The children's Bible picturebook Author:M. J Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LOT'S WIFE. In the land of Canaan, which is in the eastern part of the world, where God first placed human beings, lived a man whose name was Lot. He was the ... more »nephew of Abram, whom God Himself had bidden to go and live there; telling him that he should become the founder of a great nation, and that through him blessing should come upon the whole race of man. Abram and Lot were both so very rich, not only in gold and silver, but in flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, that the country where they dwelt was not large enough for them to live in comfortably; and owing to this, their servants, who tended the cattle, quarrelled. Abram was very wishful that there should be peace between himself Lot's Wife. and his nephew; so he proposed that they should separate, one going in this direction, the other in that: offering to Lot the first choice of land, while he himself would take what was left. Accordingly Lot chose the plain of the river Jordan, a rich, well- watered country, and went away to it, pitching his tent near the city of Sodom. But the people who lived there were wicked beyond expression, and when God could no longer endure their wickedness He determined to destroy both them and their city by fire from heaven. Lot, however, was a good man, and that he might not perish among the wicked people of Sodom, two angels were sent to him, to bid him and all his household leave that place. Lot did not know that they were angels: he thought they were two travellers on their way; so when he saw them, as he sat, in the evening, at the gate of Sodom, he rose Lot's Wife. 25 to meet them, and begged them to come into his house for food and rest that night, and the next day they should continue their journey. The angels came in, and after they had eaten, they told him that he mu...« less