And it came to pass that in process of time, after the end
of
two years
So long he was afflicted and tortured with the above disease:
his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness;
either in like manner as Judas's did, ( Acts 1:18 ) or as in the
manner the bowels of Arius are said to do, while sitting on the
seat of the vault F1; or perhaps only what was contained
in the bowels is meant, if it was the colic:
so he died of sore diseases;
he seems to have had a complication of them, and these very
painful and distressing:
and the people made no burning for him, like the burnings
of his
fathers;
as they did for his grandfather Asa, ( 2
Chronicles 16:14 ) , they did not burn spices or odoriferous
wood, as the Targum; though his body, because of the stench of
it, needed it, as Jarchi observes.