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2:26

וּלְאֶבְיָתָר הַכֹּהֵן אָמַר הַמֶּלֶךְ עֲנָתֹת לֵךְ עַל־שָׂדֶיךָ כִּי אִישׁ מָוֶת אָתָּה וּבַיּוֹם הַזֶּה לֹא אֲמִיתֶךָ כִּֽי־נָשָׂאתָ אֶת־אֲרוֹן אֲדֹנָי יֱהֹוִה לִפְנֵי דָּוִד אָבִי וְכִי הִתְעַנִּיתָ בְּכֹל אֲשֶֽׁר־הִתְעַנָּה אָבִֽי׃

And the king said to Evyosor, “Go to Anosos, to your fields, for you should be put to death. But I will not kill you today because you carried the Ark of the Lord, God, before my father Dovid, and because you suffered through all that my father suffered.”

And the king said to Evyosor, “Go to Anosos, to your fields, for you should be put to death. But I will not kill you today because you carried the Ark of the Lord, God, before my father Dovid, and because you suffered through all that my father suffered.”

Rashi

ענתות לך. משם היה:

Go to Anosos. He was from there.

כי איש מות אתה. שמרדת במלכות אבי בהיותך עם אדוניהו, להמליכו שלא מדעתו:

For you are deserving of death. Because you rebelled against the kingdom of my father when you were with Adoniyahu, to appoint him king without his [i.e., my father’s] knowledge.

כי נשאת את ארון. בברוח אבי מפני אבשלום:

Because you carried the Ark. When my father was escaping from Avsholom.

וכי התענית. עמו באותה הצרה, שנאמר (שמואל ב יז כט): כי אמרו העם רעב ועיף וצמא במדבר:

And because you suffered. With him in that very same affliction, as it is stated, “for they said, ‘the people are hungry and weary and thirsty; in the wilderness.’”13II Shmuel 17:29.

2:27

וַיְגָרֶשׁ שְׁלֹמֹה אֶת־אֶבְיָתָר מִֽהְיוֹת כֹּהֵן לַיהֹוָה לְמַלֵּא אֶת־דְּבַר יְהֹוָה אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר עַל־בֵּית עֵלִי בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃ {פ}

And Shlomo banished Evyosor from being a kohein to Adonoy, thereby fulfilling the word of Adonoy that He had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

And Shlomo banished Evyosor from being a kohein to Adonoy, thereby fulfilling the word of Adonoy that He had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

Rashi

את אשר דבר על בית עלי. (שמואל א ב לה) והקימותי לי כהן נאמן וגו'. (שם פסוק לב): והבטת צר מעון וגו', ומשחרבה שילה, לא היה בית חשוב לעבודה להקב"ה, ועתה כשיבנה בית הבחירה, מלא הקב"ה את דברו לגרש את בני עלי:

That He had spoken concerning the house of Eili. [As it is stated,] “And I will appoint for Myself a faithful kohein,”14I Shmuel 2:35. [and] “and you will see a rival in My dwelling place, etc.”15Ibid. 2:32. Once [the Tabernacle at] Shilo was destroyed, there was no house worthy of service to the Holy One Blessed Is He, but now that the Beis Hamikdosh will be built, the Holy One Blessed Is He, fulfilled His word to banish Eili’s descendants.16Evyosor was Eili’s great great grandson. See I Shmuel 14:3, 22:20.

Texts

  • Hebrew: Miqra according to the Masorah · License: CC-BY-SA
  • English: The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J · License: CC-BY
  • Hebrew: On Your Way -- new · License: PD

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