But God intervenes, and the lions do not harm Daniel. If it had been composed a little bit later, the Book of Daniel may have been consigned to the pile of texts labelled the ‘Apocrypha’, and the story of Daniel in the lions’ den would not be as well-known as it is.ĭaniel, a Jewish man living in Babylon during the Babylonian Captivity, is thrown into the lions’ den for praying to God when an edict prohibited it. Everyone knows that Samson’s mighty strength resided in his hair, and everyone knows that Delilah, his lover, cut off his hair and thus deprived him of his strength.Įxcept the second part of this isn’t strictly true … Samson’s birth is foretold to a childless couple, so his conception is something of a miracle. The story of Samson is found in chapters 13-16 of the Book of Judges, in the Old Testament. But David wasn’t the underdog, in fact – and, in the first account of this story in the Bible, he wasn’t involved at all! We explore these issues in the post above.

The story is an inspiring example of how the plucky underdog triumphed against a much stronger opponent. Virtually everyone vaguely acquainted with Bible stories knows that David, as a young boy, slew the giant Goliath. The story of David and Goliath is one of the most iconic and celebrated tales from the Old Testament. The story of Moses parting the waters of the Red Sea so he and the Israelites could flee Egypt and travel to the Promised Land is one of the most famous stories from the Old Testament.īut was it really the Red Sea or was it, in fact, a Reed Sea? We explore this episode from the Book of Exodus in the post linked to above.

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