King Solomon was famous for his wisdom and wealth, and there are passages in the Bible that refer to his riches. But there seems to be a contradiction in two of these passages – how many stalls did Solomon have It says in the Book of Kings: “And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.” (1 Kings…
The Molten Sea was a large brazen (bronze) reservoir for water which stood in the court of Solomon's Temple used for storing the water in which the priests washed their hands and their feet. In the account of the Book of Kings it says: “And it was a handbreadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers…
To judge the reliability of the biblical story, scholars apply the criteria of authenticity to the biblical accounts. The criteria of authenticity represent standards or tools by which the historical plausibility of an event is assessed. So let’s discuss 3 of these criteria and apply them to the biblical story 1. The criterion of multiple attestation: the criterion states that if an event or…
NT critic Bart Ehrman claims that the manuscripts we have today don’t represent the original writings, but in fact are error-ridden copies that cannot be trusted. The number of variations among these manuscripts even exceed the number of words in the NT in its original Greek language. He suggests that there are about 400,000 variations in the manuscripts we have and about 138,200 words…
