Identifier: bibleprimeroldte00hult (find matches)
Title: Bible primer, Old Testament, for use in the primary department of Sunday schools
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Hult, Adolf, 1869-1943 Augustana synod. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Rock Island, Ill., Augustana book concern
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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aid to him, Go and tell the people in Nineveh toturn away from their sins and to turn to Me. But Jonahdid not want to go to far-off Nineveh. He took a boat in-stead and went in the other direction to get away from theLord. Then God sent a storm. The people on the boat were heathen. They thought thatthe storm had come because of some wicked person aboard.If they could find that person, and throw him into the water,then the storm would quiet down, they thought. So theysaid, Let us cast lots, and see who it is. And the lot fellon Jonah. So they threw Jonah into the sea. But God sent a large fish that swallowed Jonah. AndJonah was alive in the fish three days and nights. Then thefish threw up Jonah on the shore. Now Jonah obeyed. He went straight to Nineveh and preached. Only fortydays more, and Nineveh shall be destroyed. And all the people, even the king, cried to the Lord toforgive their sins. God heard them, and He spared the city.It was a very large city, full of people. Jonah 1—3.
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BIBLE PRIMER 99 47. THE KING BURNS THE SCROLL OF JEREMIAH. King Jehoiakim did not love the Word of God. In those times they wrote the Bible books on scrolls, likerolls of paper. God said to the prophet Jeremiah, Take a roll of a bookand write in it all I have spoken to you about Israel, fromthe beginning. All I have said I will do to wicked Israel.Baruch, the writer, wrote while Jeremiah spoke. Jeremiah told Baruch to go into the temple and read it tothe people, that they might repent in time. When the kingheard of the book he said, Go and fetch the roll. And theyread all to the king, the princes standing by, listening. It was a cold day. There was a warm fire in the brazieron the floor. The words of the Lord angered the king. He took someparts of the roll and cut them with his knife and threw theminto the fire. Oh, the king was not afraid of Gods words! Then the Lord said, Jeremiah, write those words again.He did write. And he added besides those words, manylike them. In this new rol

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