2 Chronicles 35:24-25 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:20-27

It was thirteen years from Josiah's famous passover to his death. During this time, we may hope, thing went well in his kingdom, that he prospered, and religion flourished; yet we are not entertained with the pleasing account of those years, but they are passed over in silence, because the people, for all this, were not turned from the love of their sins nor God from the fierceness of his anger. The next news therefore we hear of Josiah is that he is cut off in the midst of his days and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:24

And his servants therefore took him out of that chariot ,.... Dead, and had him to Jerusalem, and buried him; See Gill on 2 Kings 23:30 , and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah ; he having been so good a king, so tender of them, and such an happy instrument in restoring the true religion, and the service of God; this was the sense of the generality of them, who were sincere in their mourning; but it is not improbable that those who were inclined to idolatry were secretly glad,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:25

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah ,.... Composed a lamentation for him, which is now lost; for what is said in Lamentations 4:20 respects Zedekiah, and not Josiah: and all the singing men, and all the singing women, spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day ; who were made use of on mournful occasions, as the "preficae" among the Romans, see Jeremiah 9:17 these in their mournful ditties used to make mention of his name, and the disaster that befell him: and made them an... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:24

The second chariot - Perhaps this means no more than that they took Josiah out of his own chariot and put him into another, either for secrecy, or because his own had been disabled. The chariot into which he was put might have been that of the officer or aid-de-camp who attended his master to the war. See the note on 2 Kings 22:20 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:25

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... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:1-27

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:20-27

The lamentations for Josiah's death. Some cloud of mystery, but, so far as we can see, none of shame, hangs over the closing events of Josiah's reign and life. His determined resolution to oppose Necho King of Egypt, when he came to "Charchemish by Euphrates," with the view of engaging in battle with the forces of Babylon or Assyria, had no doubt some strong motive, It is not at all impossible to imagine and even to assign some alternative motives as those most probably at work. One... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:20-27

The death of Josiah. I. JOSIAH 'S MILITARY EXPEDITION . ( 2 Chronicles 35:20 .) Seemingly the only expedition in his reign. 1 . When it took place. "After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple;" i.e. after the eighteenth year of his reign, in point of fact, thirteen years after ( 2 Chronicles 34:1 ). 2 . Against whom it was directed. Necho King of Egypt; in Egyptian, Neku, son of Psammatik I the illustrious founder of the Saitic or twenty-sixth dynasty, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:24

And he died. If the form of words used in the parallel, 2 Kings 23:30 , be followed, Josiah was dead before they reached Jerusalem. And all … mourned for Josiah . We still find no note whatever of blame attributed to Josiah, and the general mourning ( Zechariah 12:11 ) appears to have been most genuine. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:24-25

An early sunset. That very good men may make very great mistakes we hardly need to be told; unfortunately, we have all too many illustrations of that fact. The text provides us with a very melancholy instance. What had Josiah to do with this contest between the kings of Egypt and Assyria? Was his heart, too, "lifted up," that he thought himself and his people more than a match for the disciplined hosts of Egypt? Had he been attacked, and had he cast himself on God as Hezekiah did when... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:20-27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:25

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:1-27

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:20-27

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:20-27

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:24

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:24-25

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