Biblical "contradictions" #7: How many men?

[aliasbrush2]

Waffle waffle waffle. You are misinformed. Yet you try to cover up your ignorance in a typical Christian manner. Even scholars and theologians say this a copyist's error.

[TheOracle1956]

It's funny how people focus on the clear contradiction between 300 and 800 Philistines slain (if you really believe there are no contradictions in the Bible, your delusion is terminal stage as even Bible scholars conceed there are some), but gloss over a bigger question. As a career Marine (i.e. professional warrior) I find it laughable than any one man killed 300 at one time, let alone 800! Even Greek mythology (which I assume you know is made up) never credited HERCULES with more than a dozen!

[AutisticMonk]

chief among the captains is different from the chief of the captains

[jamesrands]

Scotzbhoy, look up biblical criticism, learn about the issues and then you might have something interesting to say. The bible is littered with contradictions, this being but one (your refutation can only work in a very strange mind two figures, two different names but only one post). Some of these do matter and others certainly detract from the credibility of the bible but most don't really matter at all. No one in their right mind is trying to pretend the bible is all the literal truth.

[diunbelief]

According to the Oxford Annotated Bible, the chief of the captains was the same person, but with different names. (The name in 2 Samuel 23 is a copyist error.)

So I guess we have another contradiction!

[jesuslives57]

But the account is of the same battle.Are you saying that there were two Captains?

[scotzbhoy]

That is a possibility. Either that or the Hebrew word for 'cheif' or 'captain' could also be translated to mean something else.