## Radak on II Chronicles Chapter 10

###### Radak on II Chronicles 10:6:1
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**איך אתם נועצים.** פי': איך אתם נועצים בעצמכם לתת לי עצה?:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**How are you advised.** This means: [When deliberating] among yourselves, what advice occurs to you to relay to me?


###### Radak on II Chronicles 10:7:1
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**להעם הזה.** עם ה"א הידיעה כמשפט; וברב היא חסרה להקל:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
***Le-ha-‘am ha-zeh* (=to this nation)—**with a definite *hei*, as is warranted, even though it is usually omitted to ease [pronunciation].


###### Radak on II Chronicles 10:14:1
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**לאמר אכביד את עלכם.** היה לו לומר "אבי הכביד את עלכם **ואני אוסיף עליו**"! אלא פרושו עם הסתר דבר, וכה משפטו: אכביד עלכם כאשר הכביד אבי, ואני אוסיף עליו. או אל"ף "אכביד" במקום ה"א, והוא מקור, כמו "אברך" (בר' מא,מג), "אשכם" (יר' כה,ג), שהאל"ף בהם במקום ה"א; ופי': אבי אמ' להכביד עלכם, ואני אוסיף עליו:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**And said: *Akhbid et ‘ullekhem*.** [Rehoboam] should have said: “My father *hikhbid et ‘ullekhem* (=made your yoke heavy), **and I will add to what he did**”! To explain [the verse], therefore, [we must assign to it] some elided material, as follows: *Akhbid ‘ullekhem* (=I will make your yoke heavy) *just as my father did*, only I will add to what he did. Alternatively, the *alef* in *akhbid* (**אכביד**) is in place of a *hei*, and this is an infinitive—similar to *avrekh* (**אברך**; =to kneel; Gen 41:43) and *ashkem* (**אשכם**; =persisting; Jer 25:3)—so that the meaning is: My father decided *le-hakhbid ‘ullekhem* (=to make your yoke heavy), and I will add to what he did.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 10:15:1
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**כי היתה נסבה מעם האלהים.** ובספר מלכים: "כי היתה סבה" (מ"א יב,טו); והוא שם. וזה נפעל עומד, שהוא כתאר; רוצ' לומ' כי היתה גזרה נסבה מאת האלהים שישמע לעצת הילדים:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**For it was *nesibbah* from God.** In the book of Kings [it says], “For it was *sibbah* (=an orchestrated occurrence)” (1 Kgs 12:15), which is a noun. But *nesibbah* is a Niphal that does not denote an action, which is akin to an adjective: the text means to say that there was a *gezerah nesibbah* (=preordained decree) on the part of God that [Rehoboam] would listen to the advice of the young ones.