Antiquities of the Jews on the Hebrew Scriptures
BOOK 1
Genesis
The second creation account is allegorical (1.1.2§§32-33; Genesis 2:7-23)
God made woman from man before placing the two in the garden in Eden (1.1.2§§35-36; Genesis 2:18-23, 8, 15)
The Pishon is the Ganges and the Gihon is the Nile (1.1.3§§38-39; Genesis 2:10-14)
God gave the command to eat from all plants but to stay away from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Bad to both the woman and the man (1.1.4§§40; Genesis 2:16-17)
God actually commands both the woman and the man that if they so much as touch the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Bad they will die but not necessarily that day (1.1.4§§40; Genesis 2:17; 3:2-3)
All animals could speak with humans in the garden in Eden (1.1.4§§41; Genesis 3:1)
God first punishes Adam, then Eve, then the serpent (1.1.4§§49-50; Genesis 3:14-19)
The serpent’s punishment for deceit is to not be able to speak, to have poison in his tongue, and to not have legs, and tells Adam and Eve how to kill him (1.1.4§§50; Genesis 3:14-15)
God punishes both Adam and Eve with death and hard work before Adam blames Eve (1.1.4§§45-48; Genesis 3:17-19, 12)
God never punishes Adam and Eve with a perpetual struggle for power between husband and wife (1.1.4§§49; Genesis 3:16)
God never promises the Protoevangelum but only gives the serpent a poisonous bite and tells Adam and Eve to step on his head to kill it (1.1.4§§50; Genesis 3:15)
God does not station any cherubim or flaming sword to guard the way to the garden in Eden (1.1.4§§51; Genesis 3:24)
Eve makes no exclamation or excited statement at the birth of Cain (1.2.1§§52; Genesis 4:1)
Adam and Eve have daughters before the death of Abel and exiling of Cain (1.2.1§§52; Genesis 4:25; 5:4)
Cain is wicked and selfish from the start (1.2.1§§53; Genesis 4:3, 5-7)
God is pleased with Abel’s offering because it grew itself and not from the working the earth and because it was not from an envious person (1.2.1§§54; Genesis 4:4)
God never speaks to or warns Cain before he murders Abel (1.2.1§§54-55; Genesis 4:6-7)
God curses Cain and threatens His seventh generation (1.2.1§§58; Genesis 4:11)
Cain has a wife before being exiled (1.2.1§§58; Genesis 4:16-17)
God sends Cain away from the land he was in before (1.2.1§§58; Genesis 4:12, 14)
Cain is afraid of being destroyed by wild beasts and not other humans (1.2.1§§59; Genesis 4:14)
Cain does not accept God’s punishment as God trying to discipline and teach him but decides to become more evil, build a city, begins robbing others and invents weights and measures because he loves to amass possessions for himself (1.2.2§§60-61; Genesis 4:17)
Lamech has 77 children (1.2.2§§63; Genesis 4:19-22, 24)
Lamech has divine revelations and knows that he will be punished by God for Cain’s murder of Abel (1.2.2§§65; Genesis 4:24, 11)
Cain’s family becomes more and more evil with each generation and only wages war and steals, and injures others to take from them (1.2.2§§66; Genesis 4:17-24)
Adam begets Seth at age 230 rather than 130 and lives another 700 rather than 800 years (1.2.3§§67; Genesis 5:3-5)
Seth and all his posterity are only virtuous and good (1.2.3§§68-69; Genesis 5:6-32)
Adam predicts the world to be destroyed once by fire and a second time by flood (1.2.3§§70; Genesis 6:13; 7:4)
Seth’s posterity became perverse after seven generations (1.3.1§§72; Genesis 5:16-27)
Angels slept with women and begat giants (1.3.1§§73; Genesis 6:2-4)
Noah preached to his generation to repent (1.3.1§§74; Genesis 6:9)
God shortened the human life-span to 120 years in the time of the flood (1.3.2§§75; Genesis 6:3)
The flood took place in the twenty-seventh day of the seventh month rather than the seventeenth (1.3.3§§80-81)
Seth begets Enos at age 205 rather than 105 (1.4.3§§83; Genesis 5:6)
Enos begets Kenan at age 190 rather than 90 (1.3.4§§83; Genesis 5:9)
Kenan begets Mahalalel at age 170 rather than 70 (1.3.4§§84; Genesis 5:12)
Mahalalel begets Jared at age 165 rather than 65 (1.3.4§§84; Genesis 5:15)
Enoch went up to God and never died (1.3.4§§85; Genesis 5:24)
Enoch begets Methuselah at age 165 rather than 65 (1.3.4§§86)
The purpose of Noah’s sacrifice is to request to God that He not flood the earth again and that humanity might live long life like before the flood (1.3.7§§96-98; Genesis 8:20-22; 9:1-17)
The first men lived long because God loved them, the food they ate made them live longer, and God desired for them to learn more (1.3.9§§105-106; Genesis 5:1-32)
Nimrod persuades everyone to build the Tower of Babel with brick, mortar, and bitumen so high that God cannot destroy it with a flood and so that they can have vengeance on God for the flood (1.4.2§§113-116; Genesis 10:8-10; 11:1-4)
Dodanim is not mentioned as a son of Javan (1.6.1§§128-129; Genesis 10:4)
The Philistines are another son of Mizraim rather than being a people group descending from his son Casluhim (1.6.2§§136-137; Genesis 10:13-14)
Ham mocked Noah for his nakedness and told his brothers while laughing and Noah cursed Ham’s son because Ham was his immediate son (1.6.3§§140-142; Genesis 9:20-27)
Nahor begot Haran instead of Terah (1.6.5§§149; Genesis 11:24-26)
Serug begets Nahor at age 130 instead of 30 (1.6.5§§149; Genesis 11:22)
Reu begets Serug at age 130 instead of 32 (1.6.5§§149; Genesis 11:20)
Peleg begets Serug at age 130 instead of 30 (1.6.5§§149; Genesis 11:18)
Eber begets Peleg at age 134 instead of 34 (1.6.5§§150; Genesis 11:16)
Shelah begets Eber at age 130 instead of 30 (1.6.5§§150; Genesis 11:14)
Arphaxad begets Shelah at age 135 instead of 35 (1.6.5§§150; Genesis 11:12)
Shem begets Arpachshad 12 years after the flood instead of 2 (1.6.5§§150; Genesis 11:10)
God permitted those from the time of Moses onward to live 120 years (1.6.5§§152; Genesis 6:3; Deuteronomy 34:7)
Abram adopted Lot as his son (1.7.1§§154; Genesis 12:4)
Abram reasons that there must be one God and that the Chaldeans that were fascinated with the stars did not understand that their irregularity proved God to be sovereign (1.7.1§§155-156; Genesis 11:31; 12:1-4)
Abram educates the Egyptians in science, astronomy, and arithmetic (1.8.2§§166-168; Genesis 12:20)
There were giants living in Sodom (1.9.1§§174; Genesis 14:5)
Salem is the early name for Jerusalem (1.10.2§§180; Genesis 14:18)
Abram offers up a sacrifice to God without God’s command (1.10.3§§184-815; Genesis 15:9-11)
Abram asks God for Sarah to bear a son (1.10.4§§186; Genesis 16:1)
God commands Sarai to give Hagar to Abram (1.10.4§§187; Genesis 16:2-3)
A divine angel and not the Angel of Yahweh appears to Hagar (1.10.4§§189; Genesis 16:7)
The divine angel reprimands Hagar for being ungrateful and arrogant and tells her that if she continues to flee from her masters, she will die but that she will be blessed with a sovereign son if she obeys and returns (1.10.4§§189-190; Genesis 16:8-12)
Hagar does not see Yahweh (1.10.4§§190; Genesis 16:13-13)
God does not change Abram’s name to Abraham (1.10.5§§191; Genesis 17:5)
God promises Abram all the land from Sidon to Egypt and not only Canaan (1.10.5§§191; Genesis 17:8)
God commanded Abram to circumcise all his descendants to set them apart from all others (1.10.5§§192; Genesis 17:9-14)
Abram asks for Ishmael to continue living (1.10.5§§193; Genesis 17:18)
Abram does not circumcise his slaves or any other males in his household that are not related to him (1.10.5§§193; Genesis 17:23, 27)
The sin of Sodom was pride from riches and sodomy (1.11.1§§194; Genesis 18:20; Ezekiel 16:49-50)
The three strangers that visit Abram are not Yahweh but angels (1.11.2§§196; Genesis 18:1-2)
Sarai’s name is assumed to have changed to Sarah but God does not demand it (1.11.2§§197; Genesis 17:15-16; 18:9)
Abram’s name is assumed to have changed to Abraham but God does not demand it (1.11.3§§199; Genesis 17:5; 18:23)
God does not give Abraham an opportunity to intercede for Sodom to be spared on account of any righteous people but tells Abraham that it will be destroyed since not even 10 righteous people are in it (1.11.3§§198-200; Genesis 18:16-33)
Lot’s daughters sleep with Lot because they believe him to be the last male they can mate with (1.11.5§§205; Genesis 19:31-36)
Ishmael’s circumcision at 13 set the principle of circumcision for Arabs (1.12.2§§214; Genesis 17:24-25)
Sarah loves Ishmael as much as Isaac but sends him away so that he doesn’t hurt Isaac when Abraham has died instead of sending him away for mocking Isaac (1.12.3§§215; Genesis 21:9)
Abraham doesn’t want to send Ishmael away as a young child but sends him away with Hagar to protect him because he’s young and only because God tells him to do so (1.12.3§§216-217; Genesis 21:10-14)
