Weep ye not for the dead] viz. Josiah. The sense is that even his fate (as slain at Megiddo) is preferable to that of his son and successor Jehoahaz (Shallum) carried into hopeless captivity in Egypt: see 2 Kings 23:29. Lamentations for Josiah came to be a fixed custom (2 Chronicles 35:25).

13-23. Jehoiakim's evil deeds and fate.

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