2 Chronicles 21:1
Jehoshaphat slept with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of David; Jehoram, his son, became king in his place.
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1 Kings 22:50Jehoshaphat slept with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of David, his ancestor; Jehoram his son became king in his place.
2 Chronicles 9:31He slept with his ancestors and the people buried him in the city of David his father. Rehoboam, his son, became king in his place.
2 Chronicles 21:20He had begun to reign when he was thirty-two years old; he reigned in Jerusalem for eight years, and when he departed no one mourned him. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the royal tombs.
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 →