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text: Metzudat Zion on II Kings
  מצודת ציון על מלכים ב
  Sefaria Community Translation
  
  
  Metzudat Zion on II Kings
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Similar to the words "argument" or "clarification".
  A matter of mockery, as it says in (Shmuel I, 2:17) "the people disgraced"
  This is the place where the birthing women sit and so too in (Hosea 13:13) "the bithstool of the children"  
  
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  Perhaps, like it says in(shmuel bet chapter 16 verse 12: perhaps Hashem will see in my eyes:
  Proof(as in against Hashem.)
  
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  Blasphemed 
  
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  desire. As it says in :(Ezekiel 1, 12): "wherever there will be a will to go"
  
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  He will incite and tempt you
  
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  Open, like it says: (Zechariah 12, 4):"He opened my eyes."
  
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  I dug in another area, from the meaning of (Mishli 30,17) " You shall dig near a river", that thing means dug and split the ground.
  Wash, like in (Chabkook 3,10)  " The tempest of waters floweth over."
  From the meaning of sun and dry.
  My feet.
  It refers to a forest and a river.
  Referring to siege, and is from the meaning of rock.
  
  Verse 25
  
  From the meaning of Shia and dreariness, like in (Eiyov 30, 3) " The holocaust last nigh and from the holocaust."
  Is referring to Tel.
  Flowers, like in (Shir Hashirim 7, 13): " Budding pomegranates."
  
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  They were broken
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  provoking
  
  Verse 28
  
  And...is the language of noise and crooding:
  Is the ring is placed in the mouth of the animal whose business bad, hold his hand, and your cheeks and gave Contractsthe animals mouth:
  And switches. Is a kind of restraint, such as Switch to a donkey:
  
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  It is that which grows from a seed that has fallen, as it says in (Vayikra 25, 5) : After-growth of your harvest :
  
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  Sent out (as in shoot).
  It will not arrange troops out before the city, because the translation of "before", is "advance upon", and so to as it is written in Micah, chapter 6, verse 6: With what will I advance upon to Hashem. 
  It is a gathering of dirt that is poured along the city walls, to climb up and fight, and so to as it is written in Jeremiah, chapter 6, verse 6: and the poured on Jerusalem a siege ramp.