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How long did Jotham reign?
One event is dated to a twentieth year of Jotham, although the reign summary gives him only sixteen years.
- Textual conflict
- Direct contradiction
- The quoted passages make incompatible claims about the same subject under the same conditions. Little additional inference is needed.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
An event dated to Jotham's twentieth year exceeds the same king's explicitly stated sixteen-year reign.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Hoshea's coup is dated to Jotham's twentieth year
And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
2 Kings 15:30
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Jotham reigns for sixteen years
In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
2 Kings 15:32-33
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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