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2 Chronicles 12:16

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And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
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  1. 1 Chronicles 3:10Rank 1 from verse 16
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    10¶ And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

  2. 1 Kings 14:29–31Rank 2 from verse 16
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    29¶ Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

    30And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

    31And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

  3. 2 Chronicles 11:20Rank 3 from verse 16
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    20And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

  4. 2 Chronicles 13:1Rank 4 from verse 16
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    1NOW in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

  5. Matthew 1:7Rank 5 from verse 16
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    7And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;

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2 Chronicles 12:16

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slept

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Past-tense or past-participial form of sleep. Sense 1: Rested in natural sleep. Sense 2: By figure, lay in death.

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buried

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Past-tense or past-participial form of bury. Sense 1: Laid a dead body in a grave or tomb. Sense 2: Covered or concealed beneath earth or another substance, or treated as buried by figure.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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son

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1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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reigned

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Past-tense or past-participial form of reign (to rule as a king or exercise sovereign authority).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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stead

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The place, position, office, or role occupied by one person or thing in substitution for another.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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15Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

16And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

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