士師記1:22-36

 

1:22 約瑟家也上去攻打伯特利；耶和華與他們同在。
1:23 約瑟家打發人去窺探伯特利（那城起先名叫路斯）。
1:24 窺探的人看見一個人從城裡出來，就對他說：「求你將進城的路指示我們，我們必恩待你。」
1:25 那人將進城的路指示他們，他們就用刀擊殺了城中的居民，但將那人和他全家放去。
1:26 那人往赫人之地去，築了一座城，起名叫路斯。那城到如今還叫這名。
1:27 瑪拿西沒有趕出伯‧善和屬伯‧善鄉村的居民，他納和屬他納鄉村的居民，多珥和屬多珥鄉村的居民，以伯蓮和屬以伯蓮鄉村的居民，米吉多和屬米吉多鄉村的居民；迦南人卻執意住在那些地方。
1:28 及至以色列強盛了，就使迦南人做苦工，沒有把他們全然趕出。
1:29 以法蓮沒有趕出住基色的迦南人。於是迦南人仍住在基色，在以法蓮中間。
1:30 西布倫沒有趕出基倫的居民和拿哈拉的居民。於是迦南人仍住在西布倫中間，成了服苦的人。
1:31 亞設沒有趕出亞柯和西頓的居民，亞黑拉和亞革悉的居民，黑巴、亞弗革與利合的居民。
1:32 於是，亞設因為沒有趕出那地的迦南人，就住在他們中間。
1:33 拿弗他利沒有趕出伯‧示麥和伯‧亞納的居民，於是拿弗他利就住在那地的迦南人中間；然而伯‧示麥和伯‧亞納的居民成了服苦的人。
1:34 亞摩利人強逼但人住在山地，不容他們下到平原；
1:35 亞摩利人卻執意住在希烈山和亞雅倫並沙賓。然而約瑟家勝了他們，使他們成了服苦的人。
1:36 亞摩利人的境界，是從亞克拉濱坡，從西拉而上。

 

²² Now the tribes of Joseph attacked Bethel, and the Lord was with them. ²³ When they sent men to spy out Bethel (formerly called Luz), ²⁴ the spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, “Show us how to get into the city and we will see that you are treated well.” ²⁵ So he showed them, and they put the city to the sword but spared the man and his whole family. ²⁶ He then went to the land of the Hittites, where he built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.

²⁷ But Manasseh did not drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that land. ²⁸ When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely. ²⁹ Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, but the Canaanites continued to live there among them. ³⁰ Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor. ³¹ Nor did Asher drive out those living in Akko or Sidon or Ahlab or Akzib or Helbah or Aphek or Rehob. ³² The Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they did not drive them out. ³³ Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them. ³⁴ The Amorites confined the Danites to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain. ³⁵ And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor. ³⁶ The boundary of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass to Sela and beyond.

 

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    從這段記載中看到：以色列的其他支派執行上帝命令得程度，和猶太支派比較起來更是不佳，竟然只貪一時的便利，竟然沒有將迦南人全然滅絕，還讓他們存在，就成了後的憂患，甚至受他們的影響，失去對耶和華上帝的信心。

 

    以色列這段歷史也給我們很大的警戒，我們除惡務盡，若是不能將造成生命重大的牽絆，使我們與上帝之間會有一些阻礙，不能不謹慎！

 

    然而，理想歸理想，我們的軟弱也大大使我們執行力變弱，造成像以色列人人無法除盡迦南人的狀況，導致罪惡的網羅絆在前頭，進而一再的犯罪、一再的跌倒，受上帝的管教，讓我們只好求主的寶血來遮蓋！