Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 12:16

And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

Verse 16. Abijah his son] Concerning the many varieties in this king’s name, 1Kg 14:31.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

[See comments on 2Ch 12:15].

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(16) And Rehoboam slept with his fathers.Abridged from 1Ki. 14:31, which see.

Abijah.2Ch. 11:22. Abijam, the spelling of Kings, is probably due to an accident of transcription.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

REFLECTIONS

READER! what evidences do the whole earth afford of the reality of grace. We see men like Rehoboam, filling up a place in history, and the sum total of their lives is this, they lived, and eat, and drank, and then died. But is this the end of man’s existence? Oh! for distinguishing grace to live all our days to the glory of God. To live for Jesus; and to live to Jesus. What can be sweeter than the precious testimony that we have fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. Lord! grant that this may be my portion. Let nothing call off my attention from thee, the one grand object of all desire. In thee, Lord, I shall possess all things. And if thou art mine, I shall be truly happy in time, and happy to all eternity.

Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

2Ch 12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

Ver. 16. And was buried in the city of David. ] Burial of the dead is neither to be altogether slighted, as it was by the Cynics, nor to be performed with too much pomp and cost. Of Charles IX, king of France, what excessive honour was done him after his death, see the note on 2Ch 16:14 . Cyrus, that great king of Persia, charged his sons and friends upon his deathbed, not to wrap his body in gold or silver, but without any sumptuous ceremonies to lay him in his grave, and to cover him with earth: a which, saith Cicero, b was antiquissimum genus sepulturae, the most ancient kind of burying the dead.

a Xenoph., Cyrop., lib. viii.

b ii. De Legib.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)