A divine angel comes to Hagar rather than God Himself as an angel (1.12.3§§219; Genesis 21:17)
David builds the temple later on Mount Moriah (1.13.2§§226; Genesis 22:14)
Isaac gets up onto the altar himself (1.13.4§§232; Genesis 22:9)
God Himself calls to Abraham not to offer up Isaac and not the Angel of Yahweh (1.13.4§§233; Genesis 22:11)
Shuah begets Sheba and Dedan and not Jokshan (1.15.1§§238; Genesis 25:3)
Abraham is already aware of Rebekah and intends on making her Isaac’s wife when he sends out his servant (1.16.1§§242; Genesis 24:2-8)
God foretells of the exaltation of Jacob to Isaac instead of Rebekah (1.18.1§§257; Genesis 25:22-23)
Isaac does not lie about Rebekah being his sister to Abimelech (1.18.2§§259-260; Genesis 26:6-11)
Esau married Canaanite women because they are powerful lords and he can make alliances with them (1.18.4§§265-266; Genesis 26:34-35)
Esau is no longer Isaac’s favorite son after he takes two Canaanite wives and establishing alliances without informing him (1.18.4§§265-266; Genesis 25:28; 26:34-35)
Isaac calls Esau to get game for him to offer up to God and bless Esau by God (1.18.5§§267-268; Genesis 27:1-4)
Bilha and Zilpha are only servants and not slaves (1.19.8§§303; Genesis 29:24, 29)
Jacob never did anything to make any of the cattle blemished or deceive Laban (1.19.10§§320-321; Genesis 30:37-43)
Laban lied to Jacob and did not give him the cattle he had originally promised on his own (1.19.10§§320-321; Genesis 30:31-36; 31:41)
The angel Jacob wrestles with does not argue with him but blesses him and promises that his children will never fail (1.20.2§§332; Genesis 32:28)
The angel that Jacob wrestles with does not injure Jacob’s hip but Jacob just starts feeling his pain as a different occurrence (1.20.2§§334; Genesis 32:25)
Jacob consults his sons to ask how to respond to Hamor and Shechem’s request to marry Dinah and they agree together to slay all of the males in Shechem (1.21.1§§339-340; Genesis 34:5-29)
Levi and Simeon don’t tell Shechem and Hamor to circumcise themselves or speak to them at all but only kill them while they’re sleeping (1.21.1§§339-340; Genesis 34:13-27)
Jacob is astonished at Levi and Simeon killing all the men of Shechem but God comforts him (1.21.2§§241; Genesis 34:20; 35:1-2)
Only Rachel had the household god that she had stolen from Laban and Jacob is entirely unaware of it until God tells him to throw them away (1.21.2§§342; Genesis 35:2-4; 31:19)
BOOK 2
Esau is named Edom, which means ‘red’ in Hebrew, because he was hungry for Jacob’s red stew and sold his birthright for it (2.1.1§§1-3; Genesis 25:29-34)
The story of Jacob tricking Esau into selling his birthright is not told as part of the Jacob story but later on and it is presented as an almost normal event that did not impact Esau much (2.1.1§§2-3; Genesis 25:29-34)
Amalek is not a legitimate son but was born of a concubine (2.1.2§§5; Genesis 36:16)
Jacob prospers in everything and his whole family is virtuous, content, and hard-working men of the soil (2.2.1§§7; Genesis 37:1-2)
Jacob loves and favors Joseph because of his beauty and special virtue and not because he was the younger son and from Rachel (2.2.1§§9; Genesis 37:3)
Joseph doesn’t tattle on his older brothers for not doing a good job (2.2.1§§10; Genesis 37:2)
Joseph’s first dream is actually a vision that he had while awake (2.2.2§§11; Genesis 37:5)
Joseph has no ill will at all in sharing his dreams (2.2.3§§14; Genesis 37:6, 9)
Jacob actually appreciates Joseph sharing his second dream (2.2.3§§15; Genesis 37:10-11)
Reuben tells all of his brothers that it would be wicked for them to kill Joseph and they forgive him for being young (2.3.1-2§§21-29; Genesis 37:21; 42:22)
Reuben implies in his speech that Rachel is still alive at the time that Joseph’s brothers murder him (2.3.1-2§§22; Genesis 37:10)
When Reuben finds out that they won’t listen to him, he tells them it would be better for them to put him in a pit to starve to death than to directly kill him so they don’t have blood on their hands and, really, so that he can come back and save him (2.3.2§§30; Genesis 37:22)
Reuben leaves to find better pasture land for his cattle (2.3.2§§31; Genesis 37:24-25, 29)
Joseph is sold for 20 pounds rather than 20 shekels of silver (2.3.3§§33; Genesis 37:28)
There is no story of Judah or Tamar (2.3.4§§38; Genesis 38:1-30)
Potiphar teaches Joseph and allows him to have a better diet (2.4.1§§39; Genesis 39:1-4)
God has to give Pharoah a disturbing dream for the cup-bearer to remember Joseph and get him freed from prison (2.5.4§§74-77)
No one in Egypt was aware that there would be a famine after the time of plenty except for Joseph and Pharaoh (2.6.1§§93-94; Genesis 41:53-57)
Judah not only takes responsibility for returning Benjamin but offers up his life if Benjamin does not come back safely (2.6.5§§117; Genesis 43:8-10)
Joseph’s messenger does not state that Joseph does divination with the cup that he had hidden in his brother’s bag but state that God knew that they had stolen it (2.6.7§§129; Genesis 44:5)
Benjamin’s punishment for having the cup is assumed to be death (2.6.8§§158; Genesis 44:7)
Judah asks that Joseph kill him in place of Benjamin rather than simply becoming his servant (2.6.8§§158; Genesis 44:30)
There is no mention made of Judah’s son Er and Onan nor of the scandal with Tamar by which Shelah and Perez are born (2.7.4§§178; Genesis 38:1-30; 46:12)
Jacob’s children count 70 as they enter into Egypt if Jacob is not included in the counting (2.7.4§§183; Genesis 46:27)
Egyptians are prohibited from working with sheep (2.7.5§§186; Genesis 46:34)
The famine in Egypt was God’s judgment (2.7.7§§189; Genesis 47:13)
Joseph gives the Egyptians back their land after forcing them to give it to him to pay for food during the famine (2.7.7§§129; Genesis 47:23-24)
Jacob does not give a special blessing to Ephraim and Manaseh but does demand his sons give them their own land and make them official tribes of Israel (2.8.1§§195; Genesis 48:19-20)
Exodus
Part of the reason for the Egyptians enforcing Israelite-slave-labor is their growing in laziness and greed (2.9.1§§201; Exodus 1:8-10)
The Egyptians force the Israelites to make channels for the Nile, fortify their cities, and even build pyramids (2.9.1§§203; Exodus 1:11-14)
A sacred scribe informs Pharoah of a prophecy of a man who might humiliate Egypt and be remembered in glory forever (2.9.2§§205; Exodus 1:15-21)
Pharoah throws all the baby boys into the Nile out of fear of a prophecy that one boy will save Israel and humiliate Egypt (2.9.2§§206-209; Exodus 1:15-21)
The midwives that Pharoah commands to murder the Israelite boys are Egyptian (2.9.2§§206; Exodus 1:15-21)
Amram is a faithful follower of Yahweh who worries that his people will be destroyed and prays to Yahweh (2.9.3§§210-211; Exodus 2:1-2; 6:20)
Israel had grown to have 600,000 people by the time of the birth of Moses (2.9.3§§214; Exodus 2:1-2; 12:37)
God is moved by Amram’s prayer and tells him his son will bring about the salvation of Israel be known by all throughout all time (2.9.3§§215-216; Exodus 2:1-2)
God tells Amram that he will have another son named Aaron after Moses even though Moses is older than Aaron (2.9.3§§216; Exodus 7:7)
Amram puts Moses in a basket in the river out of faith in God to protect and watch over him and to bring his prophecy to fulfillment (2.9.4§§219-220; Exodus 2:2-3)
Moses’ ark is less of an ark and more of a basket (2.9.4§§220-221; Exodus 2:3)
Pharaoh’s daughter saves Moses because he looks beautiful (2.9.5§§224-225; Exodus 2:6)
Pharaoh's daughter searches on her own initiative for someone to wean Moses when he rejects all the Egyptian breasts (2.9.5§§225-227; Exodus 2:7-9)
Moses learned faster and became smarter than all the others (2.9.6§§230; Exodus 2:11)
Moses was so beautiful that Pharaoh’s daughter asks for him to be the heir of Egypt (2.9.7§§232; Exodus 2:11)
Pharaoh puts a crown on toddler Moses’ head, he throws it off and steps on it, and the sacred scribe that prophesied his coming tries to kill him to protect Egypt (2.9.7§§233-235; Exodus 2:11)
The Egyptians make Moses general to lead a war against Ethiopia after suffering defeat from them (2.10.1§§238-242; Exodus 2:11)
Moses uses genius strategies as the Egyptian general to out-do Ethiopia and crush them (2.10.2§§243-248; Exodus 2:11)
The princess of Ethiopia saw Moses fighting for Egypt and winning wars and so they married under oath that Ethiopia would give itself over to Egypt (2.10.2§§251-253; Exodus 2:15-21)
Moses never kills an Egyptian for beating a Hebrew nor does he attempt to bring peace to 2 fighting Hebrew men (2.11.1§§254; Exodus 2:11-14)
Moses flees after Pharaoh believes he will become a general for the Hebrews and destroy Egypt in accordance with the prophecy and not because he found out Moses murdered an Egyptian (2.11.1§§254-256; Exodus 2:11-15)
