## Ibn Ezra on Isaiah Chapter 20

###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:1:1
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**בשלוח. סרגון.** יתכן היותו סנחריב או אחר:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
*Sargon*.¹ Either Sennacherib or another Assyrian king.

footnotes:
¹ According to Niebuhr (Geschichte Assurs und Babels, p. 160 ff.) Sargon is the name of a king between Tiglath Pileser and Sennacherib, and identical with Shalmaneser.


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:1:2
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ואשדוד היתה לפלשתים:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
*Ashdod*. A place belonging to the Philistines.


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:2:1
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**בעת. ופתחת השק.** לאות כי הנביא היה לובש שקל, וזאת שאלה קשה, איך ילך הנביא ערום להיות לאות על מצרים, ואני אפרשנה בתחלת תרי עשר בעזרת השם:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
*And loose the sackcloth*, etc. This shows that the prophet wore sackcloth. It would be a strange thing that the prophet should have gone naked, as a sign for Egypt. I shall explain this circumstance, with the help of the Lord, at the beginning of the minor prophets (Hos. 1:1).²

footnotes:
² I. E. explains this as a vision. Isaiah saw in a vision that he was going naked, as a symbol for Egypt; as Hosea saw in a vision himself marrying a harlot, and having children by her, to whom be gave symbolical names as allusions to the fate of his people.


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:3:1
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**ויאמר.** אות, ומופת, כמו (יחזקאל כ"ד כ"ד) והיה יחזקאל לכם למפת:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
ומופת *And an example*.³³ Comp. And Ezekiel shall be unto you an example (Ez. 24:24).

footnotes:
³ A. V., Wonder, sign.
³ A. V., Wonder, sign.


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:3:2
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וטעם **שלש שנים.** לשלש שנים מהיום או שלש שנים יהיה מצרים ברעה:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
שלש שנים וגו׳ Either in three years from that day,⁴ or three years, shall Egypt be in misfortune.

footnotes:
⁴ בעוד שלש שנים═שלש שנים.


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:4:1
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**כן.** גלות כוש, שבאו לעזרם:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
*Ethiopia*, that came to help them.


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:4:2
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**וחשופי.** בעבור שהנביא הלך ערום או שהשם חשפם:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
וַחְַשׁוּפַי *And my naked people*.⁵ The first person refers either to the prophet, the people whose nakedness he indicated by going naked, or to God; the people whom God hath made bare.⁶

footnotes:
⁵ A. V., And uncovered
⁶ I. E. considers the ending –ַי in וחשופַי as a pronominal suffix of the first person. It is generally believed to be equivalent to וחשופֵי, the construct state of the plural חשופים.


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:4:3
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**שת.** הוא האחור הגזרת עד שתותיהם (שמואל ב' י' ד'):

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
שת *The back*. Comp. 2 Sam. 10:14.


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:4:4
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**ערות מצרים.** זאת ערות מצרים, או מלת וחשופי שת מושכת עצמה ואחרת עמה:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
ערות מצרים Either, To the shame of Egypt; or join וחשופי, mentioned before, also to ערות, so that ערות מצרים is in apposition to .⁷שת

footnotes:
⁷ According to the first explanation ערות מצרים refers to the whole sentence. All the preceding will be to the disgrace of Egypt; according to the second, it is the complement to וחשופי uncovered with regard to their nakedness.


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:5:1
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**וחתו.** ישראל הבורחים אל מצרים:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
*And they shall be afraid*. The Israelites, that flee to Egypt, will fear.


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:5:2
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**מכוש מבטם.** שעיניהם תלויות אליהם:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
*Their expectation*. The country to which their eyes are directed for help.


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:5:3
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**תפארתם.** שהיו מתפארין בם:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
*Their glory*. Of whom—that is, of whose alliance—they were proud.


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:6:1
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**ואמר.** היושב באיי הים סביבות מצרים מישראל:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
*The inhabitant of this isle*. The Israelites, who live in these islands near Egypt, will say,


###### Ibn Ezra on Isaiah 20:6:2
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**הנה.** כן אירע לאלה שנסנו אליהם:

**Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873:**
This has happened to those to whom we fled, etc.⁸

footnotes:
⁸ The last two verses are generally referred to Ashdod, which, being situated on the sea, and commanding the islands, is called אי island.