Contradictions and Paradoxes in 1 Chronicles 10:12

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 1 Chronicles 10:12 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 1 Chronicles 10:12. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 1 Chronicles, the brave men took King Saul and his sons' bodies to bury them under a special tree and then didn't eat for seven days to show respect and sadness.

1 Chronicles 10:12: They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Contradiction with 1 Samuel 31:12-13

Contradicts on the account of those involved as it's specified in 1 Samuel 31:11-13 that it was the valiant men of Jabesh-gilead who took the bodies of Saul and his sons, while 1 Chronicles 10:12 speaks of the inhabitants.

1 Samuel 31:12-13: All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

Contradiction with 2 Samuel 21:12-14

This passage discusses David retrieving the bones of Saul and Jonathan, which contradicts the narrative focus of 1 Chronicles 10:12 concerning the immediate actions taken by Jabesh-gilead's inhabitants after Saul's death.

2 Samuel 21:12-14: And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
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