0 Ezra : Absurdity

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the ... commandment of our God. 10:3

Trivia: Who is called king of kings in the book of Ezra?

Ezra : Absurdity (4)

  1. In verse 11, the total number of items listed in the previous two verses is said to be 5400. The actual total is 2499. 1:9-11
  2. God's magical Urim and Thummim 2:63
  3. "The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand tree hundred and threescore [42,360]." Yet if we count up all of the numbers in the list just given in Ezra 2:3-62 we obtain a different number: 29,818. 2:65
  4. When Ezra hears of the intermarriages, he tears up his clothes, plucks out his hair and beard, and sits down astonished. 9:3

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