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Our chapter includes summaries of the reigns of both Jeroboam and Rehoboam, each of which is immediately preceded by similar bibliographical comments: \u201cThe other events of Jeroboam\u2019s reign, how he fought and how he ruled, are recorded in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel\u201d (verse 19) and \u201cThe other events of Rehoboam\u2019s reign, and all his actions, are recorded in the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah\u201d (verse 30).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Such \u201cChronicles\u201d (divrey ha-yamim<\/em>) are cited frequently in the Hebrew Bible — the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel are mentioned 18 times and the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah are mentioned 15 times. While these literary records are not identical with the Biblical Books of Chronicles, they are referred to there, in I Chronicles 9:1, II Chronicles 20:34, and elsewhere. Significantly, a more extensive echo of the brief bibliographic comment at the end of our Chapter (verse 30), is found in II Chronicles 12:15: \u201cThe deeds of Rehoboam, early and late, are recorded in the Chronicles of the prophet Shemaiah and Iddo, the seer\u201d. Moreover, \u201cA Midrash of the Prophet Iddo\u201d is said to have recorded additional historical information (see II Chronicles 13:22). Contemporary Biblical scholars have suggested that these lost \u201cChronicles\u201d, which seem to have been recorded in some literary form, may have been similar to the royal annals of other ancient Near Eastern nations, preserved in inscriptions, such as the stele set up by King Mesha of Moab around 840 BCE.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Portuguese Jewish statesman, financer, philosopher and Bible commentator, Don Isaac Abarbanel (died 1508), raises the general question why Scripture seems not to have included all that was apparently recorded in the lost \u201cBooks of the Chronicles of the Kings\u201d (in his Introduction to the Book of Joshua, under the heading of his \u201cthird uncertainty \u2013 ha-safeq ha-shelishi\u201d). In the extensive process of answering this question, Abarbanel relates to our chapter in his specific comment on I Kings 14:29. He suggests that the Biblical narrative here chose to include only what it considered relevant to the specific history of Rehoboam\u2019s reign. However, additional events were recorded in one of the Chronicles of all the Kings of Judah, which included stories about Rehoboam.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Abarbanel goes on to suggest that among these no longer extant written records, an entire book was devoted to lauding Solomon (see I Kings 11:41), while just one other book was devoted to all the other kings of Judah, because they together were reckoned as historically important as Solomon alone. Whatever later biblical scholarship may make of Abarbanel\u2019s imaginative reconstruction of how the Scriptural record was committed to writing, it is worth noting that this historically important Jewish figure — who almost succeeded in preventing the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 by offering an enormous sum to the Spanish monarchy — suggests that the Biblical record selectively preserves primarily what was of lasting historical consequence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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