And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
The verse records the death of Jeroboam II as king over the ten tribes of Israel and the succession of his son Zachariah in his place, numbering Jeroboam with the kings of Israel. His reign lasted forty-one years. That reign belongs to Israel's continued departure from God in transgression and idolatry, a sad story marked by war, strife, defeat, captivity and conspiracy. That history ran on through the kings of Israel from Jehu to Hoshea and ended with the complete overthrow of the northern kingdom in B.C. 721-722, when many of the people were carried into captivity and only a remnant was left in the land. During this period Elisha, Hosea, Jonah and Amos prophesied, and God kept His faithful little remnant through the time of blackness.
The chapter containing the verse includes the parable in which the thistle proposes a matrimonial alliance to the cedar, showing inanimate things personified and made to speak and act. It stands with the blood of Abel crying, the depth and sea speaking, the trees holding an election, the stone crying out, the hire crying, dead Abel speaking, and the souls under the altar crying. This proves that God personifies the lifeless, so the conversation of the rich man and Abraham in hades is dead men personified and made to speak and act in reference to the facts of their cases as though alive. It is not disembodied spirits with bodily organs speaking consciously, and therefore it does not teach present punishment of the wicked dead nor the conscious state of the dead.
The verse records the death of Jeroboam II as king over the ten tribes of Israel and the succession of his son Zachariah in his place, numbering Jeroboam with the kings of Israel. His reign lasted forty-one years. That reign belongs to Israel's continued departure from God in transgression and idolatry, a sad story marked by war, strife, defeat, captivity and conspiracy. That history ran on through the kings of Israel from Jehu to Hoshea and ended with the complete overthrow of the northern kingdom in B.C. 721-722, when many of the people were carried into captivity and only a remnant was left in the land. During this period Elisha, Hosea, Jonah and Amos prophesied, and God kept His faithful little remnant through the time of blackness.
The chapter containing the verse includes the parable in which the thistle proposes a matrimonial alliance to the cedar, showing inanimate things personified and made to speak and act. It stands with the blood of Abel crying, the depth and sea speaking, the trees holding an election, the stone crying out, the hire crying, dead Abel speaking, and the souls under the altar crying. This proves that God personifies the lifeless, so the conversation of the rich man and Abraham in hades is dead men personified and made to speak and act in reference to the facts of their cases as though alive. It is not disembodied spirits with bodily organs speaking consciously, and therefore it does not teach present punishment of the wicked dead nor the conscious state of the dead.