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16:15 猶大王亞撒二十七年，心利在得撒作王七日。那時民正安營圍攻非利士的基比頓。
16:16 民在營中聽說心利背叛，又殺了王，故此以色列眾人當日在營中立元帥暗利作以色列王。
16:17 暗利率領以色列眾人，從基比頓上去，圍困得撒。
16:18 心利見城破失，就進了王宮的衛所，放火焚燒宮殿，自焚而死。
16:19 這是因他犯罪，行耶和華眼中看為惡的事，行耶羅波安所行的，犯他使以色列人陷在罪裡的那罪。
16:20 心利其餘的事和他背叛的情形都寫在以色列諸王記上。
16:21 那時，以色列民分為兩半：一半隨從基納的兒子提比尼，要立他作王；一半隨從暗利。
16:22 但隨從暗利的民勝過隨從基納的兒子提比尼的民。提比尼死了，暗利就作了王。
16:23 猶大王亞撒三十一年，暗利登基作以色列王共十二年；在得撒作王六年。
16:24 暗利用二他連得銀子向撒瑪買了撒馬利亞山，在山上造城，就按著山的原主撒瑪的名，給所造的城起名叫撒馬利亞。
16:25 暗利行耶和華眼中看為惡的事，比他以前的列王作惡更甚。
16:26 因他行了尼八的兒子耶羅波安所行的，犯他使以色列人陷在罪裡的那罪，以虛無的神惹耶和華─以色列上帝的怒氣。
16:27 暗利其餘的事和他所顯出的勇力都寫在以色列諸王記上。
16:28 暗利與他列祖同睡，葬在撒馬利亞。他兒子亞哈接續他作王。
16:29 猶大王亞撒三十八年，暗利的兒子亞哈登基作了以色列王。暗利的兒子亞哈在撒馬利亞作以色列王二十二年。
16:30 暗利的兒子亞哈行耶和華眼中看為惡的事，比他以前的列王更甚，
16:31 犯了尼八的兒子耶羅波安所犯的罪；他還以為輕，又娶了西頓王謁巴力的女兒耶洗別為妻，去事奉敬拜巴力，
16:32 在撒馬利亞建造巴力的廟，在廟裡為巴力築壇。
16:33 亞哈又做亞舍拉，他所行的惹耶和華─以色列上帝的怒氣，比他以前的以色列諸王更甚。
16:34 亞哈在位的時候，有伯特利人希伊勒重修耶利哥城；立根基的時候，喪了長子亞比蘭；安門的時候，喪了幼子西割，正如耶和華藉嫩的兒子約書亞所說的話。

 

 ¹⁵ In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned in Tirzah seven days. The army was encamped near Gibbethon, a Philistine town. ¹⁶ When the Israelites in the camp heard that Zimri had plotted against the king and murdered him, they proclaimed Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day there in the camp. ¹⁷ Then Omri and all the Israelites with him withdrew from Gibbethon and laid siege to Tirzah. ¹⁸ When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the royal palace and set the palace on fire around him. So he died, ¹⁹ because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and following the ways of Jeroboam and committing the same sin Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.

²⁰ As for the other events of Zimri’s reign, and the rebellion he carried out, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

²¹ Then the people of Israel were split into two factions; half supported Tibni son of Ginath for king, and the other half supported Omri. ²² But Omri’s followers proved stronger than those of Tibni son of Ginath. So Tibni died and Omri became king.

²³ In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah. ²⁴ He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents^[a] of silver and built a city on the hill, calling it Samaria, after Shemer, the name of the former owner of the hill.

²⁵ But Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord and sinned more than all those before him. ²⁶ He followed completely the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat, committing the same sin Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, so that they aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, by their worthless idols.

²⁷ As for the other events of Omri’s reign, what he did and the things he achieved, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel? ²⁸ Omri rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. And Ahab his son succeeded him as king.

²⁹ In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria over Israel twenty-two years. ³⁰ Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. ³¹ He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. ³² He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. ³³ Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.

³⁴ In Ahab’s time, Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundations at the cost of his firstborn son Abiram, and he set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, in accordance with the word of the Lord spoken by Joshua son of Nun.

 

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    北國以色列的各個王朝通常沒有穩定的統治過以色列，一個王換過另一個王！之所以如此，是因為這些王都是「使以色列人陷在罪裡的那罪，以虛無的神惹耶和華─以色列上帝的怒氣」。而且是越來越明顯！

 

    正如這裡所提到的暗利王，更是嚴重：「暗利行耶和華眼中看為惡的事，比他以前的列王作惡更甚！」

 

    暗利的兒子亞哈，也和他的父親相比，可以說有過之無不及！正如聖經所說：「暗利的兒子亞哈行耶和華眼中看為惡的事，比他以前的列王更甚，犯了尼八的兒子耶羅波安所犯的罪；他還以為輕，又娶了西頓王謁巴力的女兒耶洗別為妻，去事奉敬拜巴力，在撒馬利亞建造巴力的廟，在廟裡為巴力築壇。亞哈又做亞舍拉，他所行的惹耶和華─以色列上帝的怒氣，比他以前的以色列諸王更甚。」

 

    而在亞哈做王做日子，更是有不看重上帝話語而受懲罰的案例：「有伯特利人希伊勒重修耶利哥城；立根基的時候，喪了長子亞比蘭；安門的時候，喪了幼子西割，正如耶和華藉嫩的兒子約書亞所說的話。」

    這在在都是要我們看見：上帝的子民若遠離上帝不看重上帝的話，是會受到上帝大大的報應的，我們不可以不慎！求主讓我們謙卑在祂的面前，遵行祂的話語，才能享受祂所賜的福分！