reason of his sickness; either in like manner as Judas's did, Act 1:18 or as in the manner the bowels of Arius are said to do, while sitting on the seat of the vault (a); or perhaps only what was contained in the bowels is meant, if it was the colic: so he died of sore diseases; he seems to have had a complication of them, and these very painful and distressing: and the people made no burning for him, like the burnings of his fathers; as they did for his grandfather Asa, Ch2 16:14 , they did not burn spices or odoriferous wood, as the Targum; though his body, because of the stench of it, needed it, as Jarchi observes. (a) Sozomen. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. c. 29, 30.