The Child’s Story Bible
Publisher's note.
CATEGORY
Christian Children's Books
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Catherine Vos’ Child’s Story Bible combines qualities which are not generally found together: she appeals to the interest and imagination of children without sacrificing fidelity to the text of Scripture; she uses the stories to impress great doctrinal truths, uniting the element of enjoyment with instruction; and she takes the sombre warning passages of the word of God as well as those which call for admiration and trust in the Saviour around whom children once gathered upon earth.
Suitable to be read to children aged 3+, and read by children aged 7+ by themselves.
Also suitable for all adults who wish to refresh themselves of the overarching narrative of the biblical story.
This edition includes 26 colour illustrations by Neil McArdle and readers will be interested to know that there are no images of Christ in the book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| OLD TESTAMENT | ||
| 1. | In the Beginning God | 3 |
| 2. | How the World Began | 7 |
| 3. | The First Man, Adam | 10 |
| 4. | The First Woman, Eve | 13 |
| 5. | Adam and Eve Disobey God | 15 |
| 6. | How God Punished Them | 18 |
| 7. | A Loss and a Promise | 21 |
| 8. | The First Crime | 23 |
| 9. | What the First Men Were Like | 27 |
| 10. | The Second Beginning | 30 |
| 11. | The Strange Division of Men into Nations | 37 |
| 12. | Abram Follows God | 41 |
| 13. | God Talks with Abram | 45 |
| 14. | Sodom and Gomorrah | 51 |
| 15. | Abraham Sends Ishmael Away | 56 |
| 16. | Isaac, the Promised Son | 59 |
| 17. | Rebekah | 63 |
| 18. | Jacob Buys the Birthright | 71 |
| 19. | Jacob Deceives His Father | 74 |
| 20. | Jacob Leaves Home | 79 |
| 21. | Jacob Meets Rachel | 83 |
| 22. | Jacob Leaves Paddan-Aram Secretly | 87 |
| 23. | Jacob Goes Home | 90 |
| 24. | How Joseph Was Sold | 96 |
| 25. | In Potiphar’s House | 100 |
| 26. | From Prison to Palace | 104 |
| 27 | Joseph’s Dreams Come True | 109 |
| 28. | Benjamin Goes to Egypt | 115 |
| 29. | Joseph’s Silver Cup | 118 |
| 30. | Israel Goes to Egypt | 122 |
| 31. | The Death of Jacob | 127 |
| 32. | Moses | 130 |
| 33. | God Chooses Moses | 137 |
| 34. | The Stubborn King | 144 |
| 35. | The Children of Israel Leave Egypt | 154 |
| 36. | The End of the Egyptians | 160 |
| 37. | Israel in the Wilderness | 164 |
| 38. | God Talks from Mount Sinai | 169 |
| 39. | The Golden Calf | 175 |
| 40. | The Tabernacle | 181 |
| 41. | Aaron and the Levites | 186 |
| 42. | The Dedication of the Tabernacle | 188 |
| 43. | How Israel Worshipped | 191 |
| 44. | Israel’s Feasts | 194 |
| 45. | God Gives Many Laws | 198 |
| 46. | The Israelites Continue Their Journey | 200 |
| 47. | The Grumbling Israelites | 203 |
| 48. | Spies Search Out the Land | 207 |
| 49. | The Rebellious Israelites Turn Back | 211 |
| 50. | Some Strange Happenings in the Desert | 216 |
| 51. | God Gives Victory | 222 |
| 52. | Balaam Displeases a Frightened King | 226 |
