2 Kings 17:37

which he wrote for you The compiler of Kings considered, as we can gather from this expression, that -the statutes and ordinances", even the whole Law, was written down for the Israelites, and was of divine origin. The quotations made above are found in Deuteronomy Chapter s 4, 5. and 6 If the compiler be, in this passage, drawing, as he assuredly does in a large part of his work, from a record nearly contemporary with the events, we have here, from some writer of the days of Hezekiah and Isaiah, a number of quotations which shew that, in some form, the fifth book of Moses belongs to a time anterior to the date which recent criticism has assigned to it. If he be here but recording his own ideas, it is manifest that he himself had no doubt about the early origin of the Book.