Contradictions and Paradoxes in Haggai 2:1

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Haggai 2:1 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Haggai 2:1. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Haggai, God spoke to the people through a man named Haggai on a special day. He wanted to tell them something important.

Haggai 2:1: In the seventh [month], in the one and twentieth [day] of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying, [by: Heb. by the hand of]

Contradiction with Haggai 1:1

Contradicts as it references the sixth month, whereas Haggai 2:1 references the seventh month.

Haggai 1:1: In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, [by: Heb. by the hand of] [governor: or, captain]

Contradiction with Nehemiah 6:15

Contradicts in the timing of events, as the wall completion differs from the prophecy timing in Haggai 2:1.

Nehemiah 6:15: So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty and two days.

Contradiction with Ezra 3:1

Contradicts as it refers to the seventh month aligning with different events, unlike Haggai 2:1's message.

Ezra 3:1: And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel [were] in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

Contradiction with Genesis 8:4

Contradicts with different significant seventh-month events contrasted to Haggai 2:1's prophecy timeline.

Genesis 8:4: And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
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