Jethro is another name for Raguel (2.12.1§§264; Exodus 2:18, 16; 3:1)
No one had gone up the Mountain of Horeb before Moses because they feared it and knew it was the divine mountain of God (2.12.1§§264-265; Exodus 3:1)
There is no Angel of Yahweh in the burning bush but only the flame from the bush speaks to Moses (2.12.1§§266-267; Exodus 3:2)
God has Moses pour some water out and turns it to blood on Mount Horeb at the burning bush (2.12.3§§273; Exodus 4:9)
After once speaking his doubt to God, Moses does not doubt again (2.12.4§§275; Exodus 3:13; 4:10, 13)
Moses asks for God’s name so that he can know who to invoke in his sacrifices and not so that he can give the name (2.12.4§§275; Exodus 3:13)
God’s name was not known by anyone before He told it to Moses (2.12.4§§276; Exodus 6:2-3)
Moses is never chased down by God and Zipphorah doesn’t need to circumcise his son and throw his foreskin on his feet to save him (2.13.1§§277; Exodus 4:24-26)
Aaron coming to meet Moses and work with him is not a punishment by God because of His anger at Moses for doubting (2.13.1§§279; Exodus 4:14-17)
Moses first attempts to persuade Pharaoh by reminding him of how he had led war against the Ethiopians and served Egypt as his own (2.13.2§§281-283; Exodus 5:1-3)
The staff of the Egyptians had seemed to have turned into a dragon and was not simply a serpent (2.13.3§§287; Exodus 7:10-13)
Moses is even more zealous and confident after he is rejected by Pharaoh and blamed by Israel instead of becoming insecure and asking God why neither listens (2.13.4§§290; Exodus 5:22-23)
The Egyptians were forced to drink from the bloody Nile and got sick from it but the Hebrews would drink from it and it would be totally natural (2.14.1§§294-295; Exodus 7:22-24)
Pharaoh’s magicians cannot reproduce the sign of turning the Nile water into blood (2.14.1§§295; Exodus 7:22)
Pharaoh first sends the Hebrews away in response to the Nile becoming blood but then calls them back when it is then returned to normal water instead of not concerning himself with the event (2.14.1§§295; Exodus 7:23)
There is no mention of either God or Pharaoh making his heart heard (2.14.1§§295; Exodus 7:13; 8:15, 32; 9:12, 34; 10:1, 20, 27; 11:10; 14:4, 8, 17)
The frogs die in the water sources of the Egyptians and turn it to blood (2.14.2§§296; Exodus 8:5-6)
Pharaoh’s magicians cannot reproduce the sign of frogs (2.14.2§§289; Exodus 8:7)
Pharaoh first sends the Hebrews away in response to the frogs covering Egypt but then calls them back when they are sent away instead of asking Moses to intercede for him (2.14.2§§298-299; Exodus 8:8-15)
The third plague is not gnats but lice that cannot be taken out of the Egyptians’ hair (2.14.3§§300; Exodus 8:16-17)
Pharaoh’s magicians do not try and fail to reproduce the sign of the lice (2.14.3§§301-302; Exodus 8:18-19)
Pharaoh’s magicians do not even appear and acknowledge that God had brought all the plagues with the power of so little as his finger (2.14.3§§301-302; Exodus 8:19)
Pharaoh first sends the Hebrews away in response to the irremovable lice being in every Egyptian’s hair but then states that they must leave their women and livestock as a pledge that they will return (2.14.3§§301-302; Exodus 8:19; 10:11)
God brought all the plagues immediately instead of doing some through Moses or Aaron (2.14.3§§302; Exodus 7:20; 8:5-6, 16-17; 9:10, 23; 10:13, 22)
The fourth plague is not only of flies but all type of nasty animals with diseases (2.14.3§§303; Exodus 8:24)
There is no fifth plague against the livestock (2.14.4§§304; Exodus 9:1-7)
There are no magicians that cannot stand the boils (2.14.4§§304; Exodus 9:11)
Pharaoh’s servants do not attempt to persuade him to repent and let Egypt go (2.14.4-5§§306-307; Exodus 10:7)
Pharaoh does not even repent after the locusts come (2.14.5§§307; Exodus 10:16-17)
The thick darkness is also a heavy air that many of the Egyptians choke on and die (2.14.5§§308; Exodus 10:22-23)
The Egyptians give the Israelites gifts because they were friends and not because God commanded the Israelites to ask the Egyptians for such gifts (2.14.6§§314;Exodus 11:2-3; 12:35-36)
The Egyptians repent for having treated the Hebrews so harshly (2.15.1§§315; Exodus 12:33)
The Reed Sea is assumed to be the Red Sea (2.15.1§§315; Exodus 13:8)
Out of the 430 years that Israel spends in Egypt, 215 are after Joseph is taken into Egypt (2.15.2§§318; Exodus 12:40-41)
All of Egypt repents and wants to destroy Israel after letting them go instead of just Pharaoh and his servants (2.15.3§§320; Exodus 14:5-9)
The Egyptians imagine that Israel cannot ask God to do any more signs or plagues now that they have let them go and that they can thus destroy them as Israel has no weapons (2.15.3§§320-321; Exodus 14:5)
Moses does not go through the Philistines because they are enemies of Israel instead of God guiding Israel away from the Philistines knowing they will doubt God in war and disbelieve (2.15.3§§322; Exodus 13:17-18)
Moses intentionally brings Israel through a hard way to follow so that if the Egyptians try to pursue them, they will find it hard with their army (2.15.3§§322; Exodus 13:19-20)
There is never any mention of the Angel of Yahweh leading Israel (2.15.3§§322; Exodus 14:19)
God did command Moses to bring the Israelites through the desert instead of the land of the Philistines also because he wanted them to come to Him at Sinai (2.15.3§§323; Exodus 13:17-18)
The Israelites started to stone Moses as they were afraid that Egypt would destroy them before the Red Sea (2.15.4§§327; Exodus 14:10-12)
Moses strikes the Red Sea on his own without any command from God (2.16.2§§338; Exodus 14:15-21)
Moses collects the Egyptians weapons from the sea as a wind brought it to him (2.16.6§§349; Exodus 14:30)
BOOK 3
The Israelites are angry at the lack of water at Elim and almost stone Moses (3.1.3§§12; Exodus 15:27)
Moses exhorts the Israelites to be faithful to God and know that He always saves them when they seem to almost die (3.1.4§§13-21; Exodus 15:27)
Moses prays to God to provide food and God responds with sending quail and manna before Israel left Elim (3.1.5§§22-23; Exodus 15:27; 16:4)
God does not tell Moses or Israel in advance that He will provide food, quail, or manna, but simply rains it on them from Heaven (3.1.5-6§§22-28)
God does not command the Israelites to only gather a daily portion of manna each day, a double portion before the Sabbath, and none on the Sabbath (3.1.6§§26-31; Exodus 16:5)
The Israelites offer up sacrifices after God provides water for them (3.1.7§§38; Exodus 17:6-7)
The nations fear Israel before any of them have war with them (3.2.1§§39; Exodus 17:8; 15:14-16)
The nations conspire as to how to destroy Israel before Israel wages war and they send out Amalek to destroy them (3.2.1§§40-42; Exodus 17:8)
Moses organizes all of Israel in preparation for their battle against Amalek (3.2.3§§49-52; Exodus 17:8)
The Israelites gained many weapons, riches, food, cattle, and slaves from defeating the Amalekites in battle (3.2.4§§55-57; Exodus 17:13)
Moses brings his wife and children to meet Jethro rather than Jethro bringing his wife and children to meet him (3.3.1§§63; Exodus 18:2, 5)
The Israelites make themselves holy and pray for Moses as he ascends Sinai (3.5.1§§78; Exodus 19:14-15)
A great dark cloud covered the sun and rained and thundered all around the camp of the Hebrews around Sinai on the third day (3.5.2§§79-80; Exodus 19:18; 20:18)
The Israelites think that Moses died on the third day on Sinai (3.5.2§§82; Exodus 19:18; 20:18; 32:1)
The Ten Commandments are as such: 1.There is one God and people must only worship Him; 2.There is no making images of living creatures to worship them; 3.No swearing falsely by God; 4.Rest on the Sabbath; 5.All must honor their parents; 6.No murder; 7.No adultery; 8.No theft; 9.No bearing false witness; 10.No admitting desire of anyone else’s things (3.5.5§§91-92; Exodus 20:1-17)
Taking God’s name in vain is assumed to mean swearing falsely with His name (3.5.5§§91; Exodus 20:7)
The people rejoice at hearing the Ten Commandments from the bottom of Sinai (3.5.6§§93; Exodus 20:18-19)
The Israelites do not build the golden calf as Moses is receiving the instructions for the Tabernacle (3.5.7-8§§95-99; Exodus 32:1-6)
The Tabernacle faces east so that the Sun will shine its rays on it first (3.6.3§§115; Exodus 27:13)
The three sections of the Tabernacle represent the heavens, the land, and the sea (3.6.4§§123; Exodus 36:35-38)
The entrance to the Tabernacle was to be kept open except for when it snowed (3.6.5§§128-129)
