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 are the kings who have reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king over the sons of Israel.
A law hath Moses commanded us, A possession of the assembly of Jacob. And he is in Jeshurun king, In the heads of the people gathering together, The tribes of Israel!
The king of Jericho, one; The king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, 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 Adullam, one; The king of Mekkedah, one; The king of Beth-El, 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 Kedesh, one; The king of Jokneam of Carmel, one; The king of Dor, at the elevation of Dor, one; The king of the Goyim of Gilgal, one; The king of Tirzah, one; all the kings are thirty and one.
And the rest of the matters of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written on the book of the matters of Solomon?
And the rest of the matters of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written beside the matters of Nathan the prophet, and beside the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and with the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?
And the matters of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written among the matters of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer, concerning genealogy? And the wars of Rehoboam and Jeroboam are all the days;
And the rest of the matters of Jehoshaphat, the first and the last, lo, they are written among the matters of Jehu son of Hanani, who hath been mentioned on the book of the kings of Israel.
And the rest of the matters of Uzziah, the first and the last, hath Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet written;
And the rest of the matters of Hezekiah, and his kind acts, lo, they are written in the vision of Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, on the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.