2 Chronicles 12:16 Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king.

English Standard Version
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place.

New American Standard Bible
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David; and his son Abijah became king in his place.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. His son Abijah became king in his place.

International Standard Version
Later, Rehoboam died, as had his ancestors, and his son Abijah became king to replace him.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. And Abia his son reigned in his stead.

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

Young's Literal Translation
and Rehoboam lieth with his fathers, and is buried in the city of David, and reign doth Abijah his son in his stead.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

12:1-16 Rehoboam, forsaking the Lord, is punished. - When Rehoboam was so strong that he supposed he had nothing to fear from Jeroboam, he cast off his outward profession of godliness. It is very common, but very lamentable, that men, who in distress or danger, or near death, seem much engaged in seeking and serving God, throw aside all their religion when they have received a merciful deliverance. God quickly brought troubles upon Judah, to awaken the people to repentance, before their hearts were hardened. Thus it becomes us, when we are under the rebukes of Providence, to justify God, and to judge ourselves. If we have humbled hearts under humbling providences, the affliction has done its work; it shall be removed, or the property of it be altered. The more God's service is compared with other services, the more reasonable and easy it will appear. Are the laws of temperance thought hard? The effects of intemperance will be found much harder. The service of God is perfect liberty; the service of our lusts is complete slavery. Rehoboam was never rightly fixed in his religion. He never quite cast off God; yet he engaged not his heart to seek the Lord. See what his fault was; he did not serve the Lord, because he did not seek the Lord. He did not pray, as Solomon, for wisdom and grace; he did not consult the word of God, did not seek to that as his oracle, nor follow its directions. He made nothing of his religion, because he did not set his heart to it, nor ever came up to a steady resolution in it. He did evil, because he never was determined for good.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2Ch 12:13-16. His Reign and Death.

13, 14. Rehoboam strengthened … and reigned—The Egyptian invasion had been a mere predatory expedition, not extending beyond the limits of Judah, and probably, ere long, repelled by the invaded. Rehoboam's government acquired new life and vigor by the general revival of true religion, and his reign continued many years after the departure of Shishak. But

he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord—that is, he did not adhere firmly to the good course of reformation he had begun, "and he did evil," for through the unhappy influence of his mother, a heathen foreigner, he had no doubt received in his youth a strong bias towards idolatry (see on [434]1Ki 14:21).