In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon. As in Zech In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon. As in Zechariah 12:10, the bitterness of their mourning is illustrated by a private case of mourning, so in this verse by a public one, the greatest recorded in Jewish history, that for the violent death in battle with Pharaoh-necho of the good King Josiah, whose reign had been the only gleam of brightness for the period from Hezekiah to the downfall of the state; lamentations were written by Jeremiah for the occasion (2 Kings 23:29-30; 2 Chronicles 35:22-27).
Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon - a place or city in the great plain of Esdraelon, the battlefield of many a conflict, near Megiddo; called so from the Syrian idol Rimmon. Hadad also was the name of the sun, a chief god of the Syrians, (Macrob, Saturnalia,' 1: 23).