Tanach
Divrei HaYamim II 32:9-19 דברי הימים ב ל״ב:ט׳-י״ט
Part of: Chapter 32
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אַחַר זֶה שָׁלַח סַנְחֵרִיב מֶלֶךְ־אַשּׁוּר עֲבָדָיו יְרוּשָׁלַיְמָה וְהוּא עַל־לָכִישׁ וְכׇל־מֶמְשַׁלְתּוֹ עִמּוֹ עַל־יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ מֶלֶךְ יְהוּדָה וְעַל־כׇּל־יְהוּדָה אֲשֶׁר בִּירוּשָׁלַ͏ִם לֵאמֹֽר׃
After this Sanĥeriv king of Ashshur sent his servants to Yerushalayim, (for he himself laid siege to Lakhish, and all his power with him,) to Yeĥizqiyyahu king of Yehuda, and to all Yehuda who were at Yerushalayim, saying,
After this Sanĥeriv king of Ashshur sent his servants to Yerushalayim, (for he himself laid siege to Lakhish, and all his power with him,) to Yeĥizqiyyahu king of Yehuda, and to all Yehuda who were at Yerushalayim, saying,
כֹּה אָמַר סַנְחֵרִיב מֶלֶךְ אַשּׁוּר עַל־מָה אַתֶּם בֹּטְחִים וְיֹשְׁבִים בְּמָצוֹר בִּירוּשָׁלָֽ͏ִם׃
Thus says Sanĥeriv king of Ashshur, On what do you trust, that you stand siege in Yerushalayim?
Thus says Sanĥeriv king of Ashshur, On what do you trust, that you stand siege in Yerushalayim?
Rashi
ויושבים במצור בירושלים. כדכתיב (כאן) למות ברעב ובצמא:
stay in the siege in Jerusalem as it is written (here): “to die by famine and thirst.”
הֲלֹא יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ מַסִּית אֶתְכֶם לָתֵת אֶתְכֶם לָמוּת בְּרָעָב וּבְצָמָא לֵאמֹר יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יַצִּילֵנוּ מִכַּף מֶלֶךְ אַשּֽׁוּר׃
Is not Yeĥizqiyyahu persuading you to give yourselves over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The Lord our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Ashshur?
Is not Yeĥizqiyyahu persuading you to give yourselves over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The Lord our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Ashshur?
הֲלֹא־הוּא יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ הֵסִיר אֶת־בָּמֹתָיו וְאֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָיו וַיֹּאמֶר לִיהוּדָה וְלִירוּשָׁלַ͏ִם לֵאמֹר לִפְנֵי מִזְבֵּחַ אֶחָד תִּֽשְׁתַּחֲווּ וְעָלָיו תַּקְטִֽירוּ׃
Has not the same Yeĥizqiyyahu taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Yehuda and Yerushalayim, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
Has not the same Yeĥizqiyyahu taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Yehuda and Yerushalayim, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
Rashi
הלא הוא יחזקיהו. הבוטח באלהיו הלא הוא פשע ואפילו אם היה יכולת לעזור לו לא יהיה עוזרו כי חטא לו שהסיר את במותיו ואת מזבחותיו ויאמר ליהודה ולירושלים לפני מזבח אחד תשתחוו ולא מוטב שיתחוה יהודה לפני מזבח אחד וירושלים לפני אחד או שנים ויותר ומה מועיל אחד לעם רב כזה שהיו סבורים שכל אותן במות שהסיר כדלעיל (ל"ח) ויגדע את האשרה וגו' שהיו בנוים לשם אלהי ישראל:
Did not he - Hezekiah - who trusts in his God, did he not transgress? Now even if He had the ability to help him, He would not help him, because he sinned against Him, for he removed His high places and His altars, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem: Before one altar you shall prostrate yourselves Now is it not preferable that the Judeans prostrate themselves before one altar and the Jerusalemites before one, or two and more? What does one altar avail such a large people? For they thought that all those high places that he had removed, as above (31:1): “and cut off the asherim, etc.” were built in the name of the God of Israel.
הֲלֹא תֵדְעוּ מֶה עָשִׂיתִי אֲנִי וַאֲבוֹתַי לְכֹל עַמֵּי הָאֲרָצוֹת הֲיָכוֹל יָֽכְלוּ אֱלֹהֵי גּוֹיֵ הָאֲרָצוֹת לְהַצִּיל אֶת־אַרְצָם מִיָּדִֽי׃
Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
מִי בְּֽכׇל־אֱלֹהֵי הַגּוֹיִם הָאֵלֶּה אֲשֶׁר הֶחֱרִימוּ אֲבוֹתַי אֲשֶׁר יָכוֹל לְהַצִּיל אֶת־עַמּוֹ מִיָּדִי כִּי יוּכַל אֱלֹהֵיכֶם לְהַצִּיל אֶתְכֶם מִיָּדִֽי׃
Who among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?
Who among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?
Rashi
החרימו אבותי. פול מלך אשור ותגלת פלאסר:
whom my fathers destroyed Pul, the king of Assyria, and Tiglath-Pilneser.
