2 Chronicles 16:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours, as the manner of those nations was. See Genesis 50:2 2 Chronicles 21:19. They made a very great burning, to wit, of precious spices; thereby testifying their thankfulness for many benefits which they enjoyed under his government, and their respect to him notwithstanding his miscarriages.

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.