Development of the Old Testament canon "Apocrypha" ("hidden"). To counter Luther's "heresy", the fourth session of the Catholic Council of Trent in 1546 confirmed that the deuterocanonical books were equally authoritative as the protocanonical in the Canon of Trent in the year Luther died. Following Jerome's "Veritas Hebraica" (truth of the Hebrew) principle, the Protestant Old Testament consists of the same books as the Hebrew Bible, but the order and division of the books are different. Protestants number the Old Testament books at 39, while the Hebrew Bible numbers the same books as 24. The Hebrew Bible counts Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles as one book each,
Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel Judah". The book may be identical with the Books of Kings in the Old Testament, or it may have been lost or removed from the earlier texts. The Book of the Kings, which is also called the "Book of the Chronicles of the Kings", is referenced 45 times in the King James Bible, and the 46th reference to the Book appears at . Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel The Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel is one of the lost books of the Old Testament. The book is described at . The passage reads: "And,