The Cherubim look nothing like any thing that anyone has ever seen except for Moses (3.6.5§§137; Exodus 25:18-20)
The Mercy-seat is God’s throne that Moses saw in the heavens on Mount Sinai (3.6.5§§137; Exodus 25:20-22)
The Ten Commandments were written with 5 on each of the two stone tablets and 2.5 on each side of the tablets (3.6.5§§138; Exodus 25:16; 32:15)
The seven lamps from the lampstand represent the seven planets and sun (3.6.7§§145-146; Exodus 25:32-33, 37)
The pomegranates and bells alternate after every two of the same instead of only one (3.7.4§§160; Exodus 39:25-26)
The 3 parts of the Tabernacle represent the heavens, land for 2 priests, and sea (3.7.7§§181; Exodus 36:35-37)
The 12 bread in the Tabernacle represent the 12 months (3.7.7§§182; Leviticus 24:5)
The 7 lamps in the Tabernacle represent the 7 divisions of planets (3.7.7§§182; Exodus 25:37; 37:22)
The 4 materials used to make the curtain for the Holy of Holies represent the 4 elements that the world was made out of (3.7.7§§183; Exodus 26:31)
The high priestly garments represent the earth and sky (3.7.7§§184; Exodus 39:27-29)
The bells and pomegranates on the priestly garments represent thunder (3.7.7§§184; Exodus 28:33-35; 39:25-26)
The 4 rows of stones in the ephod represent the 4 elements that God made the world out of (3.7.7§§184; Exodus 28:17; 39:10)
The gold in the ephod represents the glory of enlightenment (3.7.7§§184; Exodus 28:6; 39:2)
The breastplate being in the center of the ephod represents the land in the middle of the world (3.7.7§§185; Exodus 28:15; 39:8)
The priestly sash represents the ocean that surrounds the land (3.7.7§§185; Exodus 28:39-40; 39:29)
The 2 onyx stones on each shoulder represent the sun and moon (3.7.7§§185; Exodus 28:7-9; 39:6-7)
The 12 stones in the ephod could represent the months of the zodiac (3.7.7§§186; Exodus 28:21; 39:14)
The priestly turban represents heaven (3.7.7§§186; Exodus 28:36-38; 39:30-31)
Aaron is chosen as high priest because he is virtuous (3.8.1§§188; Exodus 28:1)
Moses states that Aaron is the most righteous person among the Israelites (3.8.1§§190; Exodus 28:1)
Aaron had the gift of prophecy (3.8.1§§192; Exodus 28:1)
Bezalel is the greatest craftsman ever (3.8.4§§200; Exodus 31:2-5)
Israel completed the Tabernacle on the same day as the Feast of Booths (3.8.4§§201; Leviticus 23:33-38)
Moses is not prevented from first entering the Tabernacle (3.8.5§§202-203; Exodus 40:35)
Leviticus-Numbers
Nabab and Abihu die for not giving Moses the sacrifices he demanded rather than for entering the Tabernacle drunk and with strange fire (3.8.7§§208-210; Leviticus 10:1-10)
A woman who fails the test for adultery by the priest will die instead of just having her thigh shrivel up (3.11..6§§271-273; Numbers 5:19-27)
A woman who passes the test for adultery by the priest will not only be found to not be guilty but will give birth to a boy (3.11.271-273; Numbers 5:19-28)
The priests were called to be doubly as pure as the people (3.12.2§§276; Leviticus 21:10)
The priests can drink wine as long as they do not have their priestly garments on instead of not working in the Tabernacle (3.12.2§§279; Leviticus 10:9)
Moses does not get mad at God for the people complaining to him about not having meat but calmly tells the people that they will have meat (3.13.1§§298; Numbers 11:11-15, 21-22)
God does not come upon a tent with seventy elders to make them all prophesy (3.13.1§§298; Numbers 11:24-29)
The Israelites are changed by God to not be angry at Moses when Moses tells them they cannot enter the land (3.15.2§§316; Numbers 14:39)
BOOK 4
Korah is a good speaker who speaks on behalf of Dathan and Abiram instead of Dathan and Abiram also actually saying anything (4.2.2§§14-19; Numbers 16:1-3)
Korah desires to be given the position of power and leadership because of his riches and wealth (4.2.2§§18-21; Numbers 16:3)
Korah attempts to stone Moses (4.2.3§§22; Numbers 16:3)
Moses was a great speaker (4.2.4§§25; Numbers 16:8)
Dathan and Abiram are the only ones swallowed up the earth and Korah is not (4.3.1-3§§38-52; Numbers 16:23-32)
Moses prays for God to judge Dathan and Abiram by opening up the earth to swallow them instead of God telling Moses that He will do so (4.3.3§§47-50; Numbers 16:23-33)
Fire comes out against Korah after Aaron and him have a show-down and not with the earth-quake (4.3.4§§54-56; Numbers 16:32-35)
The fire that comes against Korah comes also around Aaron but he is not burned (4.3.4§§56; Numbers 16:35)
Moses and Aaron do not need to fall on their faces to intercede for Israel after their blaming them for Korah’s death (4.4.1§§59-62; Numbers 16:42-45)
God’s wrath does not break out and Aaron need to stop it with a censor (4.4.1§§59-62; Numbers 16:46-50)
Moses decides to put all the tribal staffs in the Tabernacle instead of God commanding him to (4.4.2§§63-64; Numbers 17:1-5)
Aaron’s staff blossomed with almonds because the staff was wood broken off from an almond tree (4.4.2§§65; Numbers 17:8)
Miriam and Aaron never speak out against Moses or accuse him on account of his wife or anything (4.4.6-7§§78-84; Numbers 12:1-3)
Og was huge and handsome and had huge hands (4.5.3§§98-99; Deuteronomy 3:11)
Balaam is met by a divine angel on his way to saying his oracle over Israel rather than the Angel of Yahweh (4.6.3§§108; Numbers 22:23)
Balaam only makes 2 or 3 basic prophecies instead of 4 (4.6.5§§124-125; Numbers 24:3-25)
Balaam does not prophesy about a star and scepter coming from Jacob to judge Midian (4.6.5§§125; Numbers 24:17)
Balak and Balaam work together to get the Midianite women to seduce the Israelites to worship their gods (4.6.6-7§§126-133; Numbers 25:1-3; 31:16)
When the Midianites lead the Israelites after their false gods, Moses calls on them to repent (4.6.10§§142-144; Numbers 25:3-5)
Zimri not only comes to be with a Midianite woman but openly objects to Moses’ call for the people to repent (4.6.11§§145-149; Numbers 25:5-6)
Zimri was with the Midianite woman in his own tent and not the Tabernacle (4.6.12§§153; Numbers 25:6)
After Phineas slays Zimri, other Israelites follow after him and slay the others that were cohabiting with Midianite women (4.6.12§§154; Numbers 25:7-8)
14,000 die from the plague and not 24,000 (4.6.12§§155; Numbers 25:9)
Phineas is not bestowed the perpetual priesthood by God or especially honored by God saying anything over him for killing Zimri (4.6.12§§153-155; Numbers 25:10-13)
Phineas leads the war against Midian (4.7.1§§159; Numbers 31:6)
Balaam is not among the Midianite leaders destroyed by Israel (4.7.1§§161; Numbers 31:8)
Moses never strikes the rock twice against God’s command or is prohibited directly by God in any discussion from entering into the land (4.8.2§§177; Numbers 20:1-12)
Deuteronomy
Moses does not explain why he cannot enter into the Promised Land (4.8.2§§177; Deuteronomy 1:9)
Blasphemers are to be hung on a tree as their punishment (4.8.6§§202; Deuteronomy 21:22)
No one is allowed to blaspheme other gods or take gifts from their temples (4.8.10§207; Exodus 20:2-5)
Women and servants should not be trusted as sources or judges for anything (4.8.15§219; Deuteronomy 19:15)
The king is to always submit to the high priest and senators (4.8.17§224; Deuteronomy 17:18)
Those that do not leave behind some crops for the orphan and widow to pick up after them should be punished with 39 lashings (4.8.21§§231-239; Deuteronomy 24:19-21; Leviticus 23:22)
A man who mis-accuses his wife of being adulterous before their marriage must be punished with 39 lashings (4.8.23§§248; Leviticus 22:18)
A man can divorce his wife for whatever reason he desires as long as they don’t remarry (4.8.23§§253; Deuteronomy 24:1-4; Matthew 19:3-9)
Even if a slave decides to stay with his master to be with a wife and or kid that he obtained during slavery, he shall be released on the year of Jubilee (4.8.28§§273; Exodus 21:2-6)
If a man attacks a woman so that she miscarries, the man should only die if the woman dies and not the baby (4.8.33§§278; Exodus 21:22-23)
Eunuchs are to be detested and kicked out of the community and treated as if they have murdered their children (4.8.40§§290-291; Leviticus 21:20)
Moses prophesies the burning of the Temple and Jerusalem and its rebuilding (4.8.46§§313-314; Deuteronomy 28:49-52, 64-65)
Moses was taken up into Heaven but only wrote that he died because he was virtuous and afraid (4.8.48§§326; Deuteronomy 34:5-8)
BOOK 5
Joshua
God does not speak to Joshua after the death of Moses to command him in how he is supposed to lead in courage and wisdom by meditation on the Torah (5.1.1§§1-4; Joshua 1:1-9)
Rahab is not said to have been a prostitute (5.1.2§§9-10; Joshua 2:1)
Joshua does not circumcise all the Israelites as they enter the land nor does God command him to (5.1.4§§20-21; Joshua 5:2-7)
