A lot of them were also understood to be parables, obfuscations, and metaphors but Europeans in the early 300s lacked a decent grasp of literary concept. In particular there are two tellings of the demolishment of the walls of Jericho. There’s the one where the trumpet blast did it, but there’s also the one where the trumpet blast was a signal to the sappers under the walls to knock out the support beams they’d rigged while they were working to undermine the foundations of the wall