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Story of the Prophet Iddo
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “lost text that was probably written by the biblical prophet iddo”. Today it says “lost work mentioned in the bible”.
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Story of the Prophet Iddo is a lost text that was probably written by the biblical prophet Iddo , who lived at the time of Rehoboam .1 The book is described at 2 Chronicles 13:22 . The passage reads: "And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo." This text is sometimes called The Midrash of the Prophet Iddo [1] or the Acts of Abijah .2
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “lost text that was probably written by the biblical prophet iddo”. Today it says “lost work mentioned in the bible”. Read the current article and compare.
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lost text that was probably written by the biblical prophet iddo
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lost work mentioned in the bible
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