Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.
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Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.
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And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
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And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations, unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel; and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 35:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 22:10 Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native country.
- Lamentations 4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.
- Job 3:8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
- Jeremiah 9:17-21 Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come. Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ” Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation. For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
- Matthew 9:23 When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder,
- Jeremiah 22:20 “Go up to Lebanon, and cry. Lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers have been destroyed.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Which some think Jeremiah made, wherein he lamenteth the…
Which some think Jeremiah made, wherein he lamenteth the state of the Church after this king’s death.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all…
2Ch 35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they [are] written in the lamentations.
Ver. 25. And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah.] Whose worth he had fully known; and to whom himself was better known than Daniel was afterwards to Belshazzar; who knew not till he was told by his mother that there was any such man in his kingdom. Whereas had he been a Tricongiustospot, he would sooner have taken knowledge of him.
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And behold they are written in the lamentations.] Whether he meant the Lamentations of Jeremiah Lam 4:1-22, or some other mournful ditty extant in those time, and known by the name of the Lamentations, {a} is uncertain. The Roman senate bitterly bewailed the death of Titus, heaping more praise upon him dead than ever they had done whilst he was alive. {b} Cardanus’s epitaph upon our King Edward VI is well known -
“ Flete nefas magnum, sed toto flebitis orbe
Mortales: rester corruit omnis honos.
Nam regum decus et iuvenum flos, spesque bonorum,
Deliciae saecli et gloria gentis erat.
Dignus Apollineis lachrymis, doctaeque Minervae
Flosculus (heu misero) concidit ante diem.
Te tumulo dabimus Musae supremaque flentes
Munera, Melpomene tristia fata canet. ”
{a} θρηνωδιας
{b} Sueton.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain In their lamentations to this day; in all their…
In their lamentations to this day; in all their succeeding lamentations for their public calamities, and for the ruin of their city, and temple, and state, and church they remembered Josiah’s death as their first and most fatal blow, and as that which opened the flood-gates to all their following miseries, and it was ordained that they should do so, as the next words intimate.
In the lamentations; either in that canonical book of Jeremiah’s Lamentations, or in some other volume of mournful ditties, made by divers persons upon occasion of their following calamities, which is since lost.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain His piety towards God, and liberality to the people;…
His piety towards God, and liberality to the people; of these two verses; see Gill on Kg2 23:28.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain To this day - In all their succeeding Lamentations…
To this day - In all their succeeding Lamentations for their publick calamities, they remembered Josiah's death as their first and fatal blow, which opened the flood-gates to all their following miseries.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 25. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.]…
Verse 25. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.] The Hebrews had poetical compositions for all great and important events, military songs, songs of triumph, epithalamia or marriage odes, funeral elegies, c. Several of these are preserved in different parts of the historical books of Scripture, and these were generally made by prophets or inspired men. That composed on the tragical end of this good king by Jeremiah is now lost. The Targum says, "Jeremiah bewailed Josiah with a great lamentation and all the chiefs and matrons sing these lamentations concerning Josiah to the present day, and it was a statute in Israel annually to bewail Josiah. Behold, these are written in the book of Lamentations, which Baruch wrote down from the mouth of Jeremiah."
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ch 35:25. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah — Sorrowed much…
2Ch 35:25. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah — Sorrowed much on account of the immature death of this good king, foreseeing that the utter ruin of his country would follow upon it. And as it was usual with the Jews to make lamentations, elegies, or mournful pieces upon the death of great men, princes, and others that had distinguished themselves among them, and deserved well of their country, it is probable Jeremiah wrote such a piece on the occasion of Josiah’s death. If he did so, the loss of it is very much to be deplored, because, as Dr. Dodd observes, it was, no doubt, “a masterpiece of its kind as there never was an author more deeply affected with his subject, or more capable of carrying it through all the tender sentiments of sorrow and compassion, than Jeremiah.” All the singing-men and singing-women spake of Josiah in their lamentations — Among the Jews men and women were usually employed to mourn at funerals, and to sing the praises of the dead. And so real and great was the mourning for Josiah, that for ages afterward they always remembered it in their lamentations for the dead, saying of the person deceased, Then art worthy to be lamented for, as good Josiah was, or words to the same purpose. Or, as Poole thinks, the meaning may be, that in all their succeeding lamentations for their public calamities, they remembered Josiah’s death as their first and fatal blow, which opened the flood-gates to all their following miseries. And made them an ordinance in Israel — Ordained that the mournful pieces, penned on this sad occasion, should be learned and sung by all sorts of people. And, behold, they are written in the Lamentations — Not in the book termed The Lamentations of Jeremiah, which was written on another occasion; but in some collection of mournful poems, now lost.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Some find Jeremiah’s lament in the entire Book of…
Some find Jeremiah’s lament in the entire Book of Lamentations; others in a part of it Lam. 4. But most critics are of opinion that the lament is lost. Days of calamity were commemorated by lamentations on their anniversaries, and this among the number. The “Book of Dirges” was a collection of such poems which once existed but is now lost.
