2 Chronicles 21:1

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

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In The King James Version

Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.

In Context

2And he had brothers, the six sons of Josaphat, Azarias, and Jeiel, and Zacharias, and Azarias, and Michael, and Zaphatias: all these were the sons of Josaphat king of Juda.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 9:31And Solomon fell asleep, and they buried him in the city of David his father: and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 21:20He was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed without honor, and was buried in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 21:1

Never surely did any kingdom change its king so much for the worse as Judah did, when Jehoram, one of the vilest, succeeded Jehoshaphat, one of the best. Thus were they punished for not making a better use of Jehoshaphat's good government, and their disaffectedness (or coldness at least) to his reformation, ch. xx. 33 . Those that knew not now to value a good king are justly plagued with a bad one. Here is, I. Jehoram's elevation to the throne, ver. 1-3 . II. The wicked course he took to establish himself in it,… Read the whole commentary →

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