The tension: Romans 5:12 has Paul teach that death passed upon all humanity because of Adam's single sin — the archetypal transgenerational punishment.
The tension: The Torah, prophets, and Wisdom literature relentlessly command fear of YHWH — Deuteronomy 6:13, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Proverbs 9:10, Matthew 10:28, and Hebrews…
The tension: Deuteronomy 20:19 prohibits destroying fruit trees during a siege: 'thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them.' 2 Kings 3:19 has…
The tension: Deuteronomy 23:7 forbids Israel from despising the Edomite because he is a brother, but later texts — 2 Kings 14, Ezekiel 25, and the entire book of Obadiah —…
The tension: The Hebrew Bible repeatedly affirms YHWH as sovereign over all the kingdoms and the whole earth, but several New Testament passages — most notably the Temptati…
The tension: Isaiah 45:7, Lamentations 3:38, Amos 3:6, and a stack of prophetic passages including Jeremiah 4:6, 18:11 and 2 Kings 6:33 explicitly attribute the creation or…
The tension: 2 Kings 22:19 and the parallel 2 Chronicles 34:27 record God praising Josiah for rending his clothes; Ecclesiastes 3:7 lists a "time to rend." Joel 2:13 calls…
The tension: 2 Kings 5:27 has Elisha curse Gehazi with leprosy permanently — "unto thee and unto thy seed forever" — and the narrator says Gehazi went out "a leper as white…
The tension: 2 Kings 8:26 and 2 Chronicles 22:2 call Athaliah "the daughter of Omri." 2 Kings 8:18 and 2 Chronicles 21:6 call her "the daughter of Ahab." Omri and Ahab are…
The tension: 2 Kings 18:5 says of Hezekiah that "after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him." 2 Kings 23:25 says of Josiah, "lik…
The tension: Huldah's oracle in 2 Kings 22:20 and 2 Chronicles 34:28 promises that Josiah will be "gathered into thy grave in peace" — a peaceful death.
