²² You came back and ate bread and drank water in the place where he told you not to eat or drink. Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb of your ancestors.’”

¹⁸ Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:

¹⁹ In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. His people made no funeral fire in his honor,^(A) as they had for his predecessors.

²⁰ Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He passed away, to no one’s regret, and was buried^(B) in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

¹³ All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the Lord, the God of Israel, has found anything good.^(A)

³⁰ Then he laid the body in his own tomb,^(A) and they mourned over him and said, “Alas, my brother!”^(B)