Joshua does not meet the Angel of Yahweh and the Angel of Yahweh does not say He is only on the side of Yahweh (5.1.4§§20-21; Joshua 5:13-15)
Joshua and Israel go around Jericho for the seven days beginning on the first day of Passover (5.1.5§§22; Joshua 5:10-11; 6:8-13)
Achan falls down dead instantly when he is exposed for being the one that stole money from the Lord instead of Israel stoning him to death (5.1.14§§44; Joshua 7:18-25)
Joshua does not make the Gibeonites vassals that must hew their stone and draw their water as they please (5.1.16§§56-57; Joshua 9:27)
The day was lengthened for Joshua to defeat the armies of the king of Jerusalem but there is no mention of the sun specifically standing still (5.1.17§§61; Joshua 10:12-13)
Joshua has Israel pronounce the blessings and curses of the Covenant from Mount Gerizim and Ebal after conquering all of Canaan rather than just winning at Ai (5.1.19§§68-70; Joshua 8:30-35)
Judges
Phineas takes charge as prophet after the death of Joshua (5.2.1§§120; Judges 1:1)
The disaster with the Levite takes place at the beginning of Israel’s apostasy in the time of the judges and not at the end (5.2.8-12§§136-174; Judges 19:1-30; 20:1-48; 21:1-23)
The Levite has a wife that he quarreled with instead of a concubine (5.2.8§§136; Judges 19:1)
The Levite is encouraged to come and stay with a man for the night instead of the square simply out of hospitality and not because he believes the men to be wicked (5.2.8§§141-142; Judges 19:16-21)
The men of Gibeah demand that the Levite give up his wife and not that they sleep with the man himself (5.2.8§§143-144; Judges 19:22)
Deborah is not mentioned as being a prophetess nor judge of Israel (5.5.3§§202; Judges 4:4)
God sent a storm with hail and a strong wind that confused the Moabites so that they all attacked and destroyed each other (5.5.4§§205-206; Judges 4:15; 5:4-5)
Barak judged Israel for 40 years and not Deborah (5.5.4§§209; Judges 4:4; 5:31)
Israel is oppressed by the Midianites for 3 years before Gideon is raised up (5.6.1§§211; Judges 6:1-12)
Someone appearing like a young man appears to Gideon to commission him and not the Angel of Yahweh (5.6.2§§213; Judges 6:11-12)
God shows Gideon a vision of His army and speaks to Him to encourage Him rather than giving him signs that he asks for (5.6.3§§215; Judges 6:15-21, 36-40)
God does not command Gideon to tear down his father’s idol and build an altar to Himself (5.6.3§§215; Judges 6:25-32)
God chooses the 300 warriors that drink from the stream with their hands for Gideon because they are afraid (5.6.4§§216-217; Judges 7:2-7)
Gideon never makes an idol out of an ephod for Israel to bow down to nor does he take a concubine for himself (5.6.7§§232; Judges 8:22-27, 33)
Jeptha is not said to have been born of a prostitute but that Israel only accused him of being born as so (5.7.8§§257-260; Judges 11:1)
Jeptha offered up his daughter as a sacrifice against the Torah (5.7.10§§266; Judges 11:37)
Manoah and his wife are faithful and virtuous and ask God for a son (5.8.2§§276; Judges 13:2)
An angel of God shows appears to Manoah’s wife instead of the Angel of Yahweh (5.8.2§§277; Judges 13:3)
Samson was a prophet (5.8.4§§285; Judges 13:24)
Samson had a very moderate diet and desired to follow all the Nazarite laws (5.8.4§§285; Judges 13:24)
Samson divorces his first wife at the end of their marriage (5.8.6§§294; Judges 14:19-20; 15:1-2)
Ruth
Naomi lived during the time of Eli the high priest (5.9.1§§318; Ruth 1:1-2; 1 Samuel 1:3)
Boaz sends Ruth away in the early morning so they aren’t accused of any scandal since they did nothing wrong anyways (5.9.3§§330; Ruth 3:14-15)
Ruth not only takes her closest kin’s sandal but spits in his face (5.9.4§§335; Ruth 4:7-8; Deuteronomy 25:5-9)
1 Samuel
Eli’s sons, Hopni and Phineas, did not only take the sacrifices from those giving them but also raped some of those that went to the Tabernacle (5.10.10§§339; 1 Samuel 2:12-17)
Hannah explains to Eli that she wants a son and then Eli blesses it rather than unknowingly blessing her request (5.10.2§§345; 1 Samuel 1:15-18)
Samuel does not cut his hair or drink wine like a Nazarite (5.10.3§§347; 1 Samuel 1:28; 2:11)
Hannah had other sons and daughters (5.10.3§§347; 1 Samuel 1:28)
BOOK 6
Samuel didn’t want a king because he loved aristocracy (6.3.3§§36; 1 Samuel 8:6)
God commands Samuel to tell Israel that kingship will be bad and difficult for them (6.3.4§§38-39; 1 Samuel 8:7-9)
Abner is Saul’s relative (6.4.3§§58; 1 Samuel 10:14)
Saul meets with Abner after prophesying and being anointed as king instead of his father (6.4.3§§58-59; 1 Samuel 10:14-16)
Saul hid himself among baggage because he was modest and did not think he was able to be king (6.4.5§§63-64; 1 Samuel 10:21-22)
Samuel wrote a prophecy of what would happen, read it to Saul, and put it in the Tabernacle for future generations to know (6.4.6§§66; 1 Samuel 10:25)
King Nahash plucked out people’s right eyes so they would be blind in battle if they used their shield to block the left side of their body and thus their left eyes (6.5.1§§69-70; 1 Samuel 10:27; 11:2)
700,000 Israelites come to help Saul fight Nahash instead of 300,000 and 70,000 Judahites come to help him instead of 30,000 (6.5.3§§78; 1 Samuel 11:8)
The large stone that Saul rolls over to his Israelite army is as an altar for them to sacrifice their cattle on so that they do not eat it with blood (6.6.4§§121; 1 Samuel 14:33-34)
Jonathan agrees with Saul in saying that he should die for tasting honey against Saul’s curse (6.6.5§§127; 1 Samuel 14:44-45)
Saul had 400,000 Israelite troops and 30,000 Judahite troops that he led against Amalek instead of 200,000 Israelite troops and 10,000 Judahite troops (6.7.2§§134; 1 Samuel 15:4)
Saul spared Agag because he was tall and beautiful (6.7.2§§137; 1 Samuel 15:8-9)
Whereas Saul was guilty for sparing Agag, his army was guilty for sparing the cattle (6.7.2§§139; 1 Samuel 15:8-9)
Saul spared the Shechemites in his war against the Amalekites and other towns in the vicinity because Moses’ father-in-law was a Shechemite (6.7.3§§140; 1 Samuel 15:4-7)
Samuel herd from God that He had rejected Saul and Samuel pleaded with God to keep Saul as king but God rejected his intercession (6.7.4§§143-145; 1 Samuel 15:10-11)
God guides Samuel to take a safe path to see Jesse and anoint one of his sons rather than giving him something else to say to hide that he is actually appearing to anoint a new king (6.8.1§§157-158; 1 Samuel 16:2-3)
When he initially anoints him, Samuel prophecies to David that he will be honored and overthrow Philistia and be powerful and recognized by all the nations (6.8.1§§165; 1 Samuel 16:13)
Upon the anointing of David, the Spirit of God leaves Saul and enters into David (6.8.2§§166; 1 Samuel 16:14)
As the Spirit of God leaves Saul, a new demonic spirit not from God enters into him (6.8.2§§166; 1 Samuel 16:14)
David prophecies whenever the Spirit that used to be Saul and once made him prophecy enters into him (6.8.2§§166; 1 Samuel 16:14; 10:10-11)
The only way to charm the demon in Saul was through the singing of hymns (6.8.2§§166; 1 Samuel 16:15-17)
Goliath is 4 cubits and a span tall and not 6 cubits and a span (6.9.1§§171; 1 Samuel 17:4)
Saul sent David back to be with Jesse during the fight against the Philistines and Goliath and chose to have his 3 older brothers instead (6.9.2§§175; 1 Samuel 17:12-14)
David never asked for what the reward was for killing Goliath and never received any reward (6.9.2-4§§177-192; 1 Samuel 17:26, 55-58)
David did not take Goliath’s sword into his own tent but the Tabernacle to consecrate it (6.9.5§§192; 1 Samuel 17:54)
Jonathan does not make any covenant with David (6.10.1§§193; 1 Samuel 18:1, 3)
Saul has David collect 600 Philistine heads to win Michal and not 100 Philistine foreskins (6.10.1§§197; 1 Samuel 18:25)
Michal puts goat’s liver under the covers so that it moves as if he was breathing instead of her household idol (6.11.4§§217; 1 Samuel 19:13)
Saul becomes disordered and agitated when he comes before Samuel instead of the Spirit of God coming upon him and him prophesying (6.11.5§§223; 1 Samuel 19:23-24)
Ahimelech the priest gives David regular food instead of the consecrated bread (6.12.1§§243; 1 Samuel 21:3-6)
Ahimelech had been prophesying about David for a length of time even before David came for bread and refuge (6.12.5§§257; 1 Samuel 22:15)
Doeg kills 385 men with Ahimelech instead of 85 people (6.12.6§§260; 1 Samuel 22:18)
Doeg destroying all of Nob is fulfilling the prophecy that God made to Eli that his whole family would be destroyed on account of his 2 sons (6.12.6§§259-261; 1 Samuel 22:17-19; 2:30-33; 3:14)
