So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” Jotham his son reigned in his place.
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So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” Jotham his son reigned in his place.
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So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
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So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said: 'He is a leper'; and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 26:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 21:20 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He departed without being missed; and they buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of the kings.
- 2 Chronicles 28:27 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem, because they didn’t bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 15:6-7 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 26:18 They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”
- 2 Chronicles 33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his place.
- Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain And therefore was buried apart in the same field,…
And therefore was buried apart in the same field, but not in the same sepulchers with his predecessors.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and…
2Ch 26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which [belonged] to the kings; for they said, He [is] a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
Ver. 23. See on 2Ki 15:5; 2Ki 15:8.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 23. They buried him - in the field…
Verse 23. They buried him - in the field of the burial] As he was a leper, he was not permitted to be buried in the common burial-place of the kings; as it was supposed that even a place of sepulture must be defiled by the body of one who had died of this most afflictive and dangerous malady.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain In the field of the burial - i. e.…
In the field of the burial - i. e. in the same piece of ground, but in a separate sepulchre. As the Law separated off the leper from his fellows during life Lev 13:46, so Jewish feeling required that he should remain separate even in death.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Leper. So much was the disease abhorred, (C.) as…
Leper. So much was the disease abhorred, (C.) as well as the king’s late conduct. H.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain they buried him . . . in the field…
they buried him . . . in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings--He was interred not in, but near, the sepulcher of the kings, as the corpse of a leper would have polluted it.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 23. In the field of the burial — In…
23. In the field of the burial — In 2Ki_15:7, we have simply, “they buried him with his fathers in the city of David.” But here it appears that he was not buried in the royal sepulchre, but in a burial plot belonging to the kings. This was doubtless on account of his leprosy.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. the field of the burial] R.V. the field…
23. the field of the burial] R.V. the field of burial. In Kings, “in the city of David.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (23) So Uzziah slept.— 2Ki_15:7.
(23) So Uzziah slept.— 2Ki_15:7.
In the field of the burial.—In the burial field or graveyard belonging to the kings, and near their sepulehres; but not in the royal tombs themselves, because a leper would have polluted them.
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Kings simply says, as usual, “in the city of David.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain In the field of the burial which belonged to…
In the field of the burial which belonged to the kings. The parallel simply says," with his fathers in the city of David." Judging, however, both from the somewhat remarkable words in our text, "the field of the burial" ( i.e. the burial-field), and from the following clause, for they said, He is a leper, we may understand that, though it was in the "city of David" that he was buried, and "with his fathers" so far forth, and also that he lay near them, yet his actual sepulchre was not one with theirs, any more than his house of late had been one with the house he had known so well (see Condor"s "Handbook to the Bible," p. 341).
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