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• **Avodah Zarah 2b** teaches that at the end of days the nations will come and claim they assisted Israel — the four nations condemned in chapter 25 (Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia) are the first-heaven assets of the Sitra Achra who capitalized on Jerusalem's fall; their rejoicing over the sanctuary's desolation shows their second-heaven alignment: they are clients of the enemy principalities who sought to destroy the divine foothold.
• **Sanhedrin 105b** teaches that Balaam and Doeg and Ahitophel, though gifted, are excluded from the world to come for how they used their gifts — Ammon's "Aha!" over the sanctuary (25:3) and Moab's reduction of Judah to "like all the nations" (25:8) are the enemy's preferred propaganda line: that the covenant was never distinctive and YHWH is merely a tribal deity comparable to Chemosh.
• **Berakhot 58b** teaches that the blessing over seeing nations depleted of their glory is prescribed — the series of divine judgments against the nations surrounding Israel establishes that YHWH holds the second-heaven backers of each nation accountable through their first-heaven client populations.
• **Yoma 69b** records that the Men of the Great Assembly prayed against the desire for idolatry and it was delivered to them as a fiery lion emerging from the Holy of Holies — the judgment on the Philistines "with great vengeance and furious rebukes" (25:17) invokes this same intensity; long-standing enemy field agents who have persistently contested the divine territory receive proportional response.
• **Avot 5:11** teaches that exile comes for idol worship, sexual immorality, bloodshed, and violation of the Sabbatical year — the nations judged in chapter 25 enabled all four by providing safe havens and alliances to Israel's idolatry; being an accessory to first-heaven covenant violation while rejoicing in its judgment puts them in the dock alongside those they enabled.