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When the king heard the man of God speaking against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar proclaiming, “Seize him!”

The hand that he stretched out toward him shriveled up, and he could not pull it back again.

The altar split apart and its ashes spilt out from the altar, fulfilling the sign that the man of God had proclaimed through the word of the Lord.

1Kings 13:4-5

Artwork: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jeroboam Offering Sacrifice for the Idol, 1752

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Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528) Assumption of the Virgin (1504–1505)

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There were giants upon the earth at this time, as well as afterward.

They were the children of the sons of God who married the daughters of men.

These were the heroes of times past, men of renown.

Genesis 6:4

Artwork: Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642) The Fall of the Giants (1590 – 1642)

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Flemish School (Flemish, 16th-20th Century) Mary Magdalene (from 1530 until 1535)

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Therefore, you will be given this sign     by the Lord himself: The virgin will be with child,     and she will give birth to a son,     and she will name him Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:14

Artwork: Nöel Hallé (French, 1711-1781) St. Anne Revealing to the Virgin the Prophecy of Isaiah (circa 1749)

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Bacchiacca (Italian, 1494 - 1557) Eve with Cain and Abel (1520s)

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Otto van Veen (Flemish, 1556 - 1629) The Triumph of the Word of God, from the Series Triumph of the Catholic Church

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“There was a rich man who used to dress in purple garments and the finest linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

 And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would have been grateful to be fed with the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table.

Even the dogs would come and lick his sores.

Lk. 16:19-21

Artwork: School of I (Flemish, 1542-1616) The Rich Man and Lazarus

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Franz Ittenbach (German, 1813 - 1879} Sancta Maria Virgo

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George Romney (English, 1734-1802) Sketch Of A Mother And Child

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Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723 - 1792) Fortitude (1782)

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Moses found in the river. Fresco from Dura Europos synagogue

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When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all assembled together in one place.

Suddenly, there came from heaven a sound similar to that of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were sitting.

Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which separated and came to rest on each one of them.

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages, as the Spirit enabled them to do so.

Acts 2:1-4

Artwork: French School (French, 16th-20th Century) Pentecost (1490-1500)

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And so they searched for a beautiful young woman all throughout the territory of Israel, and they found Abishag the Shunamite, and they brought her to the king.

The young woman was very beautiful, and she cared for the king.

She served the king, but he did not have intimate relations with her.

Kings 1:3-4

Artwork: Pedro AMérico, David and Abisag

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Babylon was a golden cup

in the hand of the Lord,

and she made the entire earth drunk.

The nations drank her wine,

and now they have gone mad.

Jeremiah 51:7

Artwork: Simeon Solomon Babylon Hath Been a Golden Cup

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Francescuccio Ghissi (Italian, 1359-1395) Saint John the Evangelist Raises Satheus to Life (ca. 1370)

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When the Israelites had finished killing all of those who lived in Ai, in the fields, and in the wilderness where they had chased them, putting all of them to the edge of the sword, all of the Israelites returned to Ai and put everyone in it to death by the sword.  

Twelve thousand men and women were slain that day, all of those who lived in Ai.  

Joshua did not pull back the hand that held the outstretched spear until he had wiped out everyone who had lived in Ai.

Joshua 8:24-26

Artwork: John Trumbull (American, 1756 – 1843) Joshua at the Battle of Ai – Attended by Death (1839–40)