For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the king, deep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and much wood: the breath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kindling it.
Ibn Ezra
מאהמוֹל=מאתמוּל Of old. תפתה Tophet. The name of a squalid place near Jerusalem, where all refuse was cast, and whence a continual smoke was rising. The meaning of the sentence is: Tophet is prepared by the Lord for the King of Assyria. גם הוא למלך הוכן. Yea, for the king it is prepared. For all his officers and princes have already perished. According to others the pronoun הוא refers to the King of Assyria. מדרתה The pile thereof. Comp. מדורה fireplace (Ez. 24:9). The breath of the Lord, the breath that cometh out quickly; it expresses figuratively the immediate fulfilment of the divine decrees.
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