And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead — Asa's death and succession to Jehoshaphat follows the conventional pattern. His burial in Jerusalem honors the Davidic continuity he maintained through forty-one years of reform and military engagement. Jehoshaphat inherits a kingdom that, while still religiously compromised (high places remained), had fundamentally purged its most egregious idolatries.

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