Contradictions and Paradoxes in Nehemiah 8:12

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Nehemiah 8:12 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Nehemiah 8:12. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Nehemiah, the people were very happy and celebrated with food and drinks because they had understood the special words that were read to them. They shared their food with others and felt joyful because they learned something important.

Nehemiah 8:12: And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 7:2

Contradicts the idea of making great mirth, instead advising that it is better to go to a house of mourning.

Ecclesiastes 7:2: [It is] better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that [is] the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart.

Contradiction with Matthew 5:4

Contradicts the joyfulness by teaching that those who mourn are blessed and shall be comforted.

Matthew 5:4: Blessed [are] they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Contradiction with James 4:9

Advises turning laughter to mourning and joy to heaviness, contrasting the communal joy in Nehemiah 8:12.

James 4:9: Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
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