Zechariah 12:11

9 It shall be in that day that I will seek to ^adestroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Mourning for the Pierced One

10 ^a“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will ^blook on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him ^cas one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.

11 In that day there shall be a great ^amourning in Jerusalem, ^blike the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

12 ^aAnd the land shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of ^bNathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;

13 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves;

14 all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Zechariah 12:11

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 II Chronicles 35:26, II Chronicles 35:7; for him the prophet "Jeremiah wrote a dirge" II Chronicles 35:25; "all" the minstrels of his country "spake of him in their dirges" II Chronicles 35:25. The dirges were "made an ordinance" which survived the captivity; "to this day" II 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" II 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.

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Zechariah 12:11:

2 Kings 5:18
2 Chronicles 35:24
Zechariah 13:1
Revelation 16:16

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