Contradictions and Paradoxes in Deuteronomy 4:47

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Deuteronomy 4:47 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Deuteronomy 4:47. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, God helped the Israelites win the lands from two powerful kings, Sihon and Og, who lived on the east side of the Jordan River. This shows that God was with them and helped them get a new home.

Deuteronomy 4:47: And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which [were] on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

Contradiction with Joshua 12:1

Deuteronomy 4:47 states that Israel possessed the land east of Jordan, while Joshua 12:1 lists it among lands conquered but not yet possessed by Israel.

Joshua 12:1: Now these [are] the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 3:12

Deuteronomy 4:47 mentions Israel possessing the land whereas Deuteronomy 3:12 refers to Moses distributing the land to the tribes as a future event, not yet possessed.

Deuteronomy 3:12: And this land, [which] we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which [is] by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

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