## Rashi on I Kings Chapter 14

###### Rashi on I Kings 14:3:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:3:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:3:1)

**וְנִקֻּדִים.** מִין קְלָיוֹת, מְיַבְּשִׁין בְּתַנּוּר וְעוֹשִׂין אוֹתָן קֶמַח לַעֲשׂוֹת מִמֶּנּוּ מַאֲכָל, שֶׁקּוֹרִין לוֹ שְׁתִיתָא בִּלְשׁוֹן גְּמָרָא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Biscuits.** A type of parched grain, dried in an oven, and they make flour from it to make it into a dish called שתיתא, in the language of the Gemara.¹

footnotes:
¹ It was a custom in those days to give a prophet a present before asking him a question. See I Shmuel 9:7,8.—Ralbag


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:5:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:5:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:5:1)

**וְהִיא מִתְנַכֵּרָה.** כְּאִלּוּ אֵינָהּ זֹאת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**She will be in disguise.** As though it was not she.


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:6:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:6:1)

**שָׁלוּחַ אֵלַיִךְ.** מֵאֵת הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא בִּשְׁלִיחוּת קָשָׁה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Sent to tell you.** From the Holy One Blessed Is He, with a harsh message.


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:10:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:10:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:10:1)

**מַשְׁתִּין בְּקִיר.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: יָדַע מַדָּע, מֵשִׁית בְּקִירוֹת לִבּוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Male child.** [Targum] Yonoson rendered, “one who knows knowledge,” [i.e.,] he who places it into the walls of his heart.²³

footnotes:
² See I Shmuel 25:22.
³ Alternatively, משתין בקיר refers to a dog who urinates on walls, i.e., the prophet is prophesying that the destruction will be so severe, that so much as a dog will not be left when the house of Yerovom is destroyed.—Radak


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:10:2
[Rashi on I Kings 14:10:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:10:2)

**עָצוּר וְעָזוּב.** עָצוּר שֶׁיֵּשׁ לוֹ מַחֲזִיק יָד, כְּמוֹ: זֶה יַעְצֹר בְּעַמִּי, וְעָזוּב, שֶׁאֵין לוֹ מַחֲזִיק בַּיָּד.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Any that are restrained and that are abandoned.** עצור is one who has someone restraining him, as in, “This one will rule over My people.”⁴ And עזוב is one who has no one restraining him.

footnotes:
⁴ I Shmuel 9:17.


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:10:3
[Rashi on I Kings 14:10:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:10:3)

**כַּאֲשֶׁר יְבַעֵר.** הַמְבַעֵר אֶת הַמַּאֲכָל בְּפִיו, לַעֲשׂוֹת גָּלָל, כָּךְ אֲבָעֵר אַחֲרָיו עַד תֻּמּוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**As one removes.** As the one who digests food which [eventually] becomes dung,⁵ so will I expunge after him until he is totally consumed.⁶

footnotes:
⁵ Alternatively, גלל means “tooth,” which consumes food completely.—Radak
⁶ Alternatively, “I will completely remove the house of Yerovom, as one who sweeps out dung until it is thoroughly cleaned out.—Metzudas Dovid


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:13:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:13:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:13:1)

**דָּבָר טוֹב.** שֶׁבִּטֵּל מִשְׁמַרְתּוֹ, שֶׁהוֹשִׁיבוֹ אָבִיו שׁוֹמֵר שֶׁלֹּא יַעֲלֶה אִישׁ לָרֶגֶל, וּבִטֵּל מִשְׁמַרְתּוֹ וְעָלָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Something good.** He abandoned his watch; for his father had stationed him as a sentry so that no person would go up [to Yerusholayim] on the pilgrimage festival. He abandoned his watch and went up.⁷

footnotes:
⁷ See Maseches Mo’ed Katan 28b.


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:14:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:14:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:14:1)

**אֲשֶׁר יַכְרִית אֶת בֵּית יָרָבְעָם זֶה הַיּוֹם וּמֶה גַּם עַתָּה.** הַנּוֹלָדִים לוֹ הַיּוֹם, וַאֲשֶׁר עֲתִידִין לְהִוָּלֵד לוֹ מֵעַתָּה, כָּךְ תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Who will cut off the house of Yerovom this day and also those that will be born.** Those who are already born to him this day, and those who are destined to be born to him from now on, so did [Targum] Yonoson render.


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:21:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:21:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:21:1)

**הָעִיר אֲשֶׁר בָּחַר ה'.** וְאַף עַל פִּי כֵן:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The city that Adonoy had chosen.** Yet, even so,


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:22:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:22:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:22:1)

**וַיַּעַשׂ יְהוּדָה הָרָע.** וְלֹא נָתְנוּ זֶה עַל לִבָּם.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And Yehudah did what was evil.** And they did not pay attention to this.


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:22:2
[Rashi on I Kings 14:22:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:22:2)

**וַיְקַנְאוּ.** לְשׁוֹן קְנִיטָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And they angered Him.** An expression of provocation.


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:23:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:23:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:23:1)

**גַּם הֵמָּה.** כִּשְׁאָר הַשְּׁבָטִים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**They too.** Like the other tribes.


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:24:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:24:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:24:1)

**קָדֵשׁ.** נִאוּף.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Prostitution.** Prostitution.


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:25:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:25:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:25:1)

**שִׁישַׁק.** מָצִינוּ בְּמִדְרַשׁ (שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים) הוּא פַּרְעֹה נְכֹה, וְנִקְרָא שִׁישַׁק, עַל שֶׁהָיָה שׁוֹקֵק וּמִתְאַוֶּה כָּל יָמָיו לְכִסֵּא הַשֵּׁן שֶׁהָיָה לִשְׁלֹמֹה חֲתָנוֹ, וְעַכְשָׁיו עָלָה וּלְקָחוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Shishak.** We find in Midrash Shir Hashirim that this was Pharaoh Neco. He was called Shishak because all his life he longed for [=שוקק] the ivory throne that belonged to Shlomo his son-in-law, and now, he went up and took it.


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:26:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:26:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:26:1)

**וְאֶת הַכֹּל לָקַח.** אֶת הַכִּסֵּא, הֶחָבִיב מִן הַכֹּל.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**He took everything.** The throne, that was dearer to him than everything.


###### Rashi on I Kings 14:28:1
[Rashi on I Kings 14:28:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/14:28:1)

**יִשָּׂאוּם הָרָצִים.** לְפָנָיו לְכָבוֹד, וְאַחַר כָּךְ יְשִׁיבוּם אֶל תָּא שֶׁהָרָצִים עוֹמְדִים שָׁם תָּמִיד.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The runners would carry them.** Before him, in [his] honor,⁸ and afterwards, they would return them⁹ to the chamber where the runners were always stationed.

footnotes:
⁸ Alternatively, it may have been done as protection against a rebellion.—Radak
⁹ I.e., the copper shields.