Story of the Book of Kings
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- The similarly named BiblicalBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
books are located at Books of KingsBooks of KingsThe Book of Kings presents a narrative history of ancient Israel and Judah from the death of David to the release of his successor Jehoiachin from imprisonment in Babylon, a period of some 400 years...
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The Story of the Book of Kings is one of the Lost books of the Old Testament. The book is described in . The passage reads: "Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead."
This book is sometimes called Midrash on the Book of Kings.http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/42
The book is found nowhere in the Old Testament
Old Testament
The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism...
, so it is presumed to have been lost or removed from the earlier texts.
See also
- Table of books of Judeo-Christian Scripture
- Lost books of the New Testament
- Lost workLost workA lost work is a document or literary work produced some time in the past of which no surviving copies are known to exist. Works may be lost to history either through the destruction of the original manuscript, or through the non-survival of any copies of the work. Deliberate destruction of works...