Answers – To Difficult Questions (2nd Samuel)

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2 Samuel 1:18 – Why don’t we have this book?

2 Samuel 2:10—How could Ishbosheth have reigned only two years when 2 Samuel 5:5 says David reigned for seven and one half years?

2 Samuel 6:7 – Why does God kill Uzzah for trying to protect the Ark of God?’

2 Samuel 7:11-16 – Is the Davidic Covenant still operative today? –or Did the Jews forfeit these blessings because of their rejection of Christ?

2 Samuel 7:14 – If this passage is prophetic of Jesus, why does it say that he sins?

2 Samuel 8:4—Did David capture 1,700 horsemen or 7,000 as 1 Chronicles 18:4 says?

2 Samuel 8:4 – How many horsemen did David capture?

2 Samuel 8:4 – How many horsemen did David capture, 1,700 or 7,000?

2 Samuel 8:18—How could David’s sons be priests when they were not Levites?

2 Samuel 10:18 – How many charioteers were killed, 700 or 7,000?

2 Samuel 12:15 – Why did God kill David’s boy for David’s sin?

2 Samuel 12:15–23—How could a loving God take the life of David’s child because of the sin of David?

2 Samuel 12:21–23 – Should we pray for the dead?

2 Samuel 12:23 – If infants go to heaven, does this justify infanticide?

2 Samuel 12:23 – Do those who die in infancy go to heaven?

2 Samuel 12:31 – How can we justify David’s cruelty to his enemies?

2 Samuel 12:31 – Why did David torture his enemies like this?

2 Samuel 14:27 – Why does this passage say Absalom had three sons when 2 Samuel 18:18 says he had none?

2 Samuel 18:6—Was the land of Ephraim west or east of Jordan?

2 Samuel 18:17—Was Absalom buried in the forest of Ephraim or in the Kidron Valley?

2 Samuel 21:19—This verse says “Elhanan … killed Goliath” but 1 Samuel 17 declares that David did.

2 Samuel 21:19 – Who killed Goliath—David or Elhanan?

2 Samuel 21:19 – Who killed Goliath, David or Elhanan?

2 Samuel 22:22-24 – How can David say that he never turned away from God’s laws?

2 Samuel 23:11—Was this a field of barley or lentils?

2 Samuel 24:1—How can this passage claim that God moved David to number Israel when 1 Chronicles 21:1 claims that it was Satan?

2 Samuel 24:1 – Did God move David to take the census, or did Satan?

2 Samuel 24:1 – Who incited David to count the fighting men of Israel? God or Satan?

2 Samuel 24:9—Why do the numbers of men recorded in 2 Samuel 24:9 and in 1 Chronicles 21:5–6 disagree?

2 Samuel 24:9 – How many fighting men were found in Judah and Israel?

2 Samuel 24:13—Why are the numbers of the years of the famine different from those in 1 Chronicles 21?

2 Samuel 24:14—Is it fearful to fall into the hands of God?

2 Samuel 24:13 – God sent his prophet to threaten David with how many years of famine?

2 Samuel 24:24—Why does this passage say that David paid Araunah 50 shekels of silver when elsewhere it says he paid 600 shekels of gold