So Joash slept with his ancestors, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. Then his son Jeroboam succeeded him — Joash's death and succession marks the transition to Jeroboam II, whose reign would witness Israel's greatest territorial expansion before the Assyrian collapse. The formula "slept with his ancestors" (וַיִּשְׁכַּב עִם־אֲבוֹתָיו, *way-yishkav im-avotav*) uses the euphemism for death that acknowledges the continuity of dynasty and the covenant of royal succession. Samaria's tombs hold the northern kings, spatially distant from Jerusalem and the Davidic promise.

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