1)

What is Aliyas ha'Mekerah?

1.

Rashi, from Targum Yonasan: It was the upper story of a summer house, for air and to cool off 1 . Radak - it had many windows.

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Radak: Mekerah is a noun, like Machtah. There would be a Dagesh (dot) in the third letter, if not that it is a Reish (which does not receive a Dagesh). It is based on Kar (cold).

2)

Why did he say "I have Hashem's word for you"?

1.

Rashi: You must stand to hear it.

3)

Did Eglon get reward for standing to hear Hashem's word?

1.

Rashi (from Tanchuma Vayechi 14): Due to this, he merited that Rus come from him. Radak - she was his daughter (Sanhedrin 105b 1 ), and the mother of kingship (Bava Basra 91b).

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In Nazir (23b), the text says 'Bas Beno'. Tosfos says that also this is not precise, for Yevamos 48b holds that Rus was young when she converted (and in Rus 4:12 she is called "Na'arah" - PF), and there are more than 200 years from Eglon until Avztan, who was Bo'az (Bava Basra 91a).

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