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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Gill's Exposition
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel. Not that Baasha destroyed the family of Jeroboam because…
Barnes' Notes
Asa prepared his own sepulchre in his lifetime, as has been so often done by Oriental kings; and his funeral was conducted with great magnificence 2Ch 16:14.
Adam Clarke
Asa slept with his fathers - Of his splendid and costly funeral we read Ch1 16:14.
We have here a short account of the reign of Asa; we shall find a more copious history of it Ch2 14:1-15, 15, and Ch2 16:1-14. Here is,
I. The length of it: He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem,…
Cambridge Bible
and was buried with his fathers There is much more detail concerning the burial in 2Ch 16:14, -They buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him…