2 Chronicles 35:25

And Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyahu; and all the sharim (singing men) and the sharot (singing women) commemorate Yoshiyahu in their laments to this day, and made them as chok + 35:25 set custom in Yisroel; and, hinei, they are written in HaKinot (the Laments).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

24His avadim therefore took him out of that merkavah, and put him in the mishneh merkavah that he had; and they brought him to Yerushalayim, and he died, and was buried in the kivrot Avotav. And all Yehudah and Yerushalayim mourned for Yoshiyahu.

26Now the rest of the acts of Yoshiyahu, and his acts of chesed, according to what is written in the Torat Hashem,

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Cross References

Judges 11:40That the banot Yisroel went yearly to lament the bat Yiftach the Gil'adi arba'at yamim bashanah.

Job 3:8Let the kokhavim of the dawn thereof be dark; 1 let it look for ohr, but have none; 1 neither let it see the dawning of the shachar, 1

Jeremiah 9:17And let them make haste, 1 and take up a nehi (lamentation) for us, 1 that our eyes may run down with dimah (tears), 1 and our eyelids gush out with mayim. 1

Jeremiah 22:20Go up to the Levanon, and cry out; 1 and lift up thy voice in Bashan, 1 and cry out from Avarim; 1 for all thy lovers are crushed. 1

Matthew 9:23And having come into the bais (house) of the nichbad (dignitary), and having seen the flute players and the unruly crowd,

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 →

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