Sanhedrin 95A

״עניה ענתות״⁠ – עתיד ירמיה בן חלקיה ומתנבא עלה מענתות, דכתיב: ״דברי ירמיהו בן חלקיהו מן הכהנים אשר בענתות בארץ בנימין״.

“Poor [aniyya] Anathoth” (Isaiah 10:30)? Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, is destined to prophesy about Nebuchadnezzar from Anathoth, as it is written: “The statements of Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin” (Jeremiah 1:1).

מי דמי? התם ארי, הכא ליש! אמר רבי יוחנן: ששה שמות יש לארי, אלו הן: ארי, כפיר, לביא, ליש, שחל, שחץ. אי הכי, בצרו להו! עברו מעברה תרתי נינהו.

The Talmud asks: Are these matters comparable? There, in Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar is called ari, as the verse refers to him with the term arye, and here, in Isaiah, Nebuchadnezzar is called laish. The Talmud explains that the verses are not contradictory, as R' Yoḥanan says: There are 6 Hebrew terms for the lion, and they are: Ari, kefir, lavi, layish, shaḥal, shaḥatz. The Talmud challenges: If it is so that this verse is unrelated to the journeys of Sennacherib, then the places listed in the verse are too few, as there are not 10. The Talmud explains: Averu and Mabara are in fact the names of two separate places.

מאי ״עוד היום בנב לעמד״? אמר רב הונא: אותו היום נשתייר מעונה של נוב. אמרי ליה כלדאי: אי אזלת האידנא ⁠– יכלת לה, ואי לא ⁠– לא יכלת לה. אורחא דבעא לסגויי בעשרה יומי, סגא בחד יומא.

The Talmud asks: What is the meaning of the phrase: “This very day should he halt at Nov” (Isaiah 10:32)? Rav Huna says: That was the final day that remained from the punishment that the Jewish people received from the sin of Nov (see I Samuel, chapter 22). The astrologers said to Sennacherib: If you go and conquer them now, you will overcome the Jewish people; and if not, you will not overcome the Jewish people. The Talmud relates: He walked and traversed in one day a road upon which one must walk for 10 days in order to traverse it.