The following is a list (not at all complete) which we have culled from the pages of the Sacred Volume, of writings not included in the Canon, at least many are not, and yet divine reference is made to them, or passages quoted from them.
1. The Greek heathen poets, Aratus and Cleanthes quoted, Acts 17:28.
2. The Greek heathen poet Menander quoted, 1 Corinthians 15:33.
3. The Greek heathen poet Epimenides quoted, Titus 1:12.
4. The Book of the Wars of the Lord, Numbers 21:14.
5. The Book of Jasher, Joshua 10:13; 2 Samuel 1:18.
6. The Book of the Acts of Solomon, 1 Kings 11:41.
7. The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, 1 Kings 15:7.
8. The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel, 1 Kings 15:31.
9. The Book of Samuel the Seer, 1 Chronicles 29:29.
10. The Book of Nathan, the Prophet, 1 Chronicles 29:29.
11. The Book of Gad, the Seer, 1 Chronicles 29:29.
12. The Prophecy of Ahijah, the Shilonite, 2 Chronicles 9:29.
13. The Visions of Iddo, the Seer, 2 Chronicles 9:29; 12:15.
14. The Book of Shemaiah, the Prophet, 2 Chronicles 12:15.
15. The Story of the Prophet Iddo, 2 Chronicles 13:22.
16. The Book of Jehu, 2 Chronicles 20:34.
17. The History of Uzziah by Isaiah, the Prophet, 2 Chronicles 26:22.
18. The written Lamentations over the godly Josiah, 2 Chronicles 35:25.
.19. The Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah, 2 Chronicles 35:27.
NOTES.
Nos. 7, 8. There seems to have been a separate account of each monarch’s reign, to which reference could readily be had.
No. 9. This may refer to the Books of Samuel, and which were originally written as one.
Nos. 10, 11. Jewish tradition is sometimes well founded. We are inclined to receive it in this instance, which attributes the authorship of the first 24 chapters of the first book of Samuel to that prophet, while relegating the remaining seven chapters, along with the second Book to the Prophets Gad and Nathan. “And Samuel died” (1 Samuel 25:1) is evidently the historical statement of another, and not the prophetic: utterance of the prophet himself.
Nos. 15, 16. See the margin of our English Bibles.
Nos. 19. This is not exactly the same as Nos. 6 or 7.