Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 14:38

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 14:38 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 14:38. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, Joshua and Caleb were brave and trusted God, so they were kept safe and lived while others did not. They believed they could enter the promised land because God would help them.

Numbers 14:38: But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of the men that went to search the land, lived [still].

Contradiction with Numbers 14:29

This verse states that all those who were numbered from twenty years old and upward shall fall in the wilderness, yet Numbers 14:38 references two individuals who survived.

Numbers 14:29: Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 1:35

This verse states that none of the men of the evil generation shall see the good land, potentially contradicting the survival of certain individuals mentioned in Numbers 14:38.

Deuteronomy 1:35: Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

Contradiction with 1 Samuel 28:19

This verse states that Saul and his sons will die and join the past generation, contrasting with the survival of those mentioned in Numbers 14:38.

1 Samuel 28:19: Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow [shalt] thou and thy sons [be] with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.

Contradiction with Hebrews 3:17

This verse mentions that with whom God was grieved for forty years fell in the wilderness, contrasting the mention of survivors in Numbers 14:38.

Hebrews 3:17: But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
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