{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_8701/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_8701","id":"gutenberg_8701","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8701","summary":null,"tags":["Bible -- Illustrations","Category: Art","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"Produced by David Widger\n\n\n\n\n\n              THE DORE GALLERY OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS\n\n                  Illustrated by Gustave Dore\n\n                          Volume 1.\n\n\nThis volume, as its title indicates, is a collection of engravings\nillustrative of the Bible--the designs being all from the pencil of the\ngreatest of modern delineators, Gustave Dore. The original work, from\nwhich this collection has been made, met with an immediate and warm\nrecognition and acceptance among those whose means admitted of its\npurchase, and its popularity has in no wise diminished since its first\npublication, but has even extended to those who could only enjoy it\ncasually, or in fragmentary parts. That work, however, in its entirety,\nwas far too costly for the larger and ever-widening circle of M. Dore's\nadmirers, and to meet the felt and often-expressed want of this class,\nand to provide a volume of choice and valuable designs upon sacred\nsubjects for art-loving Biblical students generally, this work was\nprojected and has been carried forward. The aim has been to introduce\nsubjects of general interest--that is, those relating to the most\nprominent events and personages of Scripture--those most familiar to all\nreaders; the plates being chosen with special reference to the known\ntaste of the American people. To each cut is prefixed a page of\nletter-press--in, narrative form, and containing generally a brief\nanalysis of the design. Aside from the labors of the editor and\npublishers, the work, while in progress, was under the pains-taking and\ncareful scrutiny of artists and scholars not directly interested in the\nundertaking, but still having a generous solicitude for its success. It\nis hoped, therefore, that its general plan and execution will render it\nacceptable both to the appreciative and friendly patrons of the great\nartist, and to those who would wish to possess such a work solely as a\nchoice collection of illustrations upon sacred themes.\n\n\n\n\nGUSTAVE DORE.\n\nThe subject of this sketch is, perhaps, the most original and variously\ngifted designer the world has ever known. At an age when most men have\nscarcely passed their novitiate in art, and are still under the direction\nand discipline of their masters and the schools, he had won a brilliant\nreputation, and readers and scholars everywhere were gazing on his work\nwith ever-increasing wonder and delight at his fine fancy and\nmultifarious gifts. He has raised illustrative art to a dignity and\nimportance before unknown, and has developed capacities for the pencil\nbefore unsuspected. He has laid all subjects tribute to his genius,\nexplored and embellished fields hitherto lying waste, and opened new and\nshining paths and vistas where none before had trod. To the works of the\ngreat he has added the lustre of his genius, bringing their beauties into\nclearer view and warming them to a fuller life.\n\nHis delineations of character, in the different phases of life, from the\nhorrible to the grotesque, the grand to the comic, attest the versatility\nof his powers; and, whatever faults may be found by critics, the public\nwill heartily render their quota of admiration to his magic touch, his\nrich and facile rendering of almost every thought that stirs, or lies yet\ndormant, in the human heart. It is useless to attempt a sketch of his\nvarious beauties; those who would know them best must seek them in the\ntreasure--house that his genius is constantly augmenting with fresh gems\nand wealth. To one, however, of his most prominent traits we will\nrefer--his wonderful rendering of the powers of Nature.\n\nHis early wanderings in the wild and romantic passes of the Vosges\ndoubtless developed this inherent tendency of his mind. There he\nwandered, and there, mayhap, imbibed that deep delight of wood and\nvalley, mountain--pass and rich ravine, whose variety of form and detail\nseems endless to the enchanted eye. He has caught the very spell of the\nwilderness; she has laid her hand upon him, and he has gone forth with\nher blessing. So bold and truthful and minute are his countless\nrepresentations of forest scenery; so delicate the tracery of branch and\nstem; so patriarchal the giant boles of his woodland monarchs, that the'\ngazer is at once satisfied and entranced. His vistas lie slumbering with\nrepose either in shadowy glade or fell ravine, either with glint of lake\nor the glad, long course of some rejoicing stream, and above all, supreme\nin a beauty all its own, he spreads a canopy of peerless sky, or a\nwilderness, perhaps, of angry storm, or peaceful stretches of soft,\nfleecy cloud, or heavens serene and fair--another kingdom to his teeming\nart, after the earth has rendered all her gifts.\n\nPaul Gustave Dore was born in the city of Strasburg, January 10, 1833. Of\nhis boyhood we have no very particular account. At eleven years of age,\nhowever, he essayed his first artistic creation--a set' of lithographs,\npublished in his native city. The following year found him in Paris,\nentered as a 7. student at the Charlemagne Lyceum. His first actual work\nbegan in 1848, when his fine series of sketches, the \"Labors of\nHercules,\" was given to the public through the medium of an illustrated,\njournal with which he was for a long time connected as designer. In 1856\nwere published the illustrations for Balzac's \"Contes Drolatiques\" and\nthose for \"The Wandering Jew \"--the first humorous and grotesque in the\nhighest degree--indeed, showing a perfect abandonment to fancy; the other\nweird and supernatural, with fierce battles, shipwrecks, turbulent mobs,\nand nature in her most forbidding and terrible aspects. Every incident or\nsuggestion that could possibly make the story more effective, or add to\nthe horror of the scenes was seized upon and portrayed with wonderful\npower. These at once gave the young designer a great reputation, which\nwas still more enhanced by his subsequent works.