Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 15:24

And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

24. and was buried with his fathers ] There is much more detail concerning the burial in 2Ch 16:14, ‘They buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art, and they made a very great burning for him.’ At the funerals of the great it was the custom to burn beds and clothes, spices and other things (see Jer 24:5). In T. B. Abodah Zarah 11 a it is said: ‘when Rabban Gamaliel the elder died, Onkelos the proselyte burned in his honour the worth of 70 min of Tyrian money.’

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Asa prepared his own sepulchre in his lifetime, as has been so often done by Oriental kings; and his funeral was conducted with great magnificence 2Ch 16:14.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. Asa slept with his fathers] Of his splendid and costly funeral we read 1Ch 16:14.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father,…. In a sepulchre there he himself had made, and in great pomp and solemnity, being laid on a bed filled with sweet odours and spices, prepared according to art, and which were burned for him, 2Ch 16:14,

and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead; a very pious and worthy prince.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

1Ki 15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

Ver. 24. And Jehoshaphat. ] Sic uno avulso non deficit alter Aureus.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)