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David's sons were kohanim - Really?
Is there anywhere else in Tanach where "kohanim" does NOT mean priests?
1. Shoftim Ch. 17 - 18:
In the end of Shoftim the ben-Levi who served in Micha's place of worship is referred to as a Cohen ...
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Contradiction in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles?
Yes. The commentators in both locations ask this contradiction.
The Metzudas Dovid explains here:
בן שמונה שנים. ובמ״ב נאמר בן שמנה עשרה שנה ואלו יהויקים אביו המליכו בחייו עשר שנים על כי ראה אשר עם ...
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Why is Yehoshafat called the King of Yisrael in Divrei Hayamim?
R. Hayyim Joseph David Azulai raises this question in his commentary to that verse and notes that he hasn't seen anyone discuss it:
לא ראיתי מי שדיבר למה נקרא מלך ישראל מאחר שהוא ממלכי יהודה ועיין ...
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Who was "a man of G-d" in Divrei Hayamim II 25:7?
Radak there says:
ואיש האלהים בא אליו. אמרו כי זה היה אמוץ אבי ישעיה הנביא
It was said that this was Amoz the father of Isaiah the Prophet
The Medrash (Sifrei Devarim 342:6) is of this opinion as ...
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The Priest-King's name
Rabbi Ahron Marcus in his book Kadmoniyot, pg. 131-142, discusses this subject at length. I'll translate some of the more relevant portions:
First of all, he strengthens the question by mentioning ...
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How much water could the tub Shlomo made hold?
In Eruvin 14b, the gemara asks this, and determines that the 2000 is a wet measurement and 3000 is dry, since dry goods can be heaped above the rim.
לא סלקא דעתך דכתיב (מלכים א ז, כו) אלפים בת יכיל ...
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Why does Ezra-Nechemiah come before Divrei HaYamim?
The answer I recall hearing from a lecture by Rabbi Hayyim Angel is essentially that Sefer Ezra ends on a downer. Nechemiah comes back to see all of the work that he and Ezra performed; removing ...
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What’s the deal with צרויה?
In the commentary by the anonymous student of Rasag to Divrei Hayamim 1:2:16 he writes:
""and their sisters Tzruyah and Avigail" - And Tzruyah's husband was S'rayah, and not S'rayah ...
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Seeking an explanation of Rashi to Ⅱ Chronicles 6:25
Continue to verses 36–39 and all will become clear:
When [the Jews] will sin to You… and You will place them before an enemy, and their captors will capture them to a distant or near land, and [the ...
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Why is R. Akiva Eiger the only one to comment regarding the actual language in 1 Chronicles 17:9?
See Minchas Shai on that verse:
ולא יוסיפו בני עולה לבלתו. פרק קמא דברכות רב הונא רמי כתיב לענותו וכתיב לכלותו. בתחלה לענותו ולבסוף לכלותו. ובפירש"י כתבי לענותו בספר (שמואל ב' ז') וכתיב לכלותו ...
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Why is Zerubavel called the son of Shealtiel?
The commentaries I've come across all seem to agree that Zerubavel was indeed the biological son of Pedaya.
A number of approaches are offered to explain why he is nonetheless referred to as the son ...
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Contradiction in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles?
Danny's answer is indeed the consensus of most of the commentaries. However, it should be noted that Abarbanel (to II Kings 24:13) disagrees, and says that ועשרה ימים ("and ten days") in ...
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Was Assir a son of Jeconiah or an attribute of him?
Like @Harel13 notes there are differing opinions:
The Malbim spells out the differing viewpoints:
There are those who say that "Assir" is descriptive of Yechonya since he was incarcerated ...
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Is Purim mentioned in later writings by Ezrah and his B"D?
In Megillah 11a, R' Dimi bar Yitzchak says that a phrase in Ezra's prayer (9:9), ויט עלינו חסד לפני מלכי פרס, refers to the events of Purim.
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Seeking an explanation of Rashi to Ⅱ Chronicles 4:11
Based in Rashi in the parallel story in I Melachim 7:40 it would seem that the Rashi you quote has a missing heading - the words וְאֶת הַיָּעִים.
