The two Books of Kings follow the monarchy to its summit under Solomon and the nation’s division, decline, and fall under Jeroboam and Rehoboam. Kings also gives an outline of the double captivity of Israel under the Assyrians and Judah under the Chaldeans.

2 Kings 25

25:3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.