Discovery Box1 Kings 11:43 
Context11:43 Then Solomon passed away 1 and was buried in the city of his father David. 2 His son Rehoboam replaced him as king. 3
1 Kings 14:31
Context14:31 Rehoboam passed away 4 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah 5 replaced him as king.
1 Kings 15:24
Context15:24 Asa passed away 6 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.
1 Kings 16:10
Context16:10 Zimri came in and struck him dead. (This happened in the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah.) Zimri replaced Elah as king. 7
1 Kings 22:50
Context22:50 Jehoshaphat passed away 8 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor 9 David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.
1 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
2 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
3 tc Before this sentence the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it so happened that when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard – now he was in Egypt where he had fled from before Solomon and was residing in Egypt – he came straight to his city in the land of Sarira which is on mount Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers.”
4 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
5 tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.
6 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
7 tn Heb “and he became king in his place.”
8 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
9 tn Heb “with his fathers in the city of his father.”
