/lit/ - Literature

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Constantly. After the great reign of Solomon there is this game of thrones tier movement for power and the kingdoms split in two and fight.

You also have a struggle for David's other sons to have power and because David sinned by raping/seducing one of his general's wives it ends up coming to pass that one of his potential successors publically has sex with all of David's wives and concubines to try to gain legitimacy, a sort of cyclic curse upon David for his sin.

Then you get some cool shit like the priests of Baal versus Elijah.

In Joshua 10 you have the Israelite army doing an overnight forced march to catch an alliance of five kings attacking their allies.

They catch them by surprise and then God rains down hail on the enemies and keeps the sun in the sky for an entire extra day without going down so the Hebrews can chase them down after routing them.

God also intervenes against Saul, for David in Samuel 15 by striking the opposing army with an earthquake.

And then there is marching around the walls of Jericho and blowing a trumpet and watching them crash down.

Or Gideon amasses a large army to take on the Midionites and then God tells him to send them all home except 300 so that the people can't say they won by their own hands. Then he leads a night raid and beheads both princes.

He also destroys the alters to Baal that his father had and then the people want to kill him. But Joash has some kino line about how "if Baal is a God, let him defend himself." The Septuagint has stuff like this with Bel and the Dragon.

Or there is the weird thing where Moses makes the snake symbol and it cures the Jews from the poison of all the snakes the LORD sent on them, which is then recited in John as a metaphor for how the sign of Christ is to work.

Or there is a contest between the priests of Baal and Elijah over who can start a fire, and the winner will live and the loser will be killed. The priests of Baal stack tinder and douse it in flammable oil while Elijah keeps pouring water over his pile of logs.

All the people are like: "Elijah, you're going to get killed, you can't keep pouring water on the pile it will never burn."

Then God shoots down fire so hot the stones burn. Kino stuff.