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Solomon needed a demon to build the Temple. He caught the king of demons with wine, used him, then kept him chained. The demon got his revenge.
The camp was not starving. Manna still covered the ground. They wanted meat anyway, and the birds came in so low a tired man could grab them.
Jericho fell without a siege, so its spoils were sacred. One man decided otherwise, buried them in his tent floor, and thirty-six men died at Ai.
God warned him first. You will be tested, and you will fall, and it will be through a woman. David wanted the test anyway.
The Levite refused to stop for the night in a foreign town. He pushed on twenty furlongs to sleep among his own people, and that is where it happened.
Cain killed his brother and expected to be hunted. God sealed the divine name on his forehead instead, and no one who saw it could touch him.
God decides to tell Abraham what he is about to do to Sodom. Abraham recognizes an opening and presses it, bargaining God down from fifty righteous to ten.
Sleep left the king that night. Haman waited in the court to ask for a hanging. The book of records named Mordechai instead.
A hired prophet opens his mouth to curse and blessings pour out instead. A walnut tree in the Song of Songs explains why Israel cannot be destroyed.
God said he would rain down on Sodom. The rabbis found a hidden offer in that word: rain can be water or fire. Sodom chose fire.
Michael rose from the meal and stepped outside. Before the next breath he stood in heaven, asking God to send someone else.
He dropped his voice so the camp would lean in. He told them about a widow and two daughters. The laws were real. The woman was not.
When Ahab mocked the prophets and the decree against Israel was sealed, Elijah did not pray alone. He ran to the fathers of the world for help.
A Midianite priest reached the camp, watched Moses judge from dawn to dusk, then pointed at a waterlogged beam and said one man could not lift it.
Abraham was ninety-nine and three days past his own circumcision, sitting in the midday heat. He got up and ran to fetch butter, milk, and a tender calf.
Three hundred white mules carried only the keys. Korah had opened one of Joseph's buried rooms, and the earth was already waiting.
An unclean bird landed on the split carcasses and told Abraham to run before the fire took him. He stayed, and learned how long the age had left.
Babylon sent men because a dying king had been given fifteen years. Hezekiah felt the bowing land on his own chest. Then he opened every door.
A trumpet splits the sky over Eden. A chariot of cherubim descends. Adam crouches in the leaves while the dead trees burst alive around the Tree of Life.
Noah lay uncovered in his tent. Ham laughed and called his brothers. Shem lifted a cloak and walked in backward, his face turned away.
Josiah was eight when they crowned him. He sent men into every house in Judah to search the walls for hidden idols, and he burned the bones of Baal's priests.
Haman was already on his knees. Gabriel shoved him onto Esther's couch in the same breath the king came back from the wrecked garden.
Agag sat bound through the dark while fat sheep bleated in the pens. Samuel came at morning. The line that should have ended did not.
The men reached Jerusalem with their tools still rolled. Solomon did not set them to work. He handed each one a folded sheet of burial linen.
Phinehas shouted across his own army asking whether any man there could fly. A Danite went up after Balaam and lost him above the fifth layer of air.
Noah could have boarded the ark in the dark. God set him on the gangplank at the noon hour instead, daring the crowd to swing their axes.
Eleven names left Moses's mouth. The Simeonites waited for the twelfth. He looked at Judah instead and hid the missing blessing there.
The angel gave him three jobs instead of an answer. Weigh the weight of fire. Measure out a measure of wind. Call back the day that is past.
The empire's angel unrolled a long scroll toward the throne. The charges were true. Then Michael left the Temple that does not burn.
A Cushite trader sleeps under an Egyptian roof when the tenth plague comes. The firstborn of Ham dies in Egypt's tents, far from his own land.
