THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TWO BOOKS OF SAMUEL The two Books of Samuel, like the two Books of Kings, were originally one book. In the Third Century B.C. the translators of the Septuagint divided the Book of Samuel and the Book of Kings and named the resultant four book “The Books of the Kingdom” because they were regarded as being a complete history of “the Old Testament Historical Kingdom” from its beginning to its end. Jerome, in his Latin Vulgate translation, followed this
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