Second%20temple for Sanhedrin 74:14

ר' יוחנן אמר גלות מכפרת על הכל שנאמר (ירמיהו כב, ל) (כה אמר ה') כתבו את האיש הזה ערירי גבר לא יצלח בימיו כי לא יצלח מזרעו איש יושב על כסא דוד ומושל עוד ביהודה ובתר דגלה כתיב (דברי הימים א ג, יז) ובני יכניה אסיר (בנו) שלתיאל בנו אסיר שעיברתו אמו בבית האסורין שלתיאל ששתלו אל שלא כדרך הנשתלין גמירי שאין האשה מתעברת מעומד

until he reached his neck.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And severed the arteries. ');">²⁵</span> Rab Judah the son of R. Hiyya also said: Since the day the earth opened her mouth to receive the blood of Abel, she has never opened it again, for it is written, From the edge of the earth have we heard songs, glory to the righteous:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. XXIV, 16. ');">²⁶</span> implying, from the 'edge' of the earth, but not from the mouth of the earth. Hezekiah his brother objected thereto: And the earth opened her mouth!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XVI, 32. ');">²⁷</span> — He answered: She opened if for evil,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To swallow Korah and his associates; the opening to receive Abel's blood is however accounted for good. i.e., to hide Cain's guilt. ');">²⁸</span> but not for good. Rab Judah the son of R. Hiyya also said: Exile atones for the half of men's sins. Earlier [in the Cain narrative] it is written, And I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] Gen. IV, 14. ');">²⁹</span> but later, And he dwelt in the land of Nod [wandering].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H], The other half of the curse, 'to be a fugitive' was remitted because of his wandering, i.e., exile, ');">³⁰</span> Rab Judah said: Exile makes remission for three things, for it is written, Thus saith the Lord etc. He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence; but he that goeth out and falleth away to the Chaldeans who beseige you he shall live and his life shall be unto him for a prey.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. XXI, 8-9. He that remained at home was subject to these three evils; but wandering and its consequent hardships outweighed them all. ');">³¹</span> R. Johanan said: Exile atones for everything, for it is written, Thus saith the Lord, write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days, for no man of his seed shall prosper sitting upon the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. XXII, 30. ');">³²</span> Whereas after he [the king] was exiled, it is written, And the sons of Jechoniah, — the same is Assir — Shealtiel his son etc.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Ch. III, 17. Notwithstanding the curse that he should be childless and not prosper, after being exiled he was forgiven. ');">³³</span> [He was called] Assir,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H], imprisoned. ');">³⁴</span> because his mother conceived him in prison. Shealtiel,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' According to this Haggadah they were one and the same person. ');">³⁵</span> because God did not plant him<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H], a play on [H]. ');">³⁶</span> in the way that others are planted. We know by tradition that a woman cannot conceive in a standing position.

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