1 Chronicles 11:22
“Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.”

This verse (along with the parallel in 2 Samuel 23:20) illustrates two things once thought to be “Bible difficulties.”

The first are lions. There are no lions in Palestine now and it was thought by some that this was an imaginary interpolation of a non-native animal that the writer had heard about. However, we’ve learned in the last 100 years or so that lions were indeed native to Palestine until probably around AD 1200.

The second is snow. Snow was once thought to be problematic in biblical narratives. But it does snow in Israel – especially in Jerusalem, which is just under 2,500 feet/760 meters above sea level. Just not very often. Maybe once every 2 or 3 years.

Takeaway? The scriptures are reliable. The primary way we know this is because God said so. But we have also learned that many issues sometimes historically thought to be problematic are not. Even now, we are still learning things that illustrate aspects of life in Bible times. And learning that things shed light on Bible passages and make those pages more exciting to us. And when light is shed on Bible passages, we learn even more about God, the divine author.