NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Book of Kings

The Books of Kings in the Bible.
The Shahnama, an 11th century epic Persian poem.
The Morgan Bible, a French medieval picture bible.
The Pararaton, a 16th century Javanese history of southeast Asia.
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Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Books of Kings (432 words)
	The Books of Kings are two books of the Christian Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanach.
	Two books of Kings were originally one book in the Hebrew Scriptures.
	The present division into two books was first made by the Septuagint, which now, with the Vulgate, numbers them as the third and fourth books of Kings, the two books of Samuel being the first and second books of Kings.

NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Second Book of Kings (720 words)
	The two books of Kings comprise the fourth book in the second canonical division of Hebrew Scriptures: in the threefold division of the Tanach, these books are ranked among the Prophets.
	2 Kings 2: 1‑12 The Ascension of Elijah
	The wife of Jehoram of Judah was Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab (2 Kings 8: 18); Ahaziah was the son of Athaliah (2 Kings 8: 26).

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