歷代志下28:1-27

 

28:1 亞哈斯登基的時候年二十歲，在耶路撒冷作王十六年；不像他祖大衛行耶和華眼中看為正的事，
28:2 卻行以色列諸王的道，又鑄造巴力的像，
28:3 並且在欣嫩子谷燒香，用火焚燒他的兒女，行耶和華在以色列人面前所驅逐的外邦人那可憎的事；
28:4 並在邱壇上、山岡上、各青翠樹下獻祭燒香。
28:5 所以，耶和華─他的上帝將他交在亞蘭王手裡。亞蘭王打敗他，擄了他許多的民，帶到大馬士革去。上帝又將他交在以色列王手裡，以色列王向他大行殺戮。
28:6 利瑪利的兒子比加一日殺了猶大人十二萬，都是勇士，因為他們離棄了耶和華─他們列祖的上帝。
28:7 有一個以法蓮中的勇士，名叫細基利，殺了王的兒子瑪西雅和管理王宮的押斯利甘，並宰相以利加拿。
28:8 以色列人擄了他們的弟兄，連婦人帶兒女共有二十萬，又掠了許多的財物，帶到撒馬利亞去了。
28:9 但那裡有耶和華的一個先知，名叫俄德，出來迎接往撒馬利亞去的軍兵，對他們說：「因為耶和華─你們列祖的上帝惱怒猶大人，所以將他們交在你們手裡，你們竟怒氣沖天，大行殺戮。
28:10 如今你們又有意強逼猶大人和耶路撒冷人作你們的奴婢，你們豈不也有得罪耶和華─你們上帝的事嗎？
28:11 現在你們當聽我說，要將擄來的弟兄釋放回去，因為耶和華向你們已經大發烈怒。」
28:12 於是，以法蓮人的幾個族長─就是約哈難的兒子亞撒利雅、米實利末的兒子比利家、沙龍的兒子耶希西家、哈得萊的兒子亞瑪撒─起來攔擋出兵回來的人，
28:13 對他們說：「你們不可帶進這被擄的人來！你們想要使我們得罪耶和華，加增我們的罪惡過犯？因為我們的罪過甚大，已經有烈怒臨到以色列人了。」
28:14 於是帶兵器的人將擄來的人口和掠來的財物都留在眾首領和會眾的面前。
28:15 以上提名的那些人就站起，使被擄的人前來；其中有赤身的，就從所掠的財物中拿出衣服和鞋來，給他們穿，又給他們吃喝，用膏抹他們；其中有軟弱的，就使他們騎驢，送到棕樹城耶利哥他們弟兄那裡；隨後就回撒馬利亞去了。
28:16 那時，亞哈斯王差遣人去見亞述諸王，求他們幫助；
28:17 因為以東人又來攻擊猶大，擄掠子民。
28:18 非利士人也來侵佔高原和猶大南方的城邑，取了伯‧示麥、亞雅崙、基低羅，梭哥和屬梭哥的鄉村，亭納和屬亭納的鄉村，瑾鎖和屬瑾鎖的鄉村，就住在那裡。
28:19 因為以色列王亞哈斯在猶大放肆，大大干犯耶和華，所以耶和華使猶大卑微。
28:20 亞述王提革拉‧毘列色上來，卻沒有幫助他，反倒欺凌他。
28:21 亞哈斯從耶和華殿裡和王宮中，並首領家內所取的財寶給了亞述王，這也無濟於事。
28:22 這亞哈斯王在急難的時候，越發得罪耶和華。
28:23 他祭祀攻擊他的大馬士革之神，說：「因為亞蘭王的神幫助他們，我也獻祭與他，他好幫助我。」但那些神使他和以色列眾人敗亡了。
28:24 亞哈斯將上帝殿裡的器皿都聚了來，毀壞了，且封鎖耶和華殿的門；在耶路撒冷各處的拐角建築祭壇，
28:25 又在猶大各城建立邱壇，與別神燒香，惹動耶和華─他列祖上帝的怒氣。
28:26 亞哈斯其餘的事和他的行為，自始至終都寫在猶大和以色列諸王記上。
28:27 亞哈斯與他列祖同睡，葬在耶路撒冷城裡，沒有送入以色列諸王的墳墓中。他兒子希西家接續他作王。

 

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord. ² He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and also made idols for worshiping the Baals. ³ He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his children in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. ⁴ He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

⁵ Therefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated him and took many of his people as prisoners and brought them to Damascus.

He was also given into the hands of the king of Israel, who inflicted heavy casualties on him. ⁶ In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah—because Judah had forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors. ⁷ Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the officer in charge of the palace, and Elkanah, second to the king. ⁸ The men of Israel took captive from their fellow Israelites who were from Judah two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters. They also took a great deal of plunder, which they carried back to Samaria.

