Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Kings 22:19

"because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before Jehovah, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah." — 2 Kings 22:19 (ASV)

Tender. —See 1 Chronicles 29:1; 1 Chronicles 13:7; Deuteronomy 20:8.

You have humbled yourself. —Compare the behaviour of Ahab (1 Kings 21:27 and following).

Become a desolation and a curse. —See Jeremiah 44:22. “A curse” is not so much an instance of causa pro effectu (Thenius), as a specification of the type such as would be made in blessing and cursing. (Genesis 48:20; Ruth 4:11–12.)