David asks God if he should fight against Keilah by a prophet and not directly (6.13.1§§271; 1 Samuel 23:2-5)
The witch of Endor is recommendable for her desire to obey Saul even when in secret and for her generosity for Saul although she knew he would die (6.14.4§§340-342; 1 Samuel 28:8-13, 20-25)
Saul is recommendable for his confidence and courage to go out to battle even after he knows that he will die because of his fighting for his country more than his own life (6.14.4§§343-350; 1 Samuel 28:13; 31:1-3)
Saul asked his armor-bearer to kill him because he was too wounded to kill himself and then sets up his sword to fall upon when his armor-bearer refuses (6.14.7§§370-371; 1 Samuel 31:3-4)
Saul does not die from falling on his own sword so he asks an Amalekite that happens to be there to finish him (6.14.7§§371-372; 1 Samuel 31:4; 2 Samuel 1:2-10)
Saul died not only because of Samuel’s prophecy but also because he had Ahimelech the high priest killed (6.14.9§§378; 1 Samuel 31:5; 28:19: 22:17-19; 22:17-19; 13:1)
BOOK 7
2 Samuel
After the death of Saul, David inquires of God through a prophet instead of directly (7.1.2§§7; 2 Samuel 2:1)
In comparison to the 360 of Abner’s men that were killed, only 19 of David’s died (7.1.3§§19; 2 Samuel 2:31)
Joab does not confront David and leave him speechless about letting Abner go free even after killing his brother (7.1.5§§31-32; 2 Samuel 3:22-25)
4,000 Benjaminites come to David in Hebron instead of 3,000 (7.2.2§§56; 1 Chronicles 12:29)
27,000 Danites come to David in Hebron instead of 28,000 (7.2.2§§59; 1 Chronicles 12:35)
The Jebusites put the blind and lame on the wall to keep David from entering in (7.3.1§§61; 2 Samuel 5:6)
Joab became commander of David’s army by ascending Jerusalem and taking it first (7.3.1§§63-64; 2 Samuel 5:8)
Jerusalem was earlier called Salem (7.3.2§§67; 2 Samuel 2:6-9; Genesis 14:18)
No one, not even Joshua, had taken Jerusalem before David (7.3.2§§68; 2 Samuel 5:6)
David always sought the high priest to prophecy for him but never actually inquired God directly what he should do (7.4.1§§72; 2 Samuel 5:19, 23)
Had Saul brought out the Ark of the Covenant as David did, he wouldn’t have had any of the misfortunes that he had (7.4.2§§78-79; 2 Samuel 6:2)
God was angry at Uzziah and struck him dead for not being a priest and touching the Ark of the Covenant (7.4.3§§81; 2 Samuel 6:6-7)
David and all Israel are displeased at Uriah’s death instead of David alone being mad and mad at God (7.4.3§§82; 2 Samuel 6:8)
David has only priests and not just Levites or himself take the Ark of the Covenant (7.4.2§§85; 1 Chronicles 15:2)
David and the priests do not offer sacrifices after every six paces when walking with (7.4.2§§85; 2 Samuel 6:13)
David does not have a linen ephod on nor does he dance with all his might (7.4.2§§85; 2 Samuel 6:13-14)
Michal laughs at David when she sees him take the Ark of the Covenant instead of being indignant at him (7.4.2§§85; 2 Samuel 6:16)
the Ark of the Covenant but only throw a feast when they arrive (7.4.2§§86; 2 Samuel 6:13)
David desires to build the Temple to fulfill some supposed prophecy of Moses (7.4.4§§91; 2 Samuel 7:2)
God tells David that he will have David’s son build Him a house rather than saying He will build David’s house Himself (7.4.4§§93; 2 Samuel 7:12-13)
God clearly speaks about raising up Solomon and disciplining him when he does wrong rather than speaking generally about some son of David (7.4.4§§93; 2 Samuel 7:12)
After defeating Hadadezer in battle, he kept only 100 chariots and destroyed the rest instead of hamstringing them (7.5.1§§99; 2 Samuel 8:4)
Bathsheba tells David that he should find some way to cover up their adultery so that she doesn’t get put to death (7.7.1§§131; 2 Samuel 11:5)
David names his second son by Bathsheba by command of the Prophet Nathan instead of Jedidiah (7.7.4§§158; 2 Samuel 12:24-25)
David tormented the Ammonites after defeating them in battle instead of putting them to work with bricks (7.7.5§§161; 2 Samuel 12:31)
Amnon’s own body changed color and made him lean because of illness in love with Tamar rather than him making himself sick for her (7.8.1§§163; 2 Samuel 13:2)
Israel says that they have 11 parts of the kingdom instead of 10 when speaking to who should get David (7.11.5§§277; 2 Samuel 19:43)
When David hands over 7 sons of Saul to the Gibeonites, they punish them instead of impaling them on poles (7.12.1§§297; 2 Samuel 21:7-9)
David does not gather the remains of Saul and Jonathan (7.12.1§§297-298; 2 Samuel 2 Samuel 21:10-14)
After David’s mighty men had shown themselves on the battlefield in destroying many Philistines, the Philistines did not fight Israel anymore (7.12.2§§304; 2 Samuel 21:22)
Josheb-basshebeth killed 900 at one time instead of 800 (7.12.4§§307; 2 Samuel 23:8)
Benaiah killed 600 in a day instead of 300 (7.12.4§§315; 2 Samuel 23:18)
David and Israel was punished with a plague of God because the Torah says to each person pay half a shekel to God when numbering Israel (7.13.1§§318; 2 Samuel 24:1, 10; Exodus 30:12)
Joab counted all of Israel except for Benjamin because he did not get to that tribe before returning to the king (7.13.1§§2 Samuel 24:5-9)
Israel was 900,000 instead of 800,000 and Judah 400,000 instead of 500,000 when David numbered them (7.13.1§§320; 2 Samuel 24:9; 1 Chronicles 21:6)
God gives David his options for punishment through the Prophet Nathan instead of the Prophet Gad oracles (7.13.2§§321; 2 Samuel 24:10-14)
Araunah’s threshing floor was renamed “The Altar of All the People” by David when he offered up a sacrifice there, on the same spot that Abraham almost offered up Isaac, and he knew that his son Solomon would build the Temple there (7.13.4§§334;)
David prepares 10,000 talents of gold and 100,000 talents of silver for the Temple instead of 100,000 talents of gold and 1,000,000 talents of silver (7.14.2§§340; 1 Chronicles 22:14)
1 Kings
David tells Solomon that he was ordained by God to be king (7.14.2§§338; 1 Kings 1:30)
BOOK 8
God’s prophecy to Eli to take the priesthood away from him on account of his selfish sons is the reason why Solomon removes Abiathar and makes Zadok from the line of Phineas high priest (8.1.3§§11-12; 1 Chronicles 28:1-18; 29:1-25)
Solomon has his officials divide both the living and dead babies to give to the 2 harlots that argued over which infant was theirs instead of only halving the living baby (8.2.2§§31; 1 Kings 3:25)
Solomon had 40,000 chariots and 12,000 horsemen (8.2.4§§41; 1 Kings 4:26; 2 Chronicles 1:14; 9:25)
No one knows what the cherubim in Solomon’s Temple looked like (8.3.3§§73; 1 Kings 6:23-28; 2 Chronicles 3:10-13)
Solomon made 200 extra sacerdotal garments for the regular priests but Israel continued to use the high priestly garment and crown made by Moses (8.3.8§§93-94; Exodus 28:1-38)
The priests offered up so many sacrifices at the inauguration of Solomon’s Temple that the smoke from the sacrifices was thought by the people to mean that God was present in the Temple (8.4.1§§101-102; 1 Kings 8:5, 10; 2 Chronicles 5:6, 13-14)
It took Solomon 13 years to build his palace and 7 years to build the Temple because he didn’t care as much about his palace as to prioritize it and build it quickly (8.5.1§§130-131; 1 Kings 7:1)
The Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia comes rather than some queen from Sheba (8.6.5§§165; 1 Kings 10:1)
Solomon had 20,200 horses instead of 12,000 horses and they are super swift (8.7.3§§183-184; 1 Kings 10:26)
Solomon made a path for Jerusalem to make travel easy for all travelers (8.7.4§§187; 1 Kings 10:26)
King Solomon became less and less wise over the years to the point where he didn’t even know the laws of his own land because of his continued unfaithfulness (8.7.5§§193-194; 1 Kings 11:4)
Solomon sinned by building the bronze oxen to hold up the brazen sea in the Temple and the golden lions by the side of his throne (8.7.5§§195; 2 Chronicles 4:1-4; 2 Kings 7:23-25; 10:19; Exodus 20:4)
King Solmon does not build a high place for Chemosh and Molech (8.7.5§§190-195; 1 Kings 11:7)
Solomon lived to be 94 and reigned 80 years instead of 40 (8.7.8§§211; 1 Kings 11:42-43)
The name of the prophet that prophesied of Josiah and against Jeroboam was named Jadon (8.8.5§§231; 1 Kings 13:1)
The old prophet that has Jadon come eat with him is a false and wicked prophet esteemed by Jeroboam (8.9.1§§236; 1 Kings 13:11)
The false prophet does not claim that the word of Yahweh came to tell him to have the other prophet eat with him (8.9.1§§239; 1 Kings 13:18)
God appeared to Jadon to tell him how he would die for eating with the false prophet instead of coming to the false prophet and speaking to Jadon through him (8.9.1§§240; 1 Kings 13:20-22)
