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Zechariah Stories & Illustrations

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The Spring Beneath the Stone

In 1841, workers drilling near the Parisian village of Grenelle struck an artesian aquifer after eight years of boring through 548 meters of rock. The...

Zechariah 13:1Universal

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The King Who Left the War Horse Behind

In 333 BC, Alexander the Great swept through the ancient Near East on his famous warhorse Bucephalus, a massive black stallion that no one else...

Zechariah 9:9Universal

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The King Who Left His Horse Behind

In 333 BC, Alexander the Great rode into Jerusalem on a warhorse draped in purple, his cavalry stretching behind him like a river of bronze....

Zechariah 9:9Universal

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The Spring That Never Stopped

In 1888, a cholera outbreak swept through Hamburg, Germany, killing over eight thousand people in ten weeks. The city's water supply had been drawn from...

Zechariah 13:1Universal

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The Pipe Organ That Played Without Power

In 1944, Allied bombs had reduced much of Coventry, England, to rubble. The medieval cathedral lay in ruins, its famous pipe organ nothing but twisted...

Zechariah 4:6Universal

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The General Who Walked

In September 1945, when Douglas MacArthur arrived in Tokyo to accept Japan's formal surrender, his aides prepared a convoy of armored vehicles, flags snapping from...

Zechariah 9:9Universal

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The Pipeline That Built Itself

In 1857, a Scottish minister named George Muller ran five orphanages in Bristol, England, housing over two thousand children. He never once asked for a...

Zechariah 4:6Universal

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The Spring at Lifta

In the abandoned village of Lifta, just outside Jerusalem's western edge, a natural spring still flows from beneath the limestone. For centuries, families carried clay...

Zechariah 13:1Universal

242 words