2 Cronache 21:20

20 Aveva trentadue anni quando cominciò a regnare, e regnò otto anni in Gerusalemme. Se ne andò senza esser rimpianto, e fu sepolto nella città di Davide, ma non nei sepolcri dei re.

2 Cronache 21:20 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 21:20

Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem eight years
See ( 2 Kings 8:17 ) ,

and departed without being desired;
to live, either by himself, being weary of life through the pain he endured; or by his people, he being so wicked a prince, and so ill beloved by them, that nobody wished to have him live, but were glad to hear of his death; the meaning is, he died unlamented; his death is expressed by a departing out of this world into another, a phrase more than once used for death in the New Testament, see ( John 13:1 ) ( Philippians 1:23 ) ,

howbeit, they buried him in the city of David, but not in the
sepulchres of the kings;
they showed him some respect for the sake of his father, by burying him in the city of David, but denied him the honour of lying in the royal sepulchres, see ( 2 Kings 8:24 ) .

2 Cronache 21:20 In-Context

18 Dopo tutto questo l’Eterno lo colpì con una malattia incurabile d’intestini.
19 E, con l’andar del tempo, verso la fine del secondo anno, gl’intestini gli venner fuori, in seguito alla malattia; e morì in mezzo ad atroci sofferenze; e il suo popolo non bruciò profumi in onore di lui, come avea fatto per i suoi padri.
20 Aveva trentadue anni quando cominciò a regnare, e regnò otto anni in Gerusalemme. Se ne andò senza esser rimpianto, e fu sepolto nella città di Davide, ma non nei sepolcri dei re.
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