See Schickard, Jus Regiinn Ilehrivor. (Tiibing. 1G21) ; Carpzov, Ajrpai: Crit. p. 52 ; Michaelis, Mos. Recht. i, 298 ; Otho, Lex. Rabbin, p. 575 ; Hess. Gesch. d. K. Juda vnd Israels (Ztir. 1787) ; Houtuyn, Monarchia Ilehrceo- rum (Leyd. 1G85) ; Newman, Ilebreio Monarchy (Lond. 1847, 1853) ; Pastoret, Leyislaiion des Ilebreux (Paris, 1817) ; Salvador, Hist, des Institutiones de Moise (Paris, 1828) ; HuUmann, Staatsverfassung der Israeliten (Lpz. 1834) ; Maurice, Kings and Pi-ophets of the 0. T. (Lond. 1852, Bost. 1858) ; Brit, and For. Evang. Review, April, 18G1. See Monarchy.
King is the name of the five canonical works of the followers of Confucius. See the art. Confucius in vol. ii, p. 470 sq., especial!}' p. 472.
King, Alonzo, a Baptist minister, was born in AVil- braham, Blass., April 1, 1796. His early educational ad- vantages were few; but in 1818 he went to prosecute his studies in the family of the Rev. Leland Howard, then pastor of the Baptist church in Windsor, Vt., where he was converted to Christ. He afterwards entered Waterville College, Maine, and graduated in 1825. He was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church in North Yarmouth, Me., in 1826, subsequently of a small church in Northborough, Mass., and finally settled at Westbor- ough, Mass., where he died in 1835. King was a man of great humility, self-consecration, and self-abandon- ment. His preaching was never bold or startling, but always quiet, tender, persuasive. He had a talent for lyric poetry, and many of his productions are abroad without his name. His style as a writer was pure, with a decided cast of the imaginative or poetic, which was always apparent in his sermons and his printed produc- tions. He compiled the Memoir of the distinguished missionary, Kev. George D. Boardman. See Sprague, A nnuls of the A merican Pulpit, vi, 747. (J. L. S.)
King, Barnabas, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in New ]Marll)orough, Mass., June 2, 1780. ^^ hile j'et in his 14th year, his great proficiency in study attracted the attention of Dr. Catline, who after- wards bore all the expense of fitting him for Williams College, Mass., which he entered in 1802. In 1804 he graduated, and then, for a year taught school and stud-
ied theology with Dr. Catline. In 1805 he was licensed by the Berkshire Congregational Association, IMass., and in 1805 was ordained by the Presbytery, and installed as pastor of the Kockaway Church, N. J., where he con- tinued to preach till 1848 ; his congregation then called a colleague pastor, which relation continued until the death of Dr. King, April 10, 1862. King was a man of admirable character; his consistent piety no one ques- tioned, and his sympathetic heart made him a model pastor. As a preaclier, liis style was very simple, but scriptural, and usually very earnest. See Wilson, Pres- byterian Hist. A Imunac, 1863. (J. L. S.)
King, Charles, the noted president of Columbia College, was born in New York, March 16, 1789. In comiiany with his father, Ilufus King, he went to Eng- land, and, during his residence at the coiu-t of St. James as the represontative of the American go\'ernment, young Charles attended Harrow School, and later went to Paris to further prejiare himself for admission to col- lege. He, however, afterwards abandoned this inten- tion and entered the mercantile profession. In 1823 he became co-editor of the Kevj York American. In 1849 he was chosen president of Columbia College. He died at Frascati, near Rome, in Italy, Sept. 27, 1867. A list of his works, wliich are not of special interest to theo- logical students, is given by Allibone, Diet, of English and American Authors, ii, s. v.; New American Cyclo- pcedia, 1867, p. 426,
King, Edward, a noteworthj'^ English antiquary and lawyer, was born in 1735 in Norfolk, and was a graduate of Cambridge University. He was elected F.R.S. in 1767 and F.S.A. in 1770." He died in 1807. King wrote a number of works connected with theolo- gy, politics, political economy, and antiquities. We have room here only to note his Morsels of Criticisms, tending to Illustrate some few Passages in Holy Sc>-iptu7-e vpon philosojjhical Pi-inciples and an enlarged View of Things (Lond. 1788, 4to, and since). The contents of tl i'=i work are : On the word " Heaven" in the Lord's I'rayer ; Septuagint Translation of Genesis; John the Baptist be- ing Elias; Future coming of Christ; Day of Judgment; Series of Events in Revelation; Daniel's Prophecy; Deaths of Ananias and Sapphira ; Dissertations on Light; The Heavens; Stars; Fluid of Heat; Miracles; Jacob and Esau ; Soul, Body, Spirit, etc. King's learn- ing was profound and extensive, but he was so inclined to the sjieculative and hjqiothetical that he jierpetually fell into difficulty by advancing statements which he •wixs unqualified to establish. The want of discrimina- tion between theory and fact, supposition and reality, together with the tenacity with which he clung to his premature conclusions when assailed, proved quite det- rimental. In a work of his treating on the signs of the times, he was very desirous of tracing the history of the French Revolution to the records of sacred antiquity; he also ventured to assert the genuineness of the second book of Esdras in the ApocrjqDlia. He was replied to by Gough and bishop Horsley. See Chalmers's Biog. Dirt, vol. xix (Lond. 1815) ; Watkins'sj5'w^. Diet. (Lond. 1820) ; Blake's Biog. Diet. (3d edit. Phila. 1840) ; Alli- bone, Diet, of Engl, and A merican A uthors, ii, s. v.