Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Chronicles 29:17

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Chronicles 29:17 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Chronicles 29:17. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book, this verse tells us about a time when people cleaned and made God’s special house ready again in just over two weeks. They started working on the first day of the month and finished making it pure and nice to enter by the sixteenth day.

2 Chronicles 29:17: Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

Contradiction with 1 Samuel 15:22

This verse emphasizes that obedience is better than sacrifice, which might contradict the emphasis on purification and dedication rituals in 2 Chronicles 29:17.

1 Samuel 15:22: And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams.

Contradiction with Matthew 12:7

This verse suggests that mercy is more important than sacrifice, which may conflict with the focus on sacrificial purification in 2 Chronicles 29:17.

Matthew 12:7: But if ye had known what [this] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Contradiction with Hebrews 10:4

States that it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins, contradicting the idea that sacrificial rituals are central to purification as implied in 2 Chronicles 29:17.

Hebrews 10:4: For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

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