The Deuteronomistic authors and editors who edited the books of Kings integrated several older sources or independent documents into their work, including the “Book of the Acts of Solomon” (1 Kings 11.41), and “the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel” (e.g., 1 Kings 14.19) and “the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah” (e.g., 1 Kings 14.29), from the courts of Samaria and Jerusalem.
