71 myths · Page 3 of 3
Og outlasted the flood by clinging to the outside of Noah's ark. Shemhazai, whose sons were giants, still hangs suspended between heaven and earth.
The Greek fort inside Jerusalem had watched the Temple for years. Simon starved the soldiers out, paid for the war himself, and let them live.
A Seleucid king signed tax relief into law. Simon turned that paper into defended ports, settled cities, and authority carved into brass at the Temple.
A man was caught gathering wood on the Sabbath. They held him in custody because Moses, who had received the law at Sinai, did not know the ruling.
Moses told the people to stand firm and watch. God was telling Moses something else: stop crying out to Me and get them moving toward the water.
The curtain at the entrance never stopped moving in the breeze, and he could scarcely look away. Then he noticed seven hundred priests working without a word.
Gold was never for human ownership. God placed it at the edge of Eden, named countries that did not exist yet, and waited for the Temple to be built.
Before any Israelite army reached Canaan, the news from the sea had already hollowed out its kings. A singing well then drew rivers around the desert camp.
They pressed soil to their tongues and named each field by taste. When Esau's children took the ridges, mastery of the ground meant nothing.
Over bare mountains God turns a gemmed ring, and sparks dress the land in holiness that exile later tries to shake out.
Jeroboam pressed the north to fight Judah. The people refused. When he turned to Dan's warriors, they swore by their ancestor and left the land.
