61 myths · Page 2 of 3
Haman had to open the treasury himself. He counted out the crown, the robes, and the king's own horse, then led Mordecai through the city.
His arms were heavy and the camp had pillows to spare. Amalek was still attacking, so Moses sat on a rock instead and kept his hands up.
Joshua cuts Amalek's ranks below while Moses' arms fail on the hill, and Aaron and Hur hold them skyward until the enemy breaks at dusk.
Avshalom's hunters search a house. A wife uncovers herself on a well mouth, shames their eyes, and hides two messengers whose line will one day stop Haman.
The report of Amalek's fall reached two houses. One hardened. Jethro packed in Midian and walked toward the camp that had just been ambushed.
In the valley before Amalek Saul argues that beasts have not sinned. Heaven answers. He spares Agag. The sword he withheld later finds him.
Esther hesitated before the throne. Mordecai answered with a catalog of vanquished enemies from Amalek to Sisera, and said the palace would not save her alone.
After Aaron died, Amalek dressed as Canaanites to dodge Israel's prayer. Israel named no foe. God still knew. The camp also learned thirst again.
Fresh from the sea, Israel limps faint and weary into Amalek's path, and the attack chooses the soft hour when fear of heaven has thinned to nothing.
At Rephidim Joshua weakened Amalek while Moses hands held the sky. Rabbi Eliezer later split one verb into king, family, and armies in full.
Sure he was about to die, Mordecai put on his prayer shawl and taught the laws of the barley offering. Haman had to admit barley had beaten silver before.
While Isaac breathed Esau held the covenant, then cast it off at the grave, while Jacob kept the moons quieter clock against the suns loud day.
The rod Moses carried up the hill had already broken Egypt and split the sea. Below, an army that came to fight found it could not move.
Balaam and Jethro had sat in Pharaoh's council together. From a hill above Moab, Balaam said what he thought of the man who walked out.
Esau's crimes cut five years from Abraham's life so the patriarch would not see his shame, and the color red clung from cradle stew to Edom's reckoning.
Scrolls lay closed in the tents at Rephidim. Then Amalek came in from the rear, and Moses had to have his arms held up until sundown.
Some in the camp tested God without saying a word: if He knows what we are thinking, we will serve Him. The answer that walked in was Amalek.
Israel appointed a king and fought Amalek, yet the Temple waited. Informers and Doeg's report at Nov drove the Presence away faster than any army.
Ten scouts opened their report with the name that still stung from the wilderness road, and courage fell out of Israel like water from a cracked jar.
There was no water at Refidim, and the people quarreled until Moses told God they were close to stoning him. Then Amalek came at them out of the hills.
Four golden lampstands made Jerusalem glow at the water drawing. Beyond that joy, God Himself will teach Torah by heart.
Amalek sat at the door of the Land. The spies said his name first. Across the camp, Judah slept facing the east under Nahshon's banner.
Pharaoh's jeweled horses pressed from behind while the sea rose ahead, and Israel cried out like a dove boxed between hawk and snake.
The camp at Ziklag was wrecked. David could not see the necks in front of him. He asked heaven to light his lamp, and it did.
They walked three days with manna still in the baskets and no teaching in their mouths. Amalek found the tired walkers at the rear.
A disciple finished the blessings early. The room found a nickname. Their master named Moses, who had begged five words over white skin.
Yitro, once an advisor in Pharaoh's circle with Amalek, hears that Amalek's name is being erased and walks away toward the God of Israel.
David sat under cedar and hated the curtains over the Ark. Nathan said yes at dusk. By morning the House was not his to build.
Jethro brought Zipporah, whom Moses had divorced, and her two sons to a camp the cloud had sealed. He tied his letter to an arrow and shot it inside.
Before God strikes any nation on earth, His night court throws down that people's guardian-prince in heaven, and the kingdom falls by morning.
