Recapitulation.

When did Jehoshaphat’s death occur? Did it occur before or after Ahaziah’s death occurred? The following is a recapitulation of the various answers to this question which the preceding solutions have disclosed:

1. The same year.
2. One year after.
3. One year before.
4. Two years after.
5. Two years before.
6. Three years after.
7. Four years after.
8. Five years after.
9. Six years after.
10. Seven years after.
11. Seven years before.
12. Eight years before.
13. Nine years before.
14. Seventeen years before.
15. Eighteen years before.
16. Sixteen years after.

Here are sixteen different answers to a simple historical question. But one of them can possibly be correct; fifteen of them must necessarily be incorrect. And yet I challenge the theologian to demonstrate the incorrectness of one of them without at the same time demonstrating the fallibility of the Bible and its unreliability as a historical record.