Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 14:20
And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
20. they brought him on horses ] Perhaps this means that they used Amaziah’s own chariot to convey the dead body to the royal city. ‘Horses’ in the plural number usually implies a chariot. There was clearly no desire on the part of the conspirators to offer any indignity to the king’s dead body. ‘The city of David’ here spoken of is called strangely in 2Ch 25:28 ‘the city of Judah’.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
They brought him on horses – i. e. they conveyed his body back to Jerusalem in the royal chariot. The combination of relentless animosity against the living prince with the deepest respect for his dead remains is very characteristic of an Oriental people.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
On horses, or, with horses, to wit, in a chariot.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And they brought him on horses,…. That is, in a chariot or hearse drawn by horses; though the Jews h 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.
h Hieron. Trad. Heb. in lib. paralip. fol. 85. L.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(20) They brought him on horses.Rather, they carried him upon the horsesi.e., perhaps in the royal chariot wherein he had fled from Jerusalem. Or, perhaps, the corpse was literally carried on horseback by the regicides.
The orderly method of proceeding, the burial of the king in the royal sepulchres, and the elevation of Azariah, seem to prove that the murder of Amaziah was not an act of private blood-revenge.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
20. Brought him on horses Hebrew, on the horses; that is, probably, on a chariot drawn by the same horses with which he had fled to Lachish.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ki 14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
Ver. 20. And they brought him on horses. ] In a chariot drawn with horses. He had brought the idols of Edom to Jerusalem on horses, say the Rabbis, and is therefore so brought himself, and not on men’s shoulders.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
he was buried: 2Ki 8:24, 2Ki 9:28, 2Ki 12:21, 1Ki 2:10, 1Ki 11:43, 2Ch 21:20, 2Ch 26:23, 2Ch 33:20
Reciprocal: 2Ch 24:25 – his own servants 2Ch 25:28 – the city of Judah