Reference

2 Kings 14:22

He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
20

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

21

And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

22

He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

23

In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.

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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

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Death as Sleep

The phrase "slept with his fathers" is a common idiom for death in the Old Testament and does not necessarily imply a literal state of sleep or unconsciousness, but rather a peaceful passing and joining of ancestors.