2 Chronicles 12:16

And Rechav'am slept with Avotav, and was buried in Ir Dovid; and Aviyah bno reigned in his place.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15Now the acts of Rechav'am, harishonim and ha'acharonim, are they not written in the Divrei Shema'yah HaNavi, and of Iddo HaChozer with genealogies? And there were milchamot between Rechav'am and Yarov'am continually.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 3:10And Ben Sh'lomo was Rechav'am, Aviyah bno, Asa bno, Yehoshaphat bno,

2 Chronicles 13:1Now in the eighteenth year of Melech Yarov'am began Aviyah to reign over Yehudah.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 12:14-16

Jeroboam Defeated by Abijah. ( b. c. 965.) 13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. 14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord . 15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of… Read the whole commentary →

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