To me, it’s: That ancient people thought the Earth was flat.

We have records from around 430BC where Greek philosophers spoke of the Earth being a sphere. In 240BC the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth and was only about 2% out.

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    1 Kings , 2 Kings , 3 Kings, 4 Kings. (1st naming system).
    1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings. (2nd naming system).
    I used the first naming system.