And made them an ordinance - Rather, “and they made them an ordinance,” they i. e. who had authority to do so, not the minstrels.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Lamentations. Some think that we have them in the…
Lamentations. Some think that we have them in the Bible. Josephus, &c. --- Others believe that they are lost. Salien, the year of the world 3425. --- Law, on the anniversary; (M.) or when any calamity occurs, the lamentations of Jeremias are used. T. --- There were collections of such poems, as well as of canticles, for victory and marriages. C.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, &c.--The elegy of the prophet…
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, &c.--The elegy of the prophet has not reached us; but it seems to have been long preserved among his countrymen and chanted on certain public occasions by the professional singers, who probably got the dirges they sang from a collection of funeral odes composed on the death of good and great men of the nation. The spot in the valley of Megiddo where the battle was fought was near the town of Hadad-rimmon; hence the lamentation for the death of Josiah was called "the lamentation of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo," which was so great and so long continued, that the lamentation of Hadad passed afterwards into a proverbial phrase to express any great and extraordinary sorrow (Zac 12:11).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25. The lamentations — See Introduction.
25. The lamentations — See Introduction.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25 (= 1Es_1:32; not in 2 Kin.). The Lamentations…
25 (= 1Es_1:32; not in 2 Kin.). The Lamentations for Josiah
25. lamented] i.e. “composed (or uttered) an elegy.” The Heb. word (ḳônçn) suggests formal composition, and the actual words of lamentation are often given; 2Sa_1:17 ff; 2Sa_3:33-34; Eze_27:32; Eze_32:2; Eze_32:16.
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and they made them an ordinance] Cp. 2Sa_1:18, R.V.
in the lamentations] In some lost work, not in our canonical book of the Lamentations, for there we “look in vain for a single word distinctive of a funeral dirge over a devout and zealous reformer like Josiah” (E. H. Plumptre in Smith’s Bib. Dict. s.v.).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (25) And Jeremiah lamented—i.e., wrote a dirge. The special…
(25) And Jeremiah lamented—i.e., wrote a dirge. The special mourning of the land over Josiah is not mentioned in Kings.
The singing men . . . women.—The LXX. has “the ruling men . . . women,” reading sârîm . . . sârôth, instead of shârîm . . . shârôth.
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Spake of Josiah in their lamentations.—In the dirges which they used to sing on certain anniversaries of disaster.
And made them an ordinance.—And they made them (i.e. the laments for Josiah) a standing custom to Israel.
They are written in the lamentations.—The dirges alluding to Josiah’s untimely end, and among them Jeremiah’s, were preserved in a Book of Dirges (qînôth), which may have been extant in the chronicler’s day. (Comp. the allusions in Jer_22:10; Jer_22:18; Zec_12:11.)
This collection, however, was quite different from the canonical book of Lamentations, the subject of which is the ruin of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain If Jeremiah"s lamenting on this occasion was one committed…
If Jeremiah"s lamenting on this occasion was one committed to writing, it has not survived. To this day; i.e. probably anniversary after anniversary to the time of the writer to whom this statement belongs, the authority from which our compiler draws his materials. Written in the lamentations. We have here another glimpse of a work which has not been handed down to us.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 to this day
to this day
This means the day on which the writer wrote. See how you translated this in 2 Chronicles 5:9.
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behold, they
Possible meanings: 1) "this is where they are: they" or 2) "they still exist: they."
the songs of lament
This was an ancient scroll of funeral songs.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 35:25 Jeremiah held Josiah in high esteem (see Jer…
35:25 Jeremiah held Josiah in high esteem (see Jer 22:15-16; cp. Jer 22:10). The Book of Laments was lost; it is not related to the Book of Lamentations.
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