When in your Bible study you find an apparent discrepancy, what is your first thought? Do you immediately gloat that you’ve found a contradiction, do you immediately chalk it up to ‘yet another scribal error,’ or you do you begin studying why God would have intentionally put in different wording or different numbers to make us dig a little deeper? In this week’s installment of our series about the ill-advised census of David, we look at another seeming discrepancy and find that it’s not what it seems to be at all.
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