Excerpt from Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Books of Kings: With an Introduction and Appendix In the body of the narrative there are certain formulae which are employed for the introduction of a historical notice to indicate that it is more or less contemporaneous with the events of the narrative immediately preceding. The frequency with which these formulae occur, especially in the brief citation of facts from the Annals, renders the inference fair that they are due to the hand of rd, and represent his method of piecing together the extracts derived from his sources. Of such formulae the most frequent is IN but we also find the expressions nnn Own, Ntnn mm. Cf. Note, p. 35. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.