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While the Hebrew Bible is not mythological in the usual sense, there are passages that ring familiar from myths elsewhere. A few of them are found in the section of Isaiah, chapters 24 through 27, called by modern scholars \u201cthe Isaiah Apocalypse.\u201d Our chapter contains the idea that God will fight against, and defeat, other heavenly creatures (24:21-23):<\/span><\/p>\n

In that day, the Lord will punish the host of heaven in heaven and the kings of the earth on earth. They shall be gathered in a dungeon as captives are gathered, and locked up in a prison. But after many days they shall be remembered. Then the moon shall be ashamed and the sun shall be abashed. For the Lord of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and His glory will be revealed to His elders.<\/span><\/p>\n

The existence of a \u201chost of Heaven\u201d is not unique to here: we often sing, \u201cGive praise to the Lord \/ give praise, O divine beings (<\/span>bene elim<\/span><\/em>),\u201d and the rhetorical question, \u201cWho is like you among the divine beings?\u201d would lose much of its force if there were in fact no such beings. <\/span><\/p>\n

But the idea that God would demote them, punishing them in a dungeon and then shaming them, is not all that common. It is found in a Psalm (the \u201csong for Tuesday,\u201d Psalm 82), where God says, \u201cI had taken you for divine beings, sons of the Most High, all of you; but you shall die as men do, fall like any prince.\u201d The conclusion there would be appropriate here, as well:<\/span><\/p>\n

Arise, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are Your possession!<\/span><\/p>\n

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