Any good stories in the Bible?

any good stories in the Bible?

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Yes, of course. Hundreds.

One of my favorites is a little known tale about a judge named Ehud. Ehud was a left handed man who sought an audience with one of the pagan kings neighboring Israel. This king was a fat man, but paranoid, and Ehud said he had information the king must hear.

Ehud, being a left handed man, fashioned a shank and hid it on his right thigh. Thus secreted, he gained an audience with the fat king and stabbed him so viciously that the king's bowels burst out, and the shank was completely enveloped by fat and guts.

Ehud makes his escape, but the servants of the king get nervous, as it begins to stink in the king's chamber. They figure he's just taking a dump. However, a lot of time passes. When they finally open the door, there is their dead fat king, but no Ehud. Clean getaway.

Joab has an interesting story, and is an incredibly interesting character--a calculating and underhanded but brilliant and undefeated general serving under King David; basically a bad guy working for the good guys.

Sounds like a dick move.

In your pic, we see Ruth, from Moab, who returned to her mother-in-law Naomi's home after Naomi lost her husband and all of her sons. Ruth said perhaps one of the best things in the bible:

“Entreat me not to leave you,
Or to turn back from following after you;
For wherever you go, I will go;
And wherever you lodge, I will lodge;
Your people shall be my people,
And your God, my God.
Where you die, I will die,
And there will I be buried.
The Lord do so to me, and more also,
If anything but death parts you and me.”

In Hebrew law, the landowners were not allowed to harvest the corners of the fields, nor were they allowed to harvest twice. They had to leave some grain available for beggars and poor people to come and glean, so that they could live. That's what's happening in your pic. Boaz, the man in the hat, is talking to Ruth as she gleans the leftover crops.

Eventually Naomi realizes that Boaz is smitten with Ruth, and arranges to have them meet in more familiar surroundings. She tells Ruth to go to where Boaz crashes for the night after a hard day's work, and sleep at his feet, covered with his robe. Ruth does so.

Boaz wakes up and falls in love with Ruth. After settling some land disputes, Boaz takes Ruth for his wife, and Ruth provides for Naomi for the rest of her life.

Boaz and Ruth had children, who had children, who gave birth to King David. The house where Boaz met Ruth? That turned into a little inn in a place you know as Bethlehem.

A place where, a thousand years later, there was no room for David's heirs, Mary and Joseph, to rest.

Most assassinations are.

Good? Depends on the definition of good. Interesting stories are close to zero. Stories to learn from? A couple two or three. Loving your neighbor and helping people you don't know are good ones. Rest is bullshit.

I find the story of Reuben and Bilhah interesting, if only for the implication that he seduced her out of a concern for his mother's honor. Admittedly, since it's thrown out almost as an afterthought, it leaves a lot of ambiguity.

That's a beautiful story. Got a little teary.