| 53. | The Israelites Numbered Again | 234 |
| 54. | The Last Words of Moses | 237 |
| 55. | Canaan at Last | 240 |
| 56. | A Victory and a Defeat | 247 |
| 57. | How Trickery Overthrew Ai and Saved Gibeon | 252 |
| 58. | Dividing the Land | 257 |
| 59. | Judges Rule Israel | 260 |
| 60. | How Death Came to Sisera | 263 |
| 61. | Gideon, Who Saw an Angel | 265 |
| 62. | Samson | 274 |
| 63. | Samson Captured | 281 |
| 64. | Ruth’s Choice | 286 |
| 65. | Samuel is Promised to God | 292 |
| 66. | War with the Philistines | 297 |
| 67. | Saul, the First King | 303 |
| 68. | David, the Shepherd Boy | 312 |
| 69. | David Becomes an Outlaw | 319 |
| 70. | Stories about the Outlawed David | 325 |
| 71. | More Stories about David and Saul | 331 |
| 72. | David, the King Whom God Loved | 337 |
| 73. | How the Good King Sinned | 343 |
| 74. | The Plan of a Bad Son | 347 |
| 75. | The Failure of the Plot | 353 |
| 76. | The Wisest Man in the World | 362 |
| 77. | The Golden Kingdom of Solomon | 368 |
| 78. | The Beginning of Bad Times | 375 |
| 79. | The Divided Kingdom | 381 |
| 80. | Elijah, the Stern Prophet | 387 |
| 81. | Stories about Israel’s Wicked King | 399 |
| 82. | The Death of Ahab | 407 |
| 83. | God Protects His People | 413 |
| 84. | Good-bye to Elijah | 419 |
| 85. | Elisha, the Gentle Prophet | 423 |
| 86. | Trouble with Syria | 432 |
| 87. | The Soldier-King, Jehu | 440 |
| 88. | The Little Boy Who Became King | 449 |
| 89. | Elisha’s Last Prophecy | 455 |
| 90. | A Proud King Defeated | 457 |
| 91. | Jonah, the Unwilling Prophet | 461 |
| 92. | Stories about the Two Kingdoms | 467 |
| 93. | ‘Here Am I — Send Me’ | 472 |
| 94. | The End of the Kingdom of Israel | 474 |
| 95. | Hezekiah the Good | 480 |
| 96. | Wicked King Who Repented | 488 |
| 97. | Stories about King Josiah | 491 |
| 98. | The Man Who Had To Prophesy | 497 |
| 99. | The Captivity of Judah | 501 |
| 100. | Daniel | 508 |
| 101. | The Fiery Furnace | 514 |
| 102. | The King Who Lived in the Fields | 519 |
| 103. | The Fall of Babylon | 522 |
| 104. | Daniel in the Lion’s Den | 527 |
| 105. | Back to the Promised Land | 532 |
| 106. | The Rebuilding of the City | 537 |
| 107. | Esther, the Beautiful Queen | 542 |
| 108. | Esther Saves Her People | 546 |
| 109. | Ezra, the Teacher of the Law | 557 |
| 110. | Nehemiah, the Governor of Jerusalem | 562 |
| THE NEW TESTAMENT | ||
| 1. | The Priest Who Could Not Talk | 571 |
| 2. | The Message of the Angel | 574 |
| 3. | The Holy Night | 576 |
| 4. | A Star in the East | 580 |
| 5. | Warned by a Dream | 583 |
| 6. | The Boy in the Temple | 585 |
| 7. | The Preacher in the Desert | 587 |
| 8. | Satan Talks to God’s Son | 590 |
| 9. | Jesus Chooses His Disciples | 592 |
| 10. | Jesus at the Wedding Feast | 594 |
| 11. | The Father’s House | 596 |
| 12. | A Visit by Night | 598 |
| 13. | The Woman at Jacob’s Well | 600 |
| 14. | The Father Who Believed | 603 |
| 15. | The Mob That Wanted a Miracle | 605 |
| 16. | The Crowd at Jesus’ Door | 607 |
| 17. | Through the Roof to Jesus | 609 |
