* This verse originally stood in coroblnatioo with A* (Hob. 6<) ; see on A**.
t Notice especially In t.» the text of Lua if^u^a mtl I«m, <.«. '1 OJll?' TPP5 '" P'»^"e o' ""W:' nll'C,-?. .'nWotiwni himiri/ burnt Incense and sacriflccd to the itnuige gods, but this fact has been toned down bv some later tiand into the statement of UT. 8}nt>i, however, has sulTered in the prooes (ws should txpeot at least n^nf |;n] nVilppociX vou II.— ss
n.Winckler(.4/(f«*(. C7nf(^ffucAun^en, 1-6) very skilfully distin- guishes and reconstructs two narratives which have been inter- woven. The one speaks of an EJvmits Hadad, who, as a child, is carried into Egypt by his father's sen'ant, and brought up by Pharaoh's queen. The other makes Adad a ifidianite prince, who flees with his adherents into Egypt, taking with him certAin Edomites from Paran, and is well received by Pharaoh, who gives him for wife tlie sister of his queen. A son, Genubath, is bom to him, but of his fate we are not informed.
In ll»-» of MT the short account of Rezon appears to have a-ssunied its present position at the hands of a lat«r revi.<er of the text. LXX (B, Luc.) omits vv.^-2* (down to ' all the days of Solo- mon '), and then, in plare of the impossible MT, presupposes a text ^Sa'i Vios"3 i'p;l ">!' ^i'il "i?'!i ■"'V"!'? ""*' ciN-Sy 'This is the evU which Uadad did ; and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Edom.' This seems to be correct both in reading and position, referring as it does the latter part of v." to Hadad, and adding the necessary summary as to his rela- tionship to Solomon. The definiteness, however, of the statement, ' This is the evil,' suggests that in the original narrative some explicit account of Hadad 's aggressions must have intervened after v.".
The short reference to Rezon, thus omitted by LXX, hat been inserted between v.i** and v.l*i'; but clearly by a later blind. So pluced. it breaks the connexion of tlie Hadad story, and neoiji^itates the resumption xeti ' Ali^ i 'IJcy:^^.^, vM^, re- peated from v.i*». The notice is ancient and genuine, but its original position cannot now be accurately detenuiiic.d.
1 1*""" seems to have originally formed part of a history of Jeroboam, and perhaps belongs to the same source as 12'"" H''". .-^s the narrative stands in Kings it has probably undergone some abbreviation at the commencement, in order to tit it on to the preceding account of Solomon's 'adver- saries.' Notice the summary form of the introduc- tion v." and the phra.se of R" 'at that time' (njj K'"n) v.". Vv."'** show signs of expansion at t.ie iLinds of the editor {phrases, Nos. 2, 3, 11, 'J7, 28, 3-t, 38, 57-59).
Not improbably the speech has received some few later addi- tions. In V.S3 -^p^.;';;* 'r."-"! 'and my statutes and my judg. uients,' iswanting in LXA, and Uie use of these terms after niri'^ 'toexwute' rather than "0^7 'to keep' being charac- teristic of 11 (see on tfl^, the two words may reasonably be sus- pected to t>e a later insertion. LXX also omits 'rMi": li^y^ "Xf'^ 'r"] * who kept my comnmndinente and my statutes,' at the end of v.M, and, though the phrase is DcuteronoDiic yet the repeated nfptt has something of the awkward ring of an inter- pol.iliun. The omission of the close of the speech by LXX (end of v.'^ ' and 1 will give thee Israel ' ; v.3i*), taken in connexion with the reference of v.y* — the afiliction of the seed of Ilavid, but nut for ever — sugg<-sts that this also may be an atldilion of exilii' or post-exilic times; though, as Kuenen points out, tlie statement of v.ss neftj not imply an exilic standpoint ; ci. 2 S 7'«>. The use of the imperfect with weak 1 (.ilf Kl) Is pf rhape another mark of the late hand.
After the account of the disruption of the king- dom (1 K 1'2|, the composition of the narrative takes the form indicated al>ove in dealing with the editor's imthml. Into the framework of the history, oonstnicled by the editor, are emW-dded —
(i. ) Short notices which irive an ej'itumc of histori- cal events. Tlnse have reference to both the N. and S. kingdoms, and were no doubt generally, if not in every riusi-, extracted by R" from the two l>ooks of 'Annals' to which he ho constantly makes refer- enco. Krom the character of this narrative it is to lie inferretl that It" made use of just .to much of his sourc(\s aji was necc.H.Kjiry to form an outline sketch of the history, often summarizing in a few words matter whidi lay l>efori' him in greater detail; cf. the recurring phrase 'and there wa« war Intwcen M. and N. continually,' I 14" 15* '•• *•, and also the brief p.'uuing reference lo ware in I 14" '.'•_>'» (•• Heb), II 13" M"-".
To this epitome are to In- aiuignctl I 14''-I6** •^i"". II 8"* lo*"" li'MHel). "j-ia" 13"-17« (exoopt U'" lB'»-"v.
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KINGS, I. AND IL
KINGS, I. AND II
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(ii.) Lengthy narratives, generally incorporated in their original form, and exhibiting' only here and there the marks of R^'s hand, chiclly in the expansion of speeches. These are in most cases, as is clear from their religious tone, the work of prophetical writers. In some cases, however, the n*.rTatives have to do with the affairs of the temple and its priesthood, and exhibit such a minuteness and apparent accuracy of detail that they must be regarded as due to priestly hands, and were probably derived from the temple archives. These are II ll'-» IS^-" (»•" Heb.) 16'°-" 2L«-2:i".