Contradictions and Paradoxes in Nehemiah 7:32

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Nehemiah 7:32 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Nehemiah 7:32. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Nehemiah, this verse tells us that there were 123 people from the towns of Bethel and Ai who returned to help rebuild their city. It shows how everyone, even small groups, was important in making the city strong again.

Nehemiah 7:32: The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.

Contradiction with Numbers 3:39

Lists the total number of Levites as 22,000, which may differ from headcounts in Nehemiah 7.

Numbers 3:39: All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, [were] twenty and two thousand.

Contradiction with 2 Kings 14:28

Outlines territories controlled by Jeroboam II that may differ from territorial identities in Nehemiah 7.

2 Kings 14:28: Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, [which belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Contradiction with Ezra 2:30

Provides a similar census of people, potentially with differing numbers or names from Nehemiah 7.

Ezra 2:30: The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.
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