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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.
…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.
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 i…
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.
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, th…
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"…
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…
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 compariso…