Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible

They brought him on horses - i. e. they conveyed his body back to Jerusalem in the royal chariot. The combination of relentless animosity against the living prince with the deepest respect for his dead remains is very characteristic of an Oriental people.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

And they brought him on horses,.... That is, in a chariot or hearse drawn by horses; though the Jews^F8Hieron. Trad. Heb. in lib. paralip. fol. 85. L. suppose he was carried on horses, and that because he worshipped the gods of the Edomites, who were themselves carried on horses; and he was not carried on the shoulders of men, because he neglected to serve the God of Israel, whose mysteries were carried on the shoulders of men:

and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David; and very probably in the sepulchre of the kings, though his father was not.

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

On horses — Or, with horses, in a chariot.

John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

Ver. 20. And they brought him on horses.] In a chariot drawn with horses. He had brought the idols of Edom to Jerusalem on horses, say the Rabbis, and is therefore so brought himself, and not on men’s shoulders.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

On horses, or, with horses, to wit, in a chariot.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

20.Brought him on horses — Hebrew, on the horses; that is, probably, on a chariot drawn by the same horses with which he had fled to Lachish.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged

And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

No JFB commentary on this verse.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(20) They brought him on horses.—Rather, they carried him upon the horses—i.e., perhaps in the royal chariot wherein he had fled from Jerusalem. Or, perhaps, the corpse was literally carried on horseback by the regicides.

The orderly method of proceeding, the burial of the king in the royal sepulchres, and the elevation of Azariah, seem to prove that the murder of Amaziah was not an act of private blood-revenge.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

he was buried

8:24; 9:28; 12:21; 1 Kings 2:10; 11:43; 2 Chronicles 21:20; 26:23; 33:20