Talmud su II Re 18:46

Six things did Hezekiah, the King of Judea, do; with three they agreed, with three they did not agree²¹This is the last Mishnah in Chapter 4 of the Babli; Maimonides in his Mishnah commentary declares it to be a Tosephta (cf. 8:5). Babli 56a, Berakhot 10b, Sanhedrin47a.. For the following they agreed with him. He smashed the bronze snake²²The bronze snake made by Moses, 2K.18:4. “They” are the Heavenly Court. and they agreed with him. He dragged his father’s bones on a bier of ropes²³He buried him in an undignified way to atone for his sins. The basis is a note in 2Chr. 28:27 that Aḥaz was not buried in the kings’ graves, contradicting 2K. 16:20., and they agreed with him. He hid the table of medicines²⁴According to Maimonides a book of magical remedies., and they agreed with him. For the following they disagreed with him. He cut down the Temple doors²⁵2K. 18:16; to pay tribute to Assyria. and they disagreed with him. He enclosed the upper Giḥon spring²⁶It seems that they did not connect 2Chr.32:30 with 2K. 20:20. The statement is denied in Avot dR. Nathan A, Chapter 2., and they disagreed with him. He intercalated Nisan in Nisan²⁷As explained in the preceding paragraph, the celebration of Passover was wrong from beginning to end; the intercalation would have to precede Nisan, celebration, and if it was Iyar it should not be a mass celebration.; and they disagreed with him.

Rebbi Joshua ben Levi said it is written (Jud. 11:3): “Jephtah fled because of his brothers and dwelled in the land Good,” that is Hippos. Why is it called “Good”, because it frees from tithes. [⁶³The passage in brackets is from Demay, Chapter 2 (at Note 97); it refers to Kefar Ẓemaḥ, a place within the municipality of Hippos with a Jewish quarter, in contrast to Gentile Hippos. It has no connection with the theme of this paragraph other than the mention of Hippos. Rebbi Immi asked: Are these not of the taxpayers? Rebbi Immi is of the opinion that taxpayers count as if they were conquered.] For Rebbi Samuel bar Naḥman said, Joshua sent three orders⁶⁴The word in the Yerushalmi (both mss.) seems to be corrupt. In the parallel Lev.rabba 17(6) the reading is פרוזדוגמאות in the printed editions and פרסטיגמאות in Arukh. Compare Greek πρόσταγμα “command, edict”. to the Land of Israel before they entered the Land: Those who want to evacuate should evacuate, those who want to make peace should make peace, those who want to go to war should go to war. The Girgasites⁶⁵Even though the Girgasites are mentioned in Jos. 24:11 as having fought against Israel, they are not mentioned anywhere in the report on the conquest. evacuated, believed in the Holy One, praised be He, and went to Africa⁶⁶The Roman province of Africa on the Southern shore of the Mediterranean. In the Babli (Sanhedrin 94a), the identification is quoted in the name of Mar Zuṭra, a late Amora known for his quotes of sermons of early authorities.. (2K. 18:32, Is. 36:17) “Until I come and take you to a land like your Land,” that is Africa. The people of Gibeon made peace, (Jos. 10:1) “… that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel.” Thirty-one kings went to war and fell.

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..