Unusual Bible Stories
Bible Stories
While some prophets were chopping down trees, one of their iron axheads flew off and plopped into the Jordan River. Elisha cut a stick, threw it in the river, and the axhead floatted to the surface (2 Kings 6:1-7).


Eglon king of Moab was so fat that when Ehud, Israel's deliverer, rammed his sword into the king's belly, even the sword's handle disappeared (Judges 3:12-23).


King David's son Absalom rode his mule under an oak tree and got his head caught in some branches. The mule kept going, leaving Absalom hanging, very much alive. When Joab heard of the incident, he went and used Absalom, his bitter enemy, for javelin practice (2 Samuel 18:9-15).


While listening to the apostle Paul preach late one night, a young man named Eutychus fell asleep. Unfortunately, he was sitting in an open third-story window, and he fell to the ground below. As you might imagine, the fall was lethal. Paul quit preaching, went downstairs, raised the man from the dead and then went back upstairs and finished his semon (Acts 20:7-12).


Some Israelites were burying a man when they spotted a band of raiders. They dumped the body into the prophet Elisha's tomb. "When the body touched Elisha's bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet" (2 Kings 13:20-21). 1