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Shemot starts "V'elu" - "And these" - perh grounds for viewing it as joined to Bereshit. Parallels between mishkan and creation of world - in use of word melacha, references to shabbat, references to ruach Elohim/hokhmat Elohim, and in Bezalel ben Uri, because light was created first and man was created in the image of God. I mean, whatever, it doesn't mean anything, but it's interesting if you like playing those kinds of games.
Other stuff, slightly better, concerning why David and Shlomo in Kings are such yucky people, and why David is so useless in Shmuel, and why Divrei haYamim paints them much nicer - potted answer, that Kings is written whilst in exile and answering the question 'crap, what went wrong there?' it starts with Shlomo marrying Pharoah's daughter, and just gets worse from there. Shmuel is a book about the problems of kingship and illustrates that even the best king is a poo really. Divrei haYamim on the other hand is apptly written on the return from exile, and is about 'how can we build a nation when we don't have any political power but we have a temple and we're nice people.'
Other stuff, slightly better, concerning why David and Shlomo in Kings are such yucky people, and why David is so useless in Shmuel, and why Divrei haYamim paints them much nicer - potted answer, that Kings is written whilst in exile and answering the question 'crap, what went wrong there?' it starts with Shlomo marrying Pharoah's daughter, and just gets worse from there. Shmuel is a book about the problems of kingship and illustrates that even the best king is a poo really. Divrei haYamim on the other hand is apptly written on the return from exile, and is about 'how can we build a nation when we don't have any political power but we have a temple and we're nice people.'