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Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Regum III
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Old Testament / 3 Kings (A.V. I Kings) / Josaphat, Achab's death (3 Kings 22) / Micheas is thrown into prison (3 Kings 22:27)
Old Testament / 3 Kings (A.V. I Kings) / Josaphat, Achab's death (3 Kings 22) / Achab is shot with an arrow (3 Kings 22:34)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Elias and Ochozias (4 Kings 1) / Ochozias falls from the tower (4 Kings 1:2)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Elias and Ochozias (4 Kings 1) / Ochozias sends messengers to Beelzebub who do not answer (4 Kings 1:3, 6)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Elias and Ochozias (4 Kings 1) / Elias prophecies the messengers that Ochozias will die (4 Kings 1:4)

Further details

1. Micheas is thrown into prison; 2. Achab is shot with an arrow; 3. Ochozias falls from the tower; 4. Ochozias sends messengers to Beelzebub who refuses to answer, and therefore he asks Elias (in the Bible E. intercepts the messengers)

Artist or creator

Paris

Date

1233 (circa)

Location

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 270b

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Bible moralisée. Folio: 173v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 1, Paris 1911, plate 173

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