She lulled him to sleep on her lap. Then she called in a man, and she had him cut off the seven locks of his head; thus she weakened him and made him helpless- his strength slipped away from him. She cried, ‘Samson, the Philistines are upon you!’ And he awoke from his sleep, thinking […]
Carve two tablets of stone like the first and I will inscribe upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you shattered. (Exodus 34-1) This mysterious painting has confounded Rembrandt scholars. There are those who contend that Moses is holding the tablets just prior to smashing them before the eyes of […]
The destruction of the Amorite army is described in Joshua 10-11.
Glass- half-post blow; wood- painted; metal The Jewish Museum
Limestone- chiseled and ground Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago See also- Large Horned Altar, 10th-8th century BCE Small Horned Altars
