60 myths · Page 2 of 2
When Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, the rabbis said every power he had came from Moses. The moon was still the moon. Its light was borrowed.
Moses argued at the bush until God's anger flared. Joseph sat in a dry pit while his brothers settled on twenty pieces of silver. Saul hid in the baggage.
Solomon denied himself nothing his eyes desired. Then he looked at what his hands had made and called it vanity, the houses and the gardens and the pools.
Tryphon came to destroy Judea and held Jonathan hostage. Simon marched to meet him at every turn, and it was a heavy snowfall that finally blocked the road.
The people wept for meat and called the manna worthless. Moses told God the weight was too heavy and asked to be killed rather than watch it.
Moses called Israel faithless at the burning bush. God called it slander. The plagues, Jethro's farewell, and Bezalel's correction all reshaped him.
When Moses died, heaven's bread fed Israel thirty-nine more days. His silver trumpets disappeared before Joshua could touch them.
No burial without silver and gold paid to the crown. Families scraped coins together to bury their dead. On his public day the city shouted him down.
Moses broke under Israel's complaints. God took spirit from him like light from a menorah lamp and set it on seventy elders.
At the burning bush Moses said no for seven days running. God told him there would be a bill for that, and it came due at the door of the Tabernacle.
Nobody in the camp needed telling who could hold a case without selling the verdict. Moses asked the people for names, then promised nothing about using them.
Moses named Joshua, handed him a sealed book of prophecy, then stood while wisdom left him mid-lecture. Heaven said learn from the disciple.
Kenaz returned from battle while his own men woke to corpses and blank minds. Thirty-seven doubters burned after the miracle they had mocked.
God courted Moses seven days like a king pursuing an orphan bride. When succession came, Moses laid both hands on Joshua beyond the command.
At a hundred and twenty his eye had not dimmed. Moses laid hands on Joshua anyway, with joy, and never asked why the honor missed his own sons.
God offers Moses a cruel choice between his own life and Israel's survival. Moses answers that a thousand like him should die first.
On his last day Moses did the arithmetic and it frightened him. Bilam was called a prophet too. Both of them were going to die.
Miriam sees Tzipporah unadorned and opens a harsh case against Moses. Heaven answers the sister who once measured three cubits of rescue.
Moses rushes Midian's war knowing death waits after, while Joshua drags thirty-one kings across many years and loses a decade of life.
For six days God walks Moses through silver and gardens. On the seventh Moses still pulls his hand back, and a door closes.
A Midianite priest nears the camp. Moses, Aaron, and seventy elders stream out. Before any miracle is told, two men ask after each other's peace.
After the calf Moses asked to be wiped from Gods book if Israel were not forgiven. David later stood in a plague and called the people his sheep.
The army had lost at Ai and men were dead. God offered no comfort, only a question about why Joshua was lying face down in the dust.
Moses judged from sunrise until dark and would not share the bench. His father-in-law watched one full day of it and said the line would kill him.
Barak refused to march unless Deborah went with him, and the prophetess warned that the day's glory would slip from his hands into a woman's.
Elkanah camped in town squares and invited neighbors to the House of the Lord. Heaven answered with Samuel, and later Saul sought a scholar-king.
When the spirit moved Samson, one sage saw a stride spanning two miles. Another heard Nazirite hair clash like hanging bells from Zoreah to Eshtaol.
A sea had stood up in walls when he raised his staff. The Jordan in front of him was a morning's walk across, and God had told him he would not go over it.
Moses comes down Sinai with the tablets still warm. Israel asks what justice is like on high, and the answer leaves no room to swap guilt for innocence.
Under Pharaoh, Jochebed vanished from hunters. In the wilderness, Moses stood in a court that never ended and finally said he could not lead alone.
