He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
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Gill's Exposition
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass,.... Have no burial at all, or no other than what any brute creature has; which, when it dies, is cast into a ditch, and becomes the food of dogs, and the…
Barnes' Notes
The burial of an ass - i. e., he shall merely be dragged out of the way, and left to decay unheeded. Nothing is known of the fulfillment of this prophecy.
Kings, though they are gods to us, are men to God, and shall die like men; so it appears in these verses, where we have a sentence of death passed upon two kings who reigned successively in Jerusalem,…
Cambridge Bible
buried with the burial of an ass i.e. as the succeeding words explain, cast forth dishonoured.
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