## Radak on II Chronicles Chapter 36

###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:3:1
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**ויסירהו מלך מצרים בירושלם.** פי': ממלוך בירושלם; וכן כת' במלכים "ממלך בירושלם" (מ"ב כג,לג). ו"ברבלה בארץ חמת" הוא שאסרהו (שם) והסירו מהמלוכה:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**The king of Egypt deposed [Jehoahaz] in Jerusalem.** This means *from reigning* in Jerusalem. Indeed, in Kings it says “from reigning in Jerusalem” (2 Kgs 23:33). But it was “in Riblah in the region of Hamath” where he imprisoned him (ibid.) and deposed him from the kingship.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:6:1
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**להליכו בבלה.** ולא הוליכו, כי בדרך מת; ועליו נאמר "קבורת חמור יקבר סחוב והשלך" וגו' (יר' כב,יט). והנה כת' בדניאל "ויתן יי' בידו את יהויקים מלך יהודה ומקצת כלי בית האלהים ויביאם ארץ שנער" (דנ' א,ב)! אם כן הוליכו לבבל עם הכלים, ואחר כן השיבו לירושלם – כי אחת עשרה שנה מלך (לעיל פס' ה) – ואחר כן חזר ומרד בסוף ימיו; ותפשוהו הגדודים שם (מ"ב כד,א-ב), ומת בדרך בידם כמו שאמ' "סחוב והשלך". ופי' "להוליכו": והוליכו, כמו "להרגו בערמה" (שמ' כא,יד): והרגו:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**In order to bring [Jehoiakim] to Babylon.** But [Nebuchadnezzar] did not in fact bring him there, for Jehoiakim died on the way: it is about him that the text says, “He shall have the burial of an ass, dragged out and cast aside …” (Jer 22:19). However, the text says in Daniel: “The Lord delivered King Jehoiakim of Judah into his hands, together with some of the vessels of the House of God, and he brought them to the land of Shinar” (Dan 1:2)! If this is the case, then [Nebuchadnezzar] *did* bring him to Babylon, together with the vessels. Afterward, however, he brought him back to Jerusalem—Jehoiakim did, after all, reign for eleven years (v. 5)—and toward the end of his life, Jehoiakim started up again and rebelled. The troops then captured him there (2 Kgs 24:1–2) and he died on the way, while in their hands, as the text says, “dragged out and cast aside.” “In order to bring him,” then, means that they actually brought him, just as “to kill him treacherously” (Exod 21:14) means that he actually killed him.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:8:1
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**על ספר מלכי ישראל ויהודה.** זהו ספר ירמיהו; ושם ספר תועבותיו בפרשת "הוי בונה ביתו" (יר' כב,יג). כי בספר מלכים אין כת' מתועבותיו דבר, אלא בסתם: "ויעש הרע בעיני יי'" (מ"ב כג,לז):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**In the books of the kings of Israel and Judah.** This is the book of Jeremiah: it is there that [Jehoiakim’s] abominable deeds are recorded, in the passage [that begins], “Whoa to him who builds his house” (Jer 22:13). For in the book of Kings none of his abominable deeds are recorded, only the general [statement], “He did what was displeasing to the Lord” (2 Kgs 23:37).


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:9:1
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**בן שמונה שנים יהויכין.** ובספר מלכים כת' "בן שמנה עשרה שנה" (מ"ב כד,ח)! אפשר כי יהויקים אביו המליכו בשנה ראשונה שמלך הוא, שימלך תחתיו אחריו. והיה אז בן שמנה שנים, ועתה כשמלך אחר אביו – בן שמנה עשרה:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Jehoiachin was eight years old.** But in the book of Kings it says “eighteen years old” (2 Kgs 24:8)! It might be that his father Jehoiakim, in the first year of his own reign, designated him to be king, to reign after him in his place. So it was then that he was eight years old. But at this point, when he took over for his father as king, he was eighteen years old.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:10:1
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**את צדקיהו אחיו.** דודו היה, כמו שכת' בתחלת הספר הזה ביחשים (דה"א ג,טו-טז) ובספר מלכים (מ"ב כד,יז); אלא שהקרובים יקראו "אחים", כמו "כי אנשים אחים אנחנו" (בר' יג,ח), "את לוט אחיו" (בר' יד,טז) – והיה בן אחיו (בר' יב,ה):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**[Jehoiachin’s] brother Zedekiah.** He was really his uncle, as is recorded in the genealogies at the beginning of this book (1 Chr 3:15–16) and in the book of Kings (2 Kgs 24:17). But relatives can be called “brothers,” as in: “for we are brothers” (Gen 13:8), and in: “[Abraham’s] brother Lot” (Gen 14:16); for Lot was the *son* of Abraham’s brother (Gen 12:5).


