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2 Chronicles 9:31 Explained in Context
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Verse 31. 31And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
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Role in This Section
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Solomon's sources, reign, and death close the golden age.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 9:29–31
Read 2 Chronicles 9:31 with 9:29–31. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: The narrator names prophetic records, sums a forty-year reign, and reports Solomon's burial and Rehoboam's succession.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 9:31 depends on 9:29–31; isolating “And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Solomon's sources, reign, and death close the golden age.”
Read 2 Chronicles 9:29–31 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 9:29–31 forms the complete movement “Solomon's sources, reign, and death close the golden age”: The narrator names prophetic records, sums a forty-year reign, and reports Solomon's burial and Rehoboam's succession.
Verse 29. 29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
Verse 30. 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
Verse 31. 31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
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Read 2 Chronicles 9:29–31 — Solomon's sources, reign, and death close the golden ageSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 9:29–31, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
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