Living Water Community Church

The books of 1st and 2nd Kings were historically tied together in one book called in the Hebrew text, “Kings”. This combined book of Kings was maintained in the Hebrew Bible down until 1518 when Bomberg’s Hebrew Bible was last printed. The division of the book into 1st and 2nd Kings was done by the writers of the Septuagint (the greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) sometime around 400 B.C.. This split of the book was maintained by Jerome when he put together the Latin Vulgate. These two divisions in Kings by the Septuagint and the Vulgate set the pattern which has been followed by all the following translation work. The point is these two books of first and second Kings are really 1 book of Kings and we will treat it as such in our exposition of the text.