מלכים ב ח׳:ז׳-ט״ו

ויבא אלישע דמשק. להחזיר את גיחזי בתשובה (סוטה מז א):

Elisha came to Damesek. To cause Geichazi to repent.⁴Maseches Sotah 47a. See also Rashi in Maseches Sanhedrin 107b.⁵Alternatively, to carry out God’s command stated in I Melochim 19:15—Radak Or, Geichazi went to Damesek to ask Na’amon for help.

חיה תחיה. כלפי חזאל אמר, שיחיה תחת בן הדד למלכות:

‘You will surely live.’ Pertaining to Chazoeil he said that he would live instead of Ben-Hadad [and occupy] the throne.⁶It is read [=קְרִי] as ‘לוֹ’, meaning, “say to him, ‘you will surely recover,’” but it is written [=כְּתִיב] as ‘Gא’, and the meaning is “say, ‘you will surely not recover.’” According to Rashi the קְרִי pertains to Chazoeil, and the כְּתִיב pertains to Ben-Hadad; or Elisha meant that Ben-Hadad would not die of his illness, but he would die by assassination. Alternatively, the כְּתִיב reflects what was on Elisha’s mind and the קְרִי is what he said.—Radak

ויעמד את פניו. פנים של צער שלו שהיה מבקש לבכות, העמיד, שלא יבכה בפני חזאל, וישם לבו לעמוד ולהתאפק:

He [Elisha] kept his face emotionless. [He held in] his expression of grief, for he wanted to cry; he held it in, so that he would not cry in front of Chazoeil. He made a concentrated effort to stand and control himself.

עד בוש. כמו בושש, ולא יכול להתאפק ויבך:

For a long time. Like “בשש [=delay],”⁷See commentary on 2:17 above. and he could not control himself [any longer] and he wept.

תרטש. לשון ביקוע המעים, ואב לכולן (ישעיהו יג יח): וקשתות נערים תרטשה:

You will dash. An expression of splitting the intestines.⁸Alternatively, תְּרַטֵּשׁ means “dashing against a wall or the ground.”—Radak Or, “you will cause their infants to be abandoned” by killing their parents.—Ralbag The original source⁹I.e., the conclusive evidence for this definition. [for the meaning of תרטש is], “and bows will split [תְּרַטַּשְׁנָה] young men.”¹⁰Yeshayahu 13:18.

והרותיהם. מעוברות שלהם:

And their pregnant women. Their pregnant women.

המכבר. תרגום יונתן: גונבא, וכן (שופטים ד יח): ותכסהו בשמיכה, תרגום: בגונבא, והוא בגד:

A blanket. [Targum] Yonoson renders גּוּנְכָא [=blanket],¹¹Alternatively, “a pillow.”—Radak Or, a thick garment.—Metzudas Tzion and similarly, “and she covered him with a blanket [=[בַּשְּׂמִיכָה,”¹²Shoftim 4:18. he renders, בְּגוּנְכָא [=a blanket], i.e., a garment.

ויפרוש על פניו. להצטנן:

He spread it over his [Ben-Hadad’s] face. To cool off.¹³He told Ben-Hadad that he was doing this to give him some relief of his illness, but actually, Chazoeil intended to kill him.—Radak