列王紀下9:30-37

 

9:30 耶戶到了耶斯列；耶洗別聽見就擦粉、梳頭，從窗戶裡往外觀看。
9:31 耶戶進門的時候，耶洗別說：「殺主人的心利啊，平安嗎？」
9:32 耶戶抬頭向窗戶觀看，說：「誰順從我？」有兩三個太監從窗戶往外看他。
9:33 耶戶說：「把她扔下來！」他們就把她扔下來。她的血濺在牆上和馬上；於是把她踐踏了。
9:34 耶戶進去，吃了喝了，吩咐說：「你們把這被咒詛的婦人葬埋了，因為她是王的女兒。」
9:35 他們就去葬埋她，只尋得她的頭骨和腳，並手掌。
9:36 他們回去告訴耶戶，耶戶說：「這正應驗耶和華藉他僕人提斯比人以利亞所說的話，說：『在耶斯列田間，狗必吃耶洗別的肉；
9:37 耶洗別的屍首必在耶斯列田間如同糞土，甚至人不能說這是耶洗別。』」

 

³⁰ Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window. ³¹ As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?”^[e]

³² He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him. ³³ “Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.

³⁴ Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.” ³⁵ But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. ³⁶ They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the Lord that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.^{[f] 37} Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’”

 

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    耶洗別遭耶戶殺害，正如以利亞所預言的！

 

    然而說到耶戶和哈薛，其實上帝早就對以利亞說過：「你回去，從曠野往大馬士革去。到了那裡，就要膏哈薛作亞蘭王，又膏寧示的孫子耶戶作以色列王，並膏亞伯‧米何拉人沙法的兒子以利沙作先知接續你。將來躲避哈薛之刀的，必被耶戶所殺；躲避耶戶之刀的，必被以利沙所殺。但我在以色列人中為自己留下七千人，是未曾向巴力屈膝的，未曾與巴力親嘴的。」(列王記上19:15-18)

 

    然而以利亞只膏以利沙作先知接續他，其他兩個王都是在以利沙的作為中成就，現在回頭對照，真是非常有意思！讓我們感覺歷史是在上帝的掌握中，是上帝讓歷史為自己效力，使基督越來越明顯！