The false prophet tells his sons to bury him with Jadon when he dies so nothing bad happens to him later but still says he’s silly to Jeroboam and that none of his prophecy can come true (8.9.1§§242-244; 1 Kings 13:29-32)
All the righteous people in Israel left Israel to live in Judah so that they could worship God in Jerusalem (8.10.1§§248; 1 Kings 12:29-33; 2 Chronicles 11:13-16)
Rehoboam had 30 concubines instead of 60 (8.10.1§§250; 2 Chronicles 11:21)
The Prophet Azariah prophecies to King Asa that there will be time when there will be no true prophet or priest instead of saying that the time had already passed when there was no true prophet or priest (8.12.2§§296; 2 Chronicles 15:3)
The Prophet Hanani never reprimands King Asa for making an alliance with Aram instead of having faith in God (8.12.4§§306; 2 Chronicles 16:7-10)
Asa reigned for 41 years because he was blessed for living by the Law instead of dying by a worsening disease for disobeying God (8.12.6§§314-315; 2 Chronicles 16:7-13)
Somebody unnamed and later God are mentioned as having spoken to Elijah while he was at Horeb instead of the Angel and Word of Yahweh (8.13.7§§349-350; 1 Kings 19:5, 9)
God tells Elijah to anoint Hazael as king of Aram (8.13.7§§352; 1 Kings 15)
God never says He had saved 7,000 Israelites who had not bowed to Baal (8.13.7§§352; 1 Kings 19:18)
When Elijah threw his mantle on Elisha, Elisha began to instantly prophecy (8.13.7§§353-354; 1 Kings 19:19)
King Ahab kills Naboth and takes his vineyard before going to war with Ben-hadad (8.14.1§§363; 1 Kings 20:1; 21:1)
The unnamed prophet that prophesied of Ahab’s death was Micaiah (8.14.5§§389-392; 1 Kings 20:35-42; 22:13)
King Ahab locks up Micaiah in prison for prophesying against him (8.14.5§§392; 1 Kings 20:42-43)
King Jehoshaphat asks for another prophet when he sees the all principally prophesy in favor of King Ahab because he knows they are false prophets (8.15.4§§402; 2 Chronicles 17:6; 1 Kings 22:7)
The false prophet Zedekiah calls Micaiah a liar since he says Ahab will die on the battlefield instead of in Naboth’s vineyard as Elijah the greater prophet had prophesied already (8.15.4§§407; 2 Chronicles 18:23; 1 Kings 22:24; 21:19-24)
The false prophet Zedekiah slaps Micaiah to tell him that his hand will hurt from slapping him like Jeroboam’s hand withered at the word of the Prophet Jadon (8.15.4§§408; 2 Chronicles 18:23; 1 Kings 22:24; 13:4)
Not only does Ahab put on a disguise to be a normal fighter in the war but Jehoshaphat puts on Ahab’s royal clothes so as to disprove the prophecy of Micaiah (8.15.5§§412; 1 Kings 22:30; 2 Chronicles 18:29)
The random young man that shot and accidently killed Ahab was Naaman (8.15.5§§414; 2 Chronicles 18:33; 1 Kings 22:34; 2 Kings 5:1)
BOOK 9
King Jehoshaphat’s ships simply are destroyed without any prophecy or explanation that he did evil in working with King Ahaziah of Israel (9.1.4§§17; 2 Chronicles 20:35-37)
2 Kings
King Ahaziah sends for Fly the God of Ekron to find out if he will heal from his injury rather than Baal-zebub (9.2.1§§19; 2 Kings 1:2)
Elijah does not promise Elisha a double spirit for seeing him ascend (9.2.2§§28; 2 Kings 2:9)
Elijah simply disappeared but no one knows about his death instead of him ascending into heaven in a whirlwind (9.2.2§§28; 2 Kings 2:11)
The widow that asks Elisha for help was the wife of Obadiah who had hidden 100 prophets from Jezebel in Elijah’s time (9.4.2§§47; 1 Kings 18:3-4; 2 Kings 4:1)
Elisha never cures Namaan of his leprosy (9.4.2§§50; 2 Kings 5:1-27)
Elisha never makes an ax head float (9.4.2§§50; 2 Kings 6:1-7)
Jehu son of Nimshi drove slowly and in order instead of like a maniac (9.6.3§§117; 2 Kings 9:20)
Jehu reigned over Israel 27 years instead of 28 (9.8.1§§160; 2 Kings 10:36)
Jehoahaz does not keep sinning like Jeroboam but dies after having repented (9.8.5§§175-176; 2 Kings 13:4-6)
Jehoash is a good man instead of a king that does evil in the eyes of God (9.8.6§§177; 2 Kings 13:11)
Jeroboam II is evil for worshiping idols and causes 10,000 misfortunes for Israel (9.10.1§§205; 2 Kings 14:24)
Jonah
God grants Jonah’s prophecy for Jeroboam II to be true because the growing boundaries are in accord with what was given to Joshua and not because He saw the distress of Israel (9.10.1§§206-207; 2 Kings 14:26-27)
God tells Jonah to tell Nineveh that they will lose dominion over the nations and not just to cry out against it (9.10.2§§208; Jonah 1:2)
Jonah did not go to Nineveh because he was afraid (9.10.2§§208; Jonah 1:3)
A whale swallowed Jonah instead of a sea monster (9.10.2§§213; Jonah 1:17)
Jonah preaches that Nineveh will lose dominion of Asia and not that it will be overturned (9.10.2§§214; Jonah 3:4)
It is not noted that Nineveh repents or even reacts to Jonah’s sermon (9.10.2§§214; Jonah 3:6-9)
Jonah leaves Nineveh rather than being angry and speaking with God (9.10.2§§214; Jonah 4:1-11)
Uzziah had an army of 370,000 instead of 307,500 men (9.10.3§§220; 2 Chronicles 26:13)
An earthquake shakes the ground and the sun shines through it to give Uzziah leprosy whenever he enters the Temple to offer up incense (9.10.4§§225; 2 Chronicles 26:19-20; Zechariah 14:4-5)
Nahum
Nahum prophesied during the days of King Jotham (9.11.3§§238-239; Nahum 1:1)
Hoshea is made Assyria’s vassal but isn’t taken into exile by Assyria (9.13.1§§259; 2 Kings 17:5)
Hezekieah begins to rule in the fourth year of Hoseha’s rule rather than in the third (9.13.1§§260; 2 Kings 18:1)
Hezekiah doesn’t break the bronze serpent that Moses had made because the people of Judah are never said to have worshiped it (9.13.2§§263; 2 Kings 18:4)
None of the Israelites that celebrated Passover under Hezekiah are said to have been impure and Hezekiah didn’t need to pray for God to pardon them (9.13.2§§267; 2 Chronicles 30:18-19)
The pagan peoples that were put in the Northern Kingdom of Israel after their exile and claim to be related to the Jews and are called Samaritans (9.14.3§§288-291; 2 Kings 17:24-29, 41)
BOOK 10
Isaiah
Hezekiah simply becomes sick but not because of his own pride (10.2.1§§25; 2 Chronicles 32:24-25; 2 Kings 20:1; Isaiah 38:1)
Hezekiah was afraid of dying from sickness because he had no son at the time and only asked for God to extend his life so that he could have a son to continue his lineage before he died (10.2.1§§25-27; 2 Kings 20:2-3; 2 Chronicles 32:26; Isaiah 38:2-3)
Hezekiah is troubled by Isaiah’s prophecy of the downfall of his descendants but knew that God could not change His will and so felt peace about it instead of simply receiving it and feeling good about having peace in his own lifetime (10.2.2§§34; 2 Kings 20:19; Isaiah 39:8)
King Manasseh killed all of the prophets and righteous men that came to him to tell him to repent (10.3.1§§38; 2 Chronicles 33:2; 2 Kings 21:16)
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Ezekiel wrote two books (10.5.2§§79; Ezekiel 1:1)
Micah
Ezekiel prophesied that King Zedekiah would be taken into captivity without seeing Babylon but Jeremiah said that he would be taken in bonds and assumed he would see it so King Zedekiah disobeyed them because their prophecies contradicted one another (10.7.2§§106-107; Ezekiel 12:10-15; Jeremiah 34:1-3; 2 Chronicles 36:13)
Jeremiah doesn’t only prophesy that exile will end in 70 years but that the Temple will be rebuilt (10.7.3§§113; Jeremiah 25:12)
The King of Babylon told King Zedekiah that God had given him over to Babylon (10.8.2§§139; 2 Kings 25:6; Jeremiah 39:5)
Jeremiah and Ezekiel both prophesied right about King Zedekiah being brought to the King of Babylon and not seeing Babylon since the King brought him to himself outside of Babylon and plucked out his eyes before he had the opportunity to even see Babylon (10.8.2§§135-141; Jeremiah 39:1-7; 34:1-2; Ezekiel 34:1-3)
Saul reigned for 20 years instead of 40 or 42 (10.8.4§§143; 1 Samuel 13:1; Acts 13:21)
Daniel
The king of Babylon loves Daniel, Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego before they even do anything righteous because of their temperance (10.10.1§§189; Daniel 1:5-7)
God began to show Himself to Daniel in dreams and give him the capacity to understand dreams after his diet (10.10.2§§194; Daniel 1:20)
Nebuchadnezzar demands his officials tell him his first frightful dream because he had forgotten it after awakening from the night instead of wanting to test them and tell them they were incapable of interpreting dreams (10.10.1§§193-196; Daniel 2:1-5)
The two hands of the statue in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream represent his government being dissolved by 2 kings (10.10.4§§208; Daniel 2:38-39, 32)
The bronze part of the statue in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is a nation from the West (10.10.4§§209; Daniel 2:39, 32)
