²² but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water,” your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”

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

¹⁹ In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, ^(A)like the fires made for his fathers. ^20 (B)He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed ^(C)with no one's regret. ^(D)They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

¹³ And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him ^(A)there is found something pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

³⁰ And he laid the body in his own grave. And they mourned over him, saying, ^(A)“Alas, my brother!”