King James Version
1 Kings 22:40 in the King James Version says “So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.”
1 Kings 22:40 · KJV
And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
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