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2 Kings
Two kingdoms slide toward destruction: Israel falls to Assyria, Judah to Babylon.
- Where this sits in the story
- Ends with exile — the catastrophe most prophets are responding to.
- Era
- Decline, and the fall of both kingdoms
- Attributed to
- Anonymous
- Length
- 25 chapters · KJV — public domain
Background written for this app. Attribution and dating are stated as tradition or debate, not as settled fact.
Chapters
New to this? Where to start
Chapter 1 is a fine place to begin, but you do not have to read in order. Dots mark chapters that already have a hand-written study.