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Rashi on the Former Prophets

CC BY · The Metsudah Tanach series (Metsudah Publications, Lakewood, NJ)
Chapter 14

1 Kings 14

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.

She will be in disguise. As though it was not she.

Sent to tell you. From the Holy One Blessed Is He, with a harsh message.

Male child. [Targum] Yonoson rendered, “one who knows knowledge,” [i.e.,] he who places it into the walls of his heart.
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.” And עזוב is one who has no one restraining him.
As one removes. As the one who digests food which [eventually] becomes dung, so will I expunge after him until he is totally consumed.

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.

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.

The city that Adonoy had chosen. Yet, even so,

And Yehudah did what was evil. And they did not pay attention to this.
And they angered Him. An expression of provocation.

They too. Like the other tribes.

Prostitution. Prostitution.

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.

He took everything. The throne, that was dearer to him than everything.

The runners would carry them. Before him, in [his] honor, and afterwards, they would return them to the chamber where the runners were always stationed.

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