292 myths · Page 5 of 10
A king who favored one servant draws jealousy from the rest, and David's exhausted longing for the divine courts seeds the Temple his son will build.
Simon drives the Akra garrison from Jerusalem with his own silver, cleanses the citadel, and gives Israel a peace every man could sit under.
David cursed a murderer and the curse ran down his bloodline for generations. A king's words do not expire. They wait.
Israel's first king was anointed from a fragile clay flask. A medieval midrash says the vessel already knew his crown would shatter.
Shiloh stood between tent and Temple, open to the sky. Just outside Jerusalem, Molekh's seven enclosures took children the priests could not stop.
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.
Solomon filled his Temple with ten golden candelabras. Then he lit the original menorah of Moses before any of them.
The Ark burned a path through the desert, leveled mountains, killed anyone who peeked inside, and refused to enter Solomon's Temple until David was honored.
When Moses's final day arrived, Devarim Rabbah says the sun refused to set and the day itself filed a complaint before God about being forced to end.
The night before the Babylonians breached Jerusalem, four angels descended to the Temple courts and started the burning themselves.
When the Temple burned, the divine presence did not stay in heaven. She touched the Western Wall, wept, and followed Israel into Babylon.
A demon was draining life from a child on Solomon's building crew. Solomon prayed and Michael arrived with a ring that bound every demon on earth.
Solomon bound a prince of demons and made him confess his secrets. Then he put the entire court of the underworld to work cutting marble for God's house.
Solomon kept the demon king chained as a trophy. When he handed Asmodeus his ring to prove a point, he lost his throne for years.
To build the Temple without iron, Solomon needed the shamir worm. It was guarded by a bird who had sworn an oath to an angel. Solomon got it by trickery.
A boy of eight inherits a kingdom his father nearly destroyed, reunites Israel for the first time in centuries, and dies in a battle he had no reason to fight.
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.
David lay sick for thirteen years after the census plague, then rose when prayer restored the strength his body had lost.
The altar was ready, the false prophets were exhausted, and Elijah still waited. Fire came only at the beloved hour of Mincha.
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.
The Testament of Solomon records how the king built a catalog of demons by interrogating them one by one, turning each confession into an antidote.
Solomon could command birds, letters, and kingdoms, but a request to crush five locusts stripped him of divine spirit and wisdom.
Not one hammer blow was heard while Solomon built the Temple. He also wove two gates in so mourners and bridegrooms each had a door to walk through.
God told Solomon to ask for anything. Solomon asked only to judge his people. What God gave him in return was everything he had not asked for.
On the night Solomon finished the Temple, Pharaoh's daughter hung stars above his bed. He slept through the morning sacrifice while Israel stood and waited.
On the night Solomon dedicated the Temple, his new wife danced eighty dances in the streets while he slept with the Temple keys beneath his head.
On the Temple dedication night, Solomon sleeps under false stars while Gabriel plants the reed that will become Rome from the sea.
Isaiah's death sentence pushed Hezekiah to the wall, while Shevna carved himself a royal grave and aimed an arrow at the king.
Solomon carried the Ark toward the Temple and the gates sealed shut against him. Twenty-four psalms could not open them. One name did.
Jeremiah carried the Ark and the Altar of Incense to a sealed cave on Nebo. He told those who tried to mark the entrance they would never find it.