⁹ But a prophet of the Lord named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, “Because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches to heaven. ¹⁰ And now you intend to make the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem your slaves. But aren’t you also guilty of sins against the Lord your God? ¹¹ Now listen to me! Send back your fellow Israelites you have taken as prisoners, for the Lord’s fierce anger rests on you.”

¹² Then some of the leaders in Ephraim—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berekiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—confronted those who were arriving from the war. ¹³ “You must not bring those prisoners here,” they said, “or we will be guilty before the Lord. Do you intend to add to our sin and guilt? For our guilt is already great, and his fierce anger rests on Israel.”

¹⁴ So the soldiers gave up the prisoners and plunder in the presence of the officials and all the assembly. ¹⁵ The men designated by name took the prisoners, and from the plunder they clothed all who were naked. They provided them with clothes and sandals, food and drink, and healing balm. All those who were weak they put on donkeys. So they took them back to their fellow Israelites at Jericho, the City of Palms, and returned to Samaria.

¹⁶ At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings^[a] of Assyria for help. ¹⁷ The Edomites had again come and attacked Judah and carried away prisoners, ¹⁸ while the Philistines had raided towns in the foothills and in the Negev of Judah. They captured and occupied Beth Shemesh, Aijalon and Gederoth, as well as Soko, Timnah and Gimzo, with their surrounding villages. ¹⁹ The Lord had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel,^[b] for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the Lord. ²⁰ Tiglath-Pileser^[c] king of Assyria came to him, but he gave him trouble instead of help. ²¹ Ahaz took some of the things from the temple of the Lord and from the royal palace and from the officials and presented them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help him.

²² In his time of trouble King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the Lord. ²³ He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him; for he thought, “Since the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they were his downfall and the downfall of all Israel.

²⁴ Ahaz gathered together the furnishings from the temple of God and cut them in pieces. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and set up altars at every street corner in Jerusalem. ²⁵ In every town in Judah he built high places to burn sacrifices to other gods and aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of his ancestors.

²⁶ The other events of his reign and all his ways, from beginning to end, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. ²⁷ Ahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son succeeded him as king.

 

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    亞哈斯因為沒有信靠耶和華，以至於讓猶大國的處境十分悽慘！其實不只國家是如此，個人的生命也是如此。我們的生命不尋求耶和華就必枯乾而死亡，因為沒有與耶和華連結，生命就失去供應了，就必敗亡！

 

    那我們如何與上帝聯結呢？就是一定要靠主耶穌，不是靠屬靈的操練，也不靠生活上例行律法。我們不要忘記猶太人之所以無法享受上帝的救恩，就是因為拒絕主耶穌，不認主耶穌是基督！

 

    同樣今日看見教會中許多的人偏離真道，也是同樣的問題，就是把許多人看為美好的事物當成偶像，高舉超過主耶穌，以至於空有基督徒之名，無基督徒之時，最後的結局也是身敗名裂，尤其是一些教會的領袖！

 

    親愛的弟兄姊妹小心我們若不以耶穌基督為主，我們就成了偶像的製造者，害人害己和亞哈斯一樣！

 

 

 

 

 

約翰福音19:38-42

 

19:38 這些事以後，有亞利馬太人約瑟，是耶穌的門徒，只因怕猶太人，就暗暗地作門徒。他來求彼拉多，要把耶穌的身體領去。彼拉多允准，他就把耶穌的身體領去了。
19:39 又有尼哥底母，就是先前夜裡去見耶穌的，帶著沒藥和沉香約有一百斤前來。
19:40 他們就照猶太人殯葬的規矩，把耶穌的身體用細麻布加上香料裹好了。
19:41 在耶穌釘十字架的地方有一個園子，園子裡有一座新墳墓，是從來沒有葬過人的。
19:42 只因是猶太人的預備日，又因那墳墓近，他們就把耶穌安放在那裡。

 

³⁸ Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away. ³⁹ He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.^{[e] 40} Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. ⁴¹ At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. ⁴² Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

 

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    主耶穌不僅死了，還埋葬了！相信門徒的心中一定認為主耶穌的一生就到此了，心中的盼望全部破滅了！

 

    而在這一場喪禮中，有亞利馬太人約瑟，是耶穌的門徒，他去求彼拉多，要把耶穌的身體領去。還有尼哥底母，就是先前夜裡去見耶穌的，帶著沒藥和沉香約有一百斤前來。他們就照猶太人殯葬的規矩，把耶穌的身體用細麻布加上香料裹好了。在耶穌釘十字架的地方有一個園子，園子裡有一座新墳墓，是從來沒有葬過人的，把耶穌安放在那裡。

 

    好像一切都準備好了！你是不是也相信主耶穌的一生就是以死亡為終點？

 

約翰福音19:28-37

 

