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WAS JOASH BURIED WITH HIS FATHERS?
II Kings 12:20-21. And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla. For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.


II Chronicles 24:25 And when they were departed from him [Joash], (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

This one had me stumped until I asked a Jewish friend who speaks Hebrew to take a look at it.  She says, "To be buried with his fathers does not mean in the same tomb or same spot, in the Hebrew it means, to go the way of the earth, back to dust."  Not a contradiction.

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