The tension: Joshua 10:33 says Joshua smote Horam king of Gezer and his people "until he had left him none remaining," but Judges 1:29 says Ephraim did not drive out the Ca…
The tension: Joshua 11:21 says Joshua himself cut off the Anakim from Hebron, Debir, and the surrounding mountains and "destroyed them utterly with their cities," but Joshu…
The tension: Joshua 15:20, 33 lists Eshtaol and Zoreah among the inheritance of the tribe of Judah, but Joshua 19:40-41 — four chapters later, in the same book — assigns th…
The tension: Joshua 21:23-24 lists Aijalon as a Levitical city given out of the tribe of Dan, while 1 Chronicles 6:66, 69 lists Aijalon as a Levitical city given out of the…
The tension: Joshua 24:9 says Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, "arose and warred against Israel," but Judges 11:25 has Jephthah ask rhetorically — with implied answer "no…
The tension: Gabriel tells Mary in Luke 1:28 that she is 'blessed among women.' The Song of Deborah (Judg 5:24) calls Jael 'blessed above women' for driving a tent peg thro…
The tension: Judges 4:21 has Jael driving the tent peg through the temple of a Sisera who is 'fast asleep and weary,' nailing him to the ground without him standing or stru…
The tension: 1 Samuel 7:13 says 'the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the…
The tension: 1 Samuel 16:18 introduces David to Saul as already "a mighty valiant man, and a man of war." One chapter later, 1 Samuel 17:33 has Saul calling David a youth i…
The tension: 1 Samuel 17:49-50 says David killed Goliath with a sling and a stone and that "there was no sword in the hand of David." The very next verse, 1 Samuel 17:51, h…
The tension: 1 Chronicles 10:6 says "Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together." 2 Samuel 2:1-7 then has Ishbosheth — Saul's son — made king of Israel…
The tension: 2 Samuel 6:6 locates Uzzah's death at "Nachon's threshingfloor." 1 Chronicles 13:9 locates the same event at "the threshingfloor of Chidon." Both texts describ…
The tension: 2 Samuel 21:19 says Elhanan son of Jaare-oregim killed Goliath the Gittite — the same Goliath whom 1 Samuel 17 credits David with killing.
