Contradictions and Paradoxes in Joshua 7:2

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Joshua 7:2 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Joshua 7:2. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of Joshua, God wanted Joshua to check out the city of Ai, so Joshua sent some men to look around and see what it was like. The men went to Ai and had a good look at the place.

Joshua 7:2: And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is] beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.

Contradiction with Numbers 23:19

This verse states that God is not a man that He should lie, nor a human that He should change His mind, implying infallibility, which contradicts any human error or mistake in judgment as seen in AI's advice to spy out Ai.

Numbers 23:19: God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

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