{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_8703/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_8703","id":"gutenberg_8703","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8703","summary":null,"tags":["Bible -- Illustrations","Category: Art","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","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 3.\n\n\n\nDEBORAH'S SONG OF TRIUMPH.\n\n\nThen sang Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam on that day, saying:--\n\nPraise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, When the people willingly\noffered themselves. Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I,\nwill sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.\nLord, when thou wentest out of Seir, When thou marchedst out of the field\nof Edom, The earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also\ndropped water. The mountains melted from before the Lord, Even that Sinai\nfrom before the Lord God of Israel.\n\n              . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n\nBlessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be; Blessed\nshall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, and she gave him\nmilk; She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the\nnail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she\nsmote Sisera, She smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken\nthrough his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: At her\nfeet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. The\nmother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice,\nWhy is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his\nchariots? Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to\nherself, Have they not sped? Have they not divided the prey; To every man\na damsel or two; To Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers\ncolours of needlework, Of divers colours of needlework on both sides,\nmeet for the necks of them that take the spoil? So let all thine enemies\nperish, O Lord: But let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth\nforth in his might. Judges v, 2-5, 24-31\n\n\n\n\nJEPHTHAH MET BY HIS DAUGHTER.\n\n\nThen the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over\nGilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh\nof Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.\n\nAnd Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without\nfail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be,\nthat whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I\nreturn in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's,\nand I will offer it up for a burnt offering.\n\nSo Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them;\nand the Lord delivered them into his hands. And he smote them from Aroer,\neven till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of\nthe vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon\nwere subdued before the children of Israel.\n\nAnd Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter\ncame out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only\nchild; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. Judges xi, 29-34.\n\n\n\n\nJEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER AND HER COMPANIONS\n\n\nAnd it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said,\nAlas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of\nthem that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I\ncannot go back.\n\nAnd she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the\nLord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth;\nforasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies,\neven of the children of Ammon. And she said unto her father, Let this\nthing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down\nupon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.\n\nAnd he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with\nher companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.\n\nAnd it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her\nfather, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she\nknew no man.\n\nAnd it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly\nto lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.\nJudges xi, 35-40.\n\n\n\n\nSAMSON SLAYING THE LION.\n\n\nThen went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and\ncame to the vineyards of Timnath; and, behold, a young lion roared\nagainst him. And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he\nrent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand; but\nhe told not his father or his mother what he had done. Judges xiv, 5-6.\n\n\n\n\nSAMSON AND DELILAH.\n\n\nAnd it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of\nSorek, whose name was Delilah.\n\nAnd the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her,\nEntice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means\nwe may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we\nwill give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.\n\nAnd Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great\nstrength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. And\nSamson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were\nnever dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. Then the lords\nof the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been\ndried, and she bound him with them. Now there were men lying in wait,\nabiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines\nbe upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is\nbroken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.\n\nAnd Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me\nlies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he\nsaid unto her, If they bind me fast with clew ropes that never were\noccupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. Delilah therefore\ntook new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The\nPhilistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in\nthe chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.\n\nAnd Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me\nlies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If\nthou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web. And she fastened it\nwith the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.\nAnd he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam\nand with the web.\n\nAnd she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart\nis not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told\nme wherein thy great strength lieth. And it came to pass, when she\npressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was\nvexed unto death; that he told her all his heart, and said unto her,\nThere hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite\nunto God from my mother's womb if I be shaven, then my strength will go\nfrom me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.\n\nAnd when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and\ncalled for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for\nhe hath showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came\nup unto her, and brought money in their hand. And she made him sleep upon\nher knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the\nseven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength\nwent from him. And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he\nawoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before,\nand shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.\nJudges xvi, 4-20.\n\n\n\n\nTHE DEATH OF SAMSON.\n\n\nBut the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down\nto Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the\nprison house.\n\nHowbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.\n\nThen the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a\ngreat sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our\nGod hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. And when the people\nsaw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered\ninto our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew\nmany of us. And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they\nsaid, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for\nSamson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him\nbetween the pillars. And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the\nhand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth,\nthat I may lean upon them. Now the house was full of men and women; and\nall the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof\nabout three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.\n\nAnd Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I\npray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I\nmay be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. And Samson\ntook hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on\nwhich it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other\nwith his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he\nbowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and\nupon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his\ndeath were more than they which he slew in his life.\n\nThen his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took\nhim, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the\nburying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty\nyears.--Judges xvi; 21-31\n\n\n\n\nNAOMI AND HER DAUGHTERS IN LAW.\n\n\nNow it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a\nfamine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn\nin the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. And the name\nof the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of\nhis two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And\nthey came into the country of Moab, and continued there. And Elimelech\nNaomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. And they took\nthem wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the\nname of the other Ruth: and they dwelt there about ten years. And Mahlon\nand Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two\nsons and her husband.\n\nThen she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the\ncountry of Moab for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the\nLord had visited his people in giving them bread. Wherefore she went\nforth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with\nher; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.\n\nAnd Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her\nmother's house the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the\ndead, and with me. The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you\nin the house of her husband.\n\nThen she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept. And they\nsaid unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.\n\nAnd Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are\nthere yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? Turn\nagain, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If\nI should say, I have hope, if I should have a husband also to night, and\nshould also bear sons; would ye tarry for them till they were grown?