Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Kings 24:6

"So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead." — 2 Kings 24:6 (ASV)

So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers. —The usual notice of the king’s burial is omitted, and the omission is significant, considered in the light of Jeremiah’s prophecy: Thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; they shall not lament for him ... He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 22:18–19).

Jehoiakim appears to have been slain in an encounter with the bands of raiders mentioned in 2 Kings 24:2, so that his body was left to decay where it fell, all his followers having perished with him. Ewald supposes that he was lured out of Jerusalem to a pretended conference with the Chaldeans, and then treacherously seized, and, as he proved a refractory prisoner, slain, and his body denied the last honours, his family craving its restoration in vain. (The words of the text do not necessarily imply a natural and peaceful death, as Thenius alleges, but simply death without further qualification.)