Contradictions and Paradoxes in 1 Chronicles 29:17

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 1 Chronicles 29:17 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 1 Chronicles 29:17. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 1 Chronicles, God is happy when people are honest and good inside their hearts. He loves when people give freely and happily to Him, just like the people in the story did.

1 Chronicles 29:17: I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee. [present: Heb. found]

Contradiction with Jeremiah 17:9

1 Chronicles 29:17 acknowledges God testing the heart's integrity, whereas Jeremiah 17:9 highlights the heart's deceitful nature, suggesting one cannot truly understand it.

Jeremiah 17:9: The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Contradiction with Genesis 6:5

1 Chronicles 29:17 speaks of integrity within the heart, while Genesis 6:5 declares that every imagination of the human heart is only evil continually.

Genesis 6:5: And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually. [every...: or, the whole imagination: the Hebrew word signifieth not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires] [continually: Heb. every day]

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