2 Crónicas 16:14

14 Lo enterraron en la tumba que había tallado para sí en la Ciudad de David. Fue puesto sobre una cama perfumada con especias dulces y ungüentos aromáticos, y la gente encendió una enorme hoguera funeraria en su honor.

2 Crónicas 16:14 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 16:14

And they buried him in his own sepulchres which he had made
for himself in the city of David
Where was the burying place of the kings of Judah; here Asa had ordered a vault to be made for himself and his family, and therefore called sepulchres, because of the several cells therein to put separate bodies in:

and laid him in the bed;
not only laid him out, as we express it, but laid him on a bed of state, where he lay in great pomp; or the funeral bed, which, with other nations ^F18, used to be strowed with sweet smelling flowers and herbs, as follows:

which was filled with sweet odours, and divers kinds of spices prepared
by the apothecaries art;
or rather confectioner or druggist; for it is a question whether there were then any such we call apothecaries; this bed was strowed with spices, myrrh, aloes, cassia, cinnamon and which perhaps might be made up into a liquid, which was sprinkled over the bed and shroud in which he lay:

and they made a very great burning for him;
not that they made a great fire, and burned his body; for burning was not used with the Jews; but they burnt spices and other things in great quantity, in honour of him: (See Gill on Jeremiah 34:5), and this custom continued to the times of Herod, at whose funeral there were five hundred of his domestics and freed men bearing spices ^F19.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 Herodian. Hist. l. 4. c. 3. Vid. Kirchman. de Funer. Roman. l. 1. c. 11. & Alstorph. de Lect. Vet. c. 19. p. 151, 152.
F19 Joseph. de Bello Jud. l. 1. c. 33. sect. 9.

2 Crónicas 16:14 In-Context

12 En el año treinta y nueve de su reinado, Asa contrajo una enfermedad grave en los pies. A pesar de lo grave que era, no buscó la ayuda del Señor
, sino que recurrió exclusivamente a sus médicos.

13 Así que murió en el año cuarenta y uno de su reinado.

14 Lo enterraron en la tumba que había tallado para sí en la Ciudad de David. Fue puesto sobre una cama perfumada con especias dulces y ungüentos aromáticos, y la gente encendió una enorme hoguera funeraria en su honor.