以赛亚书36:1~12
亚述人威胁耶路撒冷
(王下18‧13-37;代下32‧1-19)
1 希西家王十四年,亚述王西拿基立上来攻击犹大的一切坚固城,将城攻取。
2 亚述王从拉吉差遣拉伯沙基率领大军往耶路撒冷,到希西家王那里去。他就站在上池的水沟旁,在漂布地的大路上。
3 于是希勒家的儿子家宰以利亚敬,并书记舍伯那和亚萨的儿子史官约亚,出来见拉伯沙基。
4 拉伯沙基对他们说:「你们去告诉希西家说,亚述大王如此说:『你所倚靠的有什么可仗赖的呢?
5 你说,有打仗的计谋和能力,我看不过是虚话。你到底倚靠谁才背叛我呢?
6 看哪,你所倚靠的埃及是那压伤的苇杖,人若靠这杖,就必刺透他的手。埃及王法老向一切倚靠他的人也是这样。
7 你若对我说:我们倚靠耶/和/华-我们的 SHEN 。希西家岂不是将 SHEN 的邱坛和祭坛废去,且对犹大和耶路撒冷的人说:你们当在这坛前敬/拜吗?
8 现在你把当头给我主亚述王,我给你二千匹马,看你这一面骑马的人够不够。
9 若不然,怎能打败我主臣仆中最小的军长呢?你竟倚靠埃及的战车马兵吗?
10 现在我上来攻击毁灭这地,岂没有耶/和/华的意思吗?耶/和/华吩咐我说,你上去攻击毁灭这地吧!』」
11 以利亚敬、舍伯那、约亚对拉伯沙基说:「求你用亚兰言语和仆人说话,因为我们懂得;不要用犹大言语和我们说话,达到城上百姓的耳中。」
12 拉伯沙基说:「我主差遣我来,岂是单对你和你的主说这些话吗?不也是对这些坐在城上、要与你们一同吃自己粪喝自己尿的人说吗?
Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem
1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
2 Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,
3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.
4 The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:
“ ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours?
5 You say you have counsel and might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?
6 Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.
7 But if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar”?
8 “ ‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!
9 How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
10 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’ ”
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
12 But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
内容观察
1.希西家王十四年,谁上来攻击犹大?(1节)
2.亚述将军说,希西家所信的是什么?(6—7节)
思考与默想
个人感受
决心与应用
5.我何时曾在世人面前灰心丧气,动摇我的信心?
6.为了敬畏 SHEN ,而不是惧怕世上的权势,我决定要怎么做?
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