Thanks for the tip on that website, but . . .

Toni07,

I went to biblequery.org and looked up the 2 Kings 19 and Isaah 37 question. As usual, no satisfactory answers are provided:

"Q: In 2 Ki 19, why is this almost identical with Isa 37?
A: Ignoring verse numbers, the two are identical except that 2 Kings 19:35 says "that night the angel" while Isaiah 27:36 says "then the angel".
These passages relate the prayer of Hezekiah and the Lord sending an angel to destroy the Assyrian army (probably through the agency of a plague of rats). If the writer of 2 Kings simply copied wrote exactly what Isaiah related, what would be wrong with that?
These verses being the same shows one was copied from the other. For whatever reason this passage was put in two places, I am glad it was. This is a good "validation test" to see how little the passages have changes over the years."

I love how Christians turn into politicians when faced with the really tough questions. It's the old Bill Clinton "that depends on what the definition of "is" is" tactic. It never ceases to amaze me how many times a religious person will beat around a bush until they come up with something - anything - I mean ANY kind of way around a difficult question, even a simple one, that will allow them to keep convincing themselves their religion is the one and only truth.

The way I see it, this writer from Biblequery is doing some serious spin here; turning something that could discredit his religion into, "No, this is actually a good thing!" - a classic move politicians and priests have used for centuries. I don't see how these two passages being the same is any kind of "validation test". There's nothing wrong if one writer copied the other, but the whole point is that this entire chapter is in the Bible TWICE. IF the Bible was written by God there must be a really good reason for that, right? But the only explanation offered by this writer is that God did it "for whatever reason" - and this from a website that claims to have answers to all the contradictions and inconsistancies in the Bible, and in fact exists only to supposedly shoot down all the questions guys like me have about it. One of the problems with websites like this is they are preaching to the choir, so to speak. When you really look at all their digital dogma with an open mind it doesn't hold up to critical or logical thinking. I believe this is because all organized religions - not just Christianity - are based on fabrications but cultivate followers desperate to believe.