2:9 我從以色列人面前除滅亞摩利人。他雖高大如香柏樹,堅固如橡樹,我卻上滅他的果子,下絕他的根本。
2:10 我也將你們從埃及地領上來,在曠野引導你們四十年,使你們得亞摩利人之地為業。
“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite
before them,
whose height was like the height of the
cedars
and who was as strong as the oaks;
I destroyed his fruit above
and his roots beneath.
Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt
and led you forty years in the wilderness,
to possess the land of the Amorite.
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上帝利用亞摩利人的狀況,讓以色列人認識,不是他們比亞摩利人做得好,而是上帝親自揀選他們,使他們成為上帝的子民。因為這是上帝的主權與恩典,更是祂的憐憫。
雖然亞摩利人比以色列人強壯與高大,但是上帝卻消滅他們,把他們的土地賜給以色列人。所以不是看人的條件,而是看上帝的作為。
這也提醒我們,要看重上帝的主權,靠耶穌恢復和上帝有何好關係,使耶穌基督為生命的主,成為上帝所喜悅的!