Contradictions and Paradoxes in Ezra 8:15

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Ezra 8:15 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Ezra 8:15. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Ezra, he brought everyone to a river and they stayed there for three days in tents. While looking at the people and priests, he noticed there were no Levites, who are special helpers for God's work.

Ezra 8:15: And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi. [abode: or, pitched]

Contradiction with Ezra 2:64

This verse lists the entire congregation that returned with Zerubbabel, contradicting the seemingly smaller gathering mentioned in Ezra 8:15.

Ezra 2:64: The whole congregation together [was] forty and two thousand three hundred [and] threescore,

Contradiction with Nehemiah 7:66

This verse presents a total number of returning exiles, which conflicts with the specific gathering in Ezra 8:15.

Nehemiah 7:66: The whole congregation together [was] forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

Contradiction with Ezra 8:2

Lists priestly and royal descendants, differing from the absence of Levites noted in Ezra 8:15.

Ezra 8:2: Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.

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