29 OCTOBER 1927, Page 48

Answers to Old Testament_ Questions 1. Dan. i. 12-15 :

" Their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat."-2. Bariakii was the man who helped' David dining . Absalom's rebellion, Nit refused to leave his own city.—II. Sam. xix. 33. Barak was the general who refused to go to war without Deborah the prophetess to support him.—Judges iv. 8.-3. - Elijah.—I. Kings, xvii. 4.-4. Zeruiah.—I. Chron. ii. 16. - 5. David was Saul's son-jn-law.—I. Sam. xviii. 20, 21.—:6. Absalom was first cousin to Joab.----7. Figs.—Jer. 'adv. 2. Because they were too bad to eat..-8. Job vi. Moses struck the rock and a spring appeared.—Exodus xvii. 6 ; Num. xx. 11.-10. Children .of Israel in the Wilderness.—Nunn. xi. 5.-7--11..Benaiah who slew a lion.—I. Chron. xi. 22.-12. Job.—Job. xxix. 6.

13. The milch kine left their calves and went alone with the cart bearing the Sam. vi, 10-72.

In last week's answers Letters of Travel should, of course, have • been Litters of MarqUe, and it • was Helen _ Blazes that Julian Bi Emory told the driver to 'go" to, not

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