City of Ai in flames

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) Subjects: Publisher: Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: e night to go around behind the city, and hide where thepeople of Ai could not see them. The rest went with Joshua in front of the city. When the king of Ai sawthe men who were with Joshua, he thought they were all that had come, andhe marched out with his army to tight against them. Then those who werehidden behind the city, came into it and set it on fire. And the men of Ai looked back, and saw the smoke of their city going uptoward heaven, and they knew not which way to go. Joshua and his men werein front of them, and thos,e who had set the city on tire were behind them, sothey could not escape. And Joshua put them to death, as the Lord commanded.But the gold and silver, and the cattle which were in Ai, the children of Israeltook for their own. And Joshua built an altar of great stones on the mountain called Ebal; and he covered the stones with plaster and wrote on the plaster the words of Gods law, as Moses commanded the children of Israel to do before they crossed over Jordan. 84 Text Appearing After Image: THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TAKE AI AND BURN THE CITY. 36 JOSHV \ VIII 1!* Stones Fall upon the Enemies of Gibeon. V T ^THElSr the kings who lived in Canaan heard how Joshua had destroyedV V Ai, they gathered together to make war against him. But the peopleof a city called Gibeon acted more cunningly. They did not want to make waragainst Joshua, for they knew that the Lord would give him the victory. Therefore they sent messengers to him, who put on very old clothes andworn-out shoes, and carried dry and mouldy bread with them, to pretend theyhad come from another country, and had been a long time on the journey. And they came to Joshua in the camp and said to him, We have come froma country far off from Canaan, for we heard of your God and of all the greatthings he has done for you; therefore all our people sent us to ask that you wouldmake a covenant with them, and be their friends. Then Joshua and the-children of Israel did not ask the Lord what they shoulddo, as they ought to have aske Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.