The bronze sea in Solomon’s temple holds two thousand baths in 1 Kings 7:26 but three thousand in 2 Chronicles 4:5.
Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
1 Kings 7:26
Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.
2 Chronicles 4:5
Source: see Credits and references (no. 8, p. 7).
Solomon’s stalls for horses number 4,000 in 2 Chronicles 9:25 but 40,000 in 1 Kings 4:26, a tenfold gap between two accounts of the same king.
And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 9:25
Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
1 Kings 4:26
Source: see Credits and references (no. 8, p. 7).
Did Saul ask the LORD for guidance? 1 Samuel 28:6 says he inquired of the LORD and was not answered, so he went to a medium. 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 says he did not seek guidance from the LORD, and that this is why he died. The two accounts of the same episode seem to say he did and he did not.
And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.
1 Samuel 28:6
He did not seek guidance from the LORD. Therefore the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.
1 Chronicles 10:14
Source: see Credits and references (no. 8, p. 7).
Revelation 13:1-2 describes a beast with seven heads and ten horns that is like a leopard, with feet like a bear’s and a mouth like a lion’s. The argument holds this up as a monstrous picture it finds hard to square with a sober revelation. (The New Testament text is not yet on this site.)
Source: see Credits and references (no. 3, p. 5).
In 2 Kings 18:27, repeated in Isaiah 36:12, the Assyrian field commander warns that the men on the wall will eat their own dung and drink their own urine. The complaint is that such crude language appears in a book presented as a holy revelation, though it is the enemy’s threat that is quoted.
But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”
2 Kings 18:27
Source: see Credits and references (no. 3, p. 5).
Malachi 2:3 has God threaten to spread dung on the priests’ faces. It is listed for its coarse imagery.
Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.
Malachi 2:3
Source: see Credits and references (no. 3, p. 5).
Ezekiel 4:12-15 first tells the prophet to bake his bread over human dung, then, when he protests that he has never been defiled, allows cow dung instead. The argument counts the command itself as unfitting for a divine instruction.
And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.” And the LORD said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.” Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”
Ezekiel 4:12-15
Source: see Credits and references (no. 3, p. 5).
Judges 16:1 says Samson went to Gaza, saw a prostitute and went in to her. The point is that a judge of Israel is shown in this light with no word of rebuke at that spot.
Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a prostitute, and he went in to her.
Judges 16:1
Source: see Credits and references (no. 3, p. 5).
In Ruth 3:4-15 Ruth, on her mother-in-law’s advice, goes at night to the threshing floor and lies down at Boaz’s feet. The argument reads the scene as improper and cites it among the passages it finds unsuitable for family reading.
And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly and uncovered his feet and lay down. At midnight the man was startled and turned over, and behold, a woman lay at his feet!
Ruth 3:7-8
Source: see Credits and references (no. 3, p. 5).
1 Kings 1:1-4 tells how the aged David could not keep warm, so a beautiful young woman, Abishag, was found to lie beside him and attend him. The argument lists it as David in bed with a young virgin. Note that the same passage says the king “knew her not”. (The reference given in the printed source, 1 Kings 11:1,3, is a passage about Solomon, so it has been corrected here.)
Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.” So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not.
1 Kings 1:1-4
Source: see Credits and references (no. 3, p. 5).