\nwould ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it\ngrieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out\nagainst me.\n\nAnd they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her\nmother in law but Ruth cleave unto her.\n\nAnd she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and\nunto her gods return thou after thy sister in law.\n\nAnd Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following\nafter thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I\nwill lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou\ndiest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and\nmore also, if ought but death part thee and me.\n\nWhen she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, then she\nleft speaking unto her.\n\nSo they two went until they came to Beth-lehem.--Ruth i, 1-19.\n\n\n\n\nRUTH AND BOAZ.\n\n\nAnd Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the\nfamily of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.\n\nAnd Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and\nglean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she\nsaid unto her, Go, my daughter. And she went, and came and gleaned in the\nfield after the reapers; and her hap was to light on a part of the field\nbelonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.\n\nAnd, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The\nLord be with you. And they answered him, The Lord bless thee. Then said\nBoaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is\nthis? And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It\nis the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of\nMoab: and she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers\namong the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning\nuntil now, that she tarried a little in the house.\n\nThen said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean\nin another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my\nmaidens: let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou\nafter them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch\nthee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that\nwhich the young men have drawn.\n\nThen she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto\nhim, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take\nknowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?\n\nAnd Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all\nthat thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine\nhusband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land\nof thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not\nheretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee\nof the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.\n\nThen she said, Let me find favor in thy sight, my lord; for that thou\nhast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine\nhandmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.\n\nAnd Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the\nbread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers:\nand he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and\nleft. And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men,\nsaying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: and\nlet fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them,\nthat she may glean them and rebuke her not.\n\nSo she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had\ngleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.--Ruth ii, 1-17.\n\n\n\n\nTHE RETURN OF THE ARK.\n\n\nAnd the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven\nmonths. And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners,\nsaying, What shall we do to the ark of the Lord? tell us wherewith we\nshall send it to his place. And they said, If ye send away the ark of the\nGod of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass\noffering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his\nhand is not removed from you. Then said they, What shall be the trespass\noffering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden\nemerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of\nthe Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.\nWherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice\nthat mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel:\nperadventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your\ngods, and from off your land. Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as\nthe Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought\nwonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they\ndeparted? Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on\nwhich there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring\ntheir calves home from them: and take the ark of the Lord, and lay it\nupon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a\ntrespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away,\nthat it may go. And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to\nBeth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we\nshall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that\nhappened to us.\n\nAnd the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart,\nand shut up their calves at home: and they laid the ark of the Lord upon\nthe cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their\nemerods. And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh,\nand went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to\nthe right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went\nafter them, unto the border of Beth-shemesh. And they of Beth-shemesh\nwere reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their\neyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it. And the cart came into the\nfield of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great\nstone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt\noffering unto the Lord.\n\nAnd the Levites took down the ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was\nwith it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great\nstone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed\nsacrifices the same day unto the Lord.--1 Samuel vi, 1-5.\n\n\n\n\nSAUL AND DAVID.\n\n\nAnd it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that\nthe soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved\nhim as his own soul. And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no\nmore home to his father's house.\n\nThen Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own\nsoul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and\ngave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow,\nand to his girdle.\n\nAnd David went out withersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself\nwisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the\nsight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.\n\nAnd it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the\nslaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of\nIsrael, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy,\nand with instruments of music. And the women answered one another as they\nplayed, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten\nthousands.\n\nAnd Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said,\n\"They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have\nascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?\"  And\nSaul eyed David from that day and forward.\n\nAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came\nupon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played\nwith his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand.\nAnd Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the\nwall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.--1 Samuel\nxviii, I-II.\n\n\n\n\nDAVID SPARING SAUL.\n\n\nAnd it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the\nPhilistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the\nwilderness of Engedi. Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all\nIsrael, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild\ngoats. And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and\nSaul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the\nsides of the cave.\n\nAnd the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the Lord said\nunto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou\nmayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and\ncut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily. And it came to pass afterward,\nthat David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt. And he\nsaid unto his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my\nmaster, the Lord's anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him,\nseeing he is the anointed of the Lord.\n\nSo David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to\nrise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.\nDavid also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after\nSaul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David\nstooped with his face to the earth and bowed himself.\n\nAnd David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying,\nBehold, David seeketh thy hurt? Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how\nthat the Lord had delivered thee to-day into mine hand in the cave: and\nsome bade me kill thee; but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not\nput forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the Lord's anointed.\nMoreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for\nin that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou\nand see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I\nhave not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it. The\nLord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine\nhand shall not be upon thee. As saith the proverb of the ancients,\nWickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon\nthee. After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou\npursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. The Lord therefore be judge, and\njudge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me\nout of thine hand.\n\nAnd it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words\nunto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul\nlifted up his voice, and wept. And he said to David, Thou art more\nrighteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded\nthee evil. And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well,\nwith me: forasmuch as when the Lord had delivered me into thine hand,\nthou killedst me not. For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go\nwell away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done\nunto me this day. And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be\nking, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.\nSwear now therefore unto me by the Lord, that thou wilt not cut off my\nseed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's\nhouse.\n\nAnd David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat\nthem up unto the hold.--2 Samuel xxiv, 2--22.","title":"The Dor\u00e9 Bible Gallery, Volume 3","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":4510}