\n\nWith all his love for nature and his power of interpreting her in her\nvarying moods, Dore was a dreamer, and many of his finest achievements\nwere in the realm of the imagination. But he was at home in the actual\nworld also, as witness his designs for \"Atala,\" \"London--a Pilgrimage,\"\nand many of the scenes in \"Don Quixote.\"\n\nWhen account is taken of the variety of his designs, and the fact\nconsidered that in almost every task he attempted none had ventured\nbefore him, the amount of work he accomplished is fairly incredible. To\nenumerate the immense tasks he undertook--some single volumes alone\ncontaining hundreds of illustrations--will give some faint idea of his\nindustry. Besides those already mentioned are Montaigne, Dante, the\nBible, Milton, Rabelais, Tennyson's \"Idyls of the King,\" \"The Ancient\nMariner,\" Shakespeare, \"Legende de Croquemitaine,\" La Fontaine's \"Fables,\"\nand others still.\n\nTake one of these works--the Dante, La Fontaine, or \"Don Quixote\"--and\nglance at the pictures. The mere hand labor involved in their production\nis surprising; but when the quality of the work is properly estimated,\nwhat he accomplished seems prodigious. No particular mention need be made\nof him as painter or sculptor, for his reputation rests solely upon his\nwork as an illustrator.\n\nDore's nature was exuberant and buoyant, and he was youthful in\nappearance. He had a passion for music, possessed rare skill as a\nviolinist, and it is assumed that, had he failed to succeed with his\npencil, he could have won a brilliant reputation as a musician.\n\nHe was a bachelor, and lived a quiet, retired life with his\nmother--married, as he expressed it, to her and his art. His death\noccurred on January 23, 1883.\n\n\n\n\nLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\n\nGUSTAVE DORE\nTHE CREATION OF EVE\nTHE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN\nTHE MURDER OF ABEL\nTHE DELUGE\nNOAH CURSING HAM\nTHE TOWER OF BABEL\nABRAHAM ENTERTAINS THREE STRANGERS\nTHE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM\nTHE EXPULSION OF HAGAR\nHAGAR IN THE WILDERESS\nTHE TRIAL OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM\nTHE BURIAL OF SARAH\nELIEZER AND REBEKAH\nISAAC BLESSING JACOB\nJACOB TENDING THE FLOCKS\nJOSEPH SOLD INTO EGYPT\nJOSEPH INTERPRETING PHARAOH'S DREAM\nJOSEPH MAKING HIMSELF KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN\nMOSES IN THE BULRUSHES\nTHE WAR AGAINST GIBEON\nSISERA SLAIN BY JAEL\nDEBORAH'S SONG OF TRIUMPH\nJEPHTHAH MET BY HIS DAUGHTER\nJEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER AND HER COMPANIONS\nSAMSON SLAYING THE LION\nSAMSON AND DELILAH\nTHE DEATH OF SAMSON\nNAOMI AND HER DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW\nRUTH AND BOAZ\nTHE RETURN OF THE ARK\nSAUL AND DAVID\nDAVID SPARING SAUL\nDEATH OF SAUL\nTHE DEATH OF ABSALOM\nDAVID MOURNING OVER ABSALOM\nSOLOMON\nTHE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON\nTHE CEDARS DESTINED FOR THE TEMPLE\nTHE PROPHET SLAIN BY A LION\nELIJAH DESTROYING THE MESSENGERS OF AHAZIAH\nELIJAH'S ASCENT IN A CHARIOT OF FIRE\nDEATH OF JEZEBEL\nESTHER CONFOUNDING HAMAN\nISAIAH\nDESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB'S HOST\nBARUCH\nEZEKIEL PROPHESYING\nTHE VISION OF EZEKIEL\nDANIEL\nTHE FIERY FURNACE\nBELSHAZZAR'S FEAST\nDANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN\nTHE PROPHET AMOS\nJONAH CALLING NINEVEH TO REPENTANCE\nDANIEL CONFOUNDING THE PRIESTS OF BEL\nHELIODORUS PUNISHED IN THE TEMPLE\nTHE NATIVITY\nTHE STAR IN THE EAST\nTHE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT\nTHE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS\nJESUS QUESTIONING THE DOCTORS\nJESUS HEALING THE SICK\nSERMON ON THE MOUNT\nCHRIST STILLING THE TEMPEST\nTHE DUMB MAN POSSESSED\nCHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUE\nTHE DISCIPLES PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH\nJESUS WALKING ON THE WATER\nCHRIST'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM\nJESUS AND THE TRIBUTE MONEY\nTHE WIDOW'S MITE\nRAISING OF THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS\nTHE GOOD SAMARITAN\nARRIVAL OF THE SAMARITAN AT THE INN\nTHE PRODIGAL SON\nLAZARUS AND THE RICH MAN\nTHE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN\nJESUS AND THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA\nJESUS AND THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY\nTHE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS\nMARY MAGDALENE\nTHE LAST SUPPER\nTHE AGONY IN THE GARDEN\nPRAYER OF JESUS IN THE GARDEN OF OLIVES\nTHE BETRAYAL\nCHRIST FAINTING UNDER THE CROSS\nTHE FLAGELLATION\nTHE CRUCIFIXION\nCLOSE OF THE CRUCIFIXION\nTHE BURIAL OF JESUS\nTHE ANGEL AT THE SEPULCHER\nTHE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS\nTHE ASCENSION\nTHE MARTYRDOM OF ST. STEPHEN\nSAUL'S CONVERSION\nTHE DELIVERANCE OF ST. PETER\nPAUL AT EPHESUS\nPAUL MENACED BY THE JEWS\nPAUL'S SHIPWRECK\nDEATH ON THE PALE HORSE\n\n\n\n\nTHE CREATION OF EVE.\n\n\n\"And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I\nwill make him a helpmeet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to\nfall on Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and closed up\nthe flesh instead thereof; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from\nman, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This\nis now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman,\nbecause she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father\nand mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.\"\nGenesis ii, 18, 21-24.\n\nIn these few words the Scriptures narrate the creation of the first\nmother of our race. In \"Paradise Lost,\" the poetic genius of Milton,\ngoing more into detail, describes how Eve awoke to consciousness, and\nfound herself reposing under a shade of flowers, much wondering what she\nwas and whence she came. Wandering by the margin of a small lake, she\nsees her own form mirrored in the clear waters, at which she wonders\nmore. But a voice is heard, leading her to him for whom she was made, who\nlies sleeping under a grateful shade. It is at this point the artist\ncomes to interpret the poet's dream. Amid the varied and luxurious\nfoliage of Eden, in the vague light of the early dawn, Eve is presented,\ncoy and graceful, gazing on her sleeping Lord, while in the background is\nfaintly outlined the mystic form of Him in whose image they were created.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN.