| Jeremiah 34:5
| But thou shalt die in peace, and according to the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they burn thee: and they shall mourn for thee, saying: Alas, Lord: for I have spoken the word, saith the Lord.
| Peace. That is, by a natural death. (Challoner) --- Burn thee, like Asa; (2 Paralipomenon 16:14.; Calmet) or aromatical spices were only burnt over their dead bodies, which were also embalmed. (Sanctius; Vatable, etc.) --- Tostat says that Sedecias was intoxicated, for sport, (Habacuc 2:15.) and died of grief in prison, Jeremias 52:11. (Calmet) --- The king of Babylon would probably not refuse him a decent burial. (Watson, Let. vi.)
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