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0 ! This seconde boke conteineth briefely in effect that, which is comprehended in the two bokes of the kinds: that is, from the reigne of Salomon to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the carying away of the people captiue into Babylon. In this storie are certeine things declared and set forthe more copiously then in the bokes of the Kings, and therefore serue greatly to the vnderstanding of the Prophetes. But thre things are here chiefly to be considered. First that the godlie Kings, when they sawe the plagues of God prepared against their countrey for sinne, had recourse to the Lord, and by earnest prayer were heard, and the plagues remoued. The seconde how it is a thing that greatly offendeth God, that suche as feare him and professe his religion, shulde joyne in amitie with the wicked. And thirdely how the good rulers euer loued the Prophetes of God, and were very zealous to set forthe his religion throughout all their dominions, and contrarie wise the wicked hated his ministers, deposed them, and for the true religion and worde of God, set vp idolatrie, and serued God according to the fantasie of men. Thus haue we hitherto the chief actes from the beginning of the worlde to the buylding again of Jerusalem, which was the two and thirtieth yere of Darius, and conteine in the whole, thre thousand, foure hundreth foure score and eight yeres, and six moneths.