Contradictions and Paradoxes in Ezra 5:14

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Ezra 5:14 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Ezra 5:14. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Ezra, the gold and silver treasures from God's house, which were taken to a temple in Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar, were given back by King Cyrus to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom Cyrus made a leader. This shows that God was helping the people get back their special things so they could return home and rebuild.

Ezra 5:14: And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that [was] in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto [one], whose name [was] Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor; [governor: or, deputy]

Contradiction with 2 Kings 24:13

This verse describes Nebuchadnezzar taking treasures from the house of the Lord, which contrasts with the return of these treasures mentioned in Ezra 5:14.

2 Kings 24:13: And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 36:18-19

This mentions the taking away and destruction of the treasures of the house of the Lord, contrasting with their restitution as noted in Ezra 5:14.

2 Chronicles 36:18-19: And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all [these] he brought to Babylon.

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