O kings of Judah. — The plural seems used to include both the reigning king, Jehoiakim, and his heir-apparent or presumptive.
His ears shall tingle. — The phrase, occurring as it does in 1 Samuel 3:11, in the prophecy of the doom of the earlier sanctuary, seems intentionally used to remind those who heard it of the fate that had fallen on Shiloh. The destruction of the first sanctuary of Israel was to be the type of that of the second (Psalms 78:60; Jeremiah 7:14). The phrase had, however, been used more recently (2 Kings 21:12).