Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Chronicles 9:1

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Chronicles 9:1 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Chronicles 9:1. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 2 Chronicles, the queen of Sheba traveled to see King Solomon because she heard he was very wise and wanted to ask him many questions. She brought many gifts like spices, gold, and precious stones to see if he really was as amazing as people said.

2 Chronicles 9:1: And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

Contradiction with 1 Kings 11:1

While 2 Chronicles 9:1 describes the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon, 1 Kings 11:1 focuses on Solomon's love for many foreign women, which is a different narrative and suggests a potential conflict of interest or distraction from royal duties.

1 Kings 11:1: But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, [and] Hittites; [together...: or, beside]

Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 9:9

Although connected to the same event, 2 Chronicles 9:9 describes the Queen of Sheba giving gifts to Solomon, which could contradict the notion of her solely testing him with hard questions as mentioned in 2 Chronicles 9:1.

2 Chronicles 9:9: And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.

Contradiction with Matthew 12:42

This verse contrasts with 2 Chronicles 9:1 by referring to the Queen of Sheba as the "queen of the south" and asserting she will rise in judgment against the people of Jesus' time, expanding her role beyond a visitor to Solomon.

Matthew 12:42: The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here.
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