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2 Chronicles 35:25

in 2 Chronicles 35

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

The same verse in ASV and KJV

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.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 35

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

LETTER 133.13 · Written before 420.

on 2 Chronicles 35:22-25

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.

This site's exposition

Jeremiah lamented for Josiah

Jeremiah enters Chronicles by name here, one chapter before the book ends, and his lament for Josiah becomes a fixed ordinance, sung by the singing men and women to this day at the time of writing. The elegy itself is not the text now called Lamentations; Barnes and others conclude the actual composition is lost and that a separate collection of funeral dirges lies behind the note. Josiah is the only king of Judah for whom Scripture records a mourning ordinance kept to this day.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices
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.

A commentator

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.

The words behind it

21 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְקוֹנֵ֣ןand he made a lament

    vaykonenH6969

  • יִרְמְיָהוּ֮Jeremiah

    yirmeyahuH3414147 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ֒Josiah

    yoshiyahuH297753 times

  • וַיֹּאמְר֣וּand they have said

    vaiyomeruH5595305 times

  • כָֽל־all

    khol-H36055413 times

  • הַשָּׁרִ֣ים׀the male singers

    hasharimH789186 times

  • וְ֠הַשָּׁרוֹתand the female singers

    vehasharotH789186 times

  • בְּקִינ֨וֹתֵיהֶ֤םin lamentations their

    bekinoteihemH7015

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • יֹאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙Josiah

    yoshiyahuH297753 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • הַיּ֔וֹםthis day

    haiyomH31172304 times

  • וַיִּתְּנ֥וּםand they made them

    vaiyitenumH54142011 times

  • לְחֹ֖קinto a decree

    lechokH2706127 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • וְהִנָּ֥םand there they

    vehinamH2005316 times

  • כְּתוּבִ֖ים[are] written

    ketuvimH3789224 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • הַקִּינֽוֹת׃the lamentations

    hakinotH7015

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • 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.

    it 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.

    it 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.

    it 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 separate 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?”

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Jerome, LETTER 133.13.