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Zaccaria 12:11
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In quel giorno ci sar un grande cordoglio in Gerusalemme, simile al cordoglio di Hadad-rimmon nella valle di Me-ghiddo,
In quel giorno vi sar� un gran cordoglio in Gerusalemme, quale � il cordoglio di Hada-rimmon, nella campagna di Meghiddon.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
as: 2 Kings 23:29, 2 Chronicles 35:24
Reciprocal: Joshua 17:11 - Megiddo 1 Samuel 7:2 - lamented 1 Kings 9:15 - Megiddo 1 Chronicles 7:29 - Megiddo 2 Chronicles 35:22 - Megiddo Ezekiel 36:31 - shall loathe Joel 2:16 - let Zechariah 12:3 - in that Zechariah 12:4 - that day Zechariah 13:1 - that Revelation 16:16 - Armageddon
Gill's Notes on the Bible
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem,.... Great numbers being awakened, convinced, and converted, and brought to true repentance:
as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. Lightfoot i thinks the prophet alludes to the two great and general lamentations of Israel; the one about the rock Rimmon, where a whole tribe was come to four hundred (it should be six hundred) men, Judges 20:47 and may be rendered, "the sad shout of Rimmon"; and the other in the valley of Megiddo, for the death of Josiah. Some take Hadadrimmon to be the name of a man, as Aben Ezra; and the Targum and Jarchi say who he was, and also make two mournings to be alluded to k; paraphrasing the words thus,
"at that time mourning shall be multiplied in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Ahab the son of Omri, whom Hadadrimmon the son of Tabrimmon slew in Ramothgilead; and as the mourning of Josiah, the son of Amon, whom Pharaohnecho, or the lame, slew in the valley of Megiddo:''
and so the Syriac version renders it,
"as the mourning of the son of Amon in the valley of Megiddo.''
Of the first of these, see 1 Kings 22:31 and of the latter,
2 Kings 23:29 according to Jerom, it was the name of a place in the valley of Megiddo, near to Jezreel; and which, in his time, went by the name of Maximianopolis, called so in honour of the Emperor Maximian; it was seventeen miles from Caesarea in Palestine, and ten miles from Jezreel l; and mention is made by Jewish m writers of the valley of Rimmon, in which place the elders intercalated the year; though Jerom elsewhere n says, that Adadrimon was a king, the son of Tabrimmon, who reigned at Carchemish, whom Pharaohnecho slew at the same time he slew Josiah. Both words, Hadad, or Adad, and Rimmon, are names of idols with the Syrians.
i Works, vol. 1. p. 46. k Vid. T. Bab. Megillah, fol. 3. 1. & Gloss. in ib. & Moed Katon, fol. 28. 2. l Vid. Reland. Palestina Illustrata, tom. 2. p. 892. m T. Hieros. Chagigah, fol. 78. 4. n Trad. Heb. fol. 86. I.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon - This was the greatest sorrow, which had fallen on Judah. Josiah was the last hope of its declining kingdom. His sons probably showed already their unlikeness to their father, whereby they precipitated their country’s fall. in Josiah’s death the last gleam of the sunset of Judah faded into night. Of him it is recorded, that “his pious acts, according to what was written in the law of the Lord,” were written in his country’s history 2 Chronicles 35:26, 2 Chronicles 35:7; for him the prophet “Jeremiah wrote a dirge” 2 Chronicles 35:25; “all” the minstrels of his country “spake of him in their dirges” 2 Chronicles 35:25. The dirges were “made an ordinance” which survived the captivity; “to this day” 2 Chronicles 35:25, it is said at the close of the Chronicles. Among the gathering sorrows of Israel, this lament over Josiah was written in the national collection of “dirges” 2 Chronicles 35:25. “Hadadrimmon,” as being compounded of the name of two Syrian idols, is, in its name, a witness how Syrian idolatry penetrated into the kingdom, when it was detached from the worship of God. It was (Jerome) “a city near Jezreel, now called Maximinianopolis in the plain of Megiddon, in which the righteous king Josiah was wounded by Pharaoh Necho.” This “was 17 miles from Caesarea, 10 from Esdraelon.” Its name still survives in a small village, south of Megiddon , and so, on the way back to Jerusalem.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Zechariah 12:11. A great mourning — A universal repentance.
As the mourning of Hadadrimmon — They shall mourn as deeply for the crucified Christ as their forefathers did for the death of Josiah, who was slain at Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. See 2 Chronicles 35:24-25.
