THE ERRORS

This section contains the errors, mistakes and contradictions of the Biblical Text that are in addition to the ones discussed previously.

Error No. 1

It is stated in the Book of Exodus that the period that the Israelites stayed in Egypt was 430 years, which is wrong. The period was 215 years [Ex. 12:40]. This error is admitted by the historians and the biblical commentators.

Error No. 2

It appears in the Book of Numbers that the total number of the Israelites, who were 20 years of age or over, was six hundred thousand, while all the males and females of the Levites and the women and children of all the other tribes are not included in this number. This statement is highly exaggerated and erroneous.

Error No. 3

The statement of Deuteronomy 23:2, “A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord...” is wrong, as has already been discussed in Part One.

Error No. 4

In Genesis 46:15 the phrase “thirty and three” is certainly wrong, thirty four is the correct number. The details of this error have been given in part one under the tenth argument on page twenty seven.

Error No. 5

I Samuel contains this statement ”...fifty thousand, three score and ten men.” [1 Sam. 6:19] The number fifty thousand in this verse is wrong as will be discussed later.

Errors No. 6 and 7

2 Samuel 15:7 contains the words “forty years” and in the next verse of the same chapter the name “Geshur” is mentioned. Both are wrong. The correct words are “four years” and “Adom” respectively.

Error No. 8

It is stated in 2 Chronicles:

“And the porch that was on the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and height was a hundred and twenty.” [2 Chr. 3:4]

This is an exaggerated and erroneous account of the height. According to 1 Kings the height of the porch was thirty cubits [1 Kings 6:2]. Adam Clarke in volume 2 of his commentary expressly admitted the error in this statement and said that the height was twenty cubits.

Error No. 9

The Book of Joshua, describing the borders of the land given to the children of Benjamin, states:

“And the border was drawn thence and compassed the corner of the sea southward.” [Josh. 18:14

The word “sea” in this statement is wrong as there was no sea near their land. The commentators D’Oyby and Richardment acknowledged this fact and said, that the Hebrew word which was translated as “sea” actually signified “west”.

Error No. 10

In Chapter 19 of the Book of Joshua, under the description of the borders of Naphtali, we read:

“And reacheth to Asher on the west side and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sun rising.” [Josh 19:36]

This statement is also wrong as the land of Judah extended towards the South. Adam Clarke also pointed out this error in his commentary.

Errors No. 11

The commentator Horseley remarked that verses 7 and 8 of Chapter 3 of the Book of Joshua are wrong.

Error No. 12

The Book of Judges contains this statement:

“And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite.”

In this statement the phrase, “who was a Levite”, cannot be true because anyone belonging to the family of Judah cannot be Levite. The commentator Horseley also acknowledged this error, and Houbigant even excluded this passage from his text.

Error No. 13

We read this statement in 2 Chronicles:

“And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him, with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.” [2 Chr. 13:3]

Further in the same chapter it gives this description:

And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: and so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.” [2 Chr. 13:17]

The numbers mentioned in the two texts are wrong. The commentators of the Bible have admitted the error. The Latin translators changed four hundred thousand to forty thousand, and eight hundred thousand to eighty thousand, and five hundred thousand to fifty thousand men.

Error No. 14

It is stated in 2 Chronicles:

“For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz, King of Israel.” [2 Chr. 28:19]

The word Israel in this statement is certainly wrong, because Ahaz was the King of Judah and not the the King of Israel. The Greek and the Latin translations, therefore, have replaced Israel with Judah which is an open distortion of the text of their Holy Scriptures.

Error No. 15

We find this statement in 2 Chronicles:

“...and made Zedekiah, his brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.”

The words “his brother” are incorrect in this statement. It should say his uncle or his father’s brother. The Arabic and the Greek translators have replaced “his brother” with “his father’s brother”, another example of blatant manipulation of the text of the Holy scriptures. Ward says in his book words to this effect, “Since it was not correct, it has been changed to uncle in the Greek and other translations.”

Error No. 16

The name “Hadarezer” is wrongly spelled in 2 Samuel 10:16-19 in three places and in 1 Chronicles 18:3-10 in seven places, whereas the correct spelling is Hadadezer (as given in all other references in the Old Testament).

