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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: 1 & 2 Samuel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.

in the Vulgate and the Latin Church-fathers, this division of the books of Samuel and Kings as one historical work into four books cited as the four βίβλοι βασιλειῶν, libri regum or regnorum. This way of combining, dividing, and naming, in which our “ Books of Samuel” are numbered as βασιλειῶν πρώτη, δευτέρα “First, Second Kings ” (comp. ORIGEN in EUSEB. H. E. 6. 25, and Jerome, Prol. Gal.) corresponds certainly to the general contents of these four, or more precisely two, books, so far as it
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