Commentary for Bava Kamma 76:7

ואמר ר' חייא בר אבא אמר ר' יהושע בן קרחה לעולם יקדים אדם לדבר מצוה שבשביל לילה אחת שקדמתה בכירה לצעירה קדמתה ארבע דורות לישראל עובד ישי ודוד ושלמה ואילו צעירה עד רחבעם דכתיב (מלכים א יד, כא) ושם אמו נעמה העמונית

For the younger [had no descendant in Israel] until [the advent of] Rehoboam, as it is written: And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Kings XIV, 31. ');">¹⁰</span> Our Rabbis taught: If cattle of an Israelite has gored cattle belonging to a Cuthean<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., members of the mixed tribes who had been settled on the territory of the former Kingdom of Israel by the Assyrian king and who were subsequently a great hindrance to the Jews who returned from the Babylonian captivity to revive their country and their culture; cf. II Kings, XVII. 24-41; Ezra IV, 1-24 and Neh. III, 33; IV, V, VI, 13. ');">¹¹</span>

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