areas. It would seem that the order common in the days of Jeremiah listed commandments six through eight as follows: theft, murder, adultery. This was the order that turns up in Jeremiah’s sermon in the temple courtyard.11 The Deuteronomistic Historian was closely linked both temporally and spatially to Jeremiah, which explains why Jeremiah’s sixth, seventh, and eighth commandments are violated in the sixth, seventh, and eighth books of the Primary History: Joshua, Judges, and Samuel. The Autograph