The Books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles
By Editor
We omit from our readings the last book of Samuel entire; and the first and second books of Kings; also the first nine chapters of 1 Chronicles, filled as they are almost wholly with genealogies. The books of Chronicles and Kings are parallel books. Chronicles, however, gives more of the details of Judah, while Kings deals with the ten-tribe division of the kingdom. It would be impossible, in the brief space at our disposal, to dwell with detail upon the readings of the week. These readings begin with the death of Saul and his noble son Jonathan, at the battle of Mount Gilboa, and close in the middle of the reign of David.