:''The similarly named
Biblical
The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a ...
books are located at
Books of Chronicles
The Book of Chronicles ( he, דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים ) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament. Chronicles is the final book of the Hebrew Bible, concluding the third sec ...
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The Chronicles of the Kings of Judah is a
Lost work that gives a more detailed account of the reigns of the kings of the ancient
Kingdom of Judah
The Kingdom of Judah ( he, , ''Yəhūdā''; akk, 𒅀𒌑𒁕𒀀𒀀 ''Ya'údâ'' 'ia-ú-da-a-a'' arc, 𐤁𐤉𐤕𐤃𐤅𐤃 ''Bēyt Dāwīḏ'', " House of David") was an Israelite kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. ...
that appears in the Hebrew Bible. It is not believed to be
Books of Chronicles
The Book of Chronicles ( he, דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים ) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament. Chronicles is the final book of the Hebrew Bible, concluding the third sec ...
since it is implied by the writer of
Books of Kings that it could be used as a significant supplement to the writings contained in that book itself and
Books of Chronicles
The Book of Chronicles ( he, דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים ) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament. Chronicles is the final book of the Hebrew Bible, concluding the third sec ...
adds little information at best and there is also a discrepancy in the dates of certain events between the two books.
The book is initially referred to at . The passage reads: "Now the rest of the acts of
Rehoboam
Rehoboam (; , ; , ; la, Roboam, ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the last monarch of the United Kingdom of Israel and the first monarch of the Kingdom of Judah after the former's split. He was a son of and the successor to Solomon and a ...
, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" There are 15 biblical references in total.
[Jewish Virtual Library]
Encyclopedia Judaica: Books of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah and Israel
accessed 23 October 2017
This text is sometimes called ''The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah'' or ''The Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah'' ().
See also
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Table of books of Judeo-Christian Scripture
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Lost books of the New Testament
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Lost work
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Chronicles of the Kings of Israel
The Chronicles of the Kings of Israel is a book that gives a more detailed account of the reigns of the kings of ancient Kingdom of Israel than that presented in the Hebrew Bible, and may have been the source from which parts of the biblical acc ...
References
Lost Jewish texts
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