So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
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So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
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So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
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So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
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Passages linked to 1 Kings 22:40 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 31:16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
- 2 Samuel 7:12 When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
- 1 Kings 2:10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.
- 1 Kings 11:21 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”
- 1 Kings 14:31 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 22:51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
- 2 Kings 1:2 Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”
- 2 Kings 1:17 So he died according to Yahweh’s word which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son.
- 2 Chronicles 20:35 After this, Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. The same did very wickedly.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and…
1Ki 22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
Ver. 40. So Ahab slept with his fathers,] i.e., Died, as his predecessors had done before him. The mortal scythe is master of the royal sceptre.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the remnant of the Sodomites, which remained in…
And the remnant of the Sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land. His father Asa removed many of these filthy creatures, but not all; as many, no doubt, as came within his knowledge, but some remained, whom this his son removed, being of the same disposition with his father, see Kg1 15:12.
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kg1 22:47There was then no king in Edom, a deputy was king. Which had been the case from the times of David, who subdued Edom, and placed garrisons in it, and governors over it, Sa2 8:14 and continued through the reign of Jehoshaphat, unto the times of his son, under whom the Edomites revolted, and set up a king of their own, Kg2 8:20, with a view to which this is observed, as also to account for it how Jehoshaphat could build ships in Eziongeber, which was in the land of Edom, of which in the next verse, because the whole country was governed by a viceroy, or deputy, under him.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 40. Ahaziah his son] Ahaziah was the elder son…
40. Ahaziah his son] Ahaziah was the elder son of Ahab, and died subsequently in consequence of a fall (2Ki_1:17) and was succeeded by his brother Jehoram (2Ki_3:1).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah "Whom…
So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah "Whom Jehovah upholds." The name suggests that, notwithstanding his idolatries, Ahab cannot have completely abandoned the worship of the Lord his son reigned in his stead.
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