In the Old Testament, there are many sections of texts that have been taken out of one biblical book and inserted into another biblical book (modified or without change) with the intention of being passed off as if such a text (or its modified version) originated in that second text or its own historical situation instead of the text or historical situation it first appeared in. The following is a short list of plagiarized bible passages.
- Isaiah 2:1-5 = Micah 4:1-4 (Who stole the description of the messianic age from who?)
- 2 Samuel 22 = Psalm 18 (David would not have said both with all their different and conflicting words on the day he was delivered from the hand of Saul, so the question is…assuming at least one is authentic…which one is it?)
- Obadiah 1:1-4 = Jeremiah 49:14-16; Obadiah 1:5-6 = Jeremiah 49:9-10; Obadiah 1:8 = Jeremiah 49:7; Obadiah 1:9 = Jeremiah 49:10; Obadiah 1:16 = Jeremiah 49:12 (About a third of the entire book of Obadiah is virtually identical to sections of Isaiah 49. Clearly, one of them took from the prophecy of the other, rearranged it, gave it their own flair, and presented the prophecy as originating with them instead of the other).
- Jeremiah 52 = 2 Kings 24-25 (This one’s a doozy, but it’s obvious that one has taken and changed the other. There are numerous direct contradictions in the parallel stories—like 2 Kings 25:8, which says Nebuzaradan arrived in Jerusalem on the SEVENTH day of the fifth month in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar and Jeremiah 52:12, which says Nebuzaradan arrived in Jerusalem on the TENTH day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar.)