Jeremiah 22:3
22:3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and {a}
     righteousness, and deliver him that is laid waste out of
     the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence
     to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither
     shed innocent blood in this place.

     (a) This was his ordinary manner of preaching before the
         kings from Josiah to Zedekiah which was about forty
         years.

Jeremiah 22:5
22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I {b} swear by myself,
     saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

     (b) Showing that there is no one greater than he is,
         Hebrews 6:13 and that he will most certainly perform
         his oath.

Jeremiah 22:6
22:6 For thus saith the LORD to the king's house of Judah; Thou
     [art] {c} Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet]
     surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities [which]
     are not inhabited.

     (c) He compares Jerusalem to Gilead which was beyond Jordan
         and the beauty of Judea to Lebanon.

Jeremiah 22:7
22:7 And I will {d} prepare destroyers against thee, every one
     with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice
     {e} cedars, and cast [them] into the fire.

     (d) The Hebrew word signifies to sanctify because the Lord
         dedicates to his use and purpose such as he prepares to
         execute his work, Isaiah 13:3, Jeremiah 6:4,12:3.
     (e) Your buildings made from cedar trees.

Jeremiah 22:8
22:8 {f} And many nations shall pass by this city, and they
     shall say every man to his neighbour, Why hath the LORD
     done thus to this great city?

     (f) As they who wonder at a thing which they thought would
         never have come to pass, Deuteronomy 29:24, 1 Kings 9:8.

Jeremiah 22:10
22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but] weep
      bitterly for him {g} that goeth away: for he shall return
      no more, nor see his native country.

      (g) Signifying that they would lose their king: for
          Jehoiachin went forth to meet Nebuchadnezzar and
          yielded himself, and was carried into Babylon,
          2 Kings 24:12.

Jeremiah 22:11
22:11 For thus saith the LORD concerning {h} Shallum the son of
      Josiah king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his
      father, who went forth from this place; He shall not
      return there any more:

      (h) Whom some think to be Jehoiachin and that Josiah was
          his grandfather: but it seems this was Jehoiakim, as
          in Jeremiah 22:18.

Jeremiah 22:13
22:13 Woe to him that buildeth his house by {i} unrighteousness,
      and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's
      service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

      (i) By bribes and extortion.

Jeremiah 22:15
22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar?
      did not thy {k} father eat and drink, and do judgment and
      justice, [and] then [it was] well with him?

      (k) Meaning Josiah, who was not given to ambition and
          superfluity, but was content with mediocrity, and only
          delighted in setting forth God's glory, and to do
          justice to all.

Jeremiah 22:18
22:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son
      of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for {l}
      him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall
      not lament for him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

      (l) For everyone will have enough to lament for himself.

Jeremiah 22:19
22:19 He shall be {m} buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn
      and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

      (m) Not honourably among his fathers, but as carrion are
          cast in a hole, because their stink should not infect,
          read 1 Kings 14:10.  Josephus writes that the enemy
          slew him in the city and commanded him to be cast
          before the walls unburied, see Jeremiah 36:30.

Jeremiah 22:20
22:20 Go up to {n} Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in
      {o} Bashan, and cry from the passes: for all thy lovers
      are destroyed.

      (n) To call to the Assyrians for help.
      (o) For this was the way out of India to Assyria, by which
          is meant that all help would fail: for the Chaldeans
          have subdued both them and the Egyptians.

Jeremiah 22:22
22:22 The wind shall eat up all thy shepherds, {p} and thy
      lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be
      ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

      (p) Both your governors and they that would help you will
          vanish away as wind.

Jeremiah 22:23
22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the {q}
      cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon
      thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

      (q You that are built of the fair cedar trees of Lebanon.

Jeremiah 22:24
22:24 [As] I live, saith the LORD, though {r} Coniah the son of
      Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right
      hand, yet would I pluck thee from there;

      (r) Who was called Jehoiachin or Jeconiah, whom he calls
          here Coniah in contempt who thought his kingdom could
          never depart from him, because he came of the stock of
          David, and therefore for the promise sake could not be
          taken from his house, but he abused God's promise and
          therefore was justly deprived of the kingdom.

Jeremiah 22:29
22:29 O {s} earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

      (s) He shows that all posterity will be witnesses of his
          just plague, as though it were registered for
          perpetual memory.

Jeremiah 22:30
22:30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this {t} man childless, a
      man [that] shall not prosper in his days: for no man of
      his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David,
      and ruling any more in Judah.

      (t) Not that he had no children (for later he begat
          Salathiel in the captivity, Matthew 1:12) but that
          none would reign after him as king.