Reference: Kings
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of Judah and Israel. For the list see table at the end of this volume.
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KINGS. This word does not always imply the same degree of power, nor the same degree of importance; nor does it imply the magnitude of the dominion or territory of these officers. In Scripture many persons are called kings, whom we should rather denominate chiefs or leaders; and many single towns, or, at most, together with their adjacent villages, are said to have had kings. Not aware of this lower sense of the word king, or unwilling to adopt it, many persons have been embarrassed by the following passage: "Moses commanded us a law,
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And these the kings which reigned in the land of Edom, before a king reigned over the sons of Israel.
Moses commanded a law for us, the inheritance of the gathering of Jacob. And he will be king in Jeshurun, in the gathering the heads of the people, he united together the tribes of Israel.
The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai which is beside the house of God, one; The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; read more. The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; The king of Libnah, one: the king of Adallam, one; The king of Makkedah, one; the king of the house of God, one; The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; The king of Shimron-Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; The king of Kadesh, one; the king of Jokneam to Carmel, one; The king of Dor of the heights of Dor, one; the king of the nations to Gilgal, one; The king of Tirzah, one; all the kings, thirty and one.
And the remainder of the words of Solomon and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written upon the book of the words of Solomon?
And the rest of the words of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written upon the words of Nathan the prophet, and upon the prophesy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
And the words of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Shemaiah the prophet, and Iddo the seeing for the enrolling? And wars of Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days.
And the rest of the words of Jehoshaphat, the first and the last, behold them written in the words of Jehu son of Hanani, who was made to go up upon the book of the kings of Israel.
And the rest of the words of Uzziah, the first and the last, wrote Isaiah son of Amos the prophet
And the rest of the words of Hezekiah and his mercies, behold them written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, son of Amos, upon the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.