Verse 1

Now you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.

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  • 2 Kgs 24:6 : 6 Jehoiakim rested with his ancestors, and his son Jehoiachin became king in his place.
  • Ezek 26:17 : 17 They will take up a lament over you and say to you: 'How you have perished, you who were inhabited by people of the seas, the renowned city, strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread terror among all who lived there.'
  • Ezek 27:2 : 2 Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,
  • 2 Kgs 23:29-30 : 29 During his reign, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went to fight against the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah marched out to meet him, but Necho killed him at Megiddo when they faced each other. 30 His servants brought his body by chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.
  • 2 Kgs 23:34 : 34 Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt, where he died.
  • Ezek 2:10 : 10 He spread it out before me, and it was written on both the front and back. Written on it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.
  • Ezek 19:14 : 14 Fire went out from its branch, consuming its fruit. There was no strong rod left in it, no scepter fit to rule. This is a lamentation, and it has become a lamentation.
  • 2 Kgs 24:12 : 12 Jehoiachin, king of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs, went out to the king of Babylon, and the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.
  • 2 Kgs 25:5-7 : 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his troops scattered away from him. 6 They captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they passed judgment on him. 7 The sons of Zedekiah were slaughtered before his eyes, and then his eyes were blinded. They bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.
  • 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have sung about Josiah in their laments to this day. These became a tradition in Israel and are written in the Laments.
  • 2 Chr 36:3 : 3 The king of Egypt removed him in Jerusalem and imposed a fine on the land of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
  • 2 Chr 36:6 : 6 Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, bound him in bronze chains, and took him to Babylon.
  • 2 Chr 36:10 : 10 At the turn of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon, along with the precious articles of the house of the LORD. He made Zedekiah, his brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 If only I had a place to stay in the wilderness, a travelers' shelter, so that I might leave my people and go away from them. For they are all adulterers, a gathering of traitors.
  • Jer 9:10 : 10 I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.
  • Jer 9:17-18 : 17 'Let them come quickly and lift up a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears and our eyelids stream with water.' 18 'For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: “How devastated we are! We are utterly ashamed, for we have left the land and our dwellings have been cast off.”'
  • Jer 13:17-18 : 17 But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will weep bitterly and overflow with tears, for the LORD’s flock has been taken captive. 18 Say to the king and the queen mother, ‘Come down from your thrones, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.’
  • Jer 22:10-12 : 10 Do not weep for the dead; do not mourn for him. Weep bitterly for the one who goes away, for he will never return to see his native land. 11 For this is what the LORD says about Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah as king: He has gone out from this place and will never return. 12 He will die in the place where they have taken him into exile; he will never see this land again.
  • Jer 22:18-19 : 18 Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will not mourn for him, saying, 'Alas, my brother!' or 'Alas, my sister!' They will not mourn for him, saying, 'Alas, my lord!' or 'Alas, his majesty!' 19 He will have the burial of a donkey—dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
  • Jer 22:28 : 28 Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, an object no one cares for? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
  • Jer 22:30 : 30 This is what the LORD says: Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will succeed in sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah.
  • Jer 24:1 : 1 The LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD. This happened after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had taken Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, along with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metalworkers, from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon.
  • Jer 24:8 : 8 But like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, says the LORD, so will I treat Zedekiah, king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.
  • Jer 52:10-11 : 10 The king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, and he also executed all the officials of Judah at Riblah. 11 Then he blinded Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in bronze shackles. The king of Babylon took him to Babylon and kept him in prison until the day he died.
  • Jer 52:25-27 : 25 From the city, he took one court official who was in charge of the men of war, seven men of those who had personal access to the king and were found in the city, the scribe of the commander who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people who were found within the city. 26 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27 The king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was taken into exile from its land.
  • Lam 4:20 : 20 The breath of our nostrils, the LORD’s anointed, was captured in their traps, of whom we said, 'Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.'
  • Lam 5:12 : 12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
  • Ezek 27:32 : 32 And they will chant a dirge for you, lamenting, 'Who was ever like Tyre, silenced and destroyed in the midst of the sea?'
  • Ezek 32:16 : 16 This is a lamentation, and the daughters of the nations will chant it. They will chant it for Egypt and all her multitude, declares the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 32:18 : 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and bring her and the daughters of mighty nations down to the earth below, to those who go down to the pit.