歷代志下5:1-14

 

5:1 所羅門做完了耶和華殿的一切工，就把他父大衛分別為聖的金銀和器皿都帶來，放在上帝殿的府庫裡。
5:2 那時，所羅門將以色列的長老、各支派的首領，並以色列的族長招聚到耶路撒冷，要把耶和華的約櫃從大衛城─就是錫安─運上來。
5:3 於是以色列眾人在七月節前都聚集到王那裡。
5:4 以色列眾長老來到，利未人便抬起約櫃。
5:5 祭司利未人將約櫃運上來，又將會幕和會幕的一切聖器具都帶上來。
5:6 所羅門王和聚集到他那裡的以色列全會眾都在約櫃前獻牛羊為祭，多得不可勝數。
5:7 祭司將耶和華的約櫃抬進內殿，就是至聖所，放在兩個基路伯的翅膀底下。
5:8 基路伯張著翅膀在約櫃之上，遮掩約櫃和抬櫃的槓。
5:9 這槓甚長，槓頭在內殿前可以看見，在殿外卻不能看見，直到如今還在那裡。
5:10 約櫃裡惟有兩塊石版，就是以色列人出埃及後，耶和華與他們立約的時候，摩西在何烈山所放的。除此以外，並無別物。
5:11 當時，在那裡所有的祭司都已自潔，並不分班供職。
5:12 他們出聖所的時候，歌唱的利未人亞薩、希幔、耶杜頓，和他們的眾子眾弟兄都穿細麻布衣服，站在壇的東邊，敲鈸、鼓瑟、彈琴，同著他們有一百二十個祭司吹號。
5:13 吹號的、歌唱的都一齊發聲，聲合為一，讚美感謝耶和華。吹號、敲鈸，用各種樂器，揚聲讚美耶和華說：耶和華本為善，他的慈愛永遠長存！那時，耶和華的殿有雲充滿，
5:14 甚至祭司不能站立供職，因為耶和華的榮光充滿了上帝的殿。

 

 When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the Lord was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver and gold and all the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of God’s temple.

² Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Zion, the City of David. ³ And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.

⁴ When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark, ⁵ and they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The Levitical priests carried them up; ⁶ and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.

⁷ The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim. ⁸ The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles. ⁹ These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today. ¹⁰ There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

¹¹ The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. ¹² All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. ¹³ The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang:

“He is good;
    his love endures forever.”

Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud, ¹⁴ and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God.

 

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    上帝的殿建造完成之後，所羅門照上帝的心意，讓利未人將約櫃台進聖殿裡面，除了獻祭之外，也用讚美的歌聲獻給上帝！吹號、敲鈸，用各種樂器，揚聲讚美耶和華說：耶和華本為善，他的慈愛永遠長存！

 

    然而在敬拜中讓以色列人最盼望的事，就是「耶和華的榮光充滿」，表示上帝喜悅以色列人的敬拜！正如，這段經文中記載到：「那時，耶和華的殿有雲充滿，甚至祭司不能站立供職，因為耶和華的榮光充滿了上帝的殿。」

 

    這是多麼美的景象，這絕對不是人刻意製造出來的氣氛！這和今日所謂的敬拜讚美唱到大家「看見」上帝的榮光充滿，完全不一樣！因為今日的敬拜讚美是利用音樂和跳動讓人暈眩，以為上帝榮光充滿，其實是假象！

 

    所羅門獻殿的敬拜之榮光充滿，是上帝親自的同在，是人無法模仿的！願上帝保守我們，讓我們真的在禮拜中與上帝相遇，勝過虛假的音樂氣氛和人製造的催眠假象！