Errors No. 17

Another name “Achan” is given wrongly in the Book of Joshua [Josh. 7:18]. The correct name is Achar, with an ‘r’ at the end.

Error No. 18

We find in 1 Chronicles 3:5 under the description of the sons of David, “Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel”. The correct name is, “Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah”. [2 Sam. 11:3]

Error No. 19

The Second Book of Kings gives the name “Azariah” which is certainly wrong [2 Kings 14:21]. It should be “Uzziah”, as can be ascertained from several other sources.[e.g. 2 Chr. 26:1; 2 Kings 15:13,30,32 and 34]

Error No. 20

The name “Jehoahaz”, which appears in 2 Chronicles, is not correct [2 Chr. 21:17]. It should be “Ahaziah”. Horne admits that the names we have pointed out in errors No. 16-20 are all wrong and then adds that there are some other places in the scriptures where names have been written erroneously.

Error No. 21

2 Chronicles gives an account of how Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, bound Jehoiakim in chains and deported him to Babylon [2 Chr. 36:6]. This statement is certainly not true. The fact is that he killed him in Jerusalem and ordered his body to be thrown outside the city wall and left unburied.

The historian Josephus says in Volume 10 of his book:

“The King of Babylon came with a great army and captured the city without resistance. He killed all the young men of the city. Jehoiakim was one of them. He threw his body outside the city wall. His son Jehoiachin was made the king. He imprisoned three thousand men. The Prophet Ezekiel was among the captives.”

Error No. 22

According to the Arabic versions of 1671 and 1831, the Book of Isaiah (7:8) contains this statement:

“...and within three score and five years shall Aram be broken.”

While the Persian translation and English version says:

“...and within three score and five years shall Ephraim be broken.”

Historically this prophecy was proved false, as in the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign, the King of Assyria invaded Ephraim, as is recorded in 2 Kings in Chapters 17 and 18. Thus Aram was destroyed in twenty one years.

Vitringa, a celebrated Christian scholar, said:

“There has been a mistake in copying the text here. In fact, it was sixteen and five years, and the period referred to was sixteen years after the reign of Ahaz and five after that of Hezekiah.”

There is no justification for the opinion of this writer, but at least, he has admitted the error in this text.

Error No. 23

The Book of Genesis says:

“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.” [Gen. 2:17]

This statement is clearly wrong since Adam, after eating from that tree, did not die that very day but lived for more than nine hundred years after it.

Error No. 24

We find in the book of Genesis:

“My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” [Gen. 6:3]

To say that the age of man is a hundred and twenty years is erroneous, as we know that the men of earlier ages lived far longer – Noah’s age, for instance, was nine hundred and fifty, Shem, his son, lived for six hundred years and Arphaxad for three hundred and thirty eight years; while the life-span of present-day man is usually seventy or eighty years.

Error No. 25

Genesis reports this address of God to Abraham:

“And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

This statement is again historically wrong, since all the land of Canaan was never possessed by Abraham nor has it been under the everlasting rule of his descendants. On the contrary this land has seen innumerable political and geographical revolutions.

Errors No. 26, 27, 28

The Book of Jeremiah says:

“The word that came to Jeremiah, concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.”

Further in the same chapter it says:

“And this whole land shall be desolation, and an astonishment: and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.” [Jer. 25:1,11,12]

And further in Chapter 29 of the same book, it states:

“Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the Prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captives from Jerusalem to Babylon; (After that Jeconiah, the king and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths were deported from Jerusalem;)” [Jer. 29:1,2]

And further in the same chapter we read:

“For thus saith the, Lord, that after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you and perform my good word to you in causing you to return to this place.” [Jer. 29:10]

In the Persian translation of 1848 we find these words:

“After seventy years be accomplished in Babylon, I will turn towards you.”

Further in chapter 52 of the same book we find the following statement:

“This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive in the seventh year, three thousand Jews and three and twenty: In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty and two persons: in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.” [Jer. 52:28-30]

After a careful reading of the several passages quoted above the following three points are established:

1. Nebuchadnezzar ascended the throne in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim. That is historically correct. The Jewish historian Josephus said in Vol. 10 and Chapter 5 of his history that Nebuchadnezzar ascended the throne of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. It is, therefore, necessary that the first year of Nebuchadnezzar must coincide with the fourth year of Jehoiakim.

