Contradictions and Paradoxes in Deuteronomy 3:17

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Deuteronomy 3:17 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Deuteronomy 3:17. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, this verse describes a part of the land that God promised to His people, including a big plain, the Jordan River, and two special bodies of water called Chinnereth and the Salt Sea. It's like a map showing the beautiful places God wanted to give to the people He loved.

Deuteronomy 3:17: The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast [thereof], from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward. [Ashdothpisgah; or, the springs of Pisgah, or, the hill]

Contradiction with Genesis 1:9

Genesis 1:9 describes God gathering waters into one place with dry land appearing, while Deuteronomy 3:17 distinguishes specific water boundaries.

Genesis 1:9: And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.

Contradiction with Joshua 1:4

Joshua 1:4 sets the Jordan as a border to the territory promised, while Deuteronomy 3:17 specifies it as a demarcation within granted possessions.

Joshua 1:4: From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

Contradiction with Psalm 24:1

Psalm 24:1 states that the Earth and its fullness belong to the Lord, which can contrast with human-defined territorial divisions mentioned in Deuteronomy 3:17.

Psalm 24:1: [A Psalm of David.] The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
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