\n\n\nAnd the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know\ngood and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the\ntree of life, and eat, and live forever: Therefore, the Lord God sent him\nforth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was\ntaken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden\nof Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep\nthe way of the tree of life.--Genesis iii, 22-24\n\nThey, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late\ntheir happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate, With\ndreadful forces thronged, and fiery arms Some natural tears they dropped,\nbut wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their\nplace of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with\nwandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.\n\nParadise Lost, Book XII.\n\n\n\n\nTHE MURDER OF ABEL.\n\n\nAnd Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I\nhave gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel. And\nAbel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in\nprocess of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the\nground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the\nfirstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect\nunto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had\nnot respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the\nLord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance\nfallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest\nnot well, sin lieth at the door, and unto thee shall be his desire, and\nthou shalt rule over him. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it\ncame to pass,--when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against\nAbel his brother, and slew him.\n\nAnd the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I\nknow not Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the\nvoice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art\nthou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy\nbrother's blood from thy hand; When thou tillest the ground, it shall not\nhenceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt\nthou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is\ngreater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from\nthe face of the earth and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a\nfugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that\nevery one that findeth me shall slay me. And the Lord said unto him,\nTherefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him\nsevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should\nkill him.\n\nAnd Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of\nNod, on the east of Eden.--Genesis iv, 1-16\n\n\n\n\nTHE DELUGE.\n\n\nIn the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the\nseventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the\ngreat deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain\nwas upon the earth forty days and forty nights.\n\nIn the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the\nsons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them,\ninto the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle\nafter their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth\nafter his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.\nAnd they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh,\nwherein is the breath of life. And they that went in, went in male and\nfemale of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.\n\nAnd the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased,\nand bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters\nprevailed, and were increased, greatly upon the earth; and the ark went\nupon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon\nthe earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were\ncovered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains\nwere covered. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl,\nand of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth\nupon the earth, and every man; all in whose nostrils was the breath of\nlife, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance\nwas destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle,\nand the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were\ndestroyed from the earth; and Noah only remained alive, and they that\nwere with him in the ark.\n\nAnd the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty\ndays.--Genesis vii, 11-24.\n\n\n\n\nNOAH CURSING HAM.\n\n\nAnd the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and\nJapheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of\nNoah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.\n\nAnd Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he\ndrank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.\nAnd Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told\nhis two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid\nit upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the\nnakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw\nnot their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what\nhis younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a\nservant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed\nbe the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall\nenlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan\nshall be his servant.--Genesis ix, 18-27.\n\n\n\n\nTHE TOWER OF BABEL.\n\n\nAnd the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.\n\nAnd it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a\nplain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to\nanother, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had\nbrick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let\nus build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let\nus make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole\nearth.\n\nAnd the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children\nof men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they\nhave all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be\nrestrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go\ndown, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one\nanother's speech.