I've seen the fly thing explained that storms in an arid or semi arid areas often cause massive insect hatches.
Another fun fact, there is a Roman era temple associated with Ba'al(though at this point not really, because the Romans syncretized Ba'al with Jupiter and Zeus(because of the thunderbolt association), so it was pretty much just a Roman mythology temple at that point) with some utterly massive 800 ton foundation stones.
I've seen the fly thing explained that storms in an arid or semi arid areas often cause massive insect hatches.
Another fun fact, there is a Roman era temple associated with Ba'al(though at this point not really, because the Romans syncretized Ba'al with Jupiter and Zeus(because of the thunderbolt association), so it was pretty much just a Roman mythology temple at that point) with some utterly massive 800 ton foundation stones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baalbek_Stones
When Herod the Idumean had the retaining wall for the Jerusalem temple mount built, he also put a giant stone at the bottom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Stone