It should be
וַיַּעַשׂ חוּרָם אֶת הַסִּירוֹת — סירות ...
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Grandsons of Keturah
Radak to 25:3 says that the others may not have had sons, or that they died afterwards:
אפשר שלא היו להם או היו להם ומתו
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Grandsons of Keturah
I found an answer in מדרש תנחומא חיי שרה סימן ו:
R. Levi said: He is the one concerning whom the Holy One, blessed be
He, said: All the nations of the earth shall be blessed through him
(Gen. ...
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Why does Ezra-Nechemiah come before Divrei HaYamim?
Some possibilities:
One reason I can think of is that in Divrei Hayamim there's a list of Zerubavel's descendants which continues to several generations past the latest generation mentioned in Ezra ...
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Two roots applied to the same verses
According to the Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew, page 110. All brackets containing words are my expansion of their abbreviations; brackets containing ellipsis are skipping the examples ...
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Ark of the Covenant
In addition to @חִידָה's answer Rashi on the pasuk in Shmuel alef writes:
על השל. על השגגה, שהיה לו לדרוש קל וחומר, נושאיו נשא בירדן, הוא עצמו לא כל שכן:
Because of his mistake. Because of his ...
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Problem in the text of Kings and Chronicles
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "does Judaism recognize this situation" since Ochlah v'Ochlah is an ancient Masoretic book (here is the relevant page, by the way), but there are a ...
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Where Is The City Of Gurbaal? Is It Bozrah?
Yes, there's a disagreement among scholars about the location of Gur-Baal.
The Encyclopedia Mikrait (Hebrew Biblical Encyclopedia), entry 'גור בעל' writes that Gur-Baal was in southern Judah, in the ...
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Does Cyrus believe in God of Israel?
Ezra 1:2
כֹּ֣ה אָמַ֗ר כֹּ֚רֶשׁ מֶ֣לֶךְ פָּרַ֔ס כֹּ֚ל מַמְלְכ֣וֹת הָאָ֔רֶץ נָ֣תַן לִ֔י יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וְהֽוּא־פָקַ֤ד עָלַי֙ לִבְנֽוֹת־ל֣וֹ בַ֔יִת בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר בִּֽיהוּדָֽה׃
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Is David The eighth son or the seventh son?
Rashi to Shemuel Alef 17:12 suggest that one of them died without children and therefore he is not mentioned in the genealogical list of Divrei HaYamim.
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Mashal and Mishal
As noted by @DanF in the comments, משאל and משל aren't tribes in Asher but two names of a city in the territory of Asher, one of a group of cities given to the Levites (see commentators on the verse). ...
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Where did David "sit before Hashem" in Divrei Hayamim I 17:16?
The Metzudat David says that he was right in front of the ark. By looking at the Talmud, Yoma 69b it seems that this was in the azarah. The only discussion I can see about "sitting" has to do with ...
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What is known about Asaph son of Berechiah?
Asaph ben Berechiah (11th-10th cent BCE) Israelite musician. He was one of the Levites appointed by David to supervise music in the Sanctuary. Psalms 50 and 73-83 are attributed to him. The sons of ...
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Sanctuaries at Beis El and Dan
The Bible reports that in his wars against Jeroboam, Abijam succeeded in capturing the city of Beth El from the Kingdom of Israel, but Abijam himself died in a plague (II Chon. 13:19). One of the ...
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What was and who were Bath-Sheva's or Bath-Shua's Name and Children with David and Uriah?
The children are not listed in their correct order and the child that died is not mentioned.
The Metzudas Dovid points this out:
שמעא. לא מנאם כסדר תולדותם כי שלמה היה הראשון
Shimea - They are not ...
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Ark of the Covenant
Rashi attempts to answer this in his Commentary on יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ Yehoshua 4:18 related to the punishment of עֻזָּ֔ה Uzzah (when he took hold of the Ark):
"The soles of the feet of the Kohanim were ...
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