2 Chronicles 16:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

sepulchres. a great sepulchre. Plural of majesty.

made for himself. Not infrequently done. Compare Matthew 27:60; John 19:38-42.

sweet odours and divers kinds. Figure of speech Hendiadys (App-6), emphasizing the many kinds of odours. Omit "of spices".

very great burning: i.e. of the odours previously mentioned, but not of incense, or of the sin offering. Compare 2 Chronicles 21:19. Heb, saraph. App-43.

2 Chronicles 16:14

14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had maded 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.