(the 2 books of kings (hebrew: ספר מלכים Sepher M’lakhim – the two books were originally one) present a 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 (c. 960 – c. 560 BCE))
(it concludes a series of books running from ‘Joshua’ through ‘Judges’ and Samuel, which make up the section of the Hebrew Bible called the Former Prophets; this series is also often referred to as the Deuteronomistic history, a body of writing which scholars believe was written to provide a theological explanation for the destruction of the ‘jewish kingdom’ by ‘babylon’ in 586 BCE and a foundation for a return from ‘exile’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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👈👈👈☜*“THE OLD TESTAMENT”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