Contradictions and Paradoxes in 1 Samuel 17:31

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 1 Samuel 17:31 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 1 Samuel 17:31. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 1 Samuel, people heard David talking and told King Saul about it, so Saul asked David to come and see him. David was brave and ready to help, and that's why Saul wanted to meet him.

1 Samuel 17:31: And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed [them] before Saul: and he sent for him. [sent...: Heb. took him]

Contradiction with 1 Samuel 16:19

Contradicts how Saul is unaware of David, as Saul already sent for David to attend him.

1 Samuel 16:19: Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which [is] with the sheep.

Contradiction with 1 Samuel 17:58

Saul acts as if he does not recognize David, contradicting prior familiarity from 1 Samuel 16.

1 Samuel 17:58: And Saul said to him, Whose son [art] thou, [thou] young man? And David answered, I [am] the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

Contradiction with 2 Samuel 21:19

Suggests that Elhanan killed Goliath, contradicting David being called to Saul because of his words against Goliath.

2 Samuel 21:19: And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew [the brother of] Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver's beam. [Jaareoregim: or, Jair]
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