Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Kings 20:20

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Kings 20:20 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Kings 20:20. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Kings, this verse tells us that King Hezekiah did many important things, like making a special pool and tunnel to bring water into the city, and these deeds were recorded in another book about the kings. It's like saying, "If you want to know more about what Hezekiah did, you can look it up in a different storybook."

2 Kings 20:20: And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Contradiction with 1 Kings 7:23

Explains the dimensions of the molten sea differently than the engineering accomplishment described in 2 Kings 20:20.

1 Kings 7:23: And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: [it was] round all about, and his height [was] five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. [from...: Heb. from his brim to his brim]

Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 32:30

Credits Hezekiah with building a pool and a conduit, but does not mention the "other acts" that 2 Kings 20:20 refers to.

2 Chronicles 32:30: This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
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