What is the significance of "Ishtecha ba'Ir Tizneh"?
Radak (16): You [try to] stop me from prophesizing ? Hashem spoke evil about you. Before you are exiled, your wife will be Mezanah with the enemy when they come to the city. This is unlike "Nashim b'Tziyon Inu" (Eichah 5:12) ? Inuy is against her will. Zenus is with her consent! It was Amatziyah's punishment that his wife be Mezanah in front of his eyes, and "your sons and daughters will fall via the sword", and he will be exiled and die "Al Adamah Temei'ah." It was for disgracing Nevu'ah from Hashem, together with his other sins, including serving idolatry.
Malbim: This is Midah k'Neged Midah. Yisrael serving other gods are like a woman who is Mezanah from the husband of her youth. I wanted to return them to Hashem, and you cause them to be Mezaneh with other gods. Therefore your wife will be Mezanah! This will not be in captivity, rather, in the city! Refer to 7:17:3:2.
What is the significance of "u'Vanecha u'Vnosecha ba'Cherev Yipolu"?
Radak (16): This was part of Amatziyah's punishment (refer to 7:17:1:1). The enemy exiled adults who were not killed in the war, and killed children who cannot walk.
Malbim: Refer to 7:17:3:2.
What do we learn from "v'Admasecha ba'Chevel Techulak"?
Radak (16): The enemy divided it among them, i.e. those who came to dwell in their land with other nations, i.e. the Goyim that Melech Ashur settled in Shomron.
Malbim: When Zecharyah ben Yaravam was killed, and Shalum ben Yavesh wanted to abolish the calves, there was rebellion and war between factions in the nation. The Kohen fled and died in Chutz la'Aretz, and the king killed his children, and his wife was a Zonah and Hefker.
What do we learn from "v'Yisrael Galo Yigleh me'Al Admaso"?
Malbim: Now the decree was finalized. It is clear in Yeshayah (7:8) that this was 65 years before it occurred. He did not write it explicitly 1 , due to fear. He hinted to it with the word "Hass", like we will explain (refer to 8:3:3:4).
Yeshayah, who was in Yehudah, explicitly wrote "in 65 years, Efrayim will cease to be a nation" (7:8). Amos, in Malchus Efrayim, did not explicitly write 65 years, due to fear. (PF)


