1 Kings 2:34

went up i.e. To the Tent of the Lord, which probably stood on a higher part of Mt. Zion than did Solomon's own house.

buried in his own house i.e. In the ground around his home. He appears to have had a home far out in the open country.

in the wilderness Probably that district known as the wilderness of Judah. Wilderness, or desert, gives however an insufficient idea of the kind of country that is meant. It was land under no regular cultivation, but yet to which cattle might be driven for pasturage. So in the narrative of the feeding of the Five Thousand where St Matthew (1 Kings 14:15) speaks of -a desert place," St John (1 Kings 6:10) says -now there was much grass in the place."