Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Chronicles 29:27

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Chronicles 29:27 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Chronicles 29:27. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 2 Chronicles, King Hezekiah asked people to make a special offering to God, and as soon as they began, music and songs started with trumpets and instruments, just like King David had planned long ago. This was a way to worship and celebrate God together with music.

2 Chronicles 29:27: And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began [also] with the trumpets, and with the instruments [ordained] by David king of Israel. [when: Heb. in the time] [the instruments: Heb. hands of instruments]

Contradiction with Amos 5:21-23

These verses express God's displeasure with the Israelites' sacrifices and ceremonies, which suggests that offerings and music, like those in 2 Chronicles 29:27, were not always pleasing to Him.

Amos 5:21-23: I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. [in...: or, your holy days]

Contradiction with Isaiah 1:11-14

Isaiah conveys that God takes no delight in the multitude of sacrifices, implying a contradiction to the practices endorsed in 2 Chronicles 29:27.

Isaiah 1:11-14: To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. [he goats: Heb. great he goats]

Contradiction with Jeremiah 6:20

God questions the value of offerings, indicating an inconsistency with the positive view of sacrificial worship in 2 Chronicles 29:27.

Jeremiah 6:20: To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings [are] not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

Contradiction with Hosea 6:6

God declares a preference for mercy over sacrifice, contradicting the focus on sacrifices and burnt offerings in 2 Chronicles 29:27.

Hosea 6:6: For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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