2 Chronicles 35:25

(1Es 1:32; not in 2 Kin.). The Lamentations for Josiah

25. lamented i.e. "composed (oruttered) an elegy." The Heb. word (ḳônçn) suggests formal composition, and the actual words of lamentation are often given; 2 Samuel 1:17 ff; 2 Samuel 3:33-34; Ezekiel 27:32; Ezekiel 32:2; Ezekiel 32:16.

and they made them an ordinance Cp. 2 Samuel 1:18, R.V.

in the lamentations In some lost work, not in our canonical book of the Lamentations, for there we "look in vain for a single word distinctive of a funeral dirge over a devout and zealous reformer like Josiah" (E. H. Plumptre in Smith's Bib. Dict.s.v.).