The meaning of the stone in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream represented something future which is only understandable from studying Daniel (10.10.4§§210; Daniel 2:44-45)
Nebuchadnezzar does not confess the God of Israel as ultimate after Daniel interprets his first night-fright but changes Daniel’s name to that of his own god’s and commands people to sacrifice to Daniel (10.10.5§§211; Daniel 2:46-47; 1:7)
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are all thrown into the fire immediately after not bowing down to Nebuchadnezzar’s image without any mention of Nebuchadnezzar testing them or being angry at them (10.10.5§§214; Daniel 3:8-22)
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are all saved from the fire of the furnace they are thrown into because the flame finds them righteous and will not burn them and because of God’s providence (10.10.5§§214-215; Daniel 3:27)
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are not in the fiery furnace with any divine being nor does Nebuchadnezzar notice it and proclaim their God to be blessed (10.10.214-215; Daniel 3:24-29)
Nebuchadnezzar returns to his kingdom after 7 years of humiliation but because of his prayer to God that he would return and not for confessing God as the ultimate king (10.10.6§§217; Daniel 4:34-37, 2-3)
Nebuchadnezzar had not only taken the golden and silver vessels out of the Temple in Jerusalem put placed them in their own temple (10.11.2§§22; Daniel 5:2-3)
Belshazzar not only drank from the vessels originally from Jerusalem’s Temple and praised idols but also blasphemed God as he did (10.11.2§§22; Daniel 5:2-4)
Belshazzar’s grandmother refers him to Daniel instead of the king (10.11.2§§237; Daniel 5:10)
Belshazzar is saddened by Daniel’s words (10.11.4§§245; Daniel 5:26-29)
Belshazzar does not die in the night when God wrote on the wall but is taken into captivity by Cyrus (10.11.4§§247; Daniel 5:30-31)
King Darius is Cyrus (10.11.4§§249; Daniel 6:1)
King Cyrus put a seal over the stone rolled over Daniel’s lions den and made sure that it wasn’t broken when he returned the next day to check on Daniel (10.11.6§§258-259; Daniel 6:16, 19)
When the other officials see that Daniel wasn’t hurt at all while in the lions den or consumed, they know that he was protected by God (10.11.6§§260; Daniel 6:23)
After lifting Daniel out of the lions den, the king feeds the lions flesh to see if they were still hungry and then throw the officials that accused Daniel into the den to see if the lions would eat them too (10.11.6§§261; Daniel 6:24)
The King only has the officials that threatened Daniel thrown into the lions den instead of their whole families (10.11.6§§261; Daniel 6:24)
Daniel built a tower in Ecbatana of Media (10.11.7§§264; Daniel 6:28)
Daniel doesn’t have any vision of four beasts and the Son of Man (10.11.7§§267-269; Daniel 7:1-28)
Daniel never interprets Jeremiah as saying the Jews would be freed in 70 years and is told the time would be longer (10.11.7§§267-269; Daniel 9:1-27)
Daniel does not have any encounter with watchers (10.11.7§§267-269; Daniel 10:1-10)
Sacrifices are prohibited from happening for 1,296 days instead of 2,300 days (10.11.7§§271; Daniel 8:14)
Daniel’s dream of the ram and goat prophesied about both the desecration of the temple by Antiochus IV Epiphanes and its desolation by Rome (10.11.7§§276; Daniel 8:8-12)
BOOK 11
Ezra
Cyrus refers to the prophets when he commands Israel to go up to build the Temple (11.1.1§§4; Ezra 1:2)
Cyrus reads Isaiah and sees that he is supposed to rebuild Jerusalem and so is eager to fulfill the prophecy and send the Jews to Jerusalem to rebuild it (11.1.2§§5-6; Isaiah 44:26-28)
Many of the Jews in Babylon did not go up to Jerusalem as permitted by the decree of Cyrus because they had many things in Babylon that they did not desire to leave behind (11.1.3§§8; Ezra 1:3-4)
Cyrus sends a letter to the governors in Syria about his decree for the Jews to rebuild his temple and for them to provide for them (11.1.3§§12-17; Ezra 1:8-9)
42,462 Jews went up to Jerusalem with Cryus’ decree instead of 42,360 (11.1.3§§18; Ezra 2:64)
*LXX 1 Esdras
The sound of the elders weeping and wailing at seeing the second temple in comparison with the first is even louder than the praises and trumpet sounds instead of being indistinguishable from it (11.4.2§§81-83; Ezra 3:10-13)
Zerubabbel tells the people of Samaria that they cannot help them build the Temple because they are common and the same as all other people but concedes that they can come worship in it instead of entirely telling them that they are not allowed to aid them in reconstructing the Temple (11.4.3§§86-87)
The priests were oligarchs until the Hasmonean dynasty (11.4.8§§111; Ezra 6:18)
The Samaritans worked with the Persians with all that they had to do evil to the Jews as they celebrated Passover and write Darius another letter complaining about the Jews (11.4.9§§114-119; Ezra 6:22)
Ezra reads the letter written for him by Xerxes to the Jews in Babylon and many of them follow him up to Jerusalem with joy and in hope (11.5.2§§131-133; Ezra 7:27-28)
After Ezra returns, they offer up 90 rams and 70 lambs instead of 96 rams and 77 lambs (11.5.2§§137; Ezra 8:35)
Ezra established it as a law to come in Israel that priests are pure in not marrying non-Jews (11.5.4§§153; Ezra 10:3)
Nehemiah goes to Jerusalem after Ezra has already died (11.5.5-6§§158-159; Nehemiah 1:1)
The Jews were first called Jews after coming up from exile in Babylon because they were the nation of Judah and they continued to be called by that name (11.5.7§§173; Nehemiah 1:1)
The Samaritans and other nations killed many Jews and sought out how they might kill Nehemiah (11.5.8§§174-175; Nehemiah 4:7-8)
The Temple doesn’t fall back into ruin with everyone failing to live by what Nehemiah made people promise and Nehemiah does not raid and reprimand them (11.5.8§§181-183; Nehemiah 10:4-31)
Esther
Queen Vashti doesn’t want to show herself before all of Persia because it is against their own laws for the queen to be seen by strangers (11.6.1§§191; Esther 1:12)
Esther was among 400 other chosen virgins (11.6.2§§200; Esther 2:12)
King Ahasuerus married Esther and crowned her with a diadem (11.6.2§§202-203; Esther 2:17-18)
Mordecai moved to Babylon when Esther was crowned as queen (11.6.2§§203-204; Esther 2:5-6)
Mordecai finds out about the conspiracy about Bigthan and Teresh desiring to kill the king from another Jew and tells Esther to tell the king about it (11.6.4§§207; Esther 2:21-22)
King Ahasuerus has his conspirators hung on crosses (11.6.4§§208; Esther 2:23)
King Ahasuerus has Mordecai’s name written down in his records for saving his life and making him aware of his conspirators (11.6.4§§208; Esther 6:2)
Haman was an Amalekite (11.6.5§§209; Esther 3:1)
Mordecai will not worship Haman like all of the other people because the Torah prohibits it (11.6.5§§210; Esther 3:1-2)
Ham is willing to pay King Ahasuerus 40,000 talents whenever he wanted to make up for the money that the Jews would have paid him in taxes rather than offering 10,000 talents for the Jews to be exterminated (11.6.5§§214; Esther 3:9)
*LXX Esther
Mordecai prays to God to forgive the Jews and save them from the punishment that would come on them for him not bowing down to Mordecai (11.6.8§§229-230; Esther 4:16-17)
Esther fasts from meat, drinks, and delicacies to ask God might protect her and give her favor as she goes before the king and save the Jews (11.6.8§§231-233; Esther 4:17; 5:1)
King Ahasuerus is at first lit up with anger at Esther for appearing before him unannounced, Esther faints, and God changes his heart to receive her (11.6.9§§236-238; Esther 5:1-2)
God laughs at Haman after he had set up his extra-high gallows for Mordecai as He had taken away the king’s sleep to set up all of the events to come (11.6.10§§247; Esther 5:14)
Mordecai was initially angry at Haman for putting a purple cloak on him and imagined that it was all about mocking him (11.6.10§§257; Esther 6:11)
One of the eunuchs that went to get Haman for Esther’s second feast asks about the high gallows he saw in his house and found out it was for hanging Mordecai (11.6.11§§261; Esther 7:9)
Haman fell upon Queen Esther’s bed as he pleaded with her to spare his life (11.6.11§§265; Esther 7:8)
Many non-Jews circumcised themselves for fear of the Jews (11.6.13§§285; Esther 8:17)
After Alexander the Great had been granted Judea by the Jews, the priests show him the book of Daniel and how he is the person that is said to overthrow the Persians (11.8.5§§337; Daniel 7:6; 8:3-8, 20-22; 11:3)
*Letter of Aristeas
BOOK 13
Onias had a Temple be built in Egypt in accordance with the prophecy of Isaiah (13.3.1-3§§62-73; Isaiah 19:19-21)