What was the spiritual significance of one not buried in his father’s sepulchre?

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On many occasions when one died he was said to be buried in his father’s sepulchre:

KJV Judges 8:32

And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

KJV Judges 16:31

Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

KJV 2 Samuel 21:14

And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

In another narrative, we learn of a young prophet who disobeys God through the deceit of an older prophet. The older prophet tells him that he shall die because he disobeyed God and will not be buried in his father’s sepulcher:

KJV 1 Kings 13:21-22

And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, 22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

This somewhat sounds like a curse and did it have any spiritual significance?