Oops!! One more contradiction in bible!!!!!?

Question

It is mentioned in the 2nd Kings, Chapter No.8, Verse No.26, it says that… ‘Ahezia… that
Ahezia, he was 22 years old, when he began to reign.’ 2nd Chronicles, Chapter No. 22,Verse No. 2, says that… ‘He was 42 years old, when he began to reign. Was he 22 years old, or was he 42 years old?
A mathematical contradiction in the word of God!

It's King James version i think, let me check

Answer 1

You can't be accurate all the time, give the writers a break... They are not God...
;)

Answer 2

Ahezia was one of several kings who shared the rulership with his father. Their reigns overlapped by twenty years. If you read therough King and Chronicles, you will find that every since time their is an overlap, Kings gives the age from the beginning of the co-rulership. Chronicles gives the age from the start of the solo rulership.

No contradition, just differences in what the authors used as the start of their reigns.

Answer 3

Here are direct copies from very accurate translations with an abundance of scholars who worked on them for accuracy:

2 Chronicles 22 TNIV
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Ahaziah King of Judah

1 The people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, Jehoram's youngest son, king in his place, since the raiders, who came with the Arabs into the camp, had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

2 Ahaziah was twenty-two [a] years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

Here is the kings passage that you cite:

Ahaziah King of Judah

25 In the twelfth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign. 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel. 27 He followed the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was related by marriage to Ahab's family.

Keep in mind that the KJV was translated with only a very few of the more recent scrolls for reference, we have documents now that date to the 3rd century and many corroborating scrolls now than they did 200 years ago,.

Answer 4

The King James Study Bible gives the reason for the difference as being miscopied because ancient text show the age as 22, but because it is the Bible no one will change it.

Answer 5

My answer to this question is the same as your earlier question.

The "Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation" (Vat. 11, Ch. 3.11) of the Catholic Church says that "all that the inspired, or sacred writers, affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, and without error, teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to be confided to the sacred Scriptures." This is the Church's teaching on the matter after twenty centuries of Christian discernment.

Biblical inerrancy, then, is the Bible's privilege of never teaching error. Does this mean that every statement in the Bible is divine teaching? Of course not. The Bible does not always teach. There are many statements in its various books that are there for historical, geographical, poetic or other reasons. However, whenever a biblical author intends to teach us something, then the Holy Spirit intends that too. Everything that the Bible teaches is without error, but everything in the Bible is not meant as teaching. Each author was left free by the Lord to express himself according to the ideas of his own day. It is the revelation contained in the Scriptures that is important.

As I said, the Catholic Church has never said the Bible is infallible or inerrant. In fact it admits that there are contradictions, but they have nothing to do with our salvation so it is not really important or even worth debating.

Peace and blessings!

Answer 6

I have checked those verses in 3 Versions of the Bible and only one of these versions had that contradiction in it not surprising to me, it was in the King James Version, which has many falsities in it.

Answer 7

I don't know where you have read that but here's what I'm reading.

2 Kings 8:26--Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

2 Cronicles 22:2--Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

Answer 8

No contradiction. This has been answered hundreds of years ago, by Christians.

"Which is to be understood, that he was made king when his father reigned, but after his father’s death he was confirmed king when he was forty-two years old, as in 2Ch 22:2."

Answer 9

same age in my Bible

2 Chronicles 22:2......... Twenty-two years old was Ahazi′ah when he began to reign, and for one year he reigned in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athali′ah the granddaughter of Om′ri.

2 Kings 8:26..............Twenty-two years old was Ahazi′ah when he began to reign, and for one year he reigned in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athali′ah the granddaughter of Om′ri the king of Israel.

Answer 10

And like a fool you will get tripped over that. Also, there are more than one person with the same name in the bible. Are you sure it isn't a different Ahezia? I would do some research before drawing to conclutions.

Answer 11

Really... don't you see futility in trying to supress the truth of God? It's a helpless plight, I was stuck in it for years. The truly terrible part is that you will receive your just reward, lest you become born again.