Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa 2 Cronica 35:25

How can it be that the golden glow has paled. This elegy was pronounced over Yoshiyahu,¹Who was killed in a battle with Pharaoh Necho. as it is stated in Divrei Hayomim, “Behold it is written in the Book of Lamentations,”²II Divrei Hayomim 35:25. and with it he joined, in the midst of the elegy, the rest of the children of Tzion.

Every Tishah Be’Av,³¹⁵Until the arrival of the Mashi’ach. Ashkenazic synagogues recite a Kinah (elegy) written by R. Elazar HaKalir (570-640 CE) that mourns the tragic death of Yoshiyahu in battle at Megiddo. By reciting this Kinah, we honor Yirmiyahu’s establishment of the practice of mourning Yoshiyahu’s death for all generations (see Divrei HaYamim II 35:25, with the commentary of Da’at Mikra). In this chapter, we will seek to explain why the death of Yoshiyahu is so traumatic, to the extent that it is worthy of inclusion in the Tishah Be’Av liturgy, along with the mourning of other major disasters, such as the Churban Beit HaMikdash and the Crusades.

like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon Hadadrimmon has no connection to the Valley of Megiddon. These are, rather, two cases of mourning. [The first is] like the mourning of Ahab the son of Omri, who was slain by Hadadrimmon the son of Tabrimmon in Ramoth Gilead, as it is stated (I Kings 22:36): “A cry passed through the camp.” That is the mourning [of Ahab. The second case is] like the mourning of Josiah the son of Amon, who was slain by Pharoah the lame in the Valley of Megiddon, as it is stated (II Chron. 35:25): “And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke in their laments, etc.”

and harps and psalteries for the singers Some say (Jonathan and Rashi to Kings) for the Levites who sing with musical instruments, and Rabbi Eliezer explained it to mean: for the singers who stroll before the king. A similar case is (I Kings 5:12): “and his songs were a thousand and five.” These were secular songs that he composed to sing before him, and that is what is meant (below 35:25): “And Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and all the male singers and the female singers recited in their lamentations, etc.”

Adonoy’s anointed. That is Yoshiyahu, as it is stated in Divrei Hayomim, “And Yirmiyahu lamented over Yoshiyahu.”²⁸II Divrei Hayomim 35:25. See Maseches Ta’anis 22b. Alternatively, ‘Adonoy’s appointed’ refers to Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah who was blinded and carried off to Bavel in chains by the people of Kasdim.