER, AND GOD MAKES THEM SPEAK IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. 9- Genesis XI. 7. Abbaham and Lot come into the Land of Canaan. ¥ANY years after the people had tried to build the tower of Babel, therelived in the land of Ur a man named Abraham. The people of thatland worshipped idols. And God told Abraham to leave his home andhis relations, and go to another land which he would show him. Abraham was seventy-five years old: and he took his wife, whose namewas Sarah, and his brothers son, whose name was Lot, and they started to goto the land of Avhich God had told him. After journeying for a long time, Abraham came to the land of Canaan,and lived there. Lot had gone away from Abraham to live on the plain ofJordan. And some cities were there; one of them was named Sodom. Themen of Sodom were very wicked, yet Lot went to live in that city. Abraham was sitting one day at his tent-door, in the hot part of the day.And he looked up and saw three men standing near him. Then he ran

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