Reference

2 Chronicles 9:31

And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
29

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

30

And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

31

And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

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Death as Sleep

The phrase "slept with his fathers" is a common idiom for death in ancient Near Eastern texts, and while it uses the word "slept," it does not necessarily imply a metaphorical understanding of death as sleep, but rather a conventional expression for the end of life.