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Hezekiah's mother heard what salamander blood could do. She anointed her son before Ahaz carried him to Moloch's fire, and the flames did not touch him.
The Queen of Sheba came to find where Solomon's wisdom failed. She brought a gender test, a flower test, and finally a door that would not open.
A spirit tore through Arabia and no army could stop it. Solomon sent a servant with a leather bottle and a ring engraved with the divine name.
No iron could touch the Temple stones. Only the shamir could split rock without weapons. Only Asmodeus knew where the shamir was kept.
Before Hezekiah could speak, his father brought him to the Moloch fires. His mother rubbed him with salamander blood and handed him in. He came out unburned.
Isaiah expected the sick king to come to him. Hezekiah expected the prophet to come to the palace. Neither moved, and God had to force the standoff to end.
King Amon hunted down every Torah scroll in Judah and burned them. One scroll survived in the Temple wall. His son Josiah wept when he read it.
When Huldah confirmed the Temple would fall, Josiah hid the Ark, Aaron's staff, and the manna jar in a tunnel before Babylon could reach them.
A Levite named Shimur led a group east to Babylon and hid the Temple's greatest treasures in a tower. The menorah had twenty-six pearls on each branch.
The Torah of Moses had been lost in the Temple so long no one searched for it. When it turned up in the walls, the king who heard it wept.
Ashmedai measures four cubits on the palace floor and tells Solomon what kings own. Then the Temple gates refuse to open, and only a dead man can move them.
Solomon chained Asmodeus to build the Temple. The demon warned him exactly what would happen. Solomon did not listen. The demon was right about everything.
Solomon's Temple dwarfed the wilderness Tabernacle. He added ten golden candelabras to the one Moses made. Every evening the priests lit Moses's menorah first.
The king of demons helped build the Temple, then stole Solomon's throne. A fish and a ring undid the greatest heist in the history of heaven.
Solomon's mechanical throne dazzled every nation. The rabbis taught that it was the earthly shadow of something made before the world existed.
At birth a prophet gave Solomon the name Jedidiah, Beloved of God. The rabbis believed the messianic hope lived in that name. Then Solomon lost it.
Solomon had peace, the Temple, and the name Jedidiah. Isaiah saw what the messianic age required. Neither man fully grasped what he held.
Every day ten oxen, a hundred sheep, and a bird from Barbary carrying itself to the kitchen. The world came to Solomon unbidden. Then it stopped coming.
Rabbi Joshua ben Levi descended through all seven chambers of Gehinnom and returned. Solomon never went himself, but he sent his workforce there instead.
A demon was draining the life of a child on Solomon's Temple site. Solomon got a ring from the archangel Michael and built his entire workforce from it.
Beyond what the Torah prescribed, Solomon planted golden trees inside the Temple that bore fruit continuously until the day the Babylonians breached the walls.
When the rabbis of Vayikra Rabbah studied what finally destroyed the kingdoms of Israel, they kept arriving at one answer that surprised even them.
Hiram of Tyre supplied the cedar for Solomon's Temple, then spent centuries building seven false heavens to claim the throne that was not his.
Solomon needs the Shamir worm to cut the Temple stones without iron, so he sends Benaiah to capture Ashmedai king of demons, and later pays a terrible price.
Forty years of omens precede the Temple's fall, a prophet's blood boils for centuries naming its killers, and Nero reads his own verdict and runs.
Solomon binds Ashmedai with the Ineffable Name to get the shamir. After the Temple is built, Ashmedai borrows the royal ring and throws Solomon into exile.
Rabbi Yosei reads the Song of Songs as a charter protecting the Western Wall, while Solomon's Temple dedication echoes the single voice heard at Sinai.
A vampire-spirit drinks the life from Solomon's young builder to stall the Temple, until the king turns the night-creature into his own catalog of demons.
Solomon set Beelzeboul and the powers of darkness to dig his Temple while Benaiah met a queen on the road and shone like the morning star.
Isaiah walked into the Temple the year the king died and found burning ones above the throne, crying holy until the doorposts shook.
