Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

And made them

General references

Bible References

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 22:10
Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him. Weep continually for the one who goes away. For he will never return or see his native land.
Lamentations 4:20
The breath of our nostrils, Jehovah's anointed have been captured in their pits. We said, Under the shadow we live among the nations.

All the singing

Job 3:8
May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to lift up Leviathan (Babylonian symbol of sadness and mourning).
Ecclesiastes 12:5
Also when they will be afraid of what is high, and fears will be in the way, and the almond tree will flourish, and the grasshopper will be a burden, and the caper berry breaks and desire fails, man goes to his long lasting home and the mourners go about the streets.
Jeremiah 9:17
Jehovah of Hosts says: 'Consider the mourning women that they may come. Send for the wailing women that they may come!
Matthew 9:23
Jesus went into the official's house and saw flute players and the crowd making a lot of noise.

And made them

Jeremiah 22:20
Go up to Lebanon and cry out! Lift up your voice in Bashan. Cry out also from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.

General references

Numbers 20:29
The entire congregation learned that Aaron had died. They all mourned for him for thirty days.
Ezekiel 32:16
This is a funeral song. The people from the nations will sing this song. They will sing it as they mourn for Egypt and its many people, declares the Lord Jehovah.