2 Chronicles 35 · Verse 25

2 Chronicles 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.
2 Chronicles 35:25, King James Version

2 Chronicles 35:25 in other translations

BSBThen 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.
WEBJeremiah 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.
ASVAnd 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.
YLTand Jeremiah lamenteth for Josiah, and all the singers and the songstresses speak in their lamentations of Josiah unto this day, and set them for a statute on Israel, and lo, they are written beside the lamentations.
DARBYAnd 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 for Israel. And behold, they are written in the lamentations.
BBEAnd Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.
WebsterAnd Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women have spoken of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and behold, they are written in the lamentations.

What does 2 Chronicles 35:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. 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 (Zec 12:11).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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, etc. 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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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 35:20-27

The Scripture does not condemn Josiah's conduct in opposing Pharaoh. Yet Josiah seems to deserve blame for not inquiring of the Lord after he was warned; his death might be a rebuke for his rashness, but it was a judgment on a hypocritical and wicked people. He that lives a life of repentance, faith, and obedience, cannot be affected by the sudden manner in which he is removed. The people lamented him. Many mourn…

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2 Chronicles 35:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיְקוֹנֵ֣ןvay.ko.Nenand he made a lamentH6969
יִרְמְיָהוּ֮yir.me.ya.HuJeremiahH3414
עַל\־'al-onH5921
יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ֒yo.shi.ya.HuJosiahH2977
וַיֹּאמְר֣וּvai.yo.me.Ruand they have saidH559
כָֽל\־khol-allH3605
הַשָּׁרִ֣ים\׀ha.sha.Rimthe male singersH7891
וְ֠הַשָּׁרוֹתVe.ha.sha.rotand the female singersH7891
בְּקִינ֨וֹתֵיהֶ֤םbe.ki.No.tei.Hemin lamentations theirH7015
עַל\־'al-onH5921
יֹאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙yo.shi.Ya.huJosiahH2977
עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
הַיּ֔וֹםhai.Yomthis dayH3117
וַיִּתְּנ֥וּםvai.yi.te.Numand they made themH5414
לְחֹ֖קle.Chokinto a decreeH2706
עַל\־'al-onH5921
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
וְהִנָּ֥םve.hi.Namand there theyH2005
כְּתוּבִ֖יםke.tu.Vim[are] writtenH3789
עַל\־'al-onH5921
הַקִּינֽוֹת\׃ha.ki.Notthe lamentationsH7015

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Chronicles 35:25

  • Jeremiah 22:10

    Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

  • Lamentations 4:20

    The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

  • Matthew 9:23

    And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,

  • Jeremiah 9:17-21

    Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: And 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 are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. …

  • Job 3:8

    Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

  • Jeremiah 22:20

    Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

  • Ecclesiastes 12:5

    Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

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Jeremiah.
Jer 22:10; La 4:20
all the singing.
Job 3:8; Ec 12:5; Jer 9:17-21; Mt 9:23
and made them.
Jer 22:20

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Context

  • 2 Chronicles 35:24

    His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

  • 2 Chronicles 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.

  • 2 Chronicles 35:26

    Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the Lord,

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2 Chronicles 35:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y endechó Jeremías por Josías, y todos los cantores y cantoras recitan sus lamentaciones sobre Josías hasta hoy; y las dieron por norma para endechar en Israel, las cuales están escritas en las Lamentaciones.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Jérémie fit des lamentations sur Josias; et tous les chanteurs et toutes les chanteuses ont parlé de Josias dans leurs lamentations jusqu’à aujourd’hui; et on l’a établi comme ordonnance pour Israël. Et, voici, cela est écrit dans les Lamentations.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Jeremia stimmte ein Klagelied über Josia an. Und alle Sänger und Sängerinnen haben in ihren Klageliedern von Josia geredet bis auf den heutigen Tag; und man machte sie zu einem Gebrauch in Israel. Und siehe, sie sind geschrieben in den Klageliedern.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Jeremias maxime: cujus omnes cantores atque cantatrices, usque in præsentem diem, lamentationes super Josiam replicant, et quasi lex obtinuit in Israël: Ecce scriptum fertur in lamentationibus.