1)

What is the meaning of "ha'Seitevi mi'No Amon"?

1.

Rashi: How do you trust in your gates and strength? Are you greater than Noa (Alexandria 1 of Egypt? Amon is an expression of a pedagogue\mentor. Kings of Egypt were raised there.

2.

Radak: How did you trust in your grandeur, and being a fortified city with rivers around it - "Sha'arei ha'Neharos Niftachu" (2:7)?

3.

Malbim: He returns to say, I can console you - are you better than Noa Amon, which was destroyed like you? Also it had many people. Just like you dwell by the Chidekel river, it dwelled by rivers - water surrounded it on every side, including the sea.


1

Radak: Targum Yonasan is 'the great Alexandria.'

2)

What is the significance of "ha'Yoshevah ba'Y'orim Mayim Saviv Lah"?

1.

Radak: Noa dwelled between rivers. The rivers also enter the city under the ground, so they did not fear a siege 1 . Rivers and the sea surrounded it. Even so, Nebuchadnetzar captured it when he conquered Egypt!


1

Either they had great storehouses of food, or they could grow enough food in the city to feed the residents. We find that it was a three-day journey from one end of Ninveh to the other (Radak Yonah 3:4), i.e. 120 Mil; if the city was circular, its area was over 45,000 square Mil, more than a third of a square kilometer per resident. (PF)

3)

Why does it say "Asher Cheil Yam"?

1.

Rashi: The sea was an army and wall [to protect it].

2.

Malbim: Cheil is a small wall - Noa's [stone] wall was greater than the sea.

4)

Why does it add "mi'Yam Chomasah"?

1.

Radak: The matter is repeated to strengthen it.

2.

Malbim: Refer to 3:8:3:2.

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