This is what you will find in the Bible about the count of the men in Israel and Judah
How many fighting men were found in Israel?(a) Eight hundred thousand (2 Samuel 24:9).
(b) One million, one hundred thousand (1 Chronicles 21:5).
Answer:
Please read 1 Chronicles 27: 1 – 24. Here you will see that there was a permanent force of 24 000 men for every month of the Year. That will give you a total of 288 000 men not counted in 2 Samuel 24: 9. In 2 Samuel 24: 9 the description is “800 000 valiant men that drew the sword”, but, in 1 Chronicles 21:5 it states, “…and
all they of Israel…”
1 Chronicles 21:5 counts 1 100 000 of Israel.
The mathematics work as follow:In 2 Samuel 24: 9 it counts 800 000 fighting men that reported for battle.
Adding the 288 000 permanent force, it results in 1 088 000 men.
This was the men and not the commanders of 100 and 1000. They would be:
Commanders over 100 = 10 880
Commanders over 1000 = 1 088
This gives a total of 800 000 + 288 000 + 10 880 + 1 088 = 1 099 968 men.
This will leave 32 men to equal 1 100 000.
In 1 Chronicles 11: 26 to 12:1 you will find that David had a personal guard of brave men numbering 30!
So, 1 099 968 + 30 equals 1 099 998 men!
This leaves two men short. David was one!
This leaves one man short. But the Bible tells us who he was.
Read about Him in 2 Samuel 5: 24!
Hu, the Bible describes the exact amount of soldiers in Israel pulled up for battle! And you thought it was an error.
But lets continue with the count of Judah!
How many fighting men were found in Judah?(a) Five hundred thousand (2 Samuel 24:9).
(b) Four hundred and seventy thousand (1 Chronicles 21:5).
Answer:
The same scenario as with 2 Samuel 24:9 and 1 Chronicles 21:5
2 Samuel 24:9 counts Judah as 500 000.
1 Chronicles 21:5 counts without the permanent force. They amounted to 30 000 as per 2 Sam 6: 1.
470 000 + 70 000 = 500 000
Wow, the Bible describes exactly the amount of soldiers in Judah also!
Now, you can go and google anywhere in the WWW, you will not find this answer as set out as above.
Great, this is but one example of the ignorance by an Atheist on Skeptic's Bible. a Muslim that thought he was clever to plagiarize these so called contradictions, and an Atheist here that places this post to a Christian as evidence that the Bible is wrong.
What now?
Will the Atheist please go and change his list!
Then come back and give us another concoction to answer.
Fact is, all your so called evidence that the Bible is wrong, can not hold against the Scripture once we investigat what it says, and not what Atheists think it says.
