Judah royal annals behind Kings
The southern royal annal source surface cited as the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.
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Judah royal annals behind Kings v1 ยท Draft
The cited southern 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 Judah, 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 Judah for the rest of several southern kings' acts. Inferpedia treats this as a southern royal-annal source surface.
What is being inferred
The inferred entity is the lost southern annalistic source behind the Kings formulae.
What is attested
The text attests repeated source citations for multiple Judahite 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 14:29: primary trace for Rehoboam's omitted acts.
- E2, 1 Kings 14:29: primary trace for the Judah chronicle title.
- E3, 1 Kings 15:7: primary trace for recurrence with Abijam.
- E4, 2 Kings 14:18: 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, Judah 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 14:29
Quote: "rest of the acts of Rehoboam"
Paraphrase: The formula points to omitted royal acts for Rehoboam.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 80
Cluster: kings-judah-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 14:29
Quote: "book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah"
Paraphrase: The source title is directly cited in 1 Kings.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 94
Cluster: kings-judah-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 15:7
Quote: "rest of the acts of Abijam"
Paraphrase: A second Judah king is attached to the same source formula.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 78
Cluster: kings-judah-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 14:18
Quote: "rest of the acts of Amaziah"
Paraphrase: 2 Kings continues the same southern royal-annal formula.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 78
Cluster: kings-judah-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:357
Paraphrase: Offline judge treated existing inferon 357 (source_dependence) as support for Judah 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 1574.
Reliability: 86 - Relevance: 66
Cluster: existing_inferon_judge_promote:ab654034cf5371cf63d4d33a719d738a
Arguments
Existing inferon 357 supports an L2 inferred candidate for Judah 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 Judah 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.