Reference

2 Chronicles 27:9

Death as Sleep
“And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.”
7

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

8

He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

9

And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

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Death as Sleep

The phrase "slept with his fathers" is a common idiom for death in the Old Testament, and while it uses the word "slept," it is immediately followed by "and they buried him," which clearly indicates a physical death and burial rather than a literal sleep.

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Cross-References

2 Kings 15:38Thematic

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

Thematic Connections

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