1 Kings
LITERATURE
I. Title.
The Hebrew title reads, melakhim, "kings," the division into
books being based on the Septuagint where the Books of Kings
are numbered 3rd and 4th, the Books of Kingdoms (Basileion),
the Books of Samuel being numbered respectively 1st and 2nd.
The separation in the Hebrew into 2 Books of Kings dates to
the rabbinic Bible o...
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originally only one book in the Hebrew canon, from in the
LXX. and the Vulgate the third and fourth books of Kings
(the books of Samuel being the first and second). It must be
remembered that the division between the books of Kings and
Samuel is equally artificial, and that in point of fact the
historical books commencing with Judges and endin...
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The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the
Hebrew Scriptures. The present division into two
books was first
made by the LXX., which now, with the Vulgate,
numbers them as
the third and fourth books of Kings, the two books
of Samuel
being the first and second books of Kings.
They contain the annals of the Jewish commonwealt...
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Title. In the Septuagint the books are called "the third and
fourth of the Kingdoms," in Vulgate "the third and fourth
book of Kings." Originally the two were one: Bomberg in his
printed editions, 1518,1549, divided them into two. Three
periods are included. The first (1 Kings 1-11), 1015-975
B.C., Solomon's ascent of the throne, wisdom, conso...
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