Scenes from the Old Testament

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about 1872 Four-light window illustrating the following texts: 'Jonathan and David make a Covenant', 'he removed the high places and brake the images', 'From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures', 'Young man I say unto thee arise', 'The Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering', 'God will provide himself a lamb', 'The child did administer unto the Lord before Eli', 'They sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver'. technique: stained glass size: 48 cm (width of each light) [approx] firm/studio: Clayton & Bell Church of All Saints, Gresford, Wrexham south wall of the nave  (ObjectID=979 ImageID=2492) Original File Name=_MG_5676.jpg

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• Samuel serving in the temple  [1 Samuel 2:18]
• the sacrifice of Cain and Abel: Abel offers a lamb, Cain usually a sheaf of corn  [Genesis 4:3-5]
• when Abraham has his hand raised to kill Isaac, God or the hand of God restrains Abraham's hand - the sacrifice of Isaac  [Genesis 22:10-12]

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 172.

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