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2 Chronicles 12:16

in 2 Chronicles 12

And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

KJV

And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 12

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Israel was very much disgraced and weakened by being divided into two kingdoms; yet the kingdom of Judah, having both the temple and the royal city, both the house of David and the house of Aaron, might have done very well if they had continued in the way of their duty; but here we have all out of order there.

This site's exposition

the records of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer

on 2 Chronicles 12:15-16

The chapter names its sources, “the records of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer concerning the genealogies”. Iddo's writing is named again at 13:22 for Abijah's reign. War between Rehoboam and Jeroboam “throughout their days” is stated without a battle described, as at 1 Kings 14:30.

This site's exposition

Rehoboam rested with his fathers

Henry observes that Judah kept both the temple and the royal city, the house of David and the house of Aaron. With those, he says, it might have done well had it kept to its duty. Abijah inherits that advantage and the war with Jeroboam.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Abijah his son - Concerning the many varieties in this king’s name, see the note on 1Ki 14:31.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

in the words of Shemaiah the prophet Every prophet would write his book, containing that which he prophesied, and this is the Shemaiah who was mentioned above (11:2,:5).
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 12:15:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤בand he lay down

    vaiyishkavH7901 →212 times

  • רְחַבְעָם֙Rehoboam

    rechavamH7346 →50 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • אֲבֹתָ֔יוancestors his

    ʾavotavH1 →1212 times

  • וַיִּקָּבֵ֖רand he was buried

    vaiyikaverH6912 →133 times

  • בְּעִ֣ירin [the] city of

    beirH5892 →1090 times

  • דָּוִ֑ידDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְand he became king

    vaiyimlokhH4427 →348 times

  • אֲבִיָּ֥הAbijah

    ʾaviyahH29 →25 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 stops

Each 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 Chronicles 3:10

    Solomon’s son was Rehoboam:

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 14:31

      And 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.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Kings 11:43

      And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

    • 1 Kings 15:24

      And Asa rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David, and his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.

    • 1 Kings 15:8

      And Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.

    • 2 Chronicles 17:1

      Asa’s son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place, and he strengthened himself against Israel.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 11:20

    After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 13:2

      and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

    • 1 Kings 15:1–2

      In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king of Judah,

  • Through

    Matthew 1:7

    Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 14:1–15

      Then Abijah rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place, and in his days the land was at peace for ten years.

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.