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:16:1
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**מלעבים.** כמו: מלעיגים ומְתעתעים; תרג' "והייתי בעיניו כמתעתע" (בר' כז,יב) – "כמתלעב":

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
***Mal‘ivim* [*… u-mitta‘te‘im*].** This is akin to: *mal‘igim … u-mitta‘te‘im* (ומתעתעים; =mocking … and playing tricks). On [the phrase] “and I shall appear to him *ki-meta‘tea‘* (=as a trickster)” (Gen 27:12), the Targum renders *ke-mitla‘av*.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:16:2
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**במלאכי האלהים.** הם הנביאים, שהם שלוחי המקום יתברך:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**On the agents of God.** These are the prophets, who are messengers of God, may He be blessed.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:16:3
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**ומִתַּעְתְּעִים.** משפטו עם תי"ו התפעל: "ומתתעתעים":

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
***U-mitta‘te‘im* (ומִתַּעתעים; =and playing tricks).** In principle this would feature a *tav* signaling the Hitpael: ומִתְתַּעתעים.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:16:4
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**עד לאין מרפא.** כל כך הרבו לפשוע עד שנמנעה מהם התשובה, שהיא המרפא:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**To the point where it was beyond remedy.** [The Judeans] sinned so much that the option for repentance, which is the remedy, was taken away.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:17:1
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**זקן וישש.** בצר"י, כמו "ישיש" בחר"ק:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Elderly or *yashesh* (=aged)—**with a *ṣerei*. This is equivalent to *yashish*—with a *ḥireq*.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:20:1
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**לו ולבניו.** לבנו ולבן בנו:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**For [Nebuchadnezzar] and for his sons.** [This refers to] his son and his son’s son.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:20:2
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**עד מלך מלכות פרס.** והם נ"ב שנה מיום שגלו, עד רצתה הארץ את שבתותיה (להלן פס' כא); כי לא היתה הפקידה שלמה עד שנת שתים לדריוש בן אחשורוש, שמלאו לחרבות ירושלם שבעים שנה (דנ' ט,ב):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Until the rise of the Persian kingdom.** This amounts to fifty-two years from the day [the Judeans] were exiled, until the land paid back its sabbaths (v. 21). For it was not until the second year of Darius, when the seventy-year term for Jerusalem’s destruction was fulfilled (Dan 9:2), that [Israel] was fully remembered [by God] (cf. Jer 29:10).


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:22:1
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**וגם במכתב.** העביר כרוז בכל מלכותו, וגם שלח להם כתבים:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**And in writing.** [Cyrus] had this proclaimed orally throughout his kingdom, and he also sent documents.


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:23:1
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**והוא פקד עלי.** הוא צוה עלי. והיכן צוה עליו? אלא שהעיר את רוחו ונתן בלבו לשלח הגלות ו**לבנות לו בית בירושלם**. או צוה על ידי נביאו; וכן התנבא ישעיה "כה אמר יי' למשיחו לכורש" וכו' "אנכי העירתיהו בצדק וכל דרכיו אישר הוא יבנה עירי וגלותי ישלח לא במחיר ולא בשחד אמר יי' צבאות" (יש' מה,א,יג):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**And [God] *paqad ‘alay*.** [This means]: And He commanded me. But where did God command [Cyrus]? It is rather that He inspired him, prompting him to decide to let the exiled people go and **build Him a Temple in Jerusalem**. Alternatively, He commanded him through His prophets. Indeed, Isaiah prophesied, “Thus said the Lord to Cyrus, His anointed one … ‘It was I who inspired [Cyrus] to do the righteous thing and made all his ways just; he shall rebuild My city and let My exiled people go, not for any price or incentive,’ said the Lord of Hosts” (Isa 45:1, 13).


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:23:2
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**מי בכם מכל עמו יי' אלהיו עמו ויעל:**

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Any one of you of all His people, the Lord his God be with him and let him go up.**


###### Radak on II Chronicles 36:23:3
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נשלם פרוש דברי הימים

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
The commentary on Chronicles is thus completed.