Contradictions and Paradoxes in 1 Chronicles 7:4

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 1 Chronicles 7:4 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 1 Chronicles 7:4. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 1 Chronicles, this verse tells us that there were a lot of soldiers, 36,000 in total, because the families had many children and could have more soldiers. It shows how big and strong their group was because of the many people in their families.

1 Chronicles 7:4: And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, [were] bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand [men]: for they had many wives and sons.

Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 17:14

Contradicts the number of mighty men of valor given in 1 Chronicles 7:4 by providing different figures of armed forces.

2 Chronicles 17:14: And these [are] the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.

Contradiction with Numbers 26:34

Conflicts with the population count of the tribes as reported in 1 Chronicles 7:4.

Numbers 26:34: These [are] the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.

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