The tension: 1 Kings 3:4 describes Solomon going to Gibeon and offering a thousand burnt offerings, with no mention of any congregation accompanying him.
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 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.
The tension: Jeremiah 22:28-30 records Yahweh telling the prophet to "write this man childless" — Jeconiah, king of Judah, will leave no descendant on the throne of David.
The tension: 2 Samuel 24:1 is unambiguous: "the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah." Yahweh h…
The tension: 1 Kings 15:14 and 2 Chronicles 15:17 both declare that "the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days." 2 Chronicles 16:7-10 then narrates Asa relyin…
The tension: 2 Kings 23:29-30 says Pharaoh Necho slew king Josiah at Megiddo, and his servants "carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo" and brought the body to Jerusale…
The tension: 2 Chronicles 36:5-6 says Nebuchadnezzar bound Jehoiakim in fetters "to carry him to Babylon." Jeremiah 22:18-19 prophesies that Jehoiakim will receive the buri…
The tension: The Bible names at least six different sins as the reason Sodom was destroyed: same-sex intercourse (Leviticus 18:22 read into Ezekiel 16:50), inhospitality (M…
