Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 1:28

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 1:28 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 1:28. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Numbers, this verse is telling us about the families of Issachar and counting all the grown-ups who are strong enough to go to war. It means they are getting ready to see how many helpers they have for the big job of protecting their people.

Numbers 1:28: Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Contradiction with 2 Samuel 24:9

Contradicts Numbers 1:28 by providing different census numbers.

2 Samuel 24:9: And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah [were] five hundred thousand men.

Contradiction with 1 Chronicles 21:5

Offers a different count for the tribes compared to Numbers 1:28.

1 Chronicles 21:5: And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

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