The events that took place over the course of eight hundred and fifty years from the beginning of the conquest of the holy land by the soldiers of Yehoshua (1272 BC) to the destruction of Yerushalayim and the Temple by the Chaldeans (422 BC) are described in the books of the first prophets. Melachim - the last of them - having told about the reign of Solomon and the division of the kingdom after his death, proceeds to describe the events in the kingdom of Judah, which remained faithful to the house of David, and in the kingdom of the ten tribes, the rulers of which were constantly changing.