Summary Of 1 And Two Kings

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The narratives of 1 and 2 Kings cover the history of the kings of Israel and Judah from the time of Solomon to the captivity to Babylon. The purpose is to show the reason for the Davidic kingdom not being perpetually continued and to reveal why God sent Israel into captivity. According to Burke O. Long, “The style of this particular passage of scripture is straightforwardly reportial with no direct discourse.” Some scholars ascribe the authorship or final compilation of First Kings to Isaiah and Second Kings to Jeremiah however; Jewish tradition says that Jeremiah alone was the author. The book of Kings tells us that other sources were used in composing it. The most significant of these are “The Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel”

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