This book presents the early history of the kingdom of Israel.

2:9 When they were gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you, before I be taken away from you. Elisha said, I pray you, let a double portion of your spirit be on me.

17:33 They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from there.

19:15 ... You are God and you alone of all the kingdoms of the earth. For you have made the heavens and the earth.

22:19 Because your heart was tender, and you have humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have tear your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, said the Lord.

22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered into your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring on this place. They brought the king word again.