Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Kings 24:10

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Kings 24:10 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Kings 24:10. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 2 Kings, this verse talks about a king named Nebuchadnezzar from Babylon who sent his army to surround and attack the city of Jerusalem. The city was in big trouble because the soldiers wouldn't let people come in or go out.

2 Kings 24:10: At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. [was...: Heb. came into siege]

Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 36:10

This verse states that Jehoiachin was taken to Babylon in the spring, while 2 Kings 24:10 implies that it occurred at a different time.

2 Chronicles 36:10: And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. [when...: Heb. at the return of the year] [goodly...: Heb. vessels of desire] [Zedekiah...: or, Mattaniah, his father's brother]

Contradiction with Jeremiah 52:28

This verse records the number of captives taken as 3,023 at the time, contradicting the account in 2 Kings 24:10 which does not specify a number of captives and occurs in a broader narrative context.

Jeremiah 52:28: This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

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