The tension: Genesis 8:13 declares the waters dried up on the first day of the first month, but Genesis 8:14 puts the earth's drying on the twenty-seventh day of the second…
The tension: Joshua 11:10-11 has Joshua kill Jabin king of Hazor and burn the city during the Conquest, but Judges 4:2-24 has the Israelites being oppressed by — and finall…
The tension: 1 Samuel 18:8-9 says Saul began to eye David with suspicion immediately after the women's song crediting David with greater slaughter than Saul — "Saul has sla…
The tension: 1 Samuel 10:11-12 gives the origin of the proverb "Is Saul also among the prophets?" when Saul prophesies among Samuel's prophet band shortly after his anointi…
The tension: 1 Samuel 15:35 states emphatically that "Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death." 1 Samuel 19:24 then has Saul stripping naked and prophesy…
The tension: 1 Kings 16:6-8 says Baasha died and his son Elah began to reign in the 26th year of Asa, putting Baasha's death no later than Asa's 26th year.
The tension: Both 2 Kings 25:8-9 and Jeremiah 52:12-13 are describing the same event — Nebuzaradan torching Solomon's temple in the fifth month of Nebuchadnezzar's nineteen…
The tension: Acts 9:26 says that when Saul came to Jerusalem after his conversion he tried to join the disciples, and the Lukan narrative places this trip very close to the…
