Contradictions and Paradoxes in 1 Chronicles 5:15

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 1 Chronicles 5:15 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 1 Chronicles 5:15. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 1 Chronicles, this verse is telling us about a man named Ahi, who was an important leader in his family. It helps us understand the family history and who was in charge of his group long ago.

1 Chronicles 5:15: Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.

Contradiction with 1 Chronicles 5:16

This verse states they dwelt in the land, indicating stability, while 1 Chronicles 5:15 suggests a lineage or ancestry reference.

1 Chronicles 5:16: And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders. [their...: Heb. their goings forth]

Contradiction with 1 Samuel 18:2

Saul took David to not return, indicating a lack of dwelling, contrasting with the dwelling mentioned in 1 Chronicles 5:15.

1 Samuel 18:2: And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.

Contradiction with Numbers 1:18

Assembling by genealogy implies clarity in lineage, whereas 1 Chronicles 5:15 doesn't explicitly list names, creating incongruence regarding ancestral details.

Numbers 1:18: And they assembled all the congregation together on the first [day] of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

Contradiction with Genesis 11:2

Movement from one land to another contrasts with the settled dwelling in 1 Chronicles 5:15.

Genesis 11:2: And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. [from...: or, eastward]

Contradiction with James 4:13

Implies uncertainty and future movement, contrasting the established dwelling in 1 Chronicles 5:15.

James 4:13: Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

Contradiction with Hebrews 11:9

Describes dwelling in tents as strangers, highlighting a nomadic existence different from 1 Chronicles 5:15's implication of permanence.

Hebrews 11:9: By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
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