Thematic Bible: A place of honor
Thematic Bible
Burial » Burying places » A place of honor
He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years and departed without being desired. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and toward his house.
And when they were departed from him (for they left him in great diseases), his own slaves conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada, the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings.