Contradictions and Paradoxes in Deuteronomy 26:9

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Deuteronomy 26:9 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Deuteronomy 26:9. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, God brought the people to a special place and gave them a wonderful land that was full of good things, like milk and honey. It was a happy and rich land for everyone to live in and enjoy.

Deuteronomy 26:9: And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, [even] a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Contradiction with Numbers 14:29-30

These verses state that none of the men who were counted in the census, who have seen God's glory and signs, but have tested Him, will enter the promised land, which contradicts the promise of a land flowing with milk and honey in Deuteronomy 26:9.

Numbers 14:29-30: Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

Contradiction with Hebrews 11:13

This verse notes that many died in faith without having received the promises, contradicting the assurance of receiving the promised land as described in Deuteronomy 26:9.

Hebrews 11:13: These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. [in faith: Gr. according to faith]

Contradiction with Joshua 5:6

Here, it is mentioned that the Israelites wandered for forty years and the generation that did not obey God's voice did not see the promised land, which contradicts the immediate possession suggested in Deuteronomy 26:9.

Joshua 5:6: For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Contradiction with Psalm 95:11

God declares that the Israelites shall not enter into His rest, which seems to contradict the assurance of entering a pleasant land in Deuteronomy 26:9.

Psalm 95:11: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. [that...: Heb. if they enter into my rest]

Contradiction with Hebrews 3:18-19

These verses convey that those who were disobedient were not allowed to enter the promised rest, contrasting with the promise of land fulfillment in Deuteronomy 26:9.

Hebrews 3:18-19: And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
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