Second Book of Kings 11-25, First Book of Chronicles 1-10

We pick right back up with the succession of unfortunate Jewish kings.  There's an incidental reference to God sending Israel a savior of some kind.  The dying Elisha performs an act out of later Arthurian legend, signaling a destination of some sort with an arrow through a window.  His bones are also the first recorded Judeo-Christian relics to serve as the catalyst for a miracle.

Jonah is referenced.  Nineveh, separately, is also referenced.

The temple is desecrated.  There is a consistency now in the fact that pagans built their altars on high ground.  Hebrews generally behaving badly, acting a lot like the ones who came out of Egypt, and even create themselves some molten calves.  Second Kings makes it a point to say that they're reverting to former ways.  Only Judah remains a bastion of the faith.

Babylon looms heavily.

The phrase "you are now relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff," making it clear where that nation now stands.  The Aramaic language is specifically referenced.

A lot of this makes me think that this is the period where the Jewish faith began to be reconciled into one tradition, and this is before we Josiah, much less First Chronicles, which I contend may have actually been written first, making both books of Kings another act of prequel, like Genesis and the books of Moses.  But we'll get to that.

Isaiah enters the picture!  He's extremely instrumental in leading a religious revival under Hezekiah.  He also introduces the doctrine of God having a plan rather than humanity goofing up, which supports my predestination theory from earlier, in that Adam and Eve were always meant to fall.  No matter how often humanity fails God, he's always leading them in a specific direction, starting with Abraham.  You might also say that some of this was shaped in a certain direction by later extrapolation of the historic record.

The angel of the Lord smites the Assyrians.

Hezekiah seems to tempt the Babylonians in much the way Egypt and the Philistines were previously induced to consider the spoils of the Hebrew faith.  Isaiah prophesies the exile.  Manasseh succeeds Hezekiah, is so bad that God swears holy vengeance against his people no matter what, and "no matter what" happens to mean Josiah, who enacts a greater religious revival than Hezekiah.  He reigns in Jerusalem for 31 years.  He discovers the book of the law, which is presumably the ark, and by this may have helped solidify Jewish faith to that point.  He is given an all but cursory appearance nonetheless.  He dies in battle at Megiddo, another reason to associate it with apocalypse.

Jeremiah is referenced!

Then, unfortunately, Nebuchadnezzar, the great king of the Babylonians.  He has already taken dominion over the Egyptians, but that only stands to reason at this point.  Jerusalem is besieged.  The Hebrews become, actually, amicable citizens of Babylon, not like the bondage in Egypt anyway.  Second Kings ends.

First Chronicles begins with a real chronicle, all right, a thick tangle of genealogy that does a more thorough job than any biblical precedent before it.  Caleb seems to be more significant in this record than Moses, who receives a cursory reference, but at least his descent from Levi is finally completed, unlike in Exodus.  This makes it seem like Moses was originally part of a separate tradition, and perhaps indeed he was.

Then the repeats begin.  The Philistines start our story here, and Saul's war against them and his suicide.  No real distinction is made about where he stands in the tradition except that he was, like most of the kings in the books of Kings, someone who didn't do right by God.