## Rashi on II Kings Chapter 25

###### Rashi on II Kings 25:1:1
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**בִשְׁנַת הַתְּשִׁיעִית לְמָלְכוֹ.** שֶל צִדְקִיָּהוּ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**In the ninth year of his reign.** Of Tzidkiyohu.¹

footnotes:
¹ Which corresponds to Nevuchadnetzar's seventeenth year.—Radak


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:1:2
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**דָּיֵק.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: כַּרְקוּם.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Siege towers.** [Targum Yonoson] rendered כרקום [=works of siege].


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:4:1
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**דֶּרֶךְ שַׁעַר בֵּין הַחֹמֹתַיִם.** מְעָרָה הוֹלֶכֶת מִבֵּיתוֹ עַד עַרְבוֹת יְרִיחוֹ, וּבָרַח לוֹ דֶּרֶךְ הַמְּעָרָה, וְהַקָּבָּ"ה זִמֵּן צְבִי הוֹלֵךְ עַל גַּג הַמְּעָרָה חוּץ לָעִיר, וְרָדְפוּ כַּשְׂדִּים אַחֲרֵי הַצְּבִי, וּכְשֶׁהִגִּיעוּ לְפֶתַח הַמְּעָרָה בְּעַרְבוֹת יְרִיחוֹ רָאוּהוּ וּלְכָדוּהוּ, הוּא שֶׁאָמַר: וּפָרַשְׂתִּי רִשְׁתִּי עָלָיו וְנִתְפַּשׂ בִּמְצוּדָתִי.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**By way of the gate between the two walls.** A cave went from his house until the Plains of Yericho, and he fled through the cave. The Holy One, Blessed Is He, ordained a deer walking on the roof of the cave. and the Kasdim pursued the deer, and when they reached the cave's entrance in the Plains of Yericho, they saw him and captured him. This is what [Scripture] states, ”And I will spread My net over him, and he shall be caught in My snare.”²

footnotes:
² Yechezkeil 12:13.


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:6:1
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**וַיְדַבְּרוּ אִתּוֹ מִשְׁפָּט.** נִתְוַכַּח עִמּוֹ עַל הַשְּׁבוּעָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And called him to account.** He debated with him concerning the oath.³ ⁴

footnotes:
³ Tzidkiyohu violated his oath of allegiance to Nevuchadnetzar.—Radak
⁴ The Gemara in Maseches Nedarim 65a states that Tzidkiyohu had discovered Nevuchadnetzar eating a live, or according to other opinions, an uncooked rabbit. He had him swear that he would never reveal what he had seen. However, Tzidkiyohu had his oath nullified and revealed Nevuchadnetzar's uncivilized behavior. When Nevuchadnetzar found out that people were making fun of him, he realized that Tzidkiyohu had broken his promise.


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:9:1
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**וְאֶת כָּל בֵּית גָּדוֹל.** בָּתֵּי כְּנֵסִיּוֹת שֶׁמְּגַדְּלִין בָּהֶן תּוֹרָה וּתְפִלָּה וּבָתֵּי הַשָּׂרִים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And all the houses of the dignitaries.** [This includes] synagogues wherein Torah and prayer are aggrandized, and the houses of the princes.⁵

footnotes:
⁵ See Maseches Megillah 27a.


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:11:1
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**וְאֶת הַנֹּפְלִים.** שֶׁשָּׁמְעוּ לְקוֹל נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר וְיָצְאוּ אֵלָיו מִן הָעִיר, כְּמוֹ: בְּלֶכְתּוֹ אֶל צִקְלָג נָפְלוּ עָלָיו מִמְּנַשֶּׁה וְגוֹ'.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And the defectors.** [Those] who obeyed Nevuchadnetzar and went out to him from the city, as in, “When he went to Tziklag, [members] of Menashe defected to him, etc.”⁶

footnotes:
⁶ I Divrei Hayomim 12:21.


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:12:1
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**וּלְיוֹגְבִים.** חוֹפְרֵי הָאָרֶץ, לְשׁוֹן יְקָבִים, שֶׁהֵם חֲפִירוֹת בַּקַּרְקַע.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And farmers.** Diggers of the earth, an expression of wine vats [=יקבים]⁷ which are diggings in the ground.⁸

footnotes:
⁷ The ‘ג’ of ‘יגבים’ and the ‘ק’ of ‘יקבים’ are interchangeable.
⁸ Alternatively, יקבים are wine pressers.—Metzudas Tzion Or יקבים refer to fishermen who catch the חלזון which was pressed to extract its blood from which the blue dye [for תכלת] is obtained. Nevuchadnetzar used the dye for his robes and therefore allowed these people to remain.


