Problem: Scholars vigorously debate the date of the Exodus. Most are split between two different views: the late date and the early date. Hoffmeier notes, “Most biblical scholars and archaeologists accept one of these two dates.”[1]
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Problem: How many supervisors were there? 3,300 or 3,600? 1 Kings 5:16 and 2 Chronicles 2:2
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Problem: How many stalls of horses did Solomon have, 4,000 or 40,000? 1 Kings 4:26 and 2 Chronicles 9:25 have different amounts. Which is true?
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Problem: 1 Kings 4:26 states that Solomon had 40,000 stalls. However, 2 Chronicles 9:25 states that he had 4,000. Which is true?
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Problem: God told Solomon, “I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you” (1 Kings 3:12). Does this mean that Solomon was even wiser than Jesus? How is this possible?
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Problem: We know that Adonijah was trying to usurp the throne, lining up horses and chariots ready to protect his coup (1 Kings 1:5-6). Solomon already warned Adonijah for trying to do this, telling him that he was walking on egg shells (1:52). But why was this act of taking Abishag such an egregious offense?
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God sent his prophet to threaten David with how many years of famine? 2 Samuel 24:13 and 1 Chronicles 21:12 examined.
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Problem: How many fighting men were found in Judah and Israel? 2 Samuel 24:9 and 1 Chronicles 21:5
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Problem: Both God and Satan incited David to number Israel. It specifically says that God did in 2 Samuel 24:1, but it also says that Satan moved David to number Israel in 1 Chronicles 21:1.
God did, 2 Samuel 24:1, “Now again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”
Satan did, 1 Chronicles 21:1, “Then Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel.”
David sinned, 2 Samuel 24:10, “Now David’s heart troubled him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the Lord, ‘I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.’“
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Problem: 2 Samuel states, “Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, ‘Go, number Israel and Judah’” (2 Sam. 24:1). However, the parallel passage in Chronicles states, “Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel” (1 Chron. 21:1). Did Satan incite the census? Or did God?
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Problem: David says, “For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not acted wickedly against my God. 23 For all His ordinances were before me, and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I was also blameless toward Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity” (2 Sam. 22:22-24). How can this be the case, when he was found guilty of murder and adultery (2 Sam. 11)?
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Problem: The passage in 2 Samuel 14:27 states that Absalom had three sons and one daughter. However, in 2 Samuel 18:18 Absalom set up a pillar for himself because, as he says, “I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” Which is correct?
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Problem: Was it David or Elhanan who killed Goliath? Goliath had brothers and Elhanan killed one of them.
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Problem: In one account, David is said to kill Goliath (1 Sam. 17:50-51). However, in another account, Elhanan kills Goliath (2 Sam. 21:19). Which is true?
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