The book, named after its leading character, is the first of the Former Prophets in the Jewish canon.
It calls the Former Prophets the Historical Books, and subdivides two of them into I and II Samuel and I and II Kings.
To the Deuteronomist or the Deuteronomic school is also attributed the authorship of the Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings), which scholars call the "Deuteronomic history".
The fourth book of the Former Prophets (I and II Kings in the Septuagint) continues the history of the nation Israel from the death of David, the reign of Solomon, and the divided monarchy through the collapse of both Israel (the northern kingdom) and Judah (the southern kingdom).
In the Hebrew canon the Prophets are divided into (1) the Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings) and (2) the Latter Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve, or Minor, Prophets: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi).
The Neviʾim comprise eight books subdivided into the Former Prophets, containing the four historical works Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings; and the Latter Prophets, the oracular discourses of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve (Minor) Prophets Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.
Mr Jeffs believed in hard work.Most of the Lost Boys had harsh words for their former Prophet, whose trial was playing live on CNN when I spoke to them.
"The prophet Muhammad is the last prophet - there is no other prophet after him," he said.
Preceding that bizarre little outburst, Maduro invoked a 16th-century curse on those who don't vote for him in Sunday's election and has also referred to himself as Chavez's "son" and called his former boss the "prophet of Christ on Earth".
Gray interjects, "What do you mean by the Spirit?" Turner replies, "The Spirit that spoke to the prophets in former days".
He says their plans to destroy his government and Turkey are being carried out by disciples of his former ally and "bogus prophet", Fethullah Gulen, a Pennsylvania-based Sunni Muslim cleric, who are embedded in the judiciary and the police.
