Kings

Kings

either of two books (1 Kings, 2 Kings) which give the history of the reigns of the Jewish kings after David: abbrev. K, Kgs, Ki
in the Douay Bible, any of four books called 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings in other versions

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Noun

plural form of king
(poker slang) A pair of kings.

Proper noun

(biblical) One of the various books called Kings in the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh. Variously known as 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 3 Kings and 4 Kings.

Origin

Reference to the contents of the book, a chronicle of the Kings of Israel.

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In the time of the Sassanian kings, however, as at the present time, the Tigris occupied a more easterly course.
The Wittelsbachs gave three kings to Germany, Louis IV.,' Rupert and Charles VII.
He was the advisor and friend of two of the kings who succeeded Cyrus.
A more sympathetic attitude appears in two elegies (xix.), one on the kings Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin, the other on the nation.
The fact that the kings were often absent from England, and that the justiciarship was held by great nobles or churchmen, made this office of an importance which at times threatened to overshadow that of the Crown.

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