Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Chronicles 2:10

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Chronicles 2:10 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Chronicles 2:10. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Ezra, this verse shows that King Solomon was kind and generous by giving lots of food and drink to the workers cutting the wood for building God's temple. This means he wanted to make sure they were well taken care of and happy while working.

2 Chronicles 2:10: And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 2:9

This verse specifies a quantity of one hundred thousand measures of wheat, while 2 Chronicles 2:10 specifies twenty thousand measures.

2 Chronicles 2:9: Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build [shall be] wonderful great. [wonderful...: Heb. great and wonderful]

Contradiction with 1 Kings 5:11

This verse also mentions twenty measures of pure oil, instead of twenty thousand baths of oil as in 2 Chronicles 2:10.

1 Kings 5:11: And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat [for] food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. [measures: Heb. cors]

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