2 Chronicles 21:1

And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David; and Jehoram + 21:1 Also known as Joram., his son, reigned for him.

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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 brethren, the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, Jehiel, and Zechariah, and (another) Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:50And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, his (fore)father; and Jehoram + 22:50 Also known as Joram., his son, reigned for him.

2 Chronicles 9:31and he slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David, and Rehoboam, his son, reigned for him.

2 Chronicles 21:20He was of two and thirty years when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem, and he went not rightfully; and they buried him in the city of David, nevertheless not in the sepulchre (s) of kings. (He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem, and at his death he was not mourned; and they buried him 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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