2 Chronicles 35:25-27 NLT

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:26

Goodness ; Hebrew text, kindnesses . According to that … written in the Law . This sentence pictures Josiah a careful, loving student of the Word, to the end that he might become a "doer" of it. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:25

Some find Jeremiah’s lament in the entire Book of Lamentations; others in a part of it Lamentations 4:0. 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. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 35:25

2 Chronicles 35:25. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah Sorrowed much on account of the immature death of this good king, foreseeing that the utter ruin of his country would follow upon it. And as it was usual with the Jews to make lamentations, elegies, or mournful pieces upon the death of great men, princes, and others that had distinguished themselves among them, and deserved well of their country, it is probable Jeremiah wrote such a piece on the occasion of Josiah’s death. If he did so, the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 35:26

2 Chronicles 35:26. The rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness His piety toward God, and his benignity, clemency, and kindness toward all his subjects, being of a most tender and mild disposition, both toward God and toward men, 2 Chronicles 34:27. According to that which was written in the law Which he made his rule in all his actions. The revelation which God has given us of his mind and will is the only true standard by which we can safely walk. All other rules may deceive us,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:1-27

The final reform (34:1-35:27)Another reform swept Judah during the reign of Josiah (34:1-33; see notes on 2 Kings 22:1-23:20). As with the reform of Hezekiah, the climax in the eyes of the Chronicler was a great Passover Feast in Jerusalem.After returning the ark to its rightful place in the temple, the priests and Levites prepared themselves for their duties. Josiah arranged them in divisions as Hezekiah had done earlier, so that the music, singing, sacrifices and other rituals could be... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah lamented. This does not refer to the book of that name (Lamentations), though Josiah is referred to in it (Lamentations 4:20 and Jeremiah 22:10-18 ). Compare Zechariah 12:11 . 2 Kings 23:31 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:25

2 Chronicles 35:25. And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, &c.— It was usual with the Jews to make lamentations, or mournful songs, upon the death of great men, princes, and heroes, who had distinguished themselves in arms, or by any civil arts had merited well of their country. From the expression, Behold they are written in the Lamentations, it may be inferred, that they had certain collections of this kind of composition. The author of the book of Samuel has preserved those which David made... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:25

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... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 35:1-27

P. Josiah chs. 34-35Like Amon’s death (2 Chronicles 33:24), Josiah’s was unnecessarily premature. However, unlike Amon, Josiah was one of Judah’s reformers."Josiah instituted the most thorough of all the OT reforms . . ." [Note: Idem, "1, 2 Chronicles," p. 549.] "Despite this, however, Josiah is not so significant a monarch overall for the Chronicler as he is for the earlier historian [i.e., the writer of Kings]. Much that he records is now to be understood as recapitulation of Hezekiah’s work,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 35:20-27

3. Josiah’s death 35:20-27Josiah died at Megiddo, in 609 B.C., when he interrupted Pharaoh Neco’s military advance against the Babylonians."Fearing the advance of the Babylonians, Pharaoh Neco and the Egyptian army were on their way to assist the Assyrians. Josiah, who apparently was an ally of the Babylonians (or at least an opponent of the Assyrians), attempted to impede the march of Neco." [Note: Thompson, p. 385.] This is similar to what Ahab had done years earlier, when he and Jehoshaphat... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:25

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 35:25

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 35:26

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:1-27

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Chronicles 35:25

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:25

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:25

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 35:1-27

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 35:20-27

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