So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
They buried him ... in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings. He was interred, not in, but near, the grave of the kings, as the corpse of a leper would have polluted it.