Commentary for Moed Katan 56:21
ואמר רבא לרבה בר מרי כתיב ביה ביאשיהו (מלכים ב כב, כ) לכן הנני אוסיפך על אבותיך ונאספת אל קברותיך בשלום וכתיב (דברי הימים ב לה, כג) ויורו היורים למלך יאשיהו ואמר רב יהודה אמר רב שעשאוהו ככברה
was to be mourned thus, how much more is due to the sons of Ishmael'! R'Akiba then responded and said: 'In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Zech. XII, 11. The quotation is interrupted by a comment.');"><sup>31</sup></span> [On this] R'Joseph said, Had we not the [Aramaic Targum] rendering of that text, I would not have known what it said there: 'In that time the mourning at Jerusalem will be as great as the lament over Ahab son of Omri whom Hadadrimmon son of Tabrimmon had slain<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Kings XXII, 34f. vfb');"><sup>32</sup></span>
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