Oct 19【每日活水】在世人面前坚定信心

 

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,亚述西拿基立上来攻击犹大的一切坚固城,将城攻取。 
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。 
于是希勒家的儿子家宰以利亚敬,并书记舍伯那亚萨的儿子史官约亚,出来见拉伯沙基。
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? 
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? 
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。 
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,且对犹大耶路撒冷的人说:你们当在这坛前敬/拜吗? 
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。 
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
In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 
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, 
Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.
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? 
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? 
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. 
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”?
“ ‘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! 
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

 

3.亚述将军如何以如此放肆地威胁和嘲弄犹大,又妄称 SHEN 的旨意?
 

个人感受

4.看到亚述将军毫不敬畏 SHEN ,甚至妄称 SHEN 的旨意,我有什么感想?
 

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?

西拿基立(1节):撒珥根二世的继任者,公元前704~681年在位的亚述王。
拉吉(2节):位于耶路撒冷西南方的一座城市。
空话(5节):指对于战争毫无帮助的口才。
希西家岂不是将 SHEN 的丘坛和祭坛废去(7节):当时外邦人认为,设立丘坛并事奉 SHEN 明就可以领受祝福,希西家借着宗教改革废去了一切丘坛和祭坛,命令只在耶路撒冷圣殿中事奉耶/和/华 SHEN 。

灵/修指南

希西家王十四年,亚述王西拿基立占领了北国以色列和南国犹大的主要城市,就连犹大最后的要塞拉吉也被亚述攻取。亚述王差遣他们的将军到耶路撒冷威胁希西家。将军嘲笑说,南国犹大所倚仗的埃及不过是断裂的苇杖,希西家所信靠的 SHEN 也已经抛弃了南国犹大,他甚至妄称,占领和毁灭犹大是出自 SHEN 的旨意。将军仗着自己所率军队的能力,嘲讽南国犹大所倚靠的一切都是无用之物,并毫不畏惧地妄称 SHEN 的旨意。而且,他没有用当时的外交语言亚兰语,而是用犹大百姓能够听懂的希伯来语来威胁犹大,足见他的有恃无恐。如今世上的权势也一样蔑视 SHEN 的名,妄称 SHEN 的旨意,嘲笑 SHEN 的百姓。然而 SHEN 知道 TA 的百姓在这世上所受的迫害和痛苦,也只有从 SHEN 而来的信心,能够保守信/徒胜过世界的威胁。
 

内室dao告

求 SHEN 使我不畏惧这个轻看 SHEN 的世界,在世人面前坚定自己的信心,并靠着信心得胜。

 

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