The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Are There Errors in the Bible?

Perhaps a solution is to be found in Ezekiel 18:5-9:

Ezekiel 19:5-9 (ASV) Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. And he knew their palaces [or widows], and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring. Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

The evil which was done by Jehoiachin as described in this text can hardly be ascribed to one who was but 8 years old. If the translation of the phase, "And he knew their widows" is taken over some of the English translations, "And he knew their palaces", which I believe it should be, then this even more gives preference and and answer to the age as being 18 rather than 8.

From what I have read, there are textual variants extant for 2Chronicles 36:9. Some have 8 years and some 18. My opinion is that 2Kings 24:8 is correct and the text in 2Chronicles is a scribal error. But since there is manuscript evidence for the "18 years", there is no warrant for errancy to be assumed.

In His Grace,