Mathematical Contradictions
200 singing men or 245 singing men?
In Ezra Ch. No. 2, Verse No. 65, it says…There were 200 singing men and
women –
Nehemiah Ch. No. 7, Verse No. 67…‘There were 245 singing men and
women.’ Were they 200 - or were they 245 singing men and women?
2nd Chronicles, Chapter No. 22, Verse No. 2, says that… ‘He was 42 years
old, when he began to reign. Same context.
Immediately…
2 Chronicles 22:1-2
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king
in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the
camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of
Judah reigned.
2
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he
reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the
daughter of Omri.
Clear-cut contradiction.
Clear-cut contradiction.