Commento su Giudici 5:16
לָ֣מָּה יָשַׁ֗בְתָּ בֵּ֚ין הַֽמִּשְׁפְּתַ֔יִם לִשְׁמֹ֖עַ שְׁרִק֣וֹת עֲדָרִ֑ים לִפְלַגּ֣וֹת רְאוּבֵ֔ן גְּדוֹלִ֖ים חִקְרֵי־לֵֽב׃
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Rashi on Judges
The shrieking companies. Listening to the sounds emitted by the companies engaged in battle, to determine which was the cry of triumph, and which the cry of defeat.
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Metzudat David on Judges
Why did you stay among the sheepfolds: That is to say, if you answer that you are frightened to come down to war, to face weaponry - if so, why at first did you settle the holding on the other side of the Jordan, between the border of the Land of Israel and the border of the nations? Is that not a dangerous place? So why did you choose to settle on this border?
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Metzudat Zion on Judges
From the word of language, and its a matter of border. just as the Targum: "border." this is also the translation of border in 49:14 "creeping between the sheepfolds."
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Radak on Judges
And I shall say to him...
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Metzudat David on Judges
To listen: That is to say, that which you requested that land with your saying (Numbers 32:4), "it is a land of livestock, and your servants have livestock" - was your request [in order] to sit at home to listen to the whistling of the flocks and cattle? And did it not enter your mind that you will perforce come down to war, from your settling on the border?
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Metzudat Zion on Judges
The sounds that comes when you press your lips together. As in Isaiah 5:26 "He will whistle to him" and he is asking about the flocks of sheep.
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Radak on Judges
Why did you stay among the sheepfolds - and these are the arrangements and fences of the sheep - to listen to the whistling of the flocks and cattle, meaning, settled and secure? And you were not concerned with Israel's war that was in the Land of Canaan and you did not come to help them in that war.
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Metzudat David on Judges
For the divisions: Hence it is suitable to search greatly [with] searchings of the heart, to understand the truth of the matter [about] why Reuven separated from the war.
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