OLD TESTAMENT

2 Kings 16:20

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Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

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Verse 20. With them; but not in the same sepulchre, on account of his impiety. 2 Chronicles 28:27. Calmet.—In the 5th year of his reign, the Idumeans harassed the country, and in the 6th, the Philistines took several towns; (Salien) so that he fell a prey to enemies on all sides, and was memorable for nothing but impiety and disasters. Bible.—Rome was built, and Numa born, on the 21st of April, in the 9th year of Achaz, and the first of the 7th Olympiad. Salien, A.Calmet. Christ 751.

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