| 18. | Matthew and His Feast | 612 |
| 19. | The Withered Hand Made Well | 613 |
| 20. | The Sermon on the Mount | 615 |
| 21. | Jesus Gives Back Health and Life | 618 |
| 22. | Stories Which Jesus Told | 620 |
| 23. | The Winds and the Waves Obey | 622 |
| 24. | The Little Girl Brought to Life | 624 |
| 25. | The Wish of a Young Girl | 627 |
| 26. | Five Loaves of Bread and Five Thousand People | 630 |
| 27. | Walking on Top of the Stormy Water | 633 |
| 28. | Friends and Enemies | 636 |
| 29. | An Answered Prayer | 638 |
| 30. | Hungry People Fed | 640 |
| 31. | ‘Who Am I?’ | 642 |
| 32. | Glory on the Mountain | 644 |
| 33. | The Good Samaritan | 646 |
| 34. | The Feast of Tabernacles | 648 |
| 35. | Two Sisters Who Loved Jesus | 651 |
| 36. | The Friend of Children and His Prayer | 653 |
| 37. | The Lost Sheep and the Son Who Went Away | 655 |
| 38. | Jesus Wakes Lazarus from Death | 658 |
| 39. | The Blind Beggar Who Called to Jesus | 661 |
| 40. | Mary’s Gift | 664 |
| 41. | The King Comes | 666 |
| 42. | The Roman Coin | 668 |
| 43. | The Last Day and the Great Sin | 670 |
| 44. | In the Upper Room | 673 |
| 45. | Jesus’ Last Words to His Disciples | 676 |
| 46. | The Kiss of Judas | 678 |
| 47. | Peter, the Coward | 680 |
| 48. | Jesus Before the High Priest | 682 |
| 49. | Why Pilate Washed His Hands | 685 |
| 50. | Carrying the Cross | 688 |
| 51. | The Sun Becomes Dark | 690 |
| 52. | The Stone is Rolled Away | 693 |
| 53. | Visitors to the Tomb | 696 |
| 54. | The Risen Lord | 699 |
| 55. | Jesus Comes to His Friends | 702 |
| 56. | How Jesus Left the Earth | 704 |
| 57. | Power from Above | 707 |
| 58. | The Lame Man in the Temple | 710 |
| 59. | The Story of a Lie | 713 |
| 60. | The Open Prison Doors | 715 |
| 61. | The Man Who Looked into Heaven | 718 |
| 62. | The Magician Who Tried to Buy God | 721 |
| 63. | The Ethiopian Who Believed | 723 |
| 64. | The Light on the Road | 725 |
| 65. | The Changed Man | 728 |
| 66. | Saul Escapes Twice | 730 |
| 67. | The Good Woman Who was Brought to Life | 732 |
| 68. | A Lesson Peter Had to Learn | 734 |
| 69. | A New Church | 737 |
| 70. | The Angel in Prison | 739 |
| 71. | On to Cyprus | 743 |
| 72. | Why People Thought Paul was God | 745 |
| 73. | A New Journey | 748 |
| 74. | The Poor Fortune-Teller | 750 |
| 75. | The Jailer Who Believed | 752 |
| 76. | From City to City | 755 |
| 77. | About the Unknown God | 757 |
| 78. | The Riot of the Statue-Makers | 759 |
| 79. | The Young Man Who Fell Asleep | 762 |
| 80. | Back to Jerusalem | 764 |
| 81. | An Uproar in the Temple | 767 |
| 82. | Paul’s Speech to the Jews | 769 |
| 83. | A Wicked Oath | 771 |
| 84. | How Paul Was Saved | 774 |
| 85. | The Trial | 776 |
| 86. | The Appeal to Caesar | 778 |
| 87. | A King is Almost Persuaded | 781 |
| 88. | Paul Sets Out for Rome | 784 |
| 89. | The Shipwreck | 786 |
| 90. | The Rescue | 789 |
| 91. | The Hero of Faith | 791 |
| 92. | The Last Things | 794 |
| 93. | The Vision of John | 797 |
Publisher's note.
