They probably had scribes write them—for example, the priest or the new king or the kings that were mentioned or queens (Jezebel, Jehu, Hezekiah). I’m not arguing that they could or could not read or write, but when it says … For example, when the president wrote a letter or wrote a speech, if they say that today, he doesn’t sit down with pen and paper and write it; there are speech writers. So that could be what’s going on here—that others are in fact recording to documents. But writing is mentioned