Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Chronicles 21:20

20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired: howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchre of the kings.

Heb. went, to wit, the way of all the Earth, as it is more fully expressed, Ios. 23. 14. Or, to the land of darkness, as Iob 10. 21, 22. Or, to his long home, Eccles. 12. 5. Or, went away, to wit, out of this World; as this Word is used, Iob 14. 20. Eccles. 5. 15. & 6. 4. there being many such Words and Phrases used concerning death in the Old and New Testament, signifying that death is not an Annihilation, but onely a Translation into another Place and State. See Gen. 15. 15. Philip. 1. 23. ‖ Heb. without desire, which may belong either 1. to himself; he had no desire of living longer, nor any pleasure in Life, but was heartily weary of it, through his excedive Pains: Or rather 2. to his People, who did not desire that he should live longer, but oft and heartily wished that he had died sooner: Which contempt of him they shewed both by making no burning for him, as they used to do for Good and Landable Kings, ch. 16. 14. and by denying him burial among the Kings, as it here follows. Desire is here put for a person or thing whose life or continuance is desireable or desired by others, as Isa. 2. 16. Ezek. 24. 16, 18, 21, 25. Dan. 9. 23. & 10. 11, 19. And this is an emphatical Expression, because it is usual with Men to desire the deaths of some persons, whom afterward they lament and heartily wish that they were alive again▪ as they may have cause to do. But for this ungodly and unhappy Prince his People did not onely in his life time wish his Death, but afterwards they did not repent of those desires, nor wish him alive again, but rejoyced that they were delivered from so great a Plague as he was to them.

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