John Trapp on Jeremiah 34:5

Ver. 5. But thou ſhalt dye in peace] Yet not as his Father Joſiah did, in that peace of God, unleſſe he amended his manners: for he was reckoned among the naughty figs.

And with the burnings of thy fathers the former Kings] With the uſual ſolemnities, at the exequies of the better ſort of Kings: Nec una fuit veteribus ſepeliendi ratio. See. 2 Chron. 16.14. & 21.19. The Jews have a tradition, that Nebuchadnezzar, upon a feſtival day, cauſed him to be brought out of priſon; and ſo abuſed him before his Princes to make them ſport, that for ſhame and grief thereof he dyed ſoon after:Joſeph. Antiq. lib. 10. c. 11. and then Nebuchadnezzar, to make him ſome recompence, cauſed him to be honourably buried: ſuffering his quondam-ſubjects to burn ſweet odours, and to bewail his death.

Flanctús haec fuit [illegible: 1 letter]ormula juxta Seder-Olam, He[illegible: 1 letter]! quia mortuus eſt Rex Zede [illegible: 1 letter] [illegible: 1 letter]as b[illegible: 1 letter]bens faeces omnium aetatum: i. e. Luens peccata priorum ſaeculorum, interprete Genebrardo. And they will lament thee] The dues of the dead are, honorifice lugeri & honeſte ſepeliri, to be honourably lamented and laid up: which yet is not granted to all good men; but heaven makes amends.

For I have pronounced the word] Both the comminatory part of this meſſage and the conſolatory. But Zedekiah was ſo moved at the former, that he regarded not the latter.