This is a story about a King and three brave men, all with really strange names.  The king's name is Nebuchadnezzar and the three men were known as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.  They lived in a place called Babylon and the three men worked for the king and had important jobs for the province of Babylon.

One day the king decided to build a huge image made of gold that stood 90 feet high.  To understand how tall this is, imagine 15 men all standing one on top of the other to make a tall towe...

This story is about a prophet named Elijah.  Elijah was a regular man who made mistakes, who was afraid sometimes, yet when it really mattered he trusted God.  Elijah did amazing things with God's help and God did amazing things for Elijah.

A few things you should know before we start the story is that the land of Israel where Elijah was going was very evil.  There was a king named Ahab who believed in a god named Baal (the weather god).   He and most of the people worshipped this god and did ...

This story is about a woman named Hannah who really really wanted to have a child.  Every year she would go with her husband to a place called Shiloh.

While they were there, there would be a big festival and everyone would celebrate all that God did for them.  They would thank God for their crops and everything God gave them, and give sacrifices or presents to God to show how thankful they were.

This sometimes made Hannah very sad because she wanted so badly to be thankful, but was discouraged ...

In a place called Moab there lived a nice family.  Elimelech, his wife Naomi and their two sons moved there because there was more food there than where they used to live.  After a while Elimelech died but Naomi wasn't alone she still had two sons.

Her sons got married but after about ten years they died too.  At least Naomi still had her sons wives to keep her company, their names were Orpah and Ruth.

Naomi called her sons wives and told them, "I am going to go back to where I used to live and...