1)

What is the grammatical form of "k'Hituch"?

1.

Radak: Hituch is a noun. When it is complete (with Nun, the first letter of the root) it is k'Hintuch, the same grammatical form as "k'Hindof Ashan" (Tehilim 68:3), just there it has a Cholem, and here a Shuruk.

2)

What is the comparison to melting silver in the furnace?

1.

Radak: Just like silver melts in the furnace, you will melt in Yerushalayim.

3)

Above it mentioned other metals. Why does it mention here only silver?

1.

Radak: (a) It melts after 1 tin and lead. I.e. [the better people] will be eradicated via hunger, plague and sword later ? not in a short time. (b) Initially they were silver.

2.

Malbim (21-22): (a) [You will melt by yourselves, not via Hashem;] even so, you will melt totally, like silver in a furnace, which melts easier than iron (refer to 22:22:3:1*). (b) Via this refining, "you will know that I am Hashem", who oversees and punishes, and you will repent. This was the purpose!


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The temperature needed to melt pure silver is higher than that of tin and lead, but less than that of iron. An alloy of mixed metals melts at once; smelters would remove the other metals, and leave the silver. (PF, heard from Jacob Levin)

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