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by means of an agent, God exacted retribution from him by means of an agent.
Pharaoh blasphemed God, as it is written that he said to Moses and Aaron: “Who is YHWH that I should obey His voice?” (Exodus 5:2) God Himself exacted retribution from him, as it is written: “And YHWH overthrew Egypt in the midst of the sea” (Exodus 14:27), and it is written: “You have trodden thro
R' Ḥanina bar Pappa raises a contradiction. It is written that Sennacherib said: “And I will enter into its farthest height” (Isaiah 37:24), and it is written in a parallel verse that he said: “And I have entered into its farthest lodge” (II Kings 19:23). The Talmud resolves the contradiction. That
§ R' Yehoshua ben Levi says: What is the meaning of that which is written in the statement of Rab-shakeh, emissary of Sennacherib: “Have I now come up without YHWH against this place to destroy it? YHWH said to me: Go up against this land and destroy it” (II Kings 18:25). What is this command to des
Rav Yosef says: Were it not for the Aramaic translation of this verse I would not know what it is saying. It is translated: Since this people loathed the reign of the house of David that led them gently, like the waters of the Shiloah, which flow gently, and they preferred Rezin and the son of Rema