Bible Strands
2 Kings 10:35
And Jehu rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Jehoahaz reigned in his place.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records the conclusion of Jehu’s life and the succession of his son Jehoahaz following the summary of Jehu’s reign. This statement closes the account of Jehu’s twenty-eight-year rule over Israel in Samaria.
The words — וַ/יִּשְׁכַּ֤ב (va/yishkav) literally means “and he lay down,” and אֲבֹתָ֔י/ו ('avotav) means “his ancestors,” together forming the standard biblical idiom for death and burial. וַ/יִּמְלֹ֛ךְ (va/yimlokh) means “and he became king,” marking the immediate political transition.
The thread — The phrase “rested with his fathers” appears in 2 Samuel 7:12, 1 Kings 1:21, and 1 Kings 2:10 to denote royal death and burial. The succession formula links Jehu’s end to the continuation of the northern kingdom’s dynastic line.
Why it lands — The text records Jehu’s death and Jehoahaz’s accession as a factual succession without moral commentary on Jehu’s reign. It requires the reader to acknowledge that political power transfers regardless of the predecessor’s legacy.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
Cross-references
- 2 Samuel 7:12 And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
- 1 Kings 1:21 Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”
- 1 Kings 2:10 Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
- 1 Kings 14:20 And the length of Jeroboam’s reign was twenty-two years, and he rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 14:31 And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 13:1 In the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash son of Ahaziah over Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria seventeen years.
- 2 Kings 13:7 Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.