2 Chronicles 35:25 BSB

2 Chronicles 35:25

Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.

BSB

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ASV

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

KJV

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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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

LETTER 133.13 (420)

It is true that in the holy Scriptures many are called righteous, as Zachariah and Elizabeth, Job, Jehosaphat, Josiah, and many others who are mentioned in the sacred writings. Of this fact I shall, if God gives me grace, give a full explanation in the work that I have promised; in this letter it must suffice to say that they are called righteous, not because they are faultless but because their faults are eclipsed by their virtues.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְקוֹנֵ֣ן	vay.ko.Nen	and he made a lament	H6969 →
יִרְמְיָהוּ֮	yir.me.ya.Hu	Jeremiah	H3414 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ֒	yo.shi.ya.Hu	Josiah	H2977 →
וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ	vai.yo.me.Ru	and they have said	H559 →
כָֽל־	khol-	all	H3605 →
הַשָּׁרִ֣ים׀	ha.sha.Rim	the male singers	H7891 →
וְ֠הַשָּׁרוֹת	Ve.ha.sha.rot	and the female singers	H7891 →
בְּקִינ֨וֹתֵיהֶ֤ם	be.ki.No.tei.Hem	in lamentations their	H7015 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
יֹאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙	yo.shi.Ya.hu	Josiah	H2977 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
הַיּ֔וֹם	hai.Yom	this day	H3117 →
וַיִּתְּנ֥וּם	vai.yi.te.Num	and they made them	H5414 →
לְחֹ֖ק	le.Chok	into a decree	H2706 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
וְהִנָּ֥ם	ve.hi.Nam	and there they	H2005 →
כְּתוּבִ֖ים	ke.tu.Vim	[are] written	H3789 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הַקִּינֽוֹת׃	ha.ki.Not	the lamentations	H7015 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 22:10
Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.
leads to
- Jeremiah 22:11
  For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
- Ecclesiastes 4:2
  So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
- Isaiah 57:1
  The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.
- Lamentations 4:9
  Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
- 2 Kings 22:20
  ‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’”…
Through
Job 3:8
May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
leads to
- Job 41:1
  “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
Through
Matthew 9:23
When Jesus entered the house of the synagogue leader, He saw the flute players and the noisy crowd.
leads to
- Matthew 11:17
  ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Mark 5:35–40
  While He was still speaking, messengers from the house of Jairus arrived and said, “Your daughter is dead; why bother the Teacher anymore?”

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