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You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will make a burning for you. They will lament you, saying, “Ah Lord!” for I have spoken the word,’ says the LORD.”
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Verse 5. Peace. That is, by a natural death. Challoner.—Burn thee, like Asa; (2 Chronicles 16:14. Calmet.) or aromatical spices were only burnt over their dead bodies, which were also embalmed. Sanct. Vat. and so forth—Tostat says that Sedecias was intoxicated, for sport, (Habakkuk 2:15) and died of grief in prison. Calmet. 52:11. Calmet.—The king of Babylon would probably not refuse him a decent burial. Watson, Let. vi.
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