All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave, because in him something good was found toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.Isn't it sad, that the best member of a family had to pay for the actions of all the others? Jeroboam led his entire family astray, and God chose to punish him for it. Yet there was one with at least some good in him, some reverence for God. He obviously wasn't fully committed to God, but at least he acknowledged Him. Still, the sins of the rest of the family were so great, that his only reward for at least some good deeds was to be buried, rather than left to rot and be eaten by animals.
I realize Christ's death was very similar, except on a global scale. He was without any fault, but still had to die for our sins. But he did it for a specific reason, so that we could be forgiven of those sins and have fellowship with God again. Here, there is no happy ending, no hope in the end. All that awaits this son is death itself, and no one was made better for it.
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