CATEGORY
Christian Children's Books
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Catherine Vos’ Child’s Story Bible combines qualities which are not generally found together: she appeals to the interest and imagination of children without sacrificing fidelity to the text of Scripture; she uses the stories to impress great doctrinal truths, uniting the element of enjoyment with instruction; and she takes the sombre warning passages of the word of God as well as those which call for admiration and trust in the Saviour around whom children once gathered upon earth.
Suitable to be read to children aged 3+, and read by children aged 7+ by themselves.
Also suitable for all adults who wish to refresh themselves of the overarching narrative of the biblical story.
This edition includes 26 colour illustrations by Neil McArdle and readers will be interested to know that there are no images of Christ in the book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| OLD TESTAMENT | ||
| 1. | In the Beginning God | 3 |
| 2. | How the World Began | 7 |
| 3. | The First Man, Adam | 10 |
| 4. | The First Woman, Eve | 13 |
| 5. | Adam and Eve Disobey God | 15 |
| 6. | How God Punished Them | 18 |
| 7. | A Loss and a Promise | 21 |
| 8. | The First Crime | 23 |
| 9. | What the First Men Were Like | 27 |
| 10. | The Second Beginning | 30 |
| 11. | The Strange Division of Men into Nations | 37 |
| 12. | Abram Follows God | 41 |
| 13. | God Talks with Abram | 45 |
| 14. | Sodom and Gomorrah | 51 |
| 15. | Abraham Sends Ishmael Away | 56 |
| 16. | Isaac, the Promised Son | 59 |
| 17. | Rebekah | 63 |
| 18. | Jacob Buys the Birthright | 71 |
| 19. | Jacob Deceives His Father | 74 |
| 20. | Jacob Leaves Home | 79 |
| 21. | Jacob Meets Rachel | 83 |
| 22. | Jacob Leaves Paddan-Aram Secretly | 87 |
| 23. | Jacob Goes Home | 90 |
| 24. | How Joseph Was Sold | 96 |
| 25. | In Potiphar’s House | 100 |
| 26. | From Prison to Palace | 104 |
| 27 | Joseph’s Dreams Come True | 109 |
| 28. | Benjamin Goes to Egypt | 115 |
| 29. | Joseph’s Silver Cup | 118 |
| 30. | Israel Goes to Egypt | 122 |
| 31. | The Death of Jacob | 127 |
| 32. | Moses | 130 |
| 33. | God Chooses Moses | 137 |
| 34. | The Stubborn King | 144 |
| 35. | The Children of Israel Leave Egypt | 154 |
| 36. | The End of the Egyptians | 160 |
| 37. | Israel in the Wilderness | 164 |
| 38. | God Talks from Mount Sinai | 169 |
| 39. | The Golden Calf | 175 |
| 40. | The Tabernacle | 181 |
| 41. | Aaron and the Levites | 186 |
| 42. | The Dedication of the Tabernacle | 188 |
| 43. | How Israel Worshipped | 191 |
| 44. | Israel’s Feasts | 194 |
| 45. | God Gives Many Laws | 198 |
| 46. | The Israelites Continue Their Journey | 200 |
| 47. | The Grumbling Israelites | 203 |
| 48. | Spies Search Out the Land | 207 |
| 49. | The Rebellious Israelites Turn Back | 211 |
| 50. | Some Strange Happenings in the Desert | 216 |
| 51. | God Gives Victory | 222 |
| 52. | Balaam Displeases a Frightened King | 226 |
| 53. | The Israelites Numbered Again | 234 |
