07 works, Today, November 19th, is the Prophet Obadiah’s day, his story illustrated #322

John Singer Sargent
Prophets Zephaniah, Joel, Obadiah, and Hosea

Frieze
Boston Public Library

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 — April 14, 1925) was an American artist, considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation” for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida…

The holy Prophet Obadiah is the fourth of the Twelve Minor Prophets, and he lived during the ninth century B.C. He was from the village of Betharam, near Sichem, and he served as steward of the impious Israelite King Ahab. In those days the whole of Israel had turned away from the true God and had begun to offer sacrifice to Baal, but Obadiah faithfully served the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in secret…

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05 works, Today, November 19th, is the Prophet Obadiah’s day, his story illustrated #322

John Singer Sargent
Prophets Zephaniah, Joel, Obadiah, and Hosea

Frieze
Boston Public Library

The holy Prophet Obadiah is the fourth of the Twelve Minor Prophets, and he lived during the ninth century B.C. He was from the village of Betharam, near Sichem, and he served as steward of the impious Israelite King Ahab. In those days the whole of Israel had turned away from the true God and had begun to offer sacrifice to Baal, but Obadiah faithfully served the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in secret…

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07 works, Today, September 21st, is The Prophet Jonah’s day, his story illustrated #263

Unknown author, Attributed to Iran
Jonah and the Whale, circa 1400

Folio from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)
H. 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm), W. 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)
Ink, gouache, gold and silver on paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jonah the son of Amitai, who, as a prophet disciple, had anointed Jehu and who, therefore, enjoyed the king’s benevolence. Once God commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh, one of the largest cities of that time and foretell its destruction, because the evil of its inhabitants had reached the limit…

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10 works, Today, September 5th, is Prophet Zechariah’s day, his story illustrated #248

Unknown artist
Zechariah and St. John the Baptist

Georgian fresco
Monastery of the Cross, Jerusalem.

Zechariah is a figure in the New Testament Bible and the Quran. In the Bible, he is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron in the Gospel of Luk, and the husband of Elizabeth who is a relative of the Virgin Mary…

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