📖WEB · 1 Kings 15:8
What does 1 Kings 15:8 mean?
"Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place."
— 1 Kings 15:8 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place.
In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.
He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.
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