2 Chronicles 9:31

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

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Solomon	שְׁלֹמֹה֙ she.lo.Moh	H8010	Shelomah · proper noun, a man's name
slept	וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤ב vai.yish.Kav	H7901	to lie down (for rest · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
fathers	אֲבֹתָ֔יו 'a.vo.Tav	H1	father · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
buried	וַֽיִּקְבְּרֻ֔הוּ vai.yik.be.Ru.hu	H6912	to inter · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
city	בְּעִ֖יר be.'Ir	H5892	a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the wi… · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
David	דָּוִ֣יד da.Vid	H1732	David · proper noun, a man's name
father	אָבִ֑יו 'a.Viv	H1	father · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
Rehoboam	רְחַבְעָ֥ם re.chav.'Am	H7346	Rechabam · proper noun, a man's name
son	בְּנ֖וֹ be.No	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
reigned	וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ vai.yim.Lokh	H4427	to reign · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

1 Kings 2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
2 Samuel 7:12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bow…
1 Kings 1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 9:13–end

We have here Solomon in his throne, and Solomon in his grave; for the throne would not secure him from the grave. Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat - Death wrenches from the hand the sceptre as well as the spade. I. Here is Solomon reigning in wealth and power, in ease and fulness, such as, for aught I know, could never since be paralleled by any king whatsoever. In cannot pretend to be critical in comparing the grandeur of Solomon with that of some of the great princes of the earth. But I may observe that the most illustrious of them were famed for their wars, whereas Solomon reigned forty years in profound peace. Some of those that might be thought to vie with Solomon affected retirement, kept…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 9:28

they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt--(See on Ch2 1:14). Solomon undoubtedly carried the Hebrew kingdom to its highest pitch of worldly glory. His completion of the grand work, the centralizing of the national worship at Jerusalem, whither the natives went up three times a year, has given his name a prominent place in the history of the ancient church. But his reign had a disastrous influence upon "the peculiar people," and the example of his deplorable idolatries, the connections he formed with foreign princes, the commercial speculations he entered into, and the luxuries introduced into the land, seem in a great measure to have altered and deteriorated the Jewish character. Ne…

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Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 9:29

Nathan the prophet - These books are all lost. See the account of Solomon, his character, and a review of his works, at the end of Kg1 11:43 (note). I. By the kindness of a learned friend, who has made this kind of subjects his particular study, I am able to give a more correct view of the value of the talent of gold and the talent of silver than that which I have quoted Kg1 10:17, from Mr. Reynold's State of the Greatest King. 1. To find the equivalent in British standard to an ounce troy of pure gold, valued at eighty shillings, and to a talent of the same which weighs one thousand eight hundred ounces troy. The ounce contains four hundred and eighty grains, and the guinea weighs one hundr…

Dictionary and topics

Rehoboam · Succes — Succes

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Chronicles 9:31

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 9:13–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 9:28

Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 9:29

Dictionary and topics

2 Chronicles 9:31

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 9:13–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 9:28

Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 9:29

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on 2 Chronicles 9:1

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Chronicles 9:29–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Chronicles 9:30

Rashi on 2 Chronicles 9:30