Contradictions Catalog of Judges 20:17

Judges 20:17 contradicts following 11 verses in the Bible. Check out Contradictions and Paradoxes of Judges 20:17 for quick understanding.

Judges 20:17: And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men of war.
# Contradicting Verse Translation
1. Numbers 1:46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
2. Numbers 26:51 These [were] the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
3. Joshua 4:13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho. [prepared: or, ready armed]
4. Judges 1:19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out [the inhabitants of] the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. [drave...: or, possessed the mountain]
5. Judges 20:46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [were] men of valour.
6. 1 Samuel 11:8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
7. 2 Samuel 24:9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah [were] five hundred thousand men.
8. 1 Chronicles 12:26 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
9. 1 Chronicles 12:27 And Jehoiada [was] the leader of the Aaronites, and with him [were] three thousand and seven hundred;
10. 1 Chronicles 21:5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
11. 2 Chronicles 25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of [their] fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice [men, able] to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
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