Isaiah 27:7 Commentary: Rashi & Ibn Ezra

הַכְּמַכַּ֥ת מַכֵּ֖הוּ הִכָּ֑הוּ אִם־כְּהֶ֥רֶג הֲרֻגָ֖יו הֹרָֽג׃

Hath He smitten him as He smote those that smote him? Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by Him?

Rashi on Isaiah

Like the smiting of him who smote him did He smite him Have you seen My might, that like the smiting of the one who smote Jacob, I smote him. They drowned them in the water, and I drowned them in the water. There are some other rhetorical questions that warrant an affirmative answer, e.g. (I Sam. 2:27), “Did I appear to the house of your father?” Also (Ezek. 8:6), “Do you see what they are doing?”
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah

Hath he smitten him, etc. This prophecy refers to the fall of Samaria, to which alone the expression אשרים groves can be applied.22It is not clear at all how the mention of the groves can prove that this prophecy refers to Samaria, since this capital was not the only place that contained groves, and whose inhabitants were idolaters.
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Rashi on Isaiah

like the slaying of Israel, who were the slain ones of Pharaoh, were Pharaoh and his people slain?
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