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108 FIISTDIEY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
QUESTIONS
l. Wllnt mall of Hethleho~ri went to sojourn in Moab with I& wife
and two eor~s ? 2. What clid Noemi, being left alone, resolve to ilo
aftcr the r1e:rth of her liufiba~~d ancl sons? Whet did her dl~1igli1ernin-law,
Orpha and Rtith, agree to do 7 What did Noemi, on the way
to the land crf Jnila, advisc hcr claaghters-in-law to do? What did
thcp declare ? 3. What did Noemi go on urpi~~g them to do7 Trlling
them what? Who was pcrsuatled to retun1 home? What di8
Ruth insi~t on doing? 4. What did Ruth axclnirn P 8. IIxving nrrived
in Rethlchcm, what dicl Rnth ask Noerni's permission to do ?
To whom did the field, in which Ruth went to glean, belong? B.
BOWL having inquired who Rntll was, what did tlie orerseer reply?
7. What did Booz tell Ruth to do:' What did Ruth nsk Boos? S.
What did Booz rjay to Rnth 7 What. dirl he privntcly tell tlie ~*eeapcrs?
Q. W11:rt did Booz, mrlu time aftcr, fiay to B~itli ? Whnt ditl
lie then c10 7 What did the ancients say? What didBooz and Rut11
c Jl thc soli tvl~om Cod gave tliern ? Who nursed the child ? Wllose
father was Obed? Who was the son of Isai P
CHAPTER XLVIII.
He that spareth thc rod hateth his son.-l'rov. 13,24.
IN the days when Heli, the high-priest, was judp in Isrncl,
there lived at Mount Eplhrairn a, virtuous man callet1
Elcana, ant1 the name of his wife was Annn.. Now Annn, hnrl
no chiltlrcn. She, thcrcfore, rnultipliccl hcr prayers beforc
the Lord tlmt he tvould ileigrl to give her childre11. So ono
day she want to Silo to pray in the tnben~ttcle of thc Lorcl.
There, before the door of t.he temple, she shed many tears
and prnyccl, and tnndc a vow, snying : " 0 Lard of Hosts, if
Thou milt bc rni~ldful of me, and wilt give me a man-dlild, 1
will givc him to the Tlord :~11 the days of his lifc,"
2. Tile Lord hard her prayer, and gmTe hcr a Bon, whom
shc called Srtmuel, whicll rneans God-givcn. Now, when
three years mere passed, and thc child was yet very young,
hna took three calves, three bushels of flour ancl s buttlc of