393 myths · Page 2 of 14
The Philistines set the captured Ark beside their god Dagon. In the morning Dagon was face down on the floor in front of it, and they stood him back up.
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 passes through the gate of Shushan and every back bends but one. Mordecai stays upright, and the court has a taunt ready for him.
The fields lay fallow and the storehouses thinned, but in Asher's hills the oil still ran in streams, and a nation came to eat.
Pharaoh marked the men fated to die and shipped them off to build Solomon's Temple. Solomon sent them home wearing the shrouds Pharaoh planned to bury them in.
The gold was donated and the craftsmen were ready. Moses stopped the entire assembly first to teach them one rule that overrode everything else.
The High Priest drew lots over two identical goats. One went to God and one went to Azazel. The second goat went to the edge of the world and was destroyed.
Seven sheep were laid against David each day for warmth, and none of it reached him. He had counted Israel, and seventy thousand men died in the plague.
Doeg sent words after David like arrows. Jacob slept with a stone beneath his head, and heaven changed the guard above him.
Rabbi Tarfon leaned close during the Temple blessing and heard the divine Name hidden inside the priests' chant, guarded by many voices.
When every other tribal prince brought offerings at the Tabernacle, Aaron watched. God's answer to his despair changed what he thought his calling was.
The altar was ready, the false prophets were exhausted, and Elijah still waited. Fire came only at the beloved hour of Mincha.
Amos imagined a man who ran from a lion and met a bear next. Esther Rabbah saw Israel escaping empire after empire and still living.
A rabbi enters a Roman prison to test a captive child with a verse, and what the boy answers changes the course of a life.
Jacob crosses the Jabbok alone at night and struggles until dawn with a being who will not say its name but gives him a new one.
The Israelites gave so generously for the Tabernacle that Moses had to stop them. Then they accused him of stealing what was left over.
Nathan told him to do whatever was in his heart. God woke the prophet that night and sent him back with the opposite answer.
Seven men had one job: remind Solomon of Torah's rules for kings before he sat down each day. The wisest man alive still needed people to keep him honest.
He held the whole army in place until the court finished reading old treaties. Then he went to war, and afterward he wrote that he was alone.
David stockpiled cedar and iron and prepared psalms for the Temple courts. Then Nathan said: not you. The reason was more complicated than punishment.
Before Moses died, he was shown the Temple burning and Israel in exile. He found Jeremiah on the roads to Babylon and walked alongside the dead.
The angel called out and Isaac was safe. Abraham stayed on the mountain and would not come down until God agreed to remember that day forever.
On the eighth day of the Tabernacle's dedication, fire fell from heaven and did not go back. It consumed offerings and sons with equal precision.
The ram that saved Isaac did not vanish into smoke. Its horns became the sound that opens judgment, Sinai, and the end of days.
A ring dragged them in one at a time. Ornias strangled men in their sleep. A headless spirit ate heads. Each said which angel could stop it.
Her priests told her to refuse the king unless he honored their gods. Solomon said no for a long time. Then she made the request small.
Solomon's masons fitted the stones so close that no one could find a tool mark. The house went up in silence, and then he dreamed of it burning.
Abraham entered Canaan, saw its figs and olives and mountain water, built altars on ground that was not yet his, then asked God how the promise could survive.
Darius locked Daniel in prison over missing Temple vessels. By nightfall, an angel had taken the king's sight, and only Daniel could restore it.
Balak hired Balaam to stand on the heights and curse Israel. The Patriarchs were already there. No one could curse what kept them alive.
