1 Kings 15:24

and was buried with his fathers There is much more detail concerning the burial in 2 Chronicles 16:14, -They buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries" art, and they made a very great burning for him." At the funerals of the great it was the custom to burn beds and clothes, spices and other things (see Jeremiah 24:5). In T. B. Abodah Zarah11 a it is said: -when Rabban Gamaliel the elder died, Onkelos the proselyte burned in his honour the worth of 70 minæ of Tyrian money."