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…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.
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 agre…
…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…
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…
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"…
…arrates 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.
…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.
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…