| 54. | The Last Words of Moses | 237 |
| 55. | Canaan at Last | 240 |
| 56. | A Victory and a Defeat | 247 |
| 57. | How Trickery Overthrew Ai and Saved Gibeon | 252 |
| 58. | Dividing the Land | 257 |
| 59. | Judges Rule Israel | 260 |
| 60. | How Death Came to Sisera | 263 |
| 61. | Gideon, Who Saw an Angel | 265 |
| 62. | Samson | 274 |
| 63. | Samson Captured | 281 |
| 64. | Ruth’s Choice | 286 |
| 65. | Samuel is Promised to God | 292 |
| 66. | War with the Philistines | 297 |
| 67. | Saul, the First King | 303 |
| 68. | David, the Shepherd Boy | 312 |
| 69. | David Becomes an Outlaw | 319 |
| 70. | Stories about the Outlawed David | 325 |
| 71. | More Stories about David and Saul | 331 |
| 72. | David, the King Whom God Loved | 337 |
| 73. | How the Good King Sinned | 343 |
| 74. | The Plan of a Bad Son | 347 |
| 75. | The Failure of the Plot | 353 |
| 76. | The Wisest Man in the World | 362 |
| 77. | The Golden Kingdom of Solomon | 368 |
| 78. | The Beginning of Bad Times | 375 |
| 79. | The Divided Kingdom | 381 |
| 80. | Elijah, the Stern Prophet | 387 |
| 81. | Stories about Israel’s Wicked King | 399 |
| 82. | The Death of Ahab | 407 |
| 83. | God Protects His People | 413 |
| 84. | Good-bye to Elijah | 419 |
| 85. | Elisha, the Gentle Prophet | 423 |
| 86. | Trouble with Syria | 432 |
| 87. | The Soldier-King, Jehu | 440 |
| 88. | The Little Boy Who Became King | 449 |
| 89. | Elisha’s Last Prophecy | 455 |
| 90. | A Proud King Defeated | 457 |
| 91. | Jonah, the Unwilling Prophet | 461 |
| 92. | Stories about the Two Kingdoms | 467 |
| 93. | ‘Here Am I — Send Me’ | 472 |
| 94. | The End of the Kingdom of Israel | 474 |
| 95. | Hezekiah the Good | 480 |
| 96. | Wicked King Who Repented | 488 |
| 97. | Stories about King Josiah | 491 |
| 98. | The Man Who Had To Prophesy | 497 |
| 99. | The Captivity of Judah | 501 |
| 100. | Daniel | 508 |
| 101. | The Fiery Furnace | 514 |
| 102. | The King Who Lived in the Fields | 519 |
| 103. | The Fall of Babylon | 522 |
| 104. | Daniel in the Lion’s Den | 527 |
| 105. | Back to the Promised Land | 532 |
| 106. | The Rebuilding of the City | 537 |
| 107. | Esther, the Beautiful Queen | 542 |
| 108. | Esther Saves Her People | 546 |
| 109. | Ezra, the Teacher of the Law | 557 |
| 110. | Nehemiah, the Governor of Jerusalem | 562 |
| THE NEW TESTAMENT | ||
| 1. | The Priest Who Could Not Talk | 571 |
| 2. | The Message of the Angel | 574 |
| 3. | The Holy Night | 576 |
| 4. | A Star in the East | 580 |
| 5. | Warned by a Dream | 583 |
| 6. | The Boy in the Temple | 585 |
| 7. | The Preacher in the Desert | 587 |
| 8. | Satan Talks to God’s Son | 590 |
| 9. | Jesus Chooses His Disciples | 592 |
| 10. | Jesus at the Wedding Feast | 594 |
| 11. | The Father’s House | 596 |
| 12. | A Visit by Night | 598 |
| 13. | The Woman at Jacob’s Well | 600 |
| 14. | The Father Who Believed | 603 |
| 15. | The Mob That Wanted a Miracle | 605 |
| 16. | The Crowd at Jesus’ Door | 607 |
| 17. | Through the Roof to Jesus | 609 |
