Kings, Books of, by S. A. Cook; and the articles David, Adonijah, Solomon, Temple, Jerusalem, Abiathar, Joab, Ephraim, Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Asa, Omri, Ahab, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Athaliah, Ahaziah, Elijah, Carmel, Jordan, Elisha, Jehu, Rechabites, Joash, Azariah, Hosea, Uzziah, Ahaz, Isaiah, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Josiah, Jehoiachin, Samaria.
Chronicles, by W. Robertson Smith and S. A. Cook; and the articles Absalom, David, Uzziah, Jubilees, Midrash, Levites and many mentioned above under Samuel and Kings.
Ezra and Nehemiah, Books of, by S. A. Cook; the article Ezra; and, as the books are to be grouped with Chronicles, that article and Deuteronomy, and the article Samaritans and those on the two “apocryphal” books, Ezra, Third Book of, and Ezra, Fourth Book of, by Dr. Robert Henry Charles, lecturer in Biblical studies, Oxford. See also Synagogue.
The Prophets
For the prophetical books the article Prophet as an introduction, and then:
Isaiah, by T. K. Cheyne; and, for outline, under Bible, Vol. 3, p. 853; and Emmanuel (on chap. 7) and Messiah and Atonement (on chap. 53).
Jeremiah, by T. K. Cheyne; and the articles Baruch, Zedekiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Edom, Ammonites, Moab.
Lamentations, by the Rev. Charles James Ball, lecturer in Assyriology, Oxford, with peculiarly valuable information about poetical structure and acrostic verse, some suggested emendations of the text, and a summary of the arguments in regard to the authorship.
Ezekiel, by Professor C. H. Toy of Harvard University; and the articles Zedekiah, and, for certain literary forms, Allegory and Parable.
Minor Prophets