Study it in the app“Jeremiah chanted a dirge for Josiah; and all the male singers and the female singers have spoken of Josiah in their dirges to this day, and they made them a statute for Israel; and they are written in the Dirges.”
Jeremiahיִרְמְיָהוּchanted a dirgeוַיְקוֹנֵןfor Josiah;עַל יֹאשִׁיָּהוּand allוַ כָלthe male singersהַשָּׁרִיםand the female singersוְהַשָּׁרוֹתhave spokenיֹּאמְרוּof Josiahעַל יֹאשִׁיָּהוּin their dirgesבְּקִינוֹתֵיהֶםtoעַדthis day,הַיּוֹםand they made themוַיִּתְּנוּםa statuteלְחֹקfor Israel;עַל יִשְׂרָאֵלand they areוְהִנָּםwrittenכְּתוּבִיםin the Dirges.עַל הַקִּינוֹת
Jeremiah
Jeremiah: a name meaning "YHWH raises up" or "YHWH exalts," borne by several men: best known is the prophet, son of Hilkiah, from Anathoth (Jeremiah 1:1); in 2 Kings 23:31 and 24:18 another Jeremiah, of Libnah, grandfather of two kings.
Where else “yirmyahu” appearschant a dirge
Chant a dirge, lament the dead in song.
Where else “yekonen” appearsJosiah
Josiah: a name that, according to the lexicon, means "founded by Yah." He is the king of Judah announced by name in 1 Kings 13:2, who reigned about three hundred years later (2 Kings 22–23); a man in Zechariah 6:10 is also called this.
Where else “yoshiyahu” appearssinger
Levites in charge of leading the singing in the house of YHWH, with instruments.
Where else “sharim” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomru” appearslament, dirge
Dirge: a poem sung over someone's death or over a disaster. The Hebrew name of the book of Lamentations comes from this word.
Where else “kinote” appearstoday
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” appearsmake
To make someone something: "I have made you a father".
Where else “yitnu” appearsstatute
A rule that God or a king sets and that must be kept.
Where else “chok” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearswrite
To put words in writing, in a book or tablet, so that they last.
Where else “ketuvim” appears“Dirge”: a song of mourning for a dead person. “The Dirges” is here the name of a collection of such songs.
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The death of Josiah
2 Chronicles 35:20-27
20After all this, when Josiah had prepared the house, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates; and Josiah went out to meet him. 21But he sent messengers to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I am not coming against you today, but against the house with which I am at war; and Elohim has told me to hurry. Stop opposing Elohim, who is with me, so that he does not destroy you.” 22But Josiah did not turn his face away from him, but to fight against him he disguised himself, and did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of Elohim; and he came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. 23The archers shot at King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.” 24So his servants took him out of the chariot and put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. 25Jeremiah chanted a dirge for Josiah; and all the male singers and the female singers have spoken of Josiah in their dirges to this day, and they made them a statute for Israel; and they are written in the Dirges. 26The rest of the acts of Josiah and his deeds of loyal love, according to what is written in the law of YHWH, 27and his acts, the first and the last, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
28The rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 29In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went to meet him, and he put him to death at Megiddo when he saw him. 30His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own grave. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
24So his servants took him out of the chariot and put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
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26The rest of the acts of Josiah and his deeds of loyal love, according to what is written in the law of YHWH,
