Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Chronicles 30:3

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Chronicles 30:3 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Chronicles 30:3. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 2 Chronicles, the people couldn’t have the special celebration because the priests weren't ready yet, and all the people had not come together in Jerusalem. So, they had to wait until everything was prepared properly.

2 Chronicles 30:3: For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

Contradiction with Numbers 9:2-3

Numbers 9:2-3 instructs that the Passover should be kept at its appointed time, which is the fourteenth day of the first month, contradicting the postponement of the Passover in 2 Chronicles 30:3.

Numbers 9:2-3: Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 16:1

Deuteronomy 16:1 commands to observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover as appointed, contrasting the delay and alteration of the Passover time in 2 Chronicles 30:3.

Deuteronomy 16:1: Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

Contradiction with Exodus 12:18

Exodus 12:18 specifies the date for observing Passover, the fourteenth day of the first month, which contradicts the different timing decided in 2 Chronicles 30:3.

Exodus 12:18: In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
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