If this doesn't make you question the Bible, I don't know what will...

by ILoveTTATT2 6 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • ILoveTTATT2
    ILoveTTATT2

    I took the time to compare the different accounts in 1-2 Samuel and 1-2 Kings with 1-2 Chronicles.

    I compared both the Masoretic Text (based on the New World Translation) and the Septuagint (based on NETS).

    Since apologists usually can weasel out of contradictions in things such as whether Jehovah feels regret or he doesn't, but numbers are much harder to explain when they're different, I have made a list of the differences in the numbers expressed in the various scriptures.

    Judge for yourself. How can there be so many differences in the numbers of things? There are multiple differences in the same chapter sometimes!

    Scripture 1 Scripture 2 Scripture 3 MT1 LXX1 MT2 LXX2 MT3 LXX3
    2 Samuel 8:4 1 Chronicles 18:4 1,700 1,000 1,000 1,000 NA NA
    2 Samuel 8:4 1 Chronicles 18:4 (included) 7,000 7,000 7,000 NA NA
    2 Samuel 8:13 1 Chronicles 18:12 Psalm 60 (59 in LXX) superscript 18,000 18,000 18,000 18,000 12,000 12,000
    2 Samuel 10:18 1 Chronicles 19:18 700 700 7,000 7,000 NA NA
    2 Samuel 24:9 1 Chronicles 21:5 800,000 800,000 1,100,000 1,100,000 NA NA
    2 Samuel 24:9 1 Chronicles 21:5 500,000 500,000 470,000 480,000 NA NA
    2 Samuel 24:13 1 Chronicles 21:12 7 3 3 3 NA NA
    2 Samuel 24:24 1 Chronicles 21:25 50 silver 50 silver 600 gold 600 gold NA NA
    1 Kings 7:26 2 Chronicles 4:5 2,000 (omits) 3,000 3,000 NA NA
    1 Kings 9:23 2 Chronicles 8:10 550 (omits) 250 250 NA NA
    1 Kings 9:28 2 Chronicles 8:18 420 120 450 450 NA NA
    1 Kings 10:26 2 Chronicles 9:25 1,400 4,000 4,000 4,000 NA NA
  • ILoveTTATT2
  • Doug Mason
    Doug Mason

    Samuel and Kings are part of the history assembled during the 6th century BCE. This is known as the Deuteronomic History (Deuteronomy, Judges, Joshua, Samuel and Kings).

    Chronicles was written about 200 years later, during the Persian era, by a person whose religious leanings did not align with those who penned the DH. Hence the need to write Chronicles. (I presume it's in two parts due to the physical limitations imposed by the length of a scroll.)

    There is any number of subtle indications in Chronicles which indicate the writer's religious politics. Off the top of the head, I think that the story surrounding Manasseh shows this.

    Doug

  • stuckinarut2
  • DATA-DOG
    DATA-DOG

    LOL!!!

    DD

  • ILoveTTATT2
    ILoveTTATT2

    Stuckinatut... Thank you! Same as my work but actually fun!!

  • Tenacious
    Tenacious

    Marked

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