Israel royal annals behind Kings
The northern royal annal source surface cited as the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
L4 Draft articles and reviews
Israel royal annals behind Kings v1 ยท Draft
The cited northern royal chronicle source surface.
This article describes an entity that is not directly attested as an extant recoverable annal book; it is inferred from source-citation traces and should not be read as ordinary documentation of surviving royal archives.
Epistemic status
Draft article. Kings repeatedly cites the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel, but the cited source is not extant here.
Summary
1 Kings and 2 Kings point to a book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel for the rest of several northern kings' acts, wars, reigns, and might. Inferpedia treats this as a northern royal-annal source surface.
What is being inferred
The inferred entity is the lost northern annalistic source behind the Kings formulae.
What is attested
The text attests repeated source citations for multiple Israelite kings and omitted royal actions.
Why infer this entity
The recurrent formula and named source title imply more than isolated biographical gaps.
Evidence ledger
- E1, 1 Kings 14:19: primary trace for Jeroboam's omitted acts.
- E2, 1 Kings 14:19: primary trace for the Israel chronicle title.
- E3, 1 Kings 15:31: primary trace for recurrence with Nadab.
- E4, 2 Kings 10:34: primary trace for continuity of the formula in 2 Kings.
Counterarguments
The formula may name an editorial convention or compiled source rather than one stable archival book.
Confidence scores
Direct attestation: 76. Existence warrant: 88. Specificity: 78. Reconstruction dependence: 70. Counterevidence: 16.
What would change the score
Specialist work on Kings' regnal formulae, northern royal archives, or Deuteronomistic source use would change the score.
Why this candidate exists
Codex-native Judaism category traversal selected a recurrent named annalistic source formula in Kings.
L3 Evidence packet
Bible (King James), 1 Kings - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 1 Kings 14:19
Quote: "rest of the acts of Jeroboam"
Paraphrase: The formula points to omitted royal acts for Jeroboam.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 80
Cluster: kings-israel-royal-annals
Bible (King James), 1 Kings - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 1 Kings 14:19
Quote: "book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel"
Paraphrase: The source title is directly cited in 1 Kings.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 94
Cluster: kings-israel-royal-annals
Bible (King James), 1 Kings - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 1 Kings 15:31
Quote: "rest of the acts of Nadab"
Paraphrase: A second northern king is attached to the same source formula.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 78
Cluster: kings-israel-royal-annals
Bible (King James), 2 Kings - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 2 Kings 10:34
Quote: "all his might"
Paraphrase: The later formula includes royal might among omitted acts held in the annals.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 76
Cluster: kings-israel-royal-annals
Offline existing-inferon judge ledger control source - Network gap
Warrant role: Noetic interpretation
Source authority: Noetic model prior 50
Access level: No external text
Locator: existing_inferon_judge_promote:inferon:356
Paraphrase: Offline judge treated existing inferon 356 (source_dependence) as support for Israel royal annals behind Kings. Evidence strength: source-backed prior reading already isolated a bounded missing or reconstructed entity; suitable for L2 only. The accountable path is EvidencePath 1573.
Reliability: 86 - Relevance: 66
Cluster: existing_inferon_judge_promote:7eef12f4c518031c98777189eb39eb88
Arguments
Existing inferon 356 supports an L2 inferred candidate for Israel royal annals behind Kings; this remains below publication and is not direct attestation.
AI-assessed L2 Quotient triage: AI judge warrant assessment for L2 Quotient triage; existing AI-created evidence remains below publication.
The Israel royal annals behind Kings are warranted as a source-backed draft lost-text entity.
The recurrent named formula gives strong source warrant; the unity and archival shape of the annals remain uncertain.