2 Chronicles 21:1
And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers, in the city of David,—and Jehoram his son reigned in his steed.
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1 Kings 22:50So Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers, in the city of David his father,—and, Jehoram his son, reigned, in his stead.
2 Chronicles 9:31And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David his father,—and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 21:20Thirty-two years old, was he when he began to reign, and, eight years, reigned he in Jerusalem,—and went his way—unregretted, and, though they buried him in the city of David, yet, not in the sepulchres 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 →