Bible Study: Bible Errors Vol. I

Examine with us the discrepancy found in the ages recorded for king Ahaziah of Judah. In Kings he’s 22 years old when he begins to reign. In Chronicles he’s 42. Is this a copyist error inadvertently preserved in the Bible?

We begin by laying out the obvious discrepancy, and talking about the methods of copying and preserving ancient scriptural texts, right up to modern times. We then discuss God’s varying methods of counting things and using names. We then take a side jaunt into the possibility that some of the people we read about in the Old Testament might be resurrected into the tribulation!

We take a look at Christ’s Genealogy in Matthew 1 and count the 14 generations the way God counts them. And we look at the omission of the names of Ahab and Joram of Israel as recorded in II Kings and II Chronicles.

We then examine the foundation of the House of Ahab, and the unwanted marriage of God into the kingdom of Baal via Athaliah and Jehoram of Judah. We nark the date of the start of Omri’s reign the way God starts it, and count the days to it’s end 42 years later with the slaughter of the houses of Ahab and Baal at the hand of Jehu. We utilize both the well known figure of “40” as a godly measure of time as well as the 42 years of the House of Ahab to explain the discrepancy of Ahaziah’s age between Kings and Chronicles.

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