2. Jeremiah sent his words (the book) to the Jews after the deportation of Jeconiah, the king, the elders of Judah and other artisans to Babylon.

3. The cumulative number of the captives in the three exiles was four thousand and six hundred, and that the third exile by Nebuchadnezzar took place in the twenty-third year of his reign.

This reveals three obvious errors. Firstly, according to the historians, Jeconiah, the elder of Judah, and other artisans were exiled to Babylon in 599 B.C. The author of Meezan-ul-Haq printed in 1849 says on page 60, that this exile took place in 600 B.C. and Jeremiah sent the letter after their departure to Babylon. According to the Biblical text quoted above their stay in Babylon should be seventy years, which is certainly not true, because the Jews were released by the order of the king of Persia in 536 B.C. This means that their sojourn in Babylon was only sixty-three years and not seventy years. We have quoted these figures from the book Murshid-ut-Talibeen printed in Beirut in 1852 which is different s from the edition printed in 1840 in several places. We find the following table in the 1852 edition.

THE YEAR oF The CREATION : 3405


THE EVENT : Jerenish’s wtiting to the Captives of Babylon


THE YEAR BEFORE CHRIST BC : 599


THE YEAR oF The CREATION : 3468

THE EVENT : The death of Darius , the uncle of Koreish the ascension of Cyrus to the theone of Babylon, Madi and Pharus .His orders to release the Jews amd semd them back to Jerusalem

THE YEAR BEFORE CHRIST BC : 356

Secondly, the cumulative number of those exiled during the three exiles is mentioned as four thousand and six hundred people, while according to 2 Kings the number of captives, including the princes and the brave men of Jerusalem, at the time of the first exile, was three thousand, the craftsmen and the smiths not being included in this number [2 Kings 24:14].

Thirdly, from the text quoted above, we understand that the third capacaty took place in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign whereas this is contradicted in 2 Kings which says that Nebuzar-adan took them captive in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. [2 Kings 25:8]

Error No. 29

The Book of Ezekiel contains the following words:

“And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me.” [Ezek. 26:1]

And later in the same chapter we find:

“For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen and companies, and much people.”

“He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field, and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee;”

“And he shall set the engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.”

“By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee, thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.”

“With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets; he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.

“And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise, and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses, and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of thy water.” [Ezek. 26:7-12]

History proved this prediction false because Nebuchadnezzar tried his best to capture the city of Tyrus, and kept the city in a state of siege for thirteen years, but had to go back without success. Since it is inconceivable that God’s promise would not be fulfilled, it must be that the prediction itself is misreported.

In Chapter 29, we find the following words attributed to Ezekiel:

“And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me saying,”

“Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet he had no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus... “

“...thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.”

“I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it...” [Ezek. 29:17-20]

The above text expressly states that since Nebuchadnezzar could not get the reward of his siege of Tyrus, God promises to give him the land of Egypt.

Error No. 30

The Book of Daniel contains this statement:

“Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, how long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden underfoot?”

“And he said unto me, unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” [Dan. 8:13]

The Judaeo-Christian scholars, from the very beginning, have wondered about the significance of this prediction. Almost all the Judaeo-Christian commentators of the Bible are of the opinion that it is Antiochus, the consul of Rome who invaded Jerusalem in 161 BC, who is referred to in this vision, and the days mean the usual days of our calendar. Josephus, the famous commentator, also agreed with this opinion.

Historically, however, this opinion does not hold water, because the occupation of the sanctuary and host, lasted for three and a half years, whereas the period of two thousand and three hundred days referred to comes to six years, three months and nineteen days. For the same reason Issac Newton rejected the assumption that Antiochus had to do anything with this vision.

Thomas Newton who wrote a commentary on the predictions and prophesies of the Bible first quoted several other commentators on this point, and then, like Isaac Newton, completely rejected the possibility of it being Antiochus who is referred to in this vision of Hezekiah. He asserted that the Roman emperors and the Popes are the import of the vision.

