The Bible Educator, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Bible Educator, Vol. 3

The object proposed to himself by the author of Kings was the carrying on of_ the Israelitish history from the point to which he found it brought at the close of the' Second Book of Samuel to his own time, in a compendious form, and in the spirit of the earlier sacred writers. He commences his work with the copu lative conjunction and, thereby indicating that it has the character of a continuation.' He then devotes his first section (1 Kings 1 - 11) to the closing years of David, less, however, with the object of com pleting David's history, which he perhaps found com pleted in Samuel,2 than with that of introducing to us the person and history of Solomon, which was what be especially proposed to set before his readersin the first great division of his narrative. That narrative really consists of three main portions A history of Solomon from his association by David to his death (1 Kings i. (2) A history of the parallel king doms of Israel and Judah, down to the extinction of the former (1 Kings xii - 2 Kings xvii.) and (3) a history of the kingdom of-j udah' from the time of the downfall of the sister state to the final destfiiction of the Davidic monarchy by Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon (2 Kings xviii.

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