Vol 02 - Books Quoted or Referred to in the Bible

Books Quoted or Referred to in the Bible The following is a list (not at all complete) which we have culled from the pages of the Sacred Volume, of writings not included in the Canon, at least many are not, and yet divine reference is made to them, or passages quoted from them.

1. The Greek heathen poets, Aratus and Cleanthes quoted, Acts 17:28.

2. The Greek heathen poet Menander quoted, 1Co 15:33.

3. The Greek heathen poet Epimenides quoted, Tit 1:12.

4. The Book of the Wars of the Lord, Num 21:14.

5. The Book of Jasher, Jos 10:13; 2Sa 1:18.

6. The Book of the Acts of Solomon, 1Ki 11:41.

7. The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah,1Ki 15:7.

8. The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel,1Ki 15:31.

9. The Book of Samuel the Seer, 1Ch 29:29.

10. The Book of Nathan, the Prophet, 1Ch 29:29.

11. The Book of Gad, the Seer, 1Ch 29:29.

12. The Prophecy of Ahijah, the Shilonite, 2Ch 9:29.

13. The Visions of Iddo, the Seer, 2Ch 9:29; 2Ch 12:15.

14. The Book of Shemaiah, the Prophet, 2Ch 12:15.

15. The Story of the Prophet Iddo, 2Ch 13:22.

16. The Book of Jehu, 2Ch 20:34.

17. The History of Uzziah by Isaiah, the Prophet, 2Ch 26:22.

18. The written Lamentations over the godly Josiah, 2Ch 35:25.

.19. The Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah, 2Ch 35:27.

NOTES.

Nos. 7, 8. There seems to have been a separate account of each monarch’s reign, to which reference could readily be had.

No. 9. This may refer to the Books of Samuel, and which were originally written as one.

Nos. 10, 11. Jewish tradition is sometimes well founded. We are inclined to receive it in this instance, which attributes the authorship of the first 24 chapters of the first book of Samuel to that prophet, while relegating the remaining seven chapters, along with the second Book to the Prophets Gad and Nathan. " And Samuel died" (1Sa 25:1) is evidently the historical statement of another, and not the prophetic: utterance of the prophet himself.

Nos. 15, 16. See the margin of our English Bibles.

Nos. 19. This is not exactly the same as Nos. 6 or 7.