So Ahab rested with his fathers. Then Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
Parallel translations
- WEB So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
- KJV So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
- BSB And Ahab rested with his fathers, and his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.
- NASB So Ahab lay down with his fathers, and his son Ahaziah became king in his place.
- NLT So Ahab died, and his son Ahaziah became the next king.
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Quick answer
Ahab dies and his son Ahaziah succeeds him on Israel's throne.
Overview
The customary death formula closes Ahab's reign and notes the succession of Ahaziah. The transition shows the continuation of the dynasty Elijah had warned about. Ahaziah will soon prove that he walks in his parents' wicked ways (vv. 51-53).
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Cross-references · 9
- 2 Kgs 1:2Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”
- 1 Kgs 14:31Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Sam 7:12When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
- 2 Kgs 1:17So he died according to Yahweh’s word which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son.
- 1 Kgs 11:21When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”
- Deut 31:16Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
- 1 Kgs 22:51Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
- 1 Kgs 2:10David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.
- 2 Chr 20:35After this, Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. The same did very wickedly.
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