ContradictionsReading order 493Bible context 2 min read
Who was Dishon's father?
The genealogies place the name Dishon under Seir and under Anah, but they do not explicitly identify both entries as the same person.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
The lists preserve both placements without identifying the two Dishons as one individual, so repeated names do not establish conflicting fathers.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Dishon is listed among Seir's sons
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
Genesis 36:20-21
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.
1 Chronicles 1:38
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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