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Each record is a claim that passages conflict — recorded so it can be examined, not endorsed. Records carry propositions, an editorial classification, and, where reviewed, a formal analysis and the premises any harmonisation must supply.
30 claims in codextrace_research. There is no single objective count — why not.
Genesis 1 narrates the making of land animals followed by the creation of humanity, male and female. Genesis 2 narrates the forming of the man from the dust, and then the forming of every beast of the field and fowl of the air, brought to the man to be named.
Genesis says it repented the LORD that he had made man; 1 Samuel 15:11 has the LORD saying "It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king". Numbers 23:19 and 1 Samuel 15:29 state that God is not a man that he should repent — and 15:29 stands in the same chapter as 15:11.
Genesis 6:19-20 instructs Noah to bring two of every sort of living thing. Genesis 7:2-3 instructs him to take clean beasts by sevens and unclean by twos, and fowls by sevens. The two instructions stand within a few verses of each other in the same narrative.
Several passages report human beings seeing God: Jacob at Peniel, the elders of Israel on the mountain, and Moses speaking with the LORD face to face. Other passages state that no one has seen God, or can see God and live — including one that stands only three verses after "face to face" in the same chapter of Exodus.
Exodus 3:2 reports that the angel of the LORD appeared to Moses in the flame of fire out of the bush. Two verses later the narrator says the LORD saw, and God called to Moses out of the bush. The narration shifts referent without comment.
Exodus 6:3 states that God appeared to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty, but was not known to them by his name YHWH. Passages in Genesis nevertheless use that name in the patriarchal narratives, including on the lips of the LORD speaking to Abraham and in a place-name Abraham gives.
The Decalogue describes the LORD visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate him. Deuteronomy 24:16 forbids putting children to death for their fathers, and Ezekiel 18:20 states that the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father.
Numbers reports twenty-four thousand dead in the plague. Paul, recalling the wilderness generation, writes that twenty-three thousand fell in one day. The figures differ by one thousand, and Paul adds the phrase "in one day".
1 Samuel narrates David killing the Philistine champion. 2 Samuel 21:19 reports that Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew Goliath the Gittite — the King James Version supplies the words "the brother of" in italics, marking them as not present in the Hebrew. 1 Chronicles 20:5 reports that Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath.
2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles both introduce the first-named member of David’s mighty men and both report a number of men killed with a spear on a single occasion. The figures differ: eight hundred in Samuel, three hundred in Chronicles. The passages also differ in the name and epithet given to the warrior.
The two accounts of David’s census name different agents. 2 Samuel says the LORD, whose anger was kindled against Israel, moved David; 1 Chronicles says Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David. The passages agree that the census took place and that it brought judgement.
Kings reports forty thousand stalls of horses for Solomon’s chariots; Chronicles reports four thousand stalls for horses and chariots. Both give the same figure of twelve thousand horsemen.
Kings and Chronicles describe the same bronze basin in the temple with nearly identical wording, including the same handbreadth thickness and lily-work brim, but give different capacities: two thousand baths in Kings, three thousand in Chronicles. Chronicles adds the phrase "received and held".
1 Kings 8:9 states that there was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone. Hebrews 9:4 describes the ark of the covenant as containing the golden pot of manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant.
Kings and Chronicles both give Ahaziah’s age at accession and both give the same reign length of one year, but the ages differ by twenty years: twenty-two in 2 Kings, forty-two in 2 Chronicles. The forty-two figure would make Ahaziah older than his own father at the time of his accession, on the reign lengths the same books supply.
Kings gives Jehoiachin’s age at accession as eighteen and his reign as three months; Chronicles gives eight and three months and ten days. The reign lengths are close but not identical, and the ages differ by ten years.
Matthew’s genealogy states that Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary. Luke’s genealogy describes Jesus as being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, who was the son of Heli.
Beyond the single question of Joseph’s father, the two genealogies differ in direction, in starting and ending points, in structure, and across most of the names between David and Joseph. This record treats the comparison as a whole rather than any single disagreement.
Matthew places the temple pinnacle second and the high mountain third. Luke places the high mountain second and the temple pinnacle third. The content of the temptations is closely parallel; the sequence differs.
Matthew 5:17-19 records Jesus saying he came not to destroy the law but to fulfil it, and that not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law. Ephesians 2:15 speaks of the law of commandments contained in ordinances being abolished in his flesh.