Rujukan Talmud untuk 2 Raja-raja 18:4: Jerusalem Talmud Demai, Avot DeRabbi Natan, Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah & Jerusalem Talmud Nedarim

Rebbi Zeïra, Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: Rebbi permitted Beth Shean⁴⁵He permitted produce from the entire valley of Beth Shean in the Sabbatical year for commercial use because it seems not to have been settled by the returnees from Babylonia. In the Babli (Ḥulin 6b), the reading is that R. Meïr ate a leaf of vegetable without tithing for the same kind of argument. on the testimony of Joshua ben Zeruz, the son of Rebbi Meïr’s father-in-law, who said, I saw Rebbi Meïr buy vegetables from a garden in the Sabbatical year. He permitted all of it!⁴⁶Even though the testimony was only from one spot. Rebbi Zeïra said, this implies that nobody should act in public; I say that this garden was a particular case for him⁴⁷Maybe that particular plot of land never had a Jewish owner since Bet Shean was a Philistine city.; should he have permitted it completely⁴⁸As the ruins of ancient synagogues with mosaic floors show, in the time of R. Zeïra the valley of Beth Shean was settled by Jews and should not have been permitted, but his authority was not sufficient to overturn Rebbi’s ruling.? Rebbi permitted Beth Shean⁴⁹The Jews of Beth Shean (Scythopolis) were murdered in a progrom of 66 C. E. and we have no record of the re-establishment of a community in that city., permitted Caesarea⁵⁰Caesarea maritima., permitted Bet Guvrin⁵¹Near Lakhish, Northwest of Hebron., permitted Kefar Ẓemaḥ⁵²Kafr Samekh just South of the Sea of Genezareth; it is counted in the neighborhood of Susita.. Rebbi permitted to buy vegetables after the end of the Sabbatical year⁵³Mishnah Ševiїt 6:4, Tosephta Ševiït 4:17. The reason is detailed in Peah 7:4, note 81. and all were saying bad things about him⁵⁴In the Tosephta: His family united against him.. He said to them, come and let us discuss the matter. It is written (2Kings 18:4): “He⁵⁵Hezekiah destroyed the brass snake Moses had made (Num. 21:9), because the people worshipped it as a divinity. The argument given here is also in Babli Ḥulin 6a. smashed the brass snake.” Was there no just person between Moses and Hezekiah to remove it? But the Holy One, praise to Him, reserved that crown to him so he could crown himself with it. We also had this crown reserved by the Holy One, praise to Him, to crown ourselves with it.

King Hezekiah decided four things, and his decision was in accordance with the will of the Omnipresent God. He hid the Book of Healing, and his decision was in accordance with the will of the Omnipresent God. He broke apart the copper snake, and his decision was in accordance with the will of the Omnipresent God [as it says in II Kings 18:4, “Until those days, the children of Israel had been burning incense to it, and it was called Nekhushatan (‘the snake god’)”]. He removed the shrines and altars, and his decision was in accordance with the will of the Omnipresent God, as it says (II Chronicles 32:12), “Hezekiah removed His shrines and His altars and spoke to Judah and Jerusalem, and said: Will you bow down before one altar, and burn incense upon it?” He stopped up the waters of Gihon, and his decision was in accordance with the will of the Omnipresent God, as it says (II Chronicles 32:30), “Hezekiah stopped up the spring of the waters of [upper] Gihon, leading it downward, west of the City of David. And Hezekiah was successful in all that he did.”

⁹⁸Babli 43b/44a, Tosephta 3:19. The speaker is R. Yose the Tanna who objects to the statement that the idol has to be dumped into the Dead Sea; he brings examples of disposition of pagan idols in other ways. Rebbi Yose objected to the rabbis, is it not written: your sin which you had made, the calf⁹⁹Deut. 9:21.? They told him, this teaches that he intended to examine them in the way one examines deviant wives: he strewed it on the surface of the water¹⁰⁰Ex. 32:20. As usual, the argument is from the part of the verse which is not quoted, viz., he let the Children of Israel drink. The deviant wife has to drink water mixed with dust from the floor of the Sanctaury, Num. 5:11–31..He said to them, is it not written, and also Maacah, king Asa’s mother, he removed from power¹⁰¹1K. 15:13.? They told him, is there proof from there? Asa cut down¹⁰²Since Asa burned his mother’s Ashera, there is no doubt that burning a wooden statue is as good as bringing it to the Dead Sea. etc. He told them, he beat the bronze serpent to pieces¹⁰³2K. 18:4.. Was this an object of worship? Did not Moses make it? This teaches that Israel was erring after it until Hezekias came and removed it¹⁰⁴Here ends the Genizah fragment G edited by Epstein; on the next line starts one (ג) edited by Ginzberg (pp. 278–279) of which, however, not very much is legible..