以斯拉记8：21～36
以斯拉领百姓禁食dao告
21 那时，我在亚哈瓦河边宣告禁食，为要在我们 SHEN 面前克苦己心，求他使我们和妇人孩子，并一切所有的，都得平坦的道路。
22 我求王拨步兵马兵帮助我们抵挡路上的仇敌，本以为羞耻；因我曾对王说：「我们 SHEN 施恩的手必帮助一切寻求他的；但他的能力和忿怒必攻击一切离弃他的。」
23 所以我们禁食祈求我们的 SHEN ，他就应允了我们。
献给圣殿的礼物
24 我分派祭司长十二人，就是示利比、哈沙比雅，和他们的弟兄十人，
25 将王和谋士、军长，并在那里的以色列众人为我们 SHEN 殿所献的金银和器皿，都秤了交给他们。
26 我秤了交在他们手中的银子有六百五十他连得；银器重一百他连得；金子一百他连得；
27 金碗二十个，重一千达利克；上等光铜的器皿两个，宝贵如金。
28 我对他们说：「你们归耶/和/华为圣，器皿也为圣；金银是甘心献给耶/和/华－你们列祖之 SHEN 的。
29 你们当警醒看守，直到你们在耶路撒冷耶/和/华殿的库内，在祭司长和利未族长，并以色列的各族长面前过了秤。」
30 于是，祭司、利未人按着分量接受金银和器皿，要带到耶路撒冷我们 SHEN 的殿里。
返回耶路撒冷
31 正月十二日，我们从亚哈瓦河边起行，要往耶路撒冷去。我们 SHEN 的手保佑我们，救我们脱离仇敌和路上埋伏之人的手。
32 我们到了耶路撒冷，在那里住了三日。
33 第四日，在我们 SHEN 的殿里把金银和器皿都秤了，交在祭司乌利亚的儿子米利末的手中。同着他有非尼哈的儿子以利亚撒，还有利未人耶书亚的儿子约撒拔和宾内的儿子挪亚底。
34 当时都点了数目，按着分量写在册上。
35 从掳到之地归回的人向以色列的 SHEN 献燔祭，就是为以色列众人献公牛十二只，公绵羊九十六只，绵羊羔七十七只，又献公山羊十二只作赎罪祭，这都是向耶/和/华焚献的。
36 他们将王的谕旨交给王所派的总督与河西的省长，他们就帮助百姓，又供给 SHEN 殿里所需用的。
21 There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
22 I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, “The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.”
23 So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.
24 Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, namely, Sherebiah, Hashabiah and ten of their brothers,
25 and I weighed out to them the offering of silver and gold and the articles that the king, his advisers, his officials and all Israel present there had donated for the house of our God.
26 I weighed out to them 650 talents of silver, silver articles weighing 100 talents, 100 talents of gold,
27 20 bowls of gold valued at 1,000 darics, and two fine articles of polished bronze, as precious as gold.
28 I said to them, “You as well as these articles are consecrated to the Lord. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your ancestors.
29 Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem before the leading priests and the Levites and the family heads of Israel.”
30 Then the priests and Levites received the silver and gold and sacred articles that had been weighed out to be taken to the house of our God in Jerusalem.
31 On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he protected us from enemies and bandits along the way.
32 So we arrived in Jerusalem, where we rested three days.
33 On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and the sacred articles into the hands of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him, and so were the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.
34 Everything was accounted for by number and weight, and the entire weight was recorded at that time.
35 Then the exiles who had returned from captivity sacrificed burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven male lambs and, as a sin offering, twelve male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord.
36 They also delivered the king’s orders to the royal satraps and to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, who then gave assistance to the people and to the house of God.
内容观察
1.以斯拉和百姓在亚哈瓦河边做了什么？（21节）
2. SHEN 如何回应百姓的祈求？（23节）
思考与默想
个人感受
决心与应用
5.当我在家庭、职场或 JH 中面临重大抉择时，我是如何准备的？
6.为了效法以斯拉，在祈求 SHEN 恩典的同时，积极委身准备，我决定要怎么做？
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