Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Chronicles 35:6

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Chronicles 35:6 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Chronicles 35:6. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 2 Chronicles, God wanted people to get ready for a special meal called Passover. They needed to clean themselves and help their friends so they could celebrate just like God told Moses a long time ago.

2 Chronicles 35:6: So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that [they] may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

Contradiction with Exodus 12:6

Contradiction in the timing and location of killing the Passover lamb, which is instructed to be kept until the fourteenth day of the same month in the evening by the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.

Exodus 12:6: And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. [in...: Heb. between the two evenings]

Contradiction with Numbers 9:11

Contradiction in the timing of the Passover, as it describes keeping the Passover in the second month on the fourteenth day at evening, deviating from the traditional first month celebration.

Numbers 9:11: The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs].

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 16:5

Contradiction in location, where it is stated that the Passover cannot be sacrificed within any of the town gates, unlike the centralized worship place referenced in 2 Chronicles 35:6.

Deuteronomy 16:5: Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: [sacrifice: or, kill]

Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 30:2-3

Contradiction in the observance timing, where it is noted that the Passover was observed in the second month due to impurity and lack of priests, rather than the first month as followed in 2 Chronicles 35:6.

2 Chronicles 30:2-3: For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
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