| 18. | Matthew and His Feast | 612 |
| 19. | The Withered Hand Made Well | 613 |
| 20. | The Sermon on the Mount | 615 |
| 21. | Jesus Gives Back Health and Life | 618 |
| 22. | Stories Which Jesus Told | 620 |
| 23. | The Winds and the Waves Obey | 622 |
| 24. | The Little Girl Brought to Life | 624 |
| 25. | The Wish of a Young Girl | 627 |
| 26. | Five Loaves of Bread and Five Thousand People | 630 |
| 27. | Walking on Top of the Stormy Water | 633 |
| 28. | Friends and Enemies | 636 |
| 29. | An Answered Prayer | 638 |
| 30. | Hungry People Fed | 640 |
| 31. | ‘Who Am I?’ | 642 |
| 32. | Glory on the Mountain | 644 |
| 33. | The Good Samaritan | 646 |
| 34. | The Feast of Tabernacles | 648 |
| 35. | Two Sisters Who Loved Jesus | 651 |
| 36. | The Friend of Children and His Prayer | 653 |
| 37. | The Lost Sheep and the Son Who Went Away | 655 |
| 38. | Jesus Wakes Lazarus from Death | 658 |
| 39. | The Blind Beggar Who Called to Jesus | 661 |
| 40. | Mary’s Gift | 664 |
| 41. | The King Comes | 666 |
| 42. | The Roman Coin | 668 |
| 43. | The Last Day and the Great Sin | 670 |
| 44. | In the Upper Room | 673 |
| 45. | Jesus’ Last Words to His Disciples | 676 |
| 46. | The Kiss of Judas | 678 |
| 47. | Peter, the Coward | 680 |
| 48. | Jesus Before the High Priest | 682 |
| 49. | Why Pilate Washed His Hands | 685 |
| 50. | Carrying the Cross | 688 |
| 51. | The Sun Becomes Dark | 690 |
| 52. | The Stone is Rolled Away | 693 |
| 53. | Visitors to the Tomb | 696 |
| 54. | The Risen Lord | 699 |
| 55. | Jesus Comes to His Friends | 702 |
| 56. | How Jesus Left the Earth | 704 |
| 57. | Power from Above | 707 |
| 58. | The Lame Man in the Temple | 710 |
| 59. | The Story of a Lie | 713 |
| 60. | The Open Prison Doors | 715 |
| 61. | The Man Who Looked into Heaven | 718 |
| 62. | The Magician Who Tried to Buy God | 721 |
| 63. | The Ethiopian Who Believed | 723 |
| 64. | The Light on the Road | 725 |
| 65. | The Changed Man | 728 |
| 66. | Saul Escapes Twice | 730 |
| 67. | The Good Woman Who was Brought to Life | 732 |
| 68. | A Lesson Peter Had to Learn | 734 |
| 69. | A New Church | 737 |
| 70. | The Angel in Prison | 739 |
| 71. | On to Cyprus | 743 |
| 72. | Why People Thought Paul was God | 745 |
| 73. | A New Journey | 748 |
| 74. | The Poor Fortune-Teller | 750 |
| 75. | The Jailer Who Believed | 752 |
| 76. | From City to City | 755 |
| 77. | About the Unknown God | 757 |
| 78. | The Riot of the Statue-Makers | 759 |
| 79. | The Young Man Who Fell Asleep | 762 |
| 80. | Back to Jerusalem | 764 |
| 81. | An Uproar in the Temple | 767 |
| 82. | Paul’s Speech to the Jews | 769 |
| 83. | A Wicked Oath | 771 |
| 84. | How Paul Was Saved | 774 |
| 85. | The Trial | 776 |
| 86. | The Appeal to Caesar | 778 |
| 87. | A King is Almost Persuaded | 781 |
| 88. | Paul Sets Out for Rome | 784 |
| 89. | The Shipwreck | 786 |
| 90. | The Rescue | 789 |
| 91. | The Hero of Faith | 791 |
| 92. | The Last Things | 794 |
| 93. | The Vision of John | 797 |