2 Chronicles 35:25
And Jeremiah mourned over Josiah, and all the chief men and chief women uttered a lamentation over Josiah until this day: and they made it an ordinance for Israel, and, behold, it is written in the lamentations.
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In Context
26And the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his hope, are written in the law of the Lord.
Cross References
Judges 11:40and it was an ordinance in Israel, That the daughters of Israel went from year to year to bewail the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days in a year.
Job 3:8But let him that curses that day curse it, 1 Even he that is ready to attack the great whale. 1
Jeremiah 9:17and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.
Jeremiah 22:20Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and utter thy voice to Bashan, and cry aloud to the extremity of the sea: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 35:21-27
The Death of Josiah. ( b. c. 610.) 20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. 21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. 22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn… Read the whole commentary →