Og Mocks Isaac at the Feast and Is Doomed by His Line

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 94:2

"And Abraham made a great feast." The Eternal One of the worlds was there. "And the king made a great feast" (Esther 1:3), the Eternal One of the worlds was there. This is what is written (Deuteronomy 30:9), "For the LORD will again rejoice over you for good," in the days of Mordecai and Esther; "as He rejoiced over your fathers," in the days of Abraham. Another interpretation: the great ones [gedolim] were there. Og and all the great ones of the kingdom were with him. They said to Og: Were you not saying that Abraham was a barren mule who does not father children? He said to them: And now, what is his gift? Is it not a feeble thing? If I put my finger on it, I would crush it. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to him: You mock My gift. By your life, you shall see a thousand thousands and myriads of myriads come forth from his children's children, and the end of that man will be to fall by none other than their hand, as it is said (Numbers 21:34), "And the LORD said to Moses: Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand." Rabbi Levi said: No cradle was ever rocked before, except in the house of Abraham our father. For Rabbi Yehoshua son of Menachem said: Those thirty-two kings whom Joshua killed were all present at the feast in the house of Abraham our father. And were there not thirty-one? But it is as Rabbi Berekhiah and Rabbi Chelbo and Rabbi Parnach said in the name of Rabbi Yochanan (Joshua 12:9), "the king of Jericho, one": there is no need for Scripture to say "one," except that it means him and his viceroy.

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