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He pleaded with God, a conversation recorded in Legends of the Jews and drawn from various Midrashic sources, begging for just a little longer to guide his people. Moses argued, "W...
We often turn to prayer in times of need, but did you know that some prayers are believed to have shaped the very destiny of a people? Let's journey back to the time of Moses, a fi...
The Gibeonites were a Canaanite group who cleverly tricked Joshua into making a covenant with them. They knew the Israelites were conquering the land, and so they pretended to be t...
One man, Kenaz, is tasked with a monumental mission: to bring forth the truth from each of the tribes. It's a daunting task, like trying to hold water in your hands. As the story g...
Take Abdon, for example. He succeeded Jephthah, and just as Jephthah had the unenviable task of dealing with the Ammonites, Abdon had to face the Moabites. Imagine this: The king o...
The tale of Samson is definitely one of those. We know him as this incredible strongman, but his story, as the Legends of the Jews retells it, is full of so much more than just bru...
It's easy to think they were simply rejecting God's rule, but the story is more nuanced than that. According to some accounts, it wasn't the desire for a leader that upset Samuel a...
We get glimpses of epic figures, but sometimes the story feels… incomplete. Take GOLIATH, for instance. We all know the story: David and Goliath. Underdog versus giant. But accordi...
And according to the Legends of the Jews, God was right there with him, not just during the famous Goliath showdown, but through countless other trials too. : David wasn't just a k...
