Genesis 50:11
11When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; ▼▼ Abel-mizraim means mourning (or meadow) of Egypt
it is beyond the Jordan. 2 Samuel 1:19
19 “Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places!bHow the mighty have fallen!
2 Chronicles 35:25
25 cJeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all dthe singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.Jeremiah 9:17-21
17 Thus says the Lord of hosts:e“Consider, and call for the mourning women to come;
send for the skillful women to come;
18let them make haste fand raise a wailing over us,
gthat our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyelids flow with water.
19For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
h‘How we are ruined!
We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
20 Hear, O women, the word of the Lord,
and let your ear receive the word of his mouth;
teach to your daughters a lament,
and each to her neighbor a dirge.
21For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
icutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.
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