Reference

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.
14

And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord.

15

Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

16

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

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Death as Sleep
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Death as Sleep

The phrase "slept with his fathers" is an idiom for death and burial, not a literal description of the state of the deceased. The subsequent mention of burial reinforces the finality of death rather than suggesting a temporary state of sleep.