2 Kings 15:38

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤ב יוֹתָם֙ עִם־אֲבֹתָ֔יו וַיִּקָּבֵר֙ עִם־אֲבֹתָ֔יו בְּעִ֖יר דָּוִ֣ד אָבִ֑יו וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ אָחָ֥ז בְּנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃ פ

Transliteration

wayyiškab yôtām ʿim-ʾăbōtāyw wayyiqqābēr ʿim-ʾăbōtāyw bəʿîr dāwid ʾābîw wayyimlōk ʾāḥāz bənô taḥtāyw

Grammar Details

*wayyiškab*: conjunction + verb qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular consecutive - and he lay down/slept
*yôtām*: proper noun - Jotham
*ʿim*: preposition - with
*ʾăbōtāyw*: noun masculine plural + suffix 3rd masculine singular - his fathers
*wayyiqqābēr*: conjunction + verb niphal imperfect 3rd masculine singular consecutive - and he was buried
*bəʿîr*: preposition + noun feminine singular construct - in city of
*dāwid*: proper noun - David
*ʾābîw*: noun masculine singular + suffix 3rd masculine singular - his father
*wayyimlōk*: conjunction + verb qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular consecutive - and he reigned
*ʾāḥāz*: proper noun - Ahaz
*bənô*: noun masculine singular + suffix 3rd masculine singular - his son
*taḥtāyw*: preposition + suffix 3rd masculine singular - in his place

Word Meanings

*wayyiškab*: and he lay down/slept/rested (euphemism for died)
*wayyiqqābēr*: and he was buried/entombed
*ʿîr*: city/town
*wayyimlōk*: and he reigned/became king/ruled
*taḥtāyw*: in his place/instead of him/in his stead

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 7:12 : 12 When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, that shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
1 Kgs 1:2 : 2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
1 Kgs 14:20 : 20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kgs 14:31 : 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kgs 16:1 : 1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
1 Chr 3:13 : 13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
2 Chr 28:1 : 1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, like David his father;
Matt 1:9 : 9 and Uzziah begat Jotham; and Jotham begat Ahaz; and Ahaz begat Hezekiah;

Similar Verses (AI)

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2 Chr 27:8-9
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8He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kgs 15:7
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7And Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kgs 8:24-25
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2 Kgs 16:19-20
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19Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chr 28:27
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27And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; for they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kgs 13:9
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9And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kgs 22:50-51
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50And 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.
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1 Kgs 15:24
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24And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kgs 22:40
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40So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kgs 10:35
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35And Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kgs 14:16
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2 Chr 26:23
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23So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chr 21:1
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2 Kgs 24:6
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2 Kgs 13:13
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1 Kgs 15:8
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8And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kgs 20:21
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1 Kgs 16:28
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2 Kgs 12:21
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2 Kgs 15:32-33
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2 Kgs 9:28-29
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2 Kgs 16:1
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1In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 Chr 27:1-2
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1Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
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2 Kgs 14:29
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2 Chr 14:1
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2 Chr 32:33
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2 Chr 12:16
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2 Kgs 21:26
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26And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chr 28:1
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2 Kgs 15:22
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2 Chr 33:20
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2 Kgs 23:30
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2 Chr 22:1
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2 Kgs 14:22
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2 Kgs 14:20
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2 Kgs 21:18
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