22:8-10
Judah wanted to be like other nations, this was the very reason that they had wanted a king in the first place. So often the church plays the same game, but it will all come to nothing. Jerusalem would be destroyed, the nations would ask why and would know the reason. They would be wiser than the people of Judah! For they would see that it was because Judah had abandoned her God and worshipped idols. The dead king who was mourned was Josiah, the one who would die in exile was Jehoahaz/Shallum.
22:11-14
Shallum had been carried off to Egypt and there he would die. Then we get another telling of why these things were happening. It was because the kings were building by unrighteousness and injustice. Rulers who do this will eventually come to a sticky end. They also exploited their workers, not paying them their proper wages. They thought their plans would bring them wealth, but they would only bring disaster.
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