[738] Gen. xli. 1; Herod., ii. 188; _Records of the Past_, ix. 52. [739] 2 Kings xviii. 25. [740] _Antt._, X. v. 1: Τῆς πεπρωμένης οἶμαι εἰς τοῦτ' αὐτόν παρορμησάσης. [741] Deut. xxviii. 1-8. [742] Psalm xx. 6, xviii. 29-50. [743] Lev. xxvi. 36. [744] 2 Chron. xxxv. 22: "hearkened not _to the words of Necho from the mouth of God_." [745] "When he had _seen_ him." Comp. 2 Kings xiv. 8. [746] 1 Esdras i. 25; and LXX., "firmly resolved," "strengthened himself," as in 2 Chron. xxv. 11. [747] Jos., _Antt._, X. v. 1; and 2 Chron. xxxv. 23; 1 Esdras i. 30. [748] The fortunes of the Jews again prevailed in this plain in the days of Holofernes (Judith vii. 3); but they were defeated there by Placidus (Jos., _B. J._, IV. i. 8). [749] Zech. xii. 11-13 (comp. Jer. xxii. 10, 18). No such place as Hadadrimmon is known, though there is a Rummâne not far from Megiddo. Jerome (_Comm. in Zach._) identifies it with a place which he calls Maximianopolis. Wellhausen (_Skizzen_, 192) thinks that the mourning is compared to some wail over the god Hadadrimmon, like the wailing for Tammuz. Jonathan and Jarchi say that Hadadrimmon was the son of Tabrimmon, who opposed Ahab at Ramoth-Gilead. [750] 2 Chron. xxxv. 24, 25. Jeremiah's elegy has probably perished. It would have been most interesting had it been preserved. Lam. iv. is too vague to have been this lost poem. [751] Jer. iv. 10. [752] Jer. xx. 7, 8. CHAPTER XXXIII _JEHOAHAZ_ B.C. 608 2 KINGS xxiii. 31-33 "I went by, and, lo! he was gone: I sought him, but his place could nowhere be found."--PSALM xxxvii. 36. It was under the disastrous circumstances which attended his father's death at Megiddo that Jehoahaz began to reign. There is some confusion about the four sons of Josiah, whom the Chronicler calls Johanan, Jehoiakim, Zedekiah, and Shallum.[753] From Jer. xxii. 11, it appears that Jehoahaz was the royal name taken on his anointing by Shallum, the third son.[754] If so, he cannot be identified with Johanan, the firstborn, as in the margin of our version. Further, it appears from our historians that Jehoahaz was twenty-three at his succession, and was therefore younger than Jehoiakim who (three months later) succeeded him at the age of twenty-five. Jehoahaz was the own brother of Zedekiah, Jehoiakim being his half-brother by another mother (Zebudah). We do not know for what reason he was preferred by "the people of the land" to his elder brother Eliakim or Jehoiakim. It was probably because they regarded him as a prince of eminent courage and ability. The high hopes which the nation conceived of him may be seen in the pathetic elegy of Ezek. xix.:--