57. Reference to David as the ideal standard of a riphteous king : I 3»- »• '• 9* 11<- •• »• «" 14" lo»- »• ", II I4» l(i- 18»22*.
58. (•-=1) ^'jK in jifp^ For David thv father's (my or hl.t servant's) sake : I 11»- !»• »■ m *1I 8'» 19»* 20« ; cf. I 15n.
59. A lamp (tj) for Da\-id (figurative of a lasting posterity): I 11" 15*. II 8" (||2 Ch 21'); cf. Ps 132".
60. '• -jiV H^n Walk before J": I 2* 3« 8»-2» (||2Ch 6'*- ") 9* (112 Ch 7"). Elsewhere the Hithpael is used '• '>z) ri^nnn, II 20* (II Is 3S»), 1 S 2*', Gn 17' (P) 24'" (J) 48" (JE), P8 56"(»Heb.) 116».
61. ^><tr'. •<;? ''1'^ '='■•"< ~^ "■}?' •''' There shall not fail thee (lit. be cut off to t/we) a man on the throne of I.irael: I 2* 6^^ (II 2 Ch 6") 9» (l|2 Ch 7") ; cf. Jer 33".
62. '• or'- n;} njj Build a house to the name of J" :
I 3- 5'- » ('^- " Heb. ) 8"- »■ «• «. The ori^'inal is 2 S 7" He shnll build a fiouse to my name, quoted in lo»('»Heb.)8".
63. 2'here hath been {toas) none like thee {him) before thee (him), etc. : I 3'-, II 18" 23'».
64. Of 'oy ni'.n^ T/int my name might be there : I8"», 1123". Cf. No. 27.
65. Heart perfect (oSy) with J": I 8" 11« 15'- » ; cf. II 20^(11 Is 38'). The adj. is thus used in applica- tion to the heart, elsewhere only eight times in Ch.
66. v;?^ (rn) i^t!'''?? ("''C'S,^) Wy Did (hast done) etnl nhoi'e all that were before him (thee) : I 14* lya. »..». cf. II 17>21".
67. i*?3 I'^T? Every man child (lit. minrjcns ad parietem) : I W 16" 21=', II 9». Only be.^dea 1 S 25"".
68. any] isy Shut up and left at large (i.e. all ; eveiy one being sumiosed to fall under one of the two categories t) : 1 14'" 21", U 9» W, Dt 32** \.
69. 'irtii 'm;;! / will utterly sweep aicay : I 14"
21" T; --ijO Ti75 ■«'' I 16' t-
70. Him t/iat dicth to Af. in the city shall the doqa eat ; and him that dielh in the field shall the fouls of tlie air eat : 1 14" 16* 21" T-
71. '■ Ty? nn nTi^b XTn" Sold himself (thenuelves) to do tluit which is evil in the tiglU of J" : I 21*'- ",
II 17" T-
72. "0 ip •)'' Turned not aside from : I 15' 22", II 3» 13»- •• " 14« 15»- >»■ » 17" ; with -!-f?/rom after, II I0» 18« ; with '>1P lit. /rom upon 11 10»> 15''.
73. n\D;3 oiip:;i OT^i? c;'" i^» >■>? ilo n'0;o p\ How-
• IJtX(B,Luc.)prcnxet(Lua m»i) imtn/tirmn,i.». in,T,be(or» 'n Sao, probably correctly.
t Th« tnoflt |iInuHib)i* explanation of thn phnuo U that of Cwald, Antiquitut. 170, ^ kfpt in (by lc(^ iblllciiu'nt) and txempt.' For thl» um of •aa'J d. Jcr 30» ; Nlph'al llfVJ 1 S 218. Other azptanatlona tr* quoted by Driror oo DtuU
beit tlie high places were not taken away ; the peoplt still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places: I22«("Heb.; -x for pi), II 12« (*Heb.) 14Mo»-«i cf. I 3-- » 15", II 16^
The extent and limits of the passages which are due to the editor's hand are noticed below in dealing witli the composition of Kings,
4. Datk of the Editor. — As Kings now stands, the earliest possible terminus a quo for the eom- IMjsition of the book is the date ot the latest event related, viz. Jelioiachin's relea.se from prison in the 37th year of his captivity, i.e. B.C. 561, some 25 years after the fall of Jerusalem. As, however, the writer states that the privileges granted by tlie Babylonian king to Jehoiachin were continnea ' all the days of his life ' (II 25*'), the strong pre- sumption is created that the words were not penned .so early as B.C. 561, but some time later, viz. sub- sequently to the death of Jehoiachin, whenever that may have taken place.
Agreeable to such an exilic date as is implied by the last two chs. of 2 K are certain pa-ssages in the body of the work which seem to prcsuiM^dse the captivity of Judah. These are I 11^-' 11 17'»--~ 23-'*-^, and perhaps, though not so clearly, I 9""° II 20"-" 21'r-'^ 22'^-"'. To these we may add the reference in I 4" (Ileb. 5*) to Solomon's dominion aa extending over all the kings ' beyond the River,' a statement whicli, as referring to the country \V. of the Euphrates, implies that the writer is living in Babylonia on the t. side of the river.*
On the other hand, however, there are certain indications which show that the first editing of Kings must have taken place prior to the final decay and fall of the Jud.-ean monarchy.
Chief among these is the u.se of the phra.se ' unto this day' (.iin cvn-ii') in the statement that the con- dition of afl'airs which the writer is describing still continues to exist up to the time of writing. If this phrase always or most frequentlj' occurred in tlie course of lengthy narratives excerpted by the editor from his sources, there might then be room for the theory that a statement wliich wa-s true as it stood in the old pre-exilic narratives had, thiou^di oversight on the part of an exilic editor, been allowed to stand after, through changed conditions, it had lost its force, or rather had become untrue and misleading. But, as a matter of f.ict, the expression is employed in connexion with terse statements of facts derived from the ' annals,' and in such cases can be due to no other hand tlian that of the editor himself, who, in using the phra-se, either formulates his own statement, or intelli- gently admits a statement which be is able to verify.