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text: Metzudat David on II Kings
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  Metzudat David on II Kings
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Bring me a minstrel: To make me happy with his song, because of the anger Elisha had towards Yehoram, he did not receive prophecy, for prophecy is only received in happiness, and anger brings sadness
  When (the minstrel) played: When the minstrel began to play, the spirit of prophecy came to him (Elisha)
  
  
  
  
  
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  Our sages of blessed memory said that this "certain" woman was the wife of Ovadia and the collector of the loan was Yehoram son of Achav, for in his lifetime Achav had lent her money with interest in order to  financially support the prophets.
  
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  The blessing will settle on him
  Nothing at all
  
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  From people outside your house, and as an additional clarification, he said to her, "from every single one of you're neighbors".
  
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  Do not ask for a little, for there are a lot of vessels
  
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  They brought her the empty vessels because she didn't move from her place with her oil jug
  
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  that she had borrowed
  
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  What is left of the oil goes to your debt
  
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  He wanted to say, come on the day that Elisha passed through Sunam
  
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  I recognize that he is a holy man, and it is not important enough to sit with us on the table, and he said to the congregation "remember to bless and the women remember about the guests over the men.
  
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  To get lonely in his room; alone
  
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  Come today and then go there after you went up
  
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  He didn't want to speak with the woman face to face.
  As if to say, 'I dwell among my family and nobody wants to harm us, and i don't need anyone's help to antagonize someone.'
  
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  After she went before him, to Gehzi, and what is this kindness they are doing to her.
  Truthfully, he had the right to be kind, because she had no son, and she was an old woman , and by the way of nature she cant give birth again and if you give birth to another son it would be a great gift.
  
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  When she saw that he wasn't speaking to her face to face, she distanced herself and stood out in the doorway
  
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  As if to say, in the time to come, at the time it is appropriate to be "alive" ( meaning a woman who is giving birth) and at the end of nine months are the days of pregnancy.
  
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  According to what Elisha said
  
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   That same day he went out to his father while he was standing next to the reapers.
  
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  I have pain in my head, and the word was doubled in the manner of  someone who is groaning with pain, like it says my bowels, my bowels I write in pain.
  
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  Tied the saddle. 
  Ride the donkey and go and don't delay for my sake (thinking) that I may want to mount  it, but when I tell you stop, stop.
  
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  From a distance.
  As if to say, the following one is the Shunamit. 
  
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  Then he asked her, she said to him all is well, and she didn't want to reveal it to him also.
  
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  In the passing of the Navi's honor, do not hold his leg.
  Give to her weakness and don't thrust her away, because it has been done by her bitter soul, and I didn't know because Hashem hid it from me in this time, and also now it was not told to me.
  
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  And did I ask for a son until you forced me to promise something that I couldn't do. 
  
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  To go quick but cautiously
  In order that you do not delay in root
  
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  I will forsake you, not to go with you
  
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  he went infront of them
  our rabbis of blessed memory say, that gehazi didn't listen to the words of the prophet, and he was also bragging on the way, saying that he was going to revive the dead.
  it's the same thing, for when there is no voice there isn't anything to listen to, it is double language but in different words
  
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  on the bed
  it was the influence of his vital organs invigorating the vital organs of the lad 
  
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  he got off the bed again
  once to cover this an once to cover that
  the child didnt wake up until the seventh time
  
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  put the pot on a cooking place and cook food in it
  
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  from the fruit of a species of wild vines that are great in the feild and of the fruits that are poisinous 
  he cut them into peices and put them in the pot because he did not recognize it that it was a poisinous thing.
  
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  as if to say and there was something, because up until now, there hadn't been anything poisonous or deadly (in the pot)
  now he poured it onto the dish and they ate
  
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  soft and full sheaves, like they were still in their husks
  bread that was made from the first harvest, there were 20 (loaves) of them, and they were made from species of barley
  
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  there would be enough food for all of them, and there would also be some left over
  as if to say there is very little [food] here
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  It is taught in Seder Olam that in the 27th year of Jeraboam, Azariah was afflicted with Leprosy and he reigned an afflicted kingdom. However, the beginning of Azariah's reign began in the same year Jeraboam began to rule. (NOT DONE)
  
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  15 in the life of his father and 37 after the death of his father.
  
