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2 Chronicles 9:31

in 2 Chronicles 9

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

This verse in 2 Chronicles 9

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

And Solomon slept - We have here Solomon in his throne, and Solomon in his grave; for the throne could not secure him from the grave. Here is he stripped of his pomp, and leaving all his wealth and power, not to one whom he knew not whether he would be a wise man or a fool; but one he knew would be a fool! This was not only vanity, but vexation of spirit.

This site's exposition

reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel

on 2 Chronicles 9:30-31

After forty years Solomon “rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David,” and Rehoboam reigns in his place. Kings gives Solomon's foreign wives, his heart turned after other gods, the LORD's anger and the tearing of the kingdom. Chronicles tells none of it.

This site's exposition

Solomon rested with his fathers

Wesley sets Solomon first on his throne and then in his grave, and the throne gave him no shelter from it. The heir was Rehoboam, a son Wesley calls a fool. Henry reads the silence over his sins as a sign of pardon.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

His sin is not again recorded, because it was repented of, and pardoned, and became as if it had never been. Scripture-silence sometimes speaks. I am willing to believe that its silence here concerning the sin of Solomon is an intimation that none of the sins he committed were mentioned against him, Ezek. xxxiii.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom. 8 Blessed be the L ORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the L ORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

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The words behind it

12 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

  • שְׁלֹמֹה֙Solomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • אֲבֹתָ֔יוancestors his

    ʾavotavH1 →1212 times

  • וַֽיִּקְבְּרֻ֔הוּand people buried him

    vaiyikberuhuH6912 →133 times

  • בְּעִ֖ירin [the] city of

    beirH5892 →1090 times

  • דָּוִ֣ידDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • אָבִ֑יוfather his

    ʾavivH1 →1212 times

  • וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְand he became king

    vaiyimlokhH4427 →348 times

  • רְחַבְעָ֥םRehoboam

    rechavamH7346 →50 times

  • בְּנ֖וֹson his

    benoH1121 →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 Kings 2:10

    Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

    it leads to

    • Acts 13:36

      For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Acts 2:29

      Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

    • 1 Chronicles 29:28

      He died at a ripe old age, full of years, riches, and honor, and his son Solomon reigned in his place.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 7:12

    And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

    it leads to

    • Acts 2:30

      But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

    • 1 Kings 8:20

      Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for…

    • 1 Kings 2:1

      As the time drew near for David to die, he charged his son Solomon,

  • Through

    1 Kings 1:21

    Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 2:10

      Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

    • Deuteronomy 31:16

      And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will…

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. H. Bennett, The Books of Chronicles (Expositor's Bible).