Contradictions and Paradoxes in Ezekiel 39:12

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Ezekiel 39:12 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Ezekiel 39:12. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Ezekiel, the people of Israel will spend seven months burying their enemies to make the land clean again. This shows that they are taking time to make everything right and pure.

Ezekiel 39:12: And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

Contradiction with Numbers 9:6-7

These verses describe a delay in the observance of a holy event due to contact with a dead body, contrasting with Ezekiel 39:12 where burial takes place over seven months, highlighting different practices concerning the dead.

Numbers 9:6-7: And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 21:22-23

This passage requires that a hanged man be buried the same day, which contrasts with the extended period of burial in Ezekiel 39:12.

Deuteronomy 21:22-23: And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

Contradiction with John 11:39

Here, the concern about the odor from a body after four days contradicts the seven-month burial process in Ezekiel 39:12, differing in the approach to decomposition.

John 11:39: Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been [dead] four days.

Contradiction with Acts 5:6

The immediate burial of Ananias by young men upon his death contrasts with the protracted burial period over seven months in Ezekiel 39:12.

Acts 5:6: And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried [him] out, and buried [him].
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