Commentary for Isaiah 18:6
יֵעָזְב֤וּ יַחְדָּו֙ לְעֵ֣יט הָרִ֔ים וּֽלְבֶהֱמַ֖ת הָאָ֑רֶץ וְקָ֤ץ עָלָיו֙ הָעַ֔יִט וְכָל־בֶּהֱמַ֥ת הָאָ֖רֶץ עָלָ֥יו תֶּחֱרָֽף׃
They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, And to the beasts of the earth; And the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, And all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
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They shall be left [i.e.,] their corpses.
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They will be left, etc. The host of Assyria, having been destroyed through the angel, will be left, etc.
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to the birds of the mountains Heb. לְעֵיט הָרִים, to the birds of the mountains.
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לעיט To the fowl (comp. Gen. 15:11); its forms are like those of שֵׁשׁ (Est. 1:6), and שַׁיִשׁ (1 Chron. 29:2), marble.
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shall spend the summer upon them All the days of the summer.
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וקץ And shall summer. Comp. קיץ summer (Gen. 8:22).
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shall spend the winter All the days of the winter. From there they deduced that the judgment of Gog in the future shall be twelve months.
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תחרף Shall winter. Comp. הֹרֶף winter (Gen. 8:22).—The beasts will remain there to eat the corpses of the killed.
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