Reference

2 Kings 10:35

And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
33

From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

34

Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

35

And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.

36

And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.

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Death as Sleep
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Death as Sleep

The phrase "slept with his fathers" is an idiom for death, not a literal description of the physical state of the deceased, and the subsequent mention of burial confirms a physical end rather than a state of sleep.