Snell Chauncy also wrote a commentary on the predictions of the Bible which was published in 1838. He claimed that in his commentary he incorporated the essence of eighty five other commentaries. Commenting on this vision he said that from the earliest times it has been very difficult for the scholars to ascertain and define the time of the commencement of the event to which this vision refers.

The majority of the scholars have concluded that the time of its commencement is certainly one of four periods in which four royal commands were issued by the Kings of Persia:

1. Cyrus, who issued his ordinance in 636 B.C.


2. The king Darius, who issued his orders in 815 B.C.


3. Ardashir, who gave his commands about Ezra in 458 B.C.

4. The king Ardashir, who issued his ordinance to Nehemiah in the twentieth year of his reign in 444 B.C.

He also added that the days mentioned in this vision are not days as usually understood, but days signifying years. Keeping this in mind Snell Chauncy said, the ending of the period of this vision would be as follows:

1. According to the first command of Cyrus it would end in 1764 A.D.


2. According to the second of Darius it would end in 1782 A,D


3. According to the third command of Ardashir it would be 1843 A.D


4. According to the fourth ordinance it would end in 1856.

All these dates passed without the prophecy being fulfilled and, in any case, this illogically metaphorical interpretation is not acceptable.

Firstly it is a mis-statement to say that it would be difficult for scholars to ascertain the period of its commencement. The difficulty lies only in the fact that the period should start right from the time when this vision was shown to Daniel not from any period after it.

Next an arbitrary change in meaning of days into years is not acceptable, because the word, “day” continues to mean the usual period of 24 hours unless otherwise indicated by the writer himself. The word is used in both the Old and the New Testaments in its usual meaning and never means ”year”. Even if we accept that the word might have been used to mean ”year” it would have been in a figurative sense; but a figurative use of a word requires some strong indication of it. In the account of this vision the word ”day” has been used for the purpose of defining a period of time and we do not find any indication that it should be taken in a figurative sense. Most scholars have, therefore, accepted it in its usual meaning otherwise scholars like Isaac Newton, Thomas Newton and Snell Chauncy would not have tried to put forward such confusing explanations.

Error No. 31

The Book of Daniel states [Dan. 12:11,12]:

“And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.”

“Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five thirty days.”

This prophecy is similar to the one previously discussed which never came true. Neither Christ nor the Messiah of the Jews appeared within this period.

Error No. 32

The Book of Daniel contains this statement:

“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city,to finish the transtgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and toseal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.” [Dan. 9:24]

This prophecy is also wrong as the Messiah did not appear in this period None of the explanations forwarded by the Christan scholars in this regard deserve any serious consideration, partly for the resasons we have already discussed and partly on account of a number of facts we discuss below:

Firstly the period between the first year of the reign of Cyrus, the year of the release of the Jews as confirmed by Ezra [Ezra 1:1], and the birth of the Prophet Jesus is nearly six hundred years according to Josephus and five hundred and thirty-six years in Snell Chaucy’s estimation.

Secondly, if we accept this as a correct explanation, it would mean that all true dreams have come to end for ever, which is obviously untrue. Watson, in the third part of his book, has reproduced Dr. Grib’s letter who said, ”The Jews have so much distorted the text of this prophecy that it has been rendered inapplicable to Jesus.” This confession by Watson is enough to confirm our contention that this prediction, according to the original copy of the Book of Daniel, still preserved with the Jews, which is free from the objection of any kind of manipulation, that this prophecy is inapplicable to Jesus.

Thirdly, the word ”Christ”, meaning anointed, has been used for all the kings of the Jews irrespective of their character or deeds. It appears in Psalm 18 verse 50. Similarly, David is mentioned as the anointed in Psalm 131. And also 1 Samuel contains this statement of David regarding King Saul, who is said to have been one of the worst kings of the Jews;

“Behold this day thine eyes have seen how that the Lord hath delivered thee into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me to kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.” [1 Sam. 24:10]

The same application of this word is also found in 1 Samuel 24 and 2 Samuel 1. Besides, this word is not only limited to the kings of the Jews. We find it being used for other kings too. It is stated in Isaiah:

“Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden,” Isaiah” [Isaiah 45:1]

Cyrus, the king of Persia, is mentioned as God’s anointed or the Christ in this text. Cyrus is the one who liberated the Jews from their captivity and allowed the Temple to be rebuilt.

