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2 Kings 20:21 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 21. 21And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh 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 Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Hezekiah's waterworks and succession close his reign.”
Read It With
- 2 Kings 20:20–21
Read 2 Kings 20:21 with 20:20–21. 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 annal notice points to Hezekiah's might, pool, and conduit before his death and Manasseh's succession.
Why It Needs Context
2 Kings 20:21 depends on 20:20–21; isolating “And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Hezekiah's waterworks and succession close his reign.”
Read 2 Kings 20:20–21 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 20:20–21 forms one scene or regnal notice: The annal notice points to Hezekiah's might, pool, and conduit before his death and Manasseh's succession.
Verse 20. 20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Verse 21. 21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
Continue in Context
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Read 2 Kings 20:20–21 — Hezekiah's waterworks and succession close his reignSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 20:20–21, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 20:20–21
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