Identifier: pictorialbibleco00cobb (find matches)
Title: The pictorial Bible and commentator: presenting the great truths of God's word in the most simple, pleasing, affectionate, and instructive manner
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851 March, Daniel, 1816-1909 Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911
Subjects: Jesus Christ John, the Apostle, Saint Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) Bradley, Garretson & co. Columbus, Ohio (etc.) W. Garretson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ut the Euphrates and Tigris have a general affinity and many similar words, and so are called Indo-European languages; those nations whose founders must have left that region very early and gone to distant lands, such as the Chinese, and the early settlers of Farther India, and of Egypt and Ethiopia, are so different that they cannot be classed with the others. The tower which these ambitious men were thus obliged to abandon was called Babel, which means confusion. Many years later, it became the central point of the city of Babylon, and it was reduced to a ruin, though still of immense size, about 2,500 years ago. Within a few years past it has been very thoroughly explored, and many things have been discovered there which confirm the Bible story. Abram. Genesis xn. 1-3. TOU read a great deal about Abram in the Bible. His fathers name was Terah, and his family was of the race that sprung from Shem, one of the sons of Noah. Abram lived in a place called Ur, in the country of the Chaldeans; but
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Name of image: Native Plains of Abraham and Lot. Genesis. 59 the people were wicked, so God said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. How God spoke to Abram we cannot tell; but we know that God can do all things, and he who made the world could very easily make anyone in the world to know what he wished him to do. He now speaks to us in his word; but then he often spoke to good men in dreams, and by other like means, and he might so speak to Abram. Abram obeyed what God said to him. He left his country, and he took with him those that would go of his family—his wife Sarai, and his nephew Lot. And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. This was a country then ful

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