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For this reason (לָהֵן), because (מִן־דָּי = מֵ×ֲשֶ×ר, e.g., Isa 43:4) our fathers provoked the God of heaven, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, and he (Nebuch.) destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon. For ×›Ö·Ö¼×¡Ö°×“Ö¸Ö¼×™Ö¸× the Keri requires כַּסְדָּ×ָה, the ordinary form of the absolute state of the noun in ai. סְתַר, Pael, in the sense of destroy, appears only here in biblical Chaldee, but more frequently in the Targums. עַמָּה, its people, would refer to the town of Jerusalem; but Norzi and J. H. Mich. have עַמָּהּ, and the Masora expressly says that the word is to be written without Mappik, and is therefore the stat. emphat. for עַמָּ×.