And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
Graves of the common people - literally, son of the people (cf. 2 Kings 23:6; Josiah "cast the powder thereof
(i:e., of the grove-idol) upon the graves of the children of the people"). The prophets seem to have had a separate cemetery (Matthew 23:29). Urijah's corpse was denied this honour, in order that he should not be regarded as a true prophet.