t may well happen that the
details which unfortunately cannot be checked were ultimately derived
from sources as reputable as those in the books of Samuel, Kings, &c. As
examples may be cited Rehoboam's buildings, &c. (2 Chron. xi. 5-12, 18
sqq.); Jeroboam's attack upon Abijah (2 Chron. xiii., cf. 1 Kings xv.
7); the invasion of Zerah in Asa's reign (2 Chron. xiv.; see ASA);
Jehoshaphat's wars and judicial measures (2 Chron. xvii. xx.; see 1
Kings xxii. 45); Jehoram's family (2 Chron. xxi. 2-4); relations between
Jehoiada and Joash (2 Chron. xxiv. 3, 15 sqq.); conflicts between
Ephraim and Judah (2 Chron. xxv. 6-13); wars of Uzziah and Jotham (2
Chron. xxvi. seq.); events in the reign of Ahaz (2 Chron. xxviii. 8-15,
18 seq.); reforms of Hezekiah (2 Chron. xxix. sqq., cf. Jer. xxvi. 19);
Manasseh's captivity, repentance and buildings (2 Chron. xxxiii. 10-20;
see 2 Kings xxi. and MANASSEH); the death of Josiah (2 Chron. xxxv.
20-25). In addition to this reference may be made to such tantalizing
statements as those in 1 Chron. ii. 23 (R.V.), iv. 39-41, v. 10, 18-22,
vii. 21 seq., viii. 13, xii. 15, examples of the kind of tradition,
national and private, upon which writers could draw. Although in their
present form the additional _narratives_ are in the chronicler's style,
it is not necessary to deny an older traditional element which may have
been preserved in sources now lost to us.[9]

BIBLIOGRAPHY.--Robertson Smith's article in the 9th ed. of the _Ency.
Brit._ was modified by his later views in _Old Test. in the Jewish
Church_[2], pp. 140-148. Recent literature is summarized by S.R.
Driver in his revision of Smith's article in _Ency. Bib._ and in his
_Lit. of Old Test._, and by F. Brown in Hastings' _Dict. Bib._ (a very
comprehensive article). Many parts of the book offer a very hard task
to the expositor, especially the genealogies, where to other troubles
are added the extreme corruption and many variations of the proper
names in the versions; on these see the articles in the _Ency. Bib._
Valuable contributions to the exegesis of the book will be found in
Wellhausen's _Prolegomena_ (Eng. trans.), pp. 171-227; Benzinger in
Marti's _Hand-Kommentar_ (1901); Kittel in _Sacred Books of the Old
Test._ (1895), _History of the Hebrews_, ii. 224 sqq. (1896), and in
Nowack's _Hand-Kommentar_ (1902). W.H. Bennett in _Expositor's Bible_
(1894), W.E. Barnes in _Cambridge Bible_ (1899), and Harvey-Jell