Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Kings 15:13

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Kings 15:13 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Kings 15:13. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 2 Kings, Shallum became king in the land of Israel when another king named Uzziah was ruling in a nearby place called Judah. Shallum was king for only one month before something happened, and he was not king anymore.

2 Kings 15:13: Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria. [Uzziah: Gr. Ozias] [a full...: Heb. a month of days]

Contradiction with 2 Kings 12:1

Contradicts with the reign of Jehoash beginning in the seventh year of Jehu, differing from Zachariah's timeline in 2 Kings 15:13.

2 Kings 12:1: In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Zibiah of Beersheba.

Contradiction with 2 Kings 14:23

Conflicts with Jeroboam's reign timeline, which affects Zachariah's purported lineage and rule period stated in 2 Kings 15:13.

2 Kings 14:23: In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, [and reigned] forty and one years.

Contradiction with 2 Kings 16:1

Offers a different timeframe for the reign of the kings compared to Zachariah's period mentioned in 2 Kings 15:13.

2 Kings 16:1: In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

Contradiction with 2 Kings 15:30

Depicts the rise to power of Hoshea, conflicting with the brief rule of Zachariah described in 2 Kings 15:13.

2 Kings 15:30: And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
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