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When they had departed from him (for they left him seriously wounded), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 25. Servants. By whom the man is slain, who had murdered his spiritual father. Worthington.—Son. Hebrew “sons.” See verse 7. Some think that the brothers of Zacharias were slain, that they might not attempt to revenge his death.—Kings. These sepulchres are amazingly beautiful and spacious. The doors are six feet high, and formed, like the rest, of solid stone, cut in the most elegant manner. Doubdan 26. Calmet.
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