Chronicles of the Kings of Israel

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The similarly named Biblical books are located at Books of Chronicles.

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The book called the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel is one of the Lost books of the Old Testament. The book is described at 1Kings 14:19. The passage reads: "And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel."

It is referenced again at 1Kings 16:20, which reads: "Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"

This text is sometimes called The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel or The Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

The book is found nowhere in the Old Testament, so it is presumed to have been lost or removed from the earlier texts.