וְעַתָּה אַל־יַשִּׁיא אֶתְכֶם חִזְקִיָּהוּ וְאַל־יַסִּית אֶתְכֶם כָּזֹאת וְאַל־תַּאֲמִינוּ לוֹ כִּֽי־לֹא יוּכַל כׇּל־אֱלוֹהַּ כׇּל־גּוֹי וּמַמְלָכָה לְהַצִּיל עַמּוֹ מִיָּדִי וּמִיַּד אֲבוֹתָי אַף כִּי אֱֽלֹהֵיכֶם לֹא־יַצִּילוּ אֶתְכֶם מִיָּדִֽי׃
Now therefore let not Ḥizqiyyahu deceive you, or persuade you in this manner, and do not believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?
Now therefore let not Ḥizqiyyahu deceive you, or persuade you in this manner, and do not believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?
וְעוֹד דִּבְּרוּ עֲבָדָיו עַל־יְהֹוָה הָאֱלֹהִים וְעַל יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ עַבְדּֽוֹ׃
And his servants spoke yet more against the Lord God, and against his servant Yeĥizqiyyahu.
And his servants spoke yet more against the Lord God, and against his servant Yeĥizqiyyahu.
וּסְפָרִים כָּתַב לְחָרֵף לַיהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְלֵאמֹר עָלָיו לֵאמֹר כֵּאלֹהֵי גּוֹיֵי הָֽאֲרָצוֹת אֲשֶׁר לֹֽא־הִצִּילוּ עַמָּם מִיָּדִי כֵּן לֹֽא־יַצִּיל אֱלֹהֵי יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ עַמּוֹ מִיָּדִֽי׃
He also wrote letters to insult the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Yeĥizqiyyahu not deliver his people out of my hand.
He also wrote letters to insult the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Yeĥizqiyyahu not deliver his people out of my hand.
Rashi
וספרים כתב לחרף לה' אלהי. ובמלכי' (ב' י"ט) ובישעיה (ל"ז) כתיב ויקח חזקיהו את הספרים מיד המלאכים ויקראהו ויעל בית ה' ויפרשהו חזקיהו לפני ה':
And he wrote letters to blaspheme the Lord, the God of Israel And in II Kings (19:14) and in Isaiah (37:14) it is written: “And Hezekiah took the letters from the hand of the messengers and read it; he went up to the House of the Lord, and Hezekiah spread it out before the Lord.”
וַיִּקְרְאוּ בְקוֹל־גָּדוֹל יְהוּדִית עַל־עַם יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם אֲשֶׁר עַל־הַחוֹמָה לְיָֽרְאָם וּֽלְבַהֲלָם לְמַעַן יִלְכְּדוּ אֶת־הָעִֽיר׃
Then they cried with a loud voice in the language of Yehuda to the people of Yerushalayim who were on the wall, to affright them, and to terrify them; that they might take the city.
Then they cried with a loud voice in the language of Yehuda to the people of Yerushalayim who were on the wall, to affright them, and to terrify them; that they might take the city.
Rashi
בקול גדול יהודית וגו'. ליראם ולבהלם כאן סתם הענין ובמלכים מפורש היטב מה אמר להם וגם בישעיה:
with a loud voice in Judean, etc. to frighten them and to terrify them Here he relates the matter in generalities, but in II Kings (19) and in Isaiah (37) it is thoroughly elaborated upon.
וַֽיְדַבְּרוּ אֶל־אֱלֹהֵי יְרוּשָׁלָ͏ִם כְּעַל אֱלֹהֵי עַמֵּי הָאָרֶץ מַעֲשֵׂה יְדֵי הָאָדָֽם׃ {ס}
And they spoke against the God of Yerushalayim, as against the gods of the peoples of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.
And they spoke against the God of Yerushalayim, as against the gods of the peoples of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.
Rashi
וידברו אל אלהי ירושלים. מי שכתב ספר זה הוא קובל על נבל זה סנחריב שחירף אלהים חיים:
And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem The author of this Book complains about the villain Sennacherib, who blasphemed the living God.
כעל אלהי עמי הארץ. שהם מעשה ידי אדם ודמו את אלהי יוצרנו יוצר הכל לאלהי העמים שהם מעשה ידיהם כמו שאמר לעיל מי בכל אלהי וגו' כי לא יוכל אלהיכם להציל אתכם מידי:
as of the gods of the peoples of the land which are the handiwork of man, and they compared the God, our Maker, Who formed everything, to the gods of the peoples, who are their own handiwork, as is written above (v. 14): “Who is it among all the gods of, etc. that your God should be able to save you from my hand?”
על מה אתם בוטחים. לפי שכתוב (במלכים ב' י"א) בה' אלהי ישראל בטח וגם כתיב שם וימרד במלך אשור לכן אמר על מה אתם בוטחים שמרדת בי:
In what do you trust It is written (I Kings 18:5): “He trusted in the Lord God of Israel,” and it is also written there: (verse 7) “and he rebelled against the king of Assyria.” Therefore, he asked, “In what do you trust” that you have rebelled against me?