Reference

2 Chronicles 16:13

Death as Sleep
“And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.”
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And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

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And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

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And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

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And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

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The phrase "slept with his fathers" is a common idiom in the Bible for death and succession, not necessarily a literal description of the state of the deceased. The second part of the verse explicitly states he "died," which is a direct and unambiguous term for the cessation of life.

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Cross-References

1 Kings 15:24Thematic

“And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.”

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