Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 1:37

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 1:37 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 1:37. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, who is believed to have written the book, this verse tells us how many people were in the tribe of Benjamin at that time, and it shows that God knew and cared about each person. It helps Christians understand that everyone is important to God, and He keeps track of all His people.

Numbers 1:37: Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Benjamin, [were] thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

Contradiction with Numbers 1:46

Contradicts with Numbers 1:37 by providing a different total number for the collective tribes.

Numbers 1:46: Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

Contradiction with Numbers 26:41

Has a different count for the children of Benjamin compared to Numbers 1:37.

Numbers 26:41: These [are] the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and six hundred.

Contradiction with Judges 20:15

Lists a different number for the tribe of Benjamin in a specific context compared to Numbers 1:37.

Judges 20:15: And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

Contradiction with 2 Samuel 24:9

Offers a different total count in the context of a census compared to the individual tribe in Numbers 1:37.

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 7:6

Provides a differing number for a sub-tribe compared to Numbers 1:37.

1 Chronicles 7:6: [The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

Contradiction with 1 Chronicles 12:29

Mentions a conflicting number for the Benjamites compared to Numbers 1:37.

1 Chronicles 12:29: And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul. [kindred: Heb. brethren] [the greatest...: Heb. a multitude of them]
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