2 Samuel
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21 22 23 24

Absurdities
Cruelty and Violence
Injustice
Contradictions
Family Values
Women
Sex
Science and History
Interpretation
Intolerance
Homosexuality
Prophecy
Language
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2 Samuel: Science and History

  1. "He weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels."
    Since a shekel is about 11.5 grams, Absolom's hair weighed 2.3 kilograms! 14:25-26

  2. "Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant" 21:16

  3. "Saph, which was of the sons of the giant" 21:18

  4. There ... was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant." 21:20

  5. "These four were born to the giant in Gath." 21:22

  6. "The earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth." 22:8

  7. "The foundations of the world were discovered ... at the blast of the breath of his nostrils." 22:16

  8. How many soldiers did Israel have? This verse says that Judah and Israel had a total of 1,300,000 fighting men (1 Chr.21:5 says 1,570,000) in this battle. Of course, this is a ridiculously high number for a battle between two tribal armies in 1000 BCE. (The United States had about 1.37 million active duty soldiers in 2001.) 24:9