Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Chronicles 3:2

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

According to the author of the Chronicles, this verse tells us that King Solomon started building a big and special house for God. He began this important work after he had been king for four years.

2 Chronicles 3:2: And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

Contradiction with 1 Kings 6:1

While 2 Chronicles 3:2 states that Solomon began building the temple in the second month of the fourth year of his reign, 1 Kings 6:1 specifies that it was 480 years after the Exodus, suggesting a different timeline when calculated.

1 Kings 6:1: And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. [began...: Heb. built]
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