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  In Chronicles it says that Azariah came to the Beit Hamikdash out of anger with the priests and gave incense despite the priests' objections.
  As if to say, he resigned as leader of the kingdom, and was exempt from work. And this is like what our rabbis say, may they be remembered for a blessing, that kingship is like slavery because of the large amount of work required.
  he was appointed over the palace as a judge who judged the nation in place of the king.
  
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  Jeroboam was king 3 years in the life of his father and 38 years after the death of his father, in total 41 years. His term ended in the 38th year of Azariah, because the beginning of Azariah's reign  during his father's reign and the beginning of Jeraboam's reign from the death of his father happened at the same time. If so, Jeraboam reigned for three years prior to the reign of Azariah in his father's life, and he ruled in his 41st year during the 38th year of Azariah's reign, and then Zechariah took over.
  
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  When Jehoachaz, Joash, Jeraboam, and Zechariah reigned, their royal bloodline ceased.
  
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  Because Zechariah reigned for 38 years during Uziah's reign, and he reigned for 6 more months, and Shalum reigned during the 39th year of Uziah.
  
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  From across Tirzah.
  On the matter that the guards of Tiphsah did not open the gates of the city to gain entry to it. This is the reason he smote Tiphsah and it's borders that were across Tirzah.
  He opened the stomachs of the pregnant women to extract their fetuses.
  
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  It wanted to say, after 39 years passed at Azariah, Shallum reigned at the end of Azariah's 39th year and was killed after a month. And in the next year at the end of Azariah's 39th year and the beginning of the 40th year Menachem ruled.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The enemy is praising his success, saying his hand is better than mine.
  Blaspheming God with words of disgrace.
  An analogy for the generation, like a woman kneeling to give birth to a child on the birthing stone, and she doesn't have the strength to give birth.
  
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  The name of God that listens to pleas.
  argues things which god hears
  as if to say, "for this I asked of your nation to recite a prayer to God
  The rest of Jews that remained in Jerusalem, because they had already conquered every type of city in Judah.
  
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  I will awaken his desire to leave from here, he will hear a rumor that the King of Ethiopia was moving out toward war against Assyria.
  
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  That were sent: The messages that were brought by the messenger.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  after 3 years.
  
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  He awoken the hearts of the armies of  the Chaldeans etc..., so that they will bring war to Judah.
  According to the [extended] timespan of the events, therefore it went back and said "He sent them", for this was typical (grammar) for scriptures.
  
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  To anoint a king over Judah just like he anointed Yehoyakim 
  
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  they built ramparts around it to conquer it, just like it appears in the verse Deuteronomy 20:20 "and you shall build fortifications..." and it is called 'matzor' because it besieges and distresses the nation that is in it.
  
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  They surround them to besiege the nation.
  
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  Gave himself  up so he could do what he wanted, thinking that he would have compassion on  him because of his surrender.
  
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  cut off and peeled the gold from the vessels
  
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  And in Jeremiah it says that the [exiled] Jews were 3,023 persons?! And [Yet] it meant to say: 'This calculation was regarding the population of Judah ', And the remainder were from the children of Benjamin and the rest of the tribes which lived in Jerusalem, and that's why it says somewhere else '7000', so that altogether they were 10,000, and they did not care to include the other 23 that were mentioned in Jeremiah.
  
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  Referring to the soldiers, not about the tradesmen and the gate guards.		
  
  
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  Since the wrath of Hashem in Jerusalem and in Yehuda became great, until the point when he cast them away from his face, and for this reason he roused the heart of Tzedkiah to rebel against the King of Bavel so that there will be a reason to cast them away from his face.       