Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Kings 15:29

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Kings 15:29 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Kings 15:29. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 2 Kings, this story tells us about a time when a powerful king named Tiglathpileser from Assyria took over many places where the Israelites lived and took some of the people away to his land. It shows that when the Israelites did not listen to God, they sometimes lost their homes to other countries.

2 Kings 15:29: In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

Contradiction with 2 Kings 15:19

This verse references Pul, the king of Assyria, differently in context from 2 Kings 15:29, causing confusion about Assyrian invasions.

2 Kings 15:19: [And] Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

Contradiction with 2 Kings 14:28

This verse details territories reclaimed by Jeroboam, contradicting the implication of lost territories in 2 Kings 15:29.

2 Kings 14:28: Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, [which belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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