Contradictions and Paradoxes in Joshua 12:5

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Joshua 12:5 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Joshua 12:5. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book, Joshua, this verse tells us about a king who ruled over a big area with many places and was near lands belonging to different groups of people, showing that God's people were in a land with many neighbors. It helps us understand the places where God's people lived long ago.

Joshua 12:5: And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 3:11

Og king of Bashan is described as the last of the Rephaim, suggesting a time before his defeat, while Joshua 12:5 claims the land was taken over by the Israelites, contradicting the notion of him being the last.

Deuteronomy 3:11: For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

Contradiction with Judges 1:27

The failure of certain tribes to fully conquer their allotted territories contradicts the assertion in Joshua 12:5 of complete Israelite control over specific regions.

Judges 1:27: Neither did Manasseh drive out [the inhabitants of] Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
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