ADADREMMON (Hebrew Hadadrimmōn). - A word that occurs only in Zach. 12:11, where the prophet, foretelling the death of the Messiah (v. 10), compares the mourning that will then prevail to the "mourning of Hadad-Rimmön in the valley of Mëghiddön."
According to St. Jerome (In Zach. 12:11; PL 25, 1515), A. would be the locality of Maximianopolis, today
Rummanèh near Megiddo (v. MAGEDDO), where King Josiah died in battle: which produced a profound national mourning (2 Chron. 35:24-25). This identification is upheld by A. Legendre (DB, I, cols. 167-70) and by many others. But observing that A. as a locality does not appear in any other source and that Megiddo is not Megiddo, Van Hoonacker, relying on the Septuagint, which read only Rimmón without Adad, corrects the text: "Like the mourning of Rimmón in the valley of Migrón" (the interchange between r and d in the Hebrew text is not rare). Rimmón (Vulgate Remmon) is a rock that rises near Migrón (Vulgate Magron) on the road to Gibeah (1 Sam. 14:1; Judg. 20:45-47; 21:13). On that rock the 600 Benjamites who escaped the massacre of the tribe took refuge (Judg. 20-21); to this mourning Zach. would compare the mourning for the death of the Messiah (A. Van Hoonacker, Les 22 petits Prophètes, Paris 1908, p. 683 ff.).
On the many textual and exegetical hypotheses concerning the messianic "weeping of A.," cf. G. F. Re, Dizionario di erudizione biblica, I, Turin 1891, pp. 319-24, who rightly rejects the allusion to the "mourning of Adonis," upheld by many critics after Hitzig, Reuss and Wellhausen.
For the exegesis of Zach. 12:10-11, cf. A. Skrinjar, in Verbum Domini, 11 (1931), pp. 233-42.
Gaetano M. Perrella