\n\nSo the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the\nearth: and they left off to build the city.\n\nTherefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there\nconfound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord\nscatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.--Genesis xi, 1-9.\n\n\n\n\nABRAHAM ENTERTAINS THREE STRANGERS.\n\n\nIn the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. And all\nthe men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the\nstranger, were circumcised with him.\n\nAnd the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the\ntent door in the heat of the day; and he lift up his eyes and looked,\nand, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet\nthem from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, and said,\nMy Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray\nthee, from thy servant: let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and\nwash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: And I will fetch a\nmorsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on:\nfor therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou\nhast said.\n\nAnd Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready\nquickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the\nhearth. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and\ngood, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. And he\ntook butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it\nbefore them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did\neat.--Genesis xvii, 26, 27; xviii 1-8.\n\nBe not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have\nentertained angels unawares.--Hebrews xiii, 2.\n\n\n\n\nTHE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM.\n\n\nAnd when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise,\ntake thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be\nconsumed in the iniquity of the city. And while he lingered, the men laid\nhold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of\nhis two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him\nforth, and set him without the city.\n\nAnd it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he\nsaid, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all\nthe plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. And Lot said\nunto them, Oh, not so, my Lord. Behold now, thy servant hath found grace\nin thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed\nunto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some\nevil take me and I die. Behold now this city is near to flee unto, and it\nis a little one: Oh, let me escape thither (is it not a little one?) and\nmy soul shall live. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee\nconcerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the\nwhich thou hast spoken. Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do\nanything till thou be come thither.\n\nTherefore the name of the city was called Zoar.\n\nThe sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered unto Zoar. Then the\nLord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord\nout of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all\nthe inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.\n\nBut his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of\nsalt.\n\nAnd Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood\nbefore the Lord and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all\nthe land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the country went\nup as the smoke of a furnace.--Genesis xix, 15-28.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EXPULSION OF HAGAR.\n\n\nAnd the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as\nhe had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old\nage, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called\nthe name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him,\nIsaac. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as\nGod had commanded him. And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son\nIsaac was born unto him.\n\nAnd Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will\nlaugh with me. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah\nshould have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old\nage. And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast\nthe same day that Isaac was weaned.\n\nAnd Sarah, saw the son of Hagar, the Egyptian, which she had born unto\nAbraham, mocking. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this\nbondwoman and her son; for the son of this, bondwoman shall not be heir\nwith my son, even with Isaac.\n\nAnd the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.\nAnd God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of\nthe lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto\nthee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And\nalso of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy\nseed.\n\nAnd Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of\nwater, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child,\nand sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of\nBeer-sheba.--Genesis xxi, 1-14.\n\n\n\n\nHAGAR IN THE WILDERNESS.\n\n\nAnd Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of\nwater, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child,\nand sent her away; and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of\nBeer-sheba. And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child\nunder one of the shrubs. And she went and sat her down over against him a\ngood way off, as it were a bow-shot: for she said, Let me not see the\ndeath of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice\nand wept. And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called\nto Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear\nnot, for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up\nthe lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.\nAnd God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and\nfilled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. And God was with\nthe lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.\nAnd he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife\nout of the land of Egypt.--Genesis xxi. 14-21.","title":"The Dor\u00e9 Bible Gallery, Volume 1","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":4508}