Jeremiah 22:10

Weep ye not for the dead. — With this verse begins the detailed review of the three previous reigns, the prophecies being reproduced as they were actually delivered. The “dead” for whom men are not to weep is Josiah, for whom Jeremiah had himself composed a solemn dirge, which seems from 2 Chronicles 35:25 to have been repeated on the anniversary of his death.

For him that goeth away. — This is obviously Jehoahaz, the son and successor of Josiah, who was deposed by Pharaoh-nechoh, and carried into Egypt (2 Kings 23:31; 2 Chronicles 36:2). The latter passage shows that he was younger than his successor, Jehoiakim, by two years. The doom of the exile who was to return no more was a fitter subject for lamentation than the death of the righteous king who died a warrior’s death (2 Kings 23:29), and was thus “taken away from the evil to come.”