The presence of the sun makes a difference in killing someone probably because it means that people can see in the daylight, and the Scriptures forbade a person from lying in wait to harm someone (Exodus 21:12-13), which is something the sun would probably not allow...
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Bible Difficulties
How many women were at Jesus’ tomb?
How many women were at the tomb of Jesus? The four different gospels mention different numbers. John 20:1 says one. Matt. 28:1 says two. Mark 16:1 says three. Luke also says three, but is a different three than Mark 16:1. So, which is it, one, two, three, four, or...
Why was God angry with Balaam for going with the Moabites?
Why would God condemn Balaam for doing what God told him to do with the Moabites? It appears that is because the motives of Balaam were wrong, as is revealed in 2 Pet. 2:15, where Peter tells us that Balaam "loved the wages of unrighteousness." Let's take a look....
Why did Jesus call Peter Satan in Matt. 16:23?
Why did Jesus call Peter Satan in Matthew 16:23? It was because Peter was denying the very thing that Jesus came to do: die for our sins. Let's look at the context. In the previous two verses, Jesus told the disciples that He would go to Jerusalem, be killed, and...
The disciples would not finish going through Israel, until Jesus returned
The Jews were very familiar with persecution throughout their history. Being under the rule of the Roman Empire wasn't much different. It was in that context that Jesus told the disciples to preach throughout the cities of Israel and that when they were persecuted,...
Does the earth last forever (Psalm 78:69), or is it destroyed (2 Peter 3:10)?
Does the earth last forever, or is it destroyed? Psalm 78:69 says, "And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He has founded forever." But 2 Peter 3:10 says, "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away...
Some standing there will not taste death until Jesus’ kingdom, Matt. 16:28
Did Jesus fail to correctly predict that people standing with Him would "not taste death" until they saw the arrival of the kingdom of God? The answer is, of course, no, He did not fail. There are two reasons why what Jesus said did not fail. First, let's examine the...
Jeremiah 7:31, It did not enter God’s mind
How could God, who knows all things (1 John 3:20), never have thought of something? It makes no sense. Jeremiah 7:31 is where God says, "They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters...
Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son Isaac?
God told Abraham to kill his son Isaac because their actions are pointing ahead to the person of Christ in a typology of the true sacrifice. First of all, God says to Abraham to take his only son. But, we know that 13 years earlier Ishmael had been born to Abraham. So...
Is there a geographical error in 2 Chronicles 20:1-2? The problem of “Aram”
Is there a geographical error in 2 Chronicles 20:1-2? The problem of "Aram" 2 Chronicles 20 provides an account of a coalition of enemies who gather against King Jehoshaphat of Judah and how God delivers His people from these invaders. Some critics, however, claim...