0 ! The seconde boke conteineth the actes of the Kings of Judah and Israel: to wit, of Israel from the death of Ahab vnto the last King Hoshea, who was imprisonned by the King of Assyria & his citie Samaria taken, & the ten tribes by the juste plague of God for their idolatrie & disobedience to God led into captiuitie. And also of Judah, from the reigne of Jehoram sonne of Jehoshaphat vnto Zedechia who for fontemining the Lords commandement by his Prophetes, & neglecting his sundry admonitions, by famine & other meanes was taken by his enemies, sawe his sonnes moste cruelly slaine before his face & his wone eyes put out, as the Lord had declared to him before by his Prophet Jeremie: and also by the juste vengeance of God for contempt of his worde jerusalem was destroyed, the Temple burnt, and he and all his people were led captiues into Babylon. In this boke are notable examples of Gods fauour towardes those rulers and people who obey his Prophetes and inbrace his worde: and contrary wise of his plagues to wardes those commune weales which neglect his ministers and do not obey his commandements.