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Iddo Genealogies is one of the Lost books of the Old Testament . It was attributed to the Biblical Prophet Iddo , who is said to have lived at the time of Rehoboam .1The book is described at 2Chronicles 12:15 . The passage reads: "Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies?2And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually." This text is sometimes called The Genealogies of Iddo the Seer or The Acts of Iddo the Seer [1] .3The book is found nowhere in the Old Testament , so it is presumed to have been lost or removed from the earlier texts. v t e v t e4
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Iddo Genealogies is one of the Lost books of the Old Testament . It is attributed to the Biblical Prophet Iddo , who is said to have lived at the time of Rehoboam . This text is sometimes called The Genealogies of Iddo the Seer or The Acts of Iddo the Seer .
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One of the lost books of the Old Testament Iddo Genealogies is one of the lost books of the Old Testament . It is attributed to the biblical prophet Iddo , who is said to have lived at the time of Rehoboam . This text is sometimes called The Genealogies of Iddo the Seer or The Acts of Iddo the Seer .
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Redirect to: Story of the Prophet Iddo From a synonym : This is a redirect from a semantic synonym of the target page title.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of the lost books of the old testament”. Today it says “redirect from a semantic synonym of the target page title”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “One of the lost books of the Old Testament”. It now reads “Redirect to: Story of the Prophet”. Read the current article and compare.
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one of the lost books of the old testament
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redirect from a semantic synonym of the target page title
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