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:17:1
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**וְקוֹמַת הַכֹּתֶרֶת שָׁלשׁ אַמּוֹת.** וּבִתְחִלַּת הַסֵּפֶר הוּא אוֹמֵר: חָמֵשׁ אַמּוֹת. וְשָׁם יִשַּׁבְתִּי אֶת הַמִּקְרָאוֹת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The height of the crown was three *amohs*.** And in the beginning of the Book [of Melochim] it states, ”five *amohs* [high].”⁹ I reconciled the verses there.¹⁰ high but its two lower *amohs* are not counted because the column was inserted into the crown two *amohs* deep and it served as a base for the crown.

footnotes:
⁹ Melochim 7:16.
¹⁰ Rashi reconciled the difference as follows: The crown was actually five amohs


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:17:2
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**וּשְׂבָכָה.** קופיי"א בְּלַעַ"ז, כְּמִין כּוֹבַע.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And a netting.** (*Coife*, in O.F.) a type of hat.


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:17:3
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**וְכָאֵלֶּה.** רִמּוֹנִים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Had the same.** Pomegranates.


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:19:1
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**הַסֹּפֵר שַׂר הַצָּבָא.** שֶׁהָיָה יוֹדֵעַ מִנְיַן כָּל עִיר וָעִיר, כַּמָּה אֲנָשִׁים מוֹצִיאָה לַצָּבָא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The scribe of the general of the army.** Who knew the number of each city, how many men it enlists into the army.


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:23:1
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**כָּל שָׂרֵי הַחֲיָלִים.** שֶׁיָּצְאוּ מִן הָעִיר לְהֵחָבֵא בַּמְּצוּדוֹת וּבַטִּינָרִים וּבַצּוּרִים וּבַיְּעָרִים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**All the officers of the armies.** Who had left the city to hide in the strongholds, boulders, rocks and forests.


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:27:1
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**נָשָׂא אֱוִיל מְרֹדַךְ.** שֶׁמֵּת נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר, וּמָלַךְ אֱוִיל מְרוֹדַךְ תַּחְתָּיו.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Evil Merodach … elevated.** For Nevuchadnetzar died, and Evil Merodach reigned in his place.


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:27:2
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**בְּעֶשְׂרִים וְשִׁבְעָה לַחֹדֶשׁ.** וּבְיִרְמְיָהוּ הוּא אוֹמֵר: בְּעֶשְׂרִים וַחֲמִשָּׁה, אֶלָּא בְּעֶשְׂרִים וַחֲמִשָּׁה מֵת נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר, וְנִקְבַּר בְּעֶשְׂרִים וְשִׁשָּׁה, בְּעֶשְׂרִים וְשִׁבְעָה הוֹצִיאוֹ אֱוִיל מְרוֹדַךְ מִקִּבְרוֹ וּגְרָרוּהוּ, בִּשְׁבִיל לְבַטֵּל גְּזֵרוֹתָיו, כְּמוֹ שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בִּישַׁעְיָהוּ: וְאַתָּה הָשְׁלַכְתָּ מִקִּבְרְךָ כְּנֵצֶר נִתְעָב וְגוֹ'.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**On the twenty-seventh day of the month.** But in Yirmiyohu it states, “On the twenty-fifth.”¹¹ Rather, on the twenty-fifth Nevuchadnetzar died and he was buried on the twenty-sixth. On the twenty-seventh, Evil Merodach removed him from his grave and dragged him about,¹² in order to nullify his decrees, as it is stated in Yeshayohu, ”and you have been cast out of your grave like a despised sapling, etc.”¹³

footnotes:
¹¹ Yirmiyahu 52:31.
¹² Evil Merodach was afraid that his father was not really dead and would return to claim his throne. This happened before when Nevuchadnetzar became insane. He left his throne and lived as a wild beast for seven years. See Daniel 4:29-34. In the interim one of his sons was appointed in his place. When Nevuchadnetzar came back he imprisoned his son. Evil Merodach wanted to make sure that would not happen again, and he therefore had Nevuchadnetzar's body removed from his grave and dragged along the ground, thus fulfilling Yeshayohu's prophecy.—Radak
¹³ Yeshayohu 14:19.


###### Rashi on II Kings 25:28:1
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**וַיְדַבֵּר אִתּוֹ טֹבוֹת.** דִּבְרֵי נִחוּמִים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**He spoke kindly with him.** Words of consolation.