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This work deals with 1 and 2 Kings as a unified whole, nestled within its canonical context. This canon presumes the reader has prior knowledge of the entire story of Israel and infers the prophetic and New Testament writings. It is examined here as narrative literature with historic and geographic intent, designed to teach its readers about God and the ways of God. The author masterfully draws...

extended passages of interpretation to help the reader to grasp his own point of view (e.g. 2 Kgs 17:7–23, which summarizes the history of Israel from a Deuteronomistic point of view). The book of Kings itself refers, of course, to sources: ‘the book of the acts of Solomon’ (1 Kgs 11:41); and much more frequently, ‘the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel’ (e.g. 1 Kgs 14:19) and ‘the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah’ (e.g. 1 Kgs 14:29). Even those modern scholars who have been
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