Contradiction with Numbers 26:41
This verse provides a different number for the descendants of Benjamin, which could contradict the count or portrayal of abundance in 1 Chronicles 12:30.
Numbers 26:41: These [are] the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and six hundred.
Contradiction with Judges 20:15
This verse lists a different number related to the tribe of Benjamin's warriors, suggesting a discrepancy in the count provided in 1 Chronicles 12:30.
Judges 20:15: And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
Contradiction with 1 Samuel 13:2
In this verse, the number of men following Saul from Benjamin is substantially lower, contradicting the large number implied in 1 Chronicles 12:30.
1 Samuel 13:2: Saul chose him three thousand [men] of Israel; [whereof] two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.