Error No. 33

The following statement is given through the Prophet David in 2 Samuel:

“Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime. And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel.” [2 Sam. 7:10]

The same prediction appeared in slightly different words in the Persian translation of 1835. According to this text God had promised them that they would live in peace there, without any affliction to them at the hands of wicked people. This promised place was Jerusalem, where they made their habitations and lived. History has proved that this promise was not fulfilled. They were severely afflicted at the hands of several rulers. Nebuchadnezzar invaded them three times and slaughtered them, captured them and deported them to Babylon. Titus the Emperor of Rome, persecuted them so barbarously that one million of the Jews were killed, a hundred thousand people were hanged and ninety-nine thousand were imprisoned. Up to this day their descendants are living in degradation around the world.

Error No. 34

In 2 Samuel we read the following promise of God to David:

“And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will stablish his kingdom.”

“He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

“I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with stripes of the children of men;

“But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul whom I put away before thee.

“And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee; thy throne shall be established for ever.” [2 Sam. 7:12-16]

Another statement of similar nature is given in I Chronicles:

“Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest: and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.

“He shall build a house for my name: and he shall be my son,... and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.” [1 Chr. 22:9-10]

Although, God had promised everlasting kingdom in the family of David, this promise was not fulfilled, as the family of David was deprived of the kingdom, a long time ago.

Error No. 35

Paul reported God’s word regarding the prominence of Jesus over the angels in his letter to the Hebrews [Heb. 1:5]:

“I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son.”

Christian scholars have claimed that this is a reference to the verses in 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles discussed in the previous paragraph. This claim is not acceptable for several reasons.

1. The text of Chronicles is unambiguous saying that the son’s name will be Solomon.

2. Both the texts say that he would build a house in the name of God. This can only be applied to Solomon who built the house of God, as promised. Jesus, on the other hand was born one thousand and three years after the construction of this house and used to talk of its destruction. This will be discussed under Error No.79.

3. Both predictions foretold that he would be a king, where as Jesus was not a king, on the contrary he was a poor man as he himself said:

“And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.” [Matt. 8:20]

4. It is clearly stated in the first prediction that:

“If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.”

This implies that he will be a man of iniquitous nature. According to the Christians – and they are far from the truthSolomon was a man of that nature and gave up the prophethood and became an apostate in his last days, indulging in idol worship, building temples for the idols, and committing himself to heathenism. Whereas Jesus was absolutely innocent, and could not commit a sin of any kind.

5. In the text of Chronicles it says clearly:

“Who shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about.”

However, Jesus, according to the Christians, was never in peace right from his early days up to the time of the crucifixion. He lived in constant fear of the Jews and left one place for another until he was arrested by them and, they say, killed. Solomon, on the other hand, fulfilled the condition of living in rest from his enemies.

6. In the prediction of Chronicles the Israelites are promised:

“I will give peace and quieteness unto Israel in his days.”

Whereas it is historically known to everyone that the Jews were servile to and dominated by the Romans in the time of Jesus.

7. The Prophet Solomon, himself has claimed that the prediction was made about him. This is clear from 2 Chronicles.

Although the Christians agree that these tidings were for Solomon, they say that it was in fact for Jesus too, as he was a descendant of Solomon. We contend that this is a false claim because the attributes of the predicted son must coincide with the description of the prophecy. We have already shown that Jesus does not fulfill the requirements of the prediction.

Apart from this, Jesus cannot be the subject of this prediction, even according to the Christian scholars. In order to remove the contradiction between the genealogical descriptions of Jesus in Mathew and Luke, they have said that Matthew described the genealogy of Joseph of Nazareth, while Luke described the genealogy of Mary. However, Jesus was not the son of Joseph, but rather the son of Mary, and according to her genealogy Jesus is the descendant of Nathan, son of David, and not the son of Solomon.