title to the Books of Samuel, ‘otherwise called, the First (and Second) Books of Kings’; and similarly, our 1 and 2 Kings ‘commonly called the Third and Fourth …’ It would be natural to guess that there is some connexion between these names and our Septuagint titles, and the guess would be right. The Septuagint it was that (probably) divided Samuel and Kings (as well as Chronicles) each into halves, and called them the four books of Kingdoms; the Latin Vulgate calls them 1–4 Regum; and later the