Related%20passage for Moed Katan 56:24

א"ר אבהו מנין לאבל שמיסב בראש שנאמר (איוב כט, כה) אבחר דרכם ואשב ראש ואשכון כמלך בגדוד כאשר אבלים ינחם

yet it is written [thereafter]: Moreover he [Nebuchadnezzar] put out Zedekiah's eyes?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XXXIX, 7.');">³⁷</span> - He replied that R'Johanan had explained it thus, [namely] that Nebuchadnezzar died in Zedekiah's lifetime.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., Zedekiah had the satisfaction to outlive his captor.');">³⁸</span> Again said Raba to Rabbah B'Mari, it is written: Therefore, behold I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' II Kings XXII, 20 addressed to King Josiah.');">³⁹</span>

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