It is sufficiently clear that the original text for 2 Samuel 8:4 is seven thousand; (“one thousand chariots seven thousand horsemen”), like in Chronicles.…
This is not really a problem, for if we continue reading on further to 1 Chronicles 15, we find that David brought the Ark after defeating the Philistines.…
They didn’t capture Jerusalem. In chapter 10, Jerusalem’s king led an army out to attack Gibeon, where he was killed by Joshua’s armies.…
It is interesting that some Muslim critics will attack this passage, for Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim confirms that Muhammad (pbuh) believed exactly the same story:
…“The Messenger of Allah said: “One of the Prophets made a holy war.”…
To modern and scientific people this test seems strange. However, to those who know the power of God and know that He is able to perform miracles there are no difficulties in this passage.…
One might as well ask for the scientific logic behind the following:
…The Prophet said “If a house-fly falls in the drink of anyone of you, he should dip it (in the drink), for one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure for the disease.”
There are two reasons why baby girls had a longer period of seclusion.…
Critics have alleged that the Hebrew phrase “conceived seed” when used of women as in this verse indicates semen production. The word in question is “תזריע” ( tazria‛ ), which literally means “to make seed.”…
This is a simple misunderstanding related to translation. First, the locusts listed all have four normal legs plus two very different large hind legs used for jumping—in ancient times these must not have been counted among the walking legs, and thus they are described as “four-legged.”…
The Hebrew term ‛ôph (עוף) does mean ‘bird’ when it stands alone ; but when combined with שׁרץ (sherets) as one word it becomes שׁרץהעוף sherets’ha‛ôph which means ‘flying insect’ in Hebrew.…