BOOK OF KINGS
(Books of Kings)
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This biblical passage was read to the young Queen Victoria by Prime Minister William Lamb (Viscount Melbourne), soon after her succession to the throne in 1837. She was eighteen at the time; Lamb was fifty-eight:
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The Book of Kings (Hebrew: ספר מלכים, sêp̄er malḵîm) is a book in the Hebrew Bible and two books (1 Kings and 2 Kings) in the Christian Old Testament. It concludes the Deuteronomistic history, a history of Israel also including the books of Joshua and Judges and the Books of Samuel.