## Radak on II Chronicles Chapter 34

###### Radak on II Chronicles 34:3:1
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**ובשמונה שנים למלכו.** באותה שנה עצמה שמלך, שהיתה שמינית לו:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**In the eighth year, when [Josiah] became king.** [This means]: in the very year that he became king, which was his eighth.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 34:3:2
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**ובשתים עשרה שנה החל לטהר.** אבל לא כלה עד שמנה עשרה למלכו אחר שמצא הספר (להלן פס' ח, יד), כי אז כלה לטהר הכל (פס' לג):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**In the twelfth year he began to purge.** But he did not finish until the eighteenth year of his reign, after finding the scroll (vv. 8, 14): it was then that he finished purging everything (v. 33).


###### Radak on II Chronicles 34:4:1
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**על פני הקברים הזבחים להם.** חסר הנסמך: "הקברים קברי הזובחים להם", כמו "הארון הברית" (יה' ג,יד), "העם המלחמה" (יה' ח,יא), והדומים להם:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Onto the graves, *ha-zoveḥim la-hem* (=those who sacrificed to them).** The noun in the construct state is elided: the graves, *qivrei ha-zoveḥim la-hem* (=*the graves of* those who sacrificed to them). This is akin to *ha-aron ha-berit* (=the Ark, [the Ark of] the Covenant; Jos 3:14), *ha-‘am ha-milḥamah* (=the people, [the people of] the battle; Jos 8:11), and those like them.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 34:6:1
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**בחרבתיהם סביב.** הם המקבות שהיו נותצים בהם המזבחות. וכן "ומגדלותיך יתץ בחרבותיו" (יח' כו,ט):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**With their *ḥaravot* (=instruments of destruction).** These are the hatchets with which they would smash the altars. The same is true for: “and will smash your towers with *ḥaravot*” (Ezek 26:9).


###### Radak on II Chronicles 34:7:1
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**כתת לְהֵדַק.** כמו "לְהָדֵק", או מבנין נפעל:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**He ground *le-hedaq* (=into fine bits).** This is the equivalent of *le-hadeq*, or it is a form of the Niphal.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 34:8:1
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**ובשנת שמונה עשרה למלכו לטהר הארץ והבית.** פי': חשב לכלות טהרת הארץ והבית, ו**שלח את שפן לחזק את** בדק הבית:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**In the eighteenth year of his reign, to purge the land and the Temple.** This means: *He decided* to complete the purging of the land and the Temple, and he in turn **commissioned Shaphan son of Azaliah to repair** the Temple.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 34:19:1
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**ויקרע את בגדיו.** אמרו כי מצאו הספר שהיה נגלל בפרשת תוכחות: "יולך יי' אותך ואת מלכך אשר תקים עליך" וגו' (דב' כח,לו):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**[Josiah] tore his clothes.** [The Sages] say (cf. b. Yoma 52b) that the scroll was found rolled to the chapter of the admonitions: “The Lord will drive [out] you and the king whom you have set over you …” (Deut 28:36).


###### Radak on II Chronicles 34:22:1
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**ואשר המלך.** פי': ואשר צוה המלך ללכת עם חלקיהו לדרש את יי':

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
***Va-asher ha-melekh*.**This means: *va-asher ṣivvah ha-melekh* (=and those whom the king *ordered*) to go with Hilkiah to seek the advice of the Lord.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 34:22:2
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**במשנה.** בבית המדרש. וכן "את משנה התורה" (דב' יז,יח) – למוד התורה:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**In the *mishneh*.** [This means]: in the house of study. Similarly, *et mishneh ha-Torah* (Deut 17:18) means the teachings of the Torah.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 34:31:1
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**על עמדו.** ובספר מלכים "על העמוד" (מ"ב כג,ג); רוצ' לומ' שעמד על רגליו סמוך לעמוד. ויונתן תרגם "העמוד": "אסטוונא", וכבר פרשנוהו למעלה (ב כג,יג):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**In his place.** In the book of Kings, however, [it says], “on the *‘ammud*” (2 Kgs 23:3). What is meant, then, is that [Josiah] stood on his feet, *near* the *‘ammud* (=pillar). But Targum Jonathan renders “the *‘ammud*”: *istevana* (=the stand). We have already explained this above (2 Chr 23:13).


###### Radak on II Chronicles 34:33:1
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**ויעבד את כל הנמצא בישראל.** ואחר כן פרש מה עבודה העבידם – **לעבוד את יי'**:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**And he imposed upon all who were in Israel to worship.** The text then continues to explain the worship that he imposed on them—**to worship the Lord**.