19:28 這事以後，耶穌知道各樣的事已經成了，為要使經上的話應驗，就說：「我渴了。」
19:29 有一個器皿盛滿了醋，放在那裡；他們就拿海絨蘸滿了醋，綁在牛膝草上，送到他口。
19:30 耶穌嘗（原文是受）了那醋，就說：「成了！」便低下頭，將靈魂交付上帝了。
19:31 猶太人因這日是預備日，又因那安息日是個大日，就求彼拉多叫人打斷他們的腿，把他們拿去，免得屍首當安息日留在十字架上。
19:32 於是兵丁來，把頭一個人的腿，並與耶穌同釘第二個人的腿，都打斷了。
19:33 只是來到耶穌那裡，見他已經死了，就不打斷他的腿。
19:34 惟有一個兵拿槍扎他的肋旁，隨即有血和水流出來。
19:35 看見這事的那人就作見證─他的見證也是真的，並且他知道自己所說的是真的─叫你們也可以信。
19:36 這些事成了，為要應驗經上的話說：「他的骨頭一根也不可折斷。」
19:37 經上又有一句說：「他們要仰望自己所扎的人。」

 

²⁸ Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” ²⁹ A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. ³⁰ When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

³¹ Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. ³² The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. ³³ But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. ³⁴ Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. ³⁵ The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. ³⁶ These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,”^{[c] 37} and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”^[d]

 

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    主耶穌很堅定地宣告：「成了！」

 

    說完就斷氣，不僅如此還真正的死了！因為有一兵丁拿槍扎他的肋旁，隨即有血和水流出來。而且作者還特別說明：「看見這事的那人就作見證─他的見證也是真的，並且他知道自己所說的是真的─叫你們也可以信。」

 

    耶穌基督要真正死了，才會有復活！沒有死了，只不過是復甦，不是復活，這是一般人都可以經歷到的！但是，主耶穌必須真正的死，才能會有真正的復活！因為要復活的先決條件，必須真正死了！

 

    也因此福音是一個「悲喜劇」，要讓人感受到至極的悲哀，正如主耶穌必須死，門徒必須面對到心中的美境破碎到至極，一點盼望都看不見！如此，在經歷主耶穌的復活時，才有狂喜，才能感受到上帝的大能！

 

 

 

約翰福音19:17-27

 

19:17 他們就把耶穌帶了去。耶穌背著自己的十字架出來，到了一個地方，名叫「髑髏地」，希伯來話叫各各他。
19:18 他們就在那裡釘他在十字架上，還有兩個人和他一同釘著，一邊一個，耶穌在中間。
19:19 彼拉多又用牌子寫了一個名號，安在十字架上，寫的是：「猶太人的王，拿撒勒人耶穌。」
19:20 有許多猶太人念這名號；因為耶穌被釘十字架的地方與城相近，並且是用希伯來、羅馬、希臘三樣文字寫的。
19:21 猶太人的祭司長就對彼拉多說：「不要寫『猶太人的王』，要寫『他自己說：我是猶太人的王』。」
19:22 彼拉多說：「我所寫的，我已經寫上了。」
19:23 兵丁既然將耶穌釘在十字架上，就拿他的衣服分為四分，每兵一分；又拿他的裡衣，這件裡衣原來沒有縫兒，是上下一片織成的。
19:24 他們就彼此說：「我們不要撕開，只要拈鬮，看誰得著。」這要應驗經上的話說：他們分了我的外衣，為我的裡衣拈鬮。兵丁果然做了這事。
19:25 站在耶穌十字架旁邊的，有他母親與他母親的姊妹，並革羅罷的妻子馬利亞，和抹大拉的馬利亞。
19:26 耶穌見母親和他所愛的那門徒站在旁邊，就對他母親說：「母親（原文是婦人），看，你的兒子！」
19:27 又對那門徒說：「看，你的母親！」從此，那門徒就接她到自己家裡去了。

 

¹⁷ Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). ¹⁸ There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

¹⁹ Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews. ²⁰ Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. ²¹ The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”

²² Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

²³ When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

²⁴ “Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.”

This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said,

“They divided my clothes among them
    and cast lots for my garment.”^[a]

So this is what the soldiers did.

²⁵ Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶ When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman,^[b] here is your son,” ²⁷ and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

 

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    主耶穌釘在十字架上，被放上一個牌子「猶太人的王」，這樣的宣告太有意思了，讓猶大的大祭司非常刺眼，他建議彼拉多總督：「要寫『他自己說：我是猶太人的王』。」

 

    可見這一群想陷害主耶穌的人是多麼可惡，連主耶穌沒有做猶大王的意思，都硬要說主耶穌有這樣的意思。這是何等的汙衊啊！這一群人稱為魔鬼之子，時再度為過！真是「恬不知恥」，雖然擔任「大祭司」，卻是多麼悖逆上帝啊！

 

    這也我們是奉上帝的人感到十分難過之事，也求主幫助我們不要像這些掛名為「大祭司」之人一樣：雖表面上是上帝的僕人，卻做出與上帝誡命相反之行為！也因此，在舊約的先知為猶大的敗壞為何要說那麼重的話，可想而知！