Contradictions and Paradoxes in Joshua 24:31

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Joshua 24:31 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Joshua 24:31. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Joshua, the people of Israel kept following God while Joshua and the elders who lived after him were around, because they remembered all the great things God had done for them. They listened and obeyed God during this time because they knew how He had helped them.

Joshua 24:31: And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel. [overlived...: Heb. prolonged their days after Joshua]

Contradiction with Judges 2:10

It describes a generation that did not know the Lord nor the works He had done for Israel, contradicting the idea of continued faithfulness in Joshua 24:31.

Judges 2:10: And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

Contradiction with Judges 2:12

This verse notes that the Israelites forsook the Lord to follow other gods shortly after Joshua's generation, contradicting the sustained worship described in Joshua 24:31.

Judges 2:12: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that [were] round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
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