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Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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fell upon them arain of brimstone and fire, a description which sug-gests some volcanic eruption such as overwhelmedPompeii. Elsewhere the Scriptures imply that atsome period the Dead Sea expanded, and spread itswaters over the vale of Siddim; but Sodom thoughnear this vale, may not have been actually within theregion engulfed. Some terrible and far-reaching convulsion theremust have been; for we find Lot at first fleeing to thelittle city of Zoar, and later dreading to remain eventhere, and fleeing up into the mountains. Here heand his daughters, stripped of all the luxury they hadknown in Sodom, were reduced to dwelling in a cave;whence presently we find the two daughters gazingout over the ruined plain and declaring that thereseems no man left in all the world but their father,and no women but themselves. After this, fearinglest the race of man should wholly perish, they be-came as wives to Lot; and their children peopled thevalley with two new nations, the Moabites and Am-monites.
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it. (^ abrafjam^s; ©all DESIGNED BY A. DE BAR FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. And Abraham journeyed from thence toward thesouth country.—Gen., 20, 1. AS THOUGH in fear after the destruction ofSodom^ Abraham left the mountainousneighborhood where he had been es-tablished for upward of twenty years. Theplace of his long sojourn is the modern Hebron,some twenty miles south of Jerusalem. He had madefriends there, of the tribe of the Hittites and espe-cially of one man among them, known as Mamre. In-deed the Bible speaks of him as setting up his tentin the plain of Mamre, though a more accuratetranslation would be by the oaks of Mamre. Onegiant oak, or terebinth tree, still remains near Heb-ron, where it is pointed out as marking Abrahamsdwelling place. This came as near to being a homeas the patriarchs wandering life ever knew. Histhoughts afterwards reverted to it constantly; therehe jjrepared his tomb, and thither in his extreme oldage he returned to die. Now, however, he journeyed south and dwel

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