Thursday, July 14, 2005

The Age of Ahaziah -- 22 or 42?

The same resource -- Christian Apologetics Resource Ministry -- www.carm.org, offers the following in their "Bible Difficulties" section:

http://www.carm.org/diff/2Kings8_26.htm

I didn't copy the text to here because the explanation has to do with the way certain Hebrew words were written. CARM ascribes this to a "copyist error." I'm not sure I fully followed this explanation.

Take or leave this particular explanation. I offer it up only as one explanation. I'm sure this particular thing has been debated for years and years and years. Smart people have come down on both sides of this.

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