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11. As in
Zec 12:10
the bitterness of their mourning is illustrated by a private case of
mourning, so in this verse by a public one, the greatest recorded in
Jewish history, that for the violent death in battle with Pharaoh-necho
of the good King Josiah, whose reign had been the only gleam of
brightness for the period from Hezekiah to the downfall of the state;
lamentations were written by Jeremiah for the occasion
(2Ki 23:29, 30;
2Ch 35:22-27).
Hadad-rimmon--a place or city in the great plain of Esdraelon,
the battlefield of many a conflict, near Megiddo; called so from the
Syrian idol Rimmon. Hadad also was the name of the sun, a chief god of
the Syrians [MACROBIUS, Saturnalia, 1.23].
JFB.
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