8 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
A herdsman with a broken tongue marched into Israel's golden-calf shrine and named its ruin, while the priest ran to the king to have him silenced.
No family could close a grave until the crown had its silver. On the day the king came out for cheers, the street used his name for something else.
He sat a scoffer beside every honest man in the room and asked the pair the same four questions. The fourth one was the trap.
Ahijah put ten torn pieces of cloth in his hands. The northern throne was his if he could bear standing while a son of David sat.
Jeroboam closed the road to Jerusalem and set guards on it, with death for anyone who passed. A second Abijah, his son, took them away and went up himself.
At Bethel's illicit altar Jeroboam seized toward the man of God, and his arm dried in midair until he begged the same prophet to heal him.
Asahels name broke Davids casualty list. Pharaoh's daughter broke Solomons list of loves. That wedding day Gabriel planted a reed in the sea, and Rome rose.
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.
