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8. The chief of the mighty men of David lifted up his spear and killed how many men at one time?
Eight hundred (2 Samuel 23:8)
Three hundred (I Chronicles 11: 11)

9. When did David bring the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem? Before defeating the Philistines or after?
After (2 Samuel 5 and 6)
Before (I Chronicles 13 and 14)

10. How many pairs of clean animals did God tell Noah to take into the Ark?
Two (Genesis 6:19, 20)
Seven (Genesis 7:2). But despite this last instruction only two pairs went into the ark (Genesis 7:8-9)

11. When David defeated the King of Zobah, how many horsemen did he capture?
One thousand and seven hundred (2 Samuel 8:4)
Seven thousand (I Chronicles 18:4)

12. How many stalls for horses did Solomon have?
Forty thousand (I Kings 4:26)
Four thousand (2 chronicles 9:25)

2007-02-25 22:20:24 · 2 answers · asked by Mr.POP 5 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

13. In what year of King Asa's reign did Baasha, King of Israel die?
Twenty-sixth year (I Kings 15:33 - 16:8)
Still alive in the thirty-sixth year (2 Chronicles 16:1)

14. How many overseers did Solomon appoint for the work of building the temple?
Three thousand six hundred (2 Chronicles 2:2)
Three thousand three hundred (I Kings 5:16)

15. Solomon built a facility containing how many baths?
Two thousand (1 Kings 7:26)
Over three thousand (2 Chronicles 4:5)

16. Of the Israelites who were freed from the Babylonian captivity, how many were the children of Pahrath-Moab?
Two thousand eight hundred and twelve (Ezra 2:6)
Two thousand eight hundred and eighteen (Nehemiah 7:11)

17. How many were the children of Zattu?
Nine hundred and forty-five (Ezra 2:8)
Eight hundred and forty-five (Nehemiah 7:13)

18. How many were the children of Azgad?
One thousand two hundred and twenty-two (Ezra 2:12)
Two thousand three hundred and twenty-two (Nehemiah 7:17)

2007-02-25 22:21:14 · update #1

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One may view these apparent contradictions as an important thing to gather from the messages that the authors of these independent books intended. It is possible, however, to view these passages from another perspective.

Let's take #8 for example, since it is first on this list.

The last section of 2 Samuel (20:23-24:25) is a miscellany ... an assortment of various materials such as poetry from David, lists of his various officers and warriors (as seen here) and a variety of narrative materials loosely related to other parts of Samuel and Kings.

From the earliest known Hebrew text of the book of Samuel (later divided into 1 & 2 in the Greek translation) the word used for the English "eight" is pronounced "shem-o-naw" (Strong's #8083). It derives from the Hebrew word sha'man (Strong's #8080) which is a prime root that can mean either "to shine" or "be" or "make fat." From the idea of "plumpness" the word in this passage was interpreted as a cardinal number, eight, as if a surplus about the "perfect" number seven.

The Hebrew word for three that is used in 1 Chronicles 11:11 can be pronounced "shel-o-shaw," a prime number three and might mean "to multiply." (Note the similar concept of "adding to.")

Also, one should remember that a battle in those days could go on for years and its not clear here how many of these deaths can be attributed to the "spear" (of which the Hebrew meaning of this word is clearly understood by scholars as uncertain ... Strong does not even give it a number) of the leader here or those under his command (as a figure of speech.)

The great theologian John Wesley understood the text to mean that 300 of these soldiers had been slain by the hand of this chief and the other 500 came at the hands of men who joined him.

It is an indisputable fact that each of these passages come to us from an oral tradition ... these were stories told for centuries around campfires long before they were written down.

We could go on with each of these but the point is already made. This is just a good example of how difficult it is to accurately translate verbatim the ancient Hebrew and Aramaic text of the OT. So one has to decide if they believe that these occasional mistranslations found in various places in all of the different versions of the Bible available today contaminate the message that was intended by the human authors and more importantly, whether or not the divine revelation of God lives within these words that were written by people.

Thx for this opportunity to present another side to the idea of solely interpreting the Bible in a literal fashion strictly using modern interpretations of old English.

2007-02-26 02:51:04 · answer #1 · answered by Capernaum12 5 · 1 0

Many of the passages cited in Samuel, Kings and Chronicles were taken from older lost texts (at least a dozen). One scribe transposed a number differently than another. Since the original sources are lost, we may never know the exact answer. This is why LDS believe the Bible to be the word of God "so far as it is accurately translated". Then "contridictions" don't amount to much.

2007-02-28 16:05:36 · answer #2 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0 0

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