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Abimelech asks Isaac to leave the country,
Abraham is summoned before Abimelech; Sarah is given back to Abraham, who is honoured with a thousand pieces of silver and other gifts,
Abraham is summoned before Pharaoh, and is ordered to leave Egypt with Sarah,
Athamas with his children by Nephele, Phrixus and Helle, before the priest,
Balaam prophesying and blessing the Israelites in the presence of King Balak and his chieftains,
Bartholomew is dragged before King Astyages by heathen priests, and scourged,
Bathsheba comes before Solomon,
Ceres before Jupiter,
Christ before King Herod; sometimes a gorgeous robe is brought (Luke 23:8-11),
Christ before Pontius Pilate (Matthew 27:11-26; Mark 15:2-15; Luke 23:2-7, 23:13-25; John 18:28 - 19:16),
Christ before the Sanhedrin with Caiaphas as high priest, and possibly Annas; maybe a soldier about to strike Christ because he keeps silent (Matthew 26:57-66; Mark 14:53-64; Luke 22:54, 22:66-71),
Danae and Perseus taken to King Polydectes,
Daniel before King Nebuchadnezzar, interpreting his dream,
Daniel before King Nebuchadnezzar, telling him his dream (the great statue that is broken into pieces by a stone),
Daniel, when brought before King Belshazzar, interprets the writing on the wall,
David as a young man in the Israelite army camp is brought up before Saul,
David brings Goliath's head to Saul,
David saluted by Toi, king of Hamath, through his son Joram, who brings presents to him,
Elijah goes to Ahaziah and prophesies his death,
Esther before Ahasuerus (Esther 5:1-4),
Gaius Mucius Scaevola before Porsena: he thrusts his right hand into the flames (the body of the king's secretary who erroneously had been killed instead of Porsena may be seen lying on the ground),
Hercules and Iolaus, his charioteer and shield-bearer, before Eurystheus,
Hercules with Cerberus before Eurystheus, who hides again in a bronze tub,
Herkules Pluton ja Proserpinan edessä,
Hushai offers his services to Absalom,
Hushai reports of Absalom's plan of campaign to the priests Zadok and Abiathar,
Hushai, in rent clothes, offers his services to David,
Iris visits Hypnos on Alcyone's behalf,
Isaac and Rebekah before Abimelech,
Israelites (usually four) are brought before the prince of eunuchs because King Nebuchadnezzar wants to have them educated in the palace (Daniel 1),
James arrested and brought before Herod,
Jason before his uncle Pelias, wearing only one sandal,
Jeremiah appears before King Zedekiah with a wooden yoke (Jeremiah 27-28),
Jeremiah before Zedekiah,
Jesse brings his sons except David before Samuel,
Jews bring Paul before Gallio, the proconsul,
Joab comes to Absalom,
Joash, Gideon's father, and the men of the city who want Gideon to be put to death because he had destroyed the altar of Baal,
Joseph and five of his brothers tell Pharaoh of Jacob's arrival,
Joseph is summoned before Pharaoh and released from prison,
Joshua is chosen as successor to Moses, who places his hands on Joshua's head in front of Eleazar the high priest and the assembled congregation (Numbers 27:18-23),
Judas before the Sanhedrin returning the pieces of silver; he throws the money to the ground,
Julius Sabinus, a Batavian chieftain, is dragged before Vespasian; his wife Eponina tries in vain to raise the emperor's pity by showing him their twins,
Mary drinking the water of ordeal before the high priest,
Midas before Bacchus,
Miriam induces Pharaoh's daughter to entrust Moses to a Hebrew nurse,
Mordecai before Ahasuerus, who gives him his signet-ring,
Moses (and Aaron) before Pharaoh enthroned (recurrent scene ~ the ten plagues),
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh; Aaron performs the miracle of the rod changing into a snake,
Moses and Aaron confront Pharaoh (Exodus 5-7:13),
Moses petitioned by the five daughters of Zelophehad (Numbers 27:1-11),
Oedipus is found by the shepherd Phorbas, who brings him to his master Polybus,
Orestes and Pylades before Iphigenia and King Thoas,
Orestes, on Apollo's advice, presents himself at Athens before the Areopagus and is acquitted,
Pasiphae confides her unnatural passion for the bull to Daedalus,
Paul before Felix and Drusilla,
Paul before Festus, King Agrippa and Queen Bernice,
Paul before the high priest Ananias and the Sanhedrin,
Peleus, to whom Phoenix has fled, brings him to Chiron who restores his sight,
Peter and the apostles brought before the Sanhedrin,
Phaedra slanders Hippolytus to Theseus,
Pharaoh is informed of the murder of the Egyptian,
Pharaoh is told of the flight of the Israelites,
Pharisees bring a woman accused of adultery before Christ (John 8:2-11),
Proteus or Chiron tells Peleus how to conquer Thetis,
Psyche before Proserpina,
Remus is captured during the festival of the Lupercalia and brought before Amulius,
Samuel goes to Eli after he has been called by 'a voice',
Samuel summons Agag to be brought before him,
Saul expresses his contrition before Samuel,
Saul prophesies before Samuel,
Saul summons a woman who is a medium,
Saul's messengers begin to prophesy before Samuel,
Simeon and Levi bring the wounded son before Pharaoh,
Sisyphus persuades Proserpina (and Pluto) to let him return to the upper world for a while,
Sosthenes is brought before Gallio and beaten by Greeks,
St. Catherine of Alexandria before emperor Maxentius; she refuses to worship pagan statues,
St. Christopher is brought before the king, who flees in terror from his throne,
St. Clare before St. Francis of Assisi; he confirms the Rules of the Order,
St. Cosmas and Damian are taken before the heathen ruler Lysias,
St. Francis Xavier as missionary in the East Indies, preaching, e.g. before an Indian ruler,
St. Francis of Assisi preaching before the Sultan of Egypt; to convert the sultan he is about to walk through a fire,
St. Francis of Assisi rejects his earthly heritage; standing before the bishop he gives his fine clothes to his father; the bishop covers Francis with his cloak,
St. Gervase and St. Protase are brought before the heathen ruler; they refuse to worship a pagan statue,
St. Helena and Constantine the Great before pope Sylvester,
St. John Nepomuk is brought before King Wenceslas of Germany,
St. Laurence before the prefect is scourged by Roman soldiers, and his flesh is torn with iron combs,
St. Martin renounces his arms before the emperor, who accuses him of cowardice; St. Martin places himself in the front line of the battle, only carrying a cross,
St. Norbert preaching at Antwerp before the dissenter Tankelin,
St. Sebastian before the Roman emperor: he breaks the idols,
St. Ursula stands before the leader of the Huns and makes a contemptuous gesture,
St. Vedastus heals a blind man before King Clovis,
St. Vincent before a Roman ruler; he breaks the pagan idols,
St. Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia are brought before the Roman emperor; they refuse to worship pagan statues,
Stephen before the Sanhedrin,
Themistocles before the throne of Artaxerxes at the Persian court,
Theseus and Pirithous before Pluto,
Thomas before King Misdai,
Timoclea, having killed a Thracian army commander who attempted to violate her, is brought before Alexander, who praises her virtue,
Turnus before Latinus: he wants to meet Aeneas in single combat; Amata tries in vain to stop him,
Ulysses before Helen in Troy,
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