Science & Scripture

1 Kings

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Old Testament · passages in 1 Kings compared with current science.

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• A crowd's singing and shouting was so loud it caused an earthquake.

  1 Kings 1:39-40

  What it means: The loudest recorded crowd roar hit about 142 decibels at a football stadium — loud enough to cause hearing damage but nowhere near enough to shake the ground.

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• The mathematical constant pi equals exactly 3.

  1 Kings 7:23

  What it means: Pi has been known to be greater than 3 since at least ancient Babylon and Egypt, thousands of years ago.

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• A man's outstretched hand spontaneously withered and then was fully restored to normal moments later.

  1 Kings 13:4-6

  What it means: Tissue death (necrosis) from loss of blood flow is irreversible — once cells die, they're gone.

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• A lion killed a man but then peacefully stood beside the body and a donkey for days without eating either one.

  1 Kings 13:24-25, 28

  What it means: Lions are apex predators that kill to eat.

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