Contradictions Catalog of Ecclesiastes 1:5
Ecclesiastes 1:5 contradicts following 24 verses in the Bible. Check out Contradictions and Paradoxes of Ecclesiastes 1:5 for quick understanding.
Ecclesiastes 1:5: The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. [hasteth: Heb. panteth]
| # | Contradicting Verse | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Genesis 1:14 | And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: [the day...: Heb. between the day and between the night] |
| 2. | Genesis 19:23 | The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. [risen: Heb. gone forth] |
| 3. | Joshua 10:12 | Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. [stand...: Heb. be silent] |
| 4. | Joshua 10:13 | And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. [Is] not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. [Jasher: or, the upright?] |
| 5. | 2 Samuel 23:4 | And [he shall be] as the light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds; [as] the tender grass [springing] out of the earth by clear shining after rain. |
| 6. | 2 Kings 20:10 | And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. |
| 7. | 2 Kings 20:11 | And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz. [dial: Heb. degrees] |
| 8. | Job 38:12 | Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place; |
| 9. | Job 38:13 | That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? [ends: Heb. wings] |
| 10. | Psalms 8:3 | When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; |
| 11. | Psalms 19:5 | Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, [and] rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. |
| 12. | Psalms 19:6 | His going forth [is] from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. |
| 13. | Psalms 113:3 | From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name [is] to be praised. |
| 14. | Isaiah 30:26 | Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. |
| 15. | Isaiah 38:8 | Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. [sun dial: Heb. degrees by, or, with the sun] |
| 16. | Isaiah 40:22 | [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: [It is...: or, Him that] |
| 17. | Isaiah 40:26 | Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these [things], that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not one faileth. |
| 18. | Isaiah 60:20 | Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. |
| 19. | Ezekiel 32:8 | All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD. [bright...: Heb. lights of the light in heaven] [dark: Heb. them dark] |
| 20. | Joel 2:10 | The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: |
| 21. | Amos 8:9 | And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: |
| 22. | Habakkuk 3:11 | The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, [and] at the shining of thy glittering spear. [at the light...: or, thine arrows walked in the light] |
| 23. | Luke 23:45 | And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. |
| 24. | Revelation 16:8 | And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. |
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