⁵ You shall die in peace; as in ^(A)the ceremonies of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, ^(B)so they shall burn incense for you and ^(C)lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!” For I have pronounced the word, says the Lord.’ ”

¹⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

¹⁴ They buried him in his own tomb, which he had ^[a]made for himself in the City of David; and they laid him in the bed which was filled ^(A)with spices and various ingredients prepared in a mixture of ointments. They made ^(B)a very great burning for him.

Daniel and His Friends Promoted

^46 (A)Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, prostrate before Daniel, and commanded that they should present an offering ^(B)and incense to him.

¹⁶ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘surely ^(A)in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke—with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

²⁸ “Surely I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place and its inhabitants.” ’ ” So they brought back word to the king.

¹⁹ Then it happened in the course of time, after the end of two years, that his intestines came out because of his sickness; so he died in severe pain. And his people made no ^[a]burning for him, like ^(A)the burning for his fathers.

²⁰ He was thirty-two years old when he became king. He reigned in Jerusalem eight years and, to no one’s sorrow, departed. However they buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

²⁰ “Surely, therefore, I will ^[a]gather you to your fathers, and you ^(A)shall ^[b]be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place.” ’ ” So they brought back word to the king.