Contradictions and Paradoxes in Joshua 12:24

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Joshua 12:24 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Joshua 12:24. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Joshua, this verse tells us that there were 31 kings in total that the Israelites defeated in their journey. It helps to show how they followed God’s plan to settle in the land He promised them.

Joshua 12:24: The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.

Contradiction with 1 Samuel 13:8

This verse mentions Saul reigning over Israel, contradicting the idea of continued unified leadership under Joshua.

1 Samuel 13:8: And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

Contradiction with Numbers 14:33

This verse discusses the Israelites wandering for 40 years, contrasting with the settled victories over kings as reported in Joshua 12:24.

Numbers 14:33: And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. [wander: or, feed]

Contradiction with Judges 2:21

This verse states that some nations were not driven out, contradicting the completeness of conquest implied in Joshua 12:24.

Judges 2:21: I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

Contradiction with Judges 3:1-2

This indicates that nations were left to teach warfare, conflicting with the total defeat of kings described in Joshua 12:24.

Judges 3:1-2: Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
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