Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Kings 22:3

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Kings 22:3 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Kings 22:3. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 2 Kings, this verse is about King Josiah who was a good king and wanted to make sure God's temple was taken care of. He asked a helper named Shaphan to go and check on it.

2 Kings 22:3: And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [that] the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,

Contradiction with 2 Kings 23:24-27

Contradicts 2 Kings 22:3 by showing that despite Josiah's reforms and righteousness mentioned earlier, the Lord did not turn away from the fierceness of His great wrath.

2 Kings 23:24-27: Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. [images: or, teraphim]

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