#bible

This is the Bible story where Abigail rushes to meet David's men with food, trying to stop them attacking her household after her husband snubbed them. It doesn't end there — Nabal dies soon after, and Abigail ends up marrying David instead.

This is meant to be an Old Testament prophet mourning Jerusalem's fall to Babylon — the city's still burning in the corner, and those gold objects are supposedly temple treasure he saved. Apparently this is from very early in his career, well before the more famous group portraits.

This is the Bible story of Daniel thrown into a den of lions for refusing to stop praying to his own god — and coming out fine. Apparently Rubens painted the lions true to life-size, which is part of why the scene lands so hard.