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Zechariah 12:11

In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hadadrimmon;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Levites;   Megiddo;   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Jehovah);   Thompson Chain Reference - Megiddo;   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Jesus Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Valleys;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hadadrimmon;   Josiah;   Megiddo;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Palestine;   Quotations;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hadad-Rimmon;   Josiah;   Megiddo;   Mourn;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Megiddo;   Mourning;   Vale;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Fertility Cult;   Gods, Pagan;   Hadad-Rimmon;   Megiddo;   Megiddon, Valley of;   Syria;   Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Antichrist;   Apocalyptic Literature;   Burden;   Hadadrimmon;   Megiddo;   Micah, Book of;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Har-Magedon;   Messiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Atonement, Day of;   Hadadrimmon ;   Megiddo, Megiddon ;   Zechariah, Prophecy of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hadad-rimmon;   Josiah;   Vale;   Valley;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Messi'ah;   Vale, Valley;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adadrimmon;   Burden;   Champaign;   Hadad;   Hadadrimmon;   Judah, Kingdom of;   Lamentations, Book of;   Megiddo;   Syrians;   Zechariah, Book of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Adad-rimmon;   Armageddon;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Esdraelon (Esrelon);   Hadad;   Josiah;   Megiddo;   Revelation (Book of);   Targum;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Hebrew Names Version
In that day there will be a great mourning in Yerushalayim, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
King James Version (1611)
In that day shall there bee a great mourning in Ierusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
King James Version
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
English Standard Version
On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
New American Standard Bible
"On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be great, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
New Century Version
At that time there will be much crying in Jerusalem, like the crying for Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Amplified Bible
"In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of [the city of] Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddo [over beloved King Josiah].
Geneva Bible (1587)
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Ierusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"In that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Legacy Standard Bible
In that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Berean Standard Bible
On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Contemporary English Version
On that day the people of Jerusalem will mourn as much as everyone did for Hadad Rimmon on the flatlands near Megiddo.
Complete Jewish Bible
When that day comes, there will be great mourning in Yerushalayim, mourning like that for Hadad-Rimmon in the Megiddo Valley.
Darby Translation
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Easy-to-Read Version
There will be a time of great sadness and crying in Jerusalem. It will be like the time people cry over the death of Hadad Rimmon in Megiddo Valley.
George Lamsa Translation
On that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Bar-amon in the plain of Megiddo.
Good News Translation
At that time the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Lexham English Bible
On that day the wailing will be great in Jerusalem, like the wailing for Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Literal Translation
In that day the mourning in Jerusalem shall be great, like the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.
American Standard Version
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then shal there be a great mourning at Hierusalem, like as the lamentation at Adadremmon in the fielde of Mageddon.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In that day the lamentation in Jerusalem shall be very great, as the mourning for the pomegranate grove cut down in the plain.
English Revised Version
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
World English Bible
In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In that dai greet weilyng schal be in Jerusalem, as the weilyng of Adremon in the feeld of Magedon.
Update Bible Version
In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Webster's Bible Translation
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
New English Translation
On that day the lamentation in Jerusalem will be as great as the lamentation at Hadad-Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
New King James Version
In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. [fn]
New Living Translation
The sorrow and mourning in Jerusalem on that day will be like the great mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.
New Life Bible
On that day there will be much crying in Jerusalem, like the cries of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
New Revised Standard
On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In that day, will the wailing, be great, in Jerusalem, as the wailing of Hadadrimmon, in the valley of Megiddon;
Douay-Rheims Bible
In that day there shall be a great lamentation in Jerusalem like the lamentation of Adadremmon in the plain of Mageddon.
Revised Standard Version
On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadadrim'mon in the plain of Megid'do.
Young's Literal Translation
In that day, great is the mourning of Jerusalem, As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then shall there be a greate mournynge at Ierusalem, like as the lamentacion at Adremnon in the felde off Maggadon.

Contextual Overview

9 And it will come about on that day that I will take in hand the destruction of all the nations who come against Jerusalem. 10 And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son. 11 In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12 And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves; 13 The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves; 14 And all the other families by themselves, and their wives by themselves.

Bible Verse Review
  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

Cross-References

Genesis 12:6
And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.
Genesis 12:7
And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.
Genesis 12:14
And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.
Genesis 26:7
And when he was questioned by the men of the place about his wife, he said, She is my sister; fearing to say, She is my wife; for, he said, the men of the place may put me to death on account of Rebekah; because she is very beautiful.
Genesis 29:17
And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form.
2 Samuel 11:2
Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Song of Solomon 1:14
My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

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.


 
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