2 Kings 14:20

20 They brought him back on horseback and buried him in Jerusalem, with his ancestors in the City of David.

2 Kings 14:20 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 14:20

And they brought him on horses
That is, in a chariot or hearse drawn by horses; though the Jews ^F8 suppose he was carried on horses, and that because he worshipped the gods of the Edomites, who were themselves carried on horses; and he was not carried on the shoulders of men, because he neglected to serve the God of Israel, whose mysteries were carried on the shoulders of men:

and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David;
and very probably in the sepulchre of the kings, though his father was not.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Hieron. Trad. Heb. in lib. paralip. fol. 85. L.

2 Kings 14:20 In-Context

18 The rest of the life and times of Amaziah is written in The Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.

19 At the last they cooked up a plot against Amaziah in Jerusalem and he had to flee to Lachish. But they tracked him down in Lachish and killed him there.

20 They brought him back on horseback and buried him in Jerusalem, with his ancestors in the City of David.

21 Azariah - he was only sixteen years old at the time - was the unanimous choice of the people of Judah to succeed his father Amaziah as king.

22 Following his father's death, he rebuilt and restored Elath to Judah.