Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 22:1

"Thus said Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word," — Jeremiah 22:1 (ASV)

Thus saith the Lord ... — The message, delivered in continuation of Jeremiah 21:0, and therefore probably as a follow-up to the answer to the messengers of Zedekiah (Jeremiah 21:1), reviews the history of the three preceding reigns, and apparently reproduces the very words of the warnings which he had uttered in each reign to the king who then ruled, and which had been only too terribly fulfilled. It was delivered, we are told, in the very palace of the king.