Starting from 2 Kings 17-18, the study investigates the original size of the Deuteronomic History and the redaction of the Enneateuch. It examines the various assumptions that the Books of Kings at one time concluded before the present ending and rejects them. It identifies a redaction in Exodus and 2 Kings which prophesies a future for the people after the Fall of Jerusalem in 587 BC. Using further redactional reflexion texts, it shows how redaction of the Enneateuch was gradually completed and developed its visions of the future.