The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings

book in the Talmud and the Peshito. The Western Bibles followed the

Alexandrian division into two books (called the third and fourth of Kings), and Jerome adopted this division in the Vulgate (_Regum_, iii. et iv.). But if this separation into two books was due to the LXX. translators, they should have made a less awkward and artificial division than the one which breaks off the fir...