Answers – To Difficult Questions (1st Kings)

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1 Kings 2:22-23 – Why does Solomon act so severely with Adonijah asking for Abishag as his concubine?

1 Kings 3:12 – Was Solomon greater than Jesus?

1 Kings 4:26—How can this verse say Solomon had 40,000 stalls when 2 Chronicles 9:25 says he had only 4,000 stalls?

1 Kings 4:26 – How many stalls did Solomon have?

1 Kings 4:26 – How many stalls of horses did Solomon have, 4,000 or 40,000?

1 Kings 5:16 – How many supervisors were there? 3,300 or 3,600?

1 Kings 6:1—How can this be an accurate calculation if Ramses the Great was the Pharaoh of the Exodus?

1 Kings 6:1 – Does this improperly date the Exodus?

1 Kings 7:23—Doesn’t the calculation in this verse represent an inaccurate value of pi?

1 Kings 7:23 – Does the Bible incorrectly measure pi?

1 Kings 7:26 – How many baths, 2,000 or 3,000?

1 Kings 8:13 – Did God dwell in the Temple, or is he omnipresent?

1 Kings 8:23 – Does this passage support henotheism?

1 Kings 9:22—How can this verse claim that Solomon did not make forced laborers of the Israelites when 1 Kings 5:13 says he did?

1 Kings 11:1—How could God allow Solomon to have so many wives when he condemns polygamy?

1 Kings 11:1-3 – What about Polygamy?

1 Kings 11:4—In light of David’s sin with Bathsheba, how could this passage say his heart was loyal to the Lord?

1 Kings 12:25—Was Jeroboam’s residence in Shechem or at Tirzah?

1 Kings 15:5—Is this the only sin David committed?

1 Kings 15:5 – How can David say that he never turned away from God’s laws?

1 Kings 15:14—Did Asa destroy the high places or leave them standing?

1 Kings 18:27—Why was Elijah blessed for ridiculing the prophets of Baal when the Bible urges us to use kind words to our enemies?

1 Kings 18:32–35—Where did Elijah get all the water if there had been a drought for three years?

1 Kings 18:40—Wasn’t killing too severe a punishment for the prophets of Baal?

1 Kings 18:40 – Was it wrong to kill these false prophets?

1 Kings 21:19—How could the prophecy of this verse claim to be fulfilled in the events recorded in 1 Kings 22:37–38?

1 Kings 22:22—How could God use “lying spirits” to do His will since He forbids lying?

1 Kings 22:22 – Why did God send a lying spirit if God cannot lie?

1 Kings 22:49—How can this verse say that Jehoshaphat refused Ahaziah’s request when 2 Chronicles says they worked together?