## Radak on II Chronicles Chapter 29

###### Radak on II Chronicles 29:5:1
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**והוציאו את הנדה מן הקדש.** הרחוק, והוא הע"ז – המזבח שנתן שם אחז. וכן "מי נדה" (במ' יט,ט) שֵם:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**And remove the *niddah* from the holy place.** [This means] the repulsiveness; that is, the idolatry: the altar that Ahaz had placed there. In “The waters of *niddah* (=detachment)” (Num 19:9) also, [*niddah*] is a noun.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 29:11:1
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**אל תשלו.** מתרגום "שגגה" (וי' ד,ב) – "שלו", כלומ': לא יהיה לכם שגגה ושכחה בדבר לטהר בית האלהים:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Do not *tishalu*.** This is akin to *shalu*, the Targum’s rendering of *shegagah* (=error; Lev 4:2). [The phrase] means: You should not commit any errors or oversights in the matter of the purification of the House of God (v. 15).


###### Radak on II Chronicles 29:15:1
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**לטהר.** את בית האלהים:


###### Radak on II Chronicles 29:19:1
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**אשר הזניח.** אשר הרחיק, כלומ': ששמש בהם לע"ז:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**That *hizniaḥ*.** [This means]: that [Ahaz] caused to be distanced. That is, he used them for idolatry.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 29:19:2
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**הכנו והקדשנו והנם לפני מזבח יי'.** לפי פשוטו "הכנו" – שטהרנו אותם, והקדשנום ליי' כבתחלה. אבל רבותי' ז"ל (ב' ע"ז נב,ב) פרשו "הכנו": גנזנו אותם, כי לא היו ראוים עוד לשרת בהם ליי', ו"הקדשנו" פי': הקדשנו אחרים תחתיהם:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
***Hekhannu* (=we have made ready/have designated) *ve-hiqdashnu* (=and we have consecrated); they are standing in front of the altar of the Lord.** The plain sense is as follows: “We have made them ready” in the sense of having purified them, and we “have consecrated” them for the Lord as in the beginning. However, our Sages, of blessed memory (b. Avodah Zarah 52b), explain *hekhannu* to mean “we have hid them away”—for they were no longer worthy to be used in the service of the Lord—and *hiqdashnu* to mean “we have consecrated others in their place.”


###### Radak on II Chronicles 29:21:1
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**על הממלכה ועל המקדש ועל יהודה.** לכפר עליהם, כי כלם היו צריכים כפרה:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**For the kingdom and for the Sanctuary and for Judah**—to atone for them, for they all required atonement.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 29:24:1
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**כי לכל ישראל.** בעבור כל ישראל **אמר** להקריב **העולה והחטאת**:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Because *le-kol* Israel.** [This means]: *For the sake of* all Israel, **[Hezekiah] said** to bring **the burnt-offering and the sin-offering.**


###### Radak on II Chronicles 29:28:1
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**והשיר משורר והחצצרות מחצצרים.** הצד"י השניה ב"מחצצרים" איננה נקראת. ופי' "השיר": בעל השיר משורר; או: לשון "משורר" על השיר – והוא פעל עומד – כאלו אמ' "משתורר". וכן "וחצצרות מחצצרים":

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**The song *meshorer* and the trumpets *maḥṣe rim* (מחצצרים; =were playing).** The second *ṣadei* in מחצצרים** is not pronounced. [When the text says] “the song,” it means that the *one designated for* song *meshorer* (=was singing). Alternatively, the word *meshorer* refers to the song, and it is an intransitive verb: it is as though the text had said *mishtorer* (=was being sung). The same applies for: “and the trumpets *maḥṣerim*.”


###### Radak on II Chronicles 29:31:1
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**וכל נדיב לב עלות.** לפי שהעולות אינן כזבחים ותודות, כי הזבחים והתודות נאכלין לבעלים והעולות היו כלם כליל, אמ' בהבאת העולות "כל נדיב לב":

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**And all those charitably inclined—burnt offerings.** Because burnt offerings are not like [peace] offerings and offerings of thanksgiving, for [the latter two] are eaten by their owner whereas burnt offerings are burnt in their entirety, the text says concerning the bringing of burnt offerings, “all those charitably inclined.”


###### Radak on II Chronicles 29:34:1
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**ויחזקום אחיהם הלוים.** עזרום להפשיט, ובזה חזקו אותם וזרזו אותם למהר להתקדש; ואע"פ שמקבלת הדם ואילך מצות כהונה (ב' בר' לא,ב), שעת הדחק היה זה. ועזרו הלוים את הכהנים להפשיט כי הם התקדשו, כמו שאומ' **כי הלוים ישרי לבב להתקדש מהכהנים**:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**[The priests’] kinsmen, the Levites, motivated them.** They helped [the priests] with the flaying, and in this way they motivated them, prompting them to hurry and sanctify themselves. For even though the priests are commanded to do everything from the catching of the blood onward (b. Berakhot 31b), this was an emergency. The Levites helped the priests with the flaying because they *had* sanctified themselves, as the text says, “**The Levites were more conscientious about sanctifying themselves than the priests**.”


###### Radak on II Chronicles 29:36:1
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**על ההכין האלהים לעם.** כמו "אשר הכין":

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Over *ha-hekhin ha-Elohim la-‘am*.** This is akin to: *asher hekhin* (=*that which* [God] enabled [the nation] to accomplish).