1 Kings 15:8
in 1 Kings 15And Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
KJV
And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
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This verse in 1 Kings 15
Commentary
2 notes on this verseAnd Abijam slept with his fathers,.... That is, died as they did: and they buried him in the city of David, in the sepulchre of his royal ancestors, David, Solomon, and Rehoboam: and Asa his son reigned in his stead; who perhaps was the eldest of his twenty two sons, 2Ch 13:21.
This site's exposition
war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
on 1 Kings 15:6-8
Verse 6 repeats, almost word for word, the notice already given of Rehoboam and Jeroboam at 14:30, and verse 7 restates the same standing war now under Abijam's own name; Keil and Barnes read the first as the old notice still running under the new king rather than a copying error, since 2 Chronicles 13 records Abijam's own major campaign against Jeroboam by name. Abijam's death and burial close his three years with the book's standard formula, and Asa succeeds him, the reign that fills the rest of the chapter.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤ב | vaiyishkav | and he lay down | H7901 → | 212 times |
| אֲבִיָּם֙ | ʾaviyam | Abijam | H38 → | 5 times |
| עִם־ | ʾim- | with | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| אֲבֹתָ֔יו | ʾavotav | ancestors his | H1 → | 1212 times |
| וַיִּקְבְּר֥וּ | vaiyikberu | and people buried | H6912 → | 133 times |
| אֹת֖וֹ | ʾoto | <obj.> him | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בְּעִ֣יר | beir | in [the] city of | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| דָּוִ֑ד | david | David | H1732 → | 999 times |
| וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ | vaiyimlokh | and he became king | H4427 → | 348 times |
| אָסָ֥א | ʾasa' | Asa | H609 → | 57 times |
| בְנ֖וֹ | veno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| תַּחְתָּֽיו׃ פ | tachtav | in place of him | H8478 → | 505 times |
וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤בand he lay down
vaiyishkavH7901 →212 times
אֲבִיָּם֙Abijam
ʾaviyamH38 →5 times
עִם־with
ʾim-H5973 →1050 times
אֲבֹתָ֔יוancestors his
ʾavotavH1 →1212 times
וַיִּקְבְּר֥וּand people buried
vaiyikberuH6912 →133 times
אֹת֖וֹ<obj.> him
ʾotoH853 →10935 times
בְּעִ֣ירin [the] city of
beirH5892 →1090 times
דָּוִ֑דDavid
davidH1732 →999 times
וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְand he became king
vaiyimlokhH4427 →348 times
אָסָ֥אAsa
ʾasa'H609 →57 times
בְנ֖וֹson his
venoH1121 →4930 times
תַּחְתָּֽיו׃ פin place of him
tachtavH8478 →505 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Kings 14:31And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 12:16
And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.
- Matthew 1:7
Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa.
- 2 Chronicles 12:16
Through
1 Kings 14:1At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 4:19–20
Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband,…
- Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…
- 1 Samuel 31:2
The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.
- 1 Kings 13:33–34
Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a…
- 2 Samuel 12:15
After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
- 1 Samuel 4:19–20
Through
1 Chronicles 3:9These were all the sons of David, besides the sons by his concubines. And Tamar was their sister.
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 13:1–20
After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 13:1–20
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.
