Jun 22 【每日活水】被 SHEN 统治的人生是蒙福的人生

 

以斯帖记9:11~19

11 当日,将书珊城被杀的人数呈在王前。
12 王对王后以斯帖说:「犹大人在书珊城杀灭了五百人,又杀了哈曼的十个儿子,在王的各省不知如何呢?现在你要什么,我必赐给你;你还求什么,也必为你成就。」
13 以斯帖说:「王若以为美,求你准书珊的犹大人,明日也照今日的旨意行,并将哈曼十个儿子的尸首挂在木架上。」
14 王便允准如此行。旨意传在书珊,人就把哈曼十个儿子的尸首挂起来了。
15 亚达月十四日,书珊的犹大人又聚集在书珊,杀了三百人,却没有下手夺取财物。
16 在王各省其余的犹大人也都聚集保护性命,杀了恨他们的人七万五千,却没有下手夺取财物。这样,就脱离仇敌,得享平安。
17 亚达月十三日,行了这事;十四日安息,以这日为设筵欢乐的日子。
18 但书珊的犹大人,这十三日、十四日聚集杀戮仇敌;十五日安息,以这日为设筵欢乐的日子。
19 所以住无城墙乡村的犹大人,如今都以亚达月十四日为设筵欢乐的吉日,彼此馈送礼物。
11 The number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king that same day.
12 The king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in the citadel of Susa. What have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? It will also be granted.”
13 “If it pleases the king,” Esther answered, “give the Jews in Susa permission to carry out this day’s edict tomorrow also, and let Haman’s ten sons be impaled on poles.”
14 So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they impaled the ten sons of Haman.
15 The Jews in Susa came together on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they put to death in Susa three hundred men, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.
16 Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their hands on the plunder.
17 This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.
18 The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.
19 That is why rural Jews—those living in villages—observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.
 

内容观察

1.以斯帖向王请求什么?(13~14)

2.犹太人如何记念他们的胜利?(17~19)

 

思考与默想

 

3.以斯帖为什么要求将哈曼十个儿子的尸体挂在木架上?
 

个人感受

4.看到与 SHEN 的百姓为敌的人最终迎来可怕的结局,我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.作为 SHEN 的儿女,我心中仍然害怕的事情是什么?

6. 为了赢得真正的胜利,我决定要怎么做?

灵/修指南

Bible 在记载 SHEN 拯救犹太人脱离哈曼阴谋的故事中,提到了具体的日期和地名;时间是亚达月十三日至十四日,地点是波斯帝国的首都书珊城和各省各地。就连被杀死的仇敌数量也有明确记载:十三日在书珊城杀灭了五百人,且杀了哈曼的十个儿子,十四日在书珊城又杀了三百人,在书珊城以外则杀了七万五千人。以斯帖要求把哈曼十个儿子的尸体挂在木架上,因为把尸体挂在木架上是对他们最大的羞辱(13~14节)。犹太人照着王的谕旨,除灭了攻击他们的仇敌,也宣告与 SHEN 的百姓为敌的结局就是灭亡。之后,书珊城以外的各地在十四日,书珊城在十五日休息,设宴欢乐。这就是普珥日的由来,是 SHEN 的百姓享受胜利的日子(17~19节)。因此, SHEN 的百姓要放下恐惧,仰望 SHEN 所赐的胜利,照着 SHEN 的旨意而活。不要忘记,敬畏 SHEN 、活在 SHEN 的统治之下,才是真正蒙福的人生。
 

内室dao告

求 SHEN 让我活在 SHEN 的统治之下,活出得胜的蒙福人生。

 

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