KJV King James Version
And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
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1 Kings 14:20
And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
ASV American Standard Version
And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the days that Jeroboam reigned are twenty and two years, and he lieth with his fathers, and reign doth Nadab his son in his stead.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 14
17 And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: [and] when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.
22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
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וְהַיָּמִים֙H3117 · yomdayאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichמָלַ֣ךְH4427 · ma.lakhto reignיָרָבְעָ֔םH3379 · ya.rov.amJeroboamעֶשְׂרִ֥יםH6242 · es.rimtwentyוּשְׁתַּ֖יִםH8147 · she.na.yimtwoשָׁנָ֑הH8141 · sha.nehyearוַיִּשְׁכַּב֙H7901 · sha.khavto lie down: lay downעִם־H5973 · imwithאֲבֹתָ֔יוH1 · avfatherוַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְH4427 · ma.lakhto reignנָדָ֥בH5070 · na.davNadabבְּנ֖וֹH1121 · benson: childתַּחְתָּֽיו׃ פH8478 · ta.chatunderneath: under
Cross-references
Job 14:12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.Psalm 3:5I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.1 Kings 2:10So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.1 Kings 11:43And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.Psalm 4:8I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.1 Kings 15:25-31And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
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