
申命记2:16~25
击败希实本王西宏
(民21‧21-30)
26「我从基底莫的旷野差遣使者去见希实本王西宏,用和睦的话说:
27『求你容我从你的地经过,只走大道,不偏左右。
28 你可以卖粮给我吃,也可以卖水给我喝,只要容我步行过去,
29 就如住西珥的以扫子孙和住亚珥的摩押人待我一样,等我过了约旦河,好进入耶和华-我们 神所赐给我们的地。』
30 但希实本王西宏不容我们从他那里经过;因为耶和华-你的 神使他心中刚硬,性情顽梗,为要将他交在你手中,像今日一样。
31 耶和华对我说:『从此起首,我要将西宏和他的地交给你;你要得他的地为业。』
32 那时,西宏和他的众民出来攻击我们,在雅杂与我们交战。
33 耶和华-我们的 神将他交给我们,我们就把他和他的儿子,并他的众民,都击杀了。
34 我们夺了他的一切城邑,将有人烟的各城,连女人带孩子,尽都毁灭,没有留下一个。
35 惟有牲畜和所夺的各城,并其中的财物,都取为自己的掠物。
36 从亚嫩谷边的亚罗珥和谷中的城,直到基列,耶和华-我们的 神都交给我们了,没有一座城高得使我们不能攻取的。
37 惟有亚扪人之地,凡靠近雅博河的地,并山地的城邑,与耶和华-我们 神所禁止我们去的地方,都没有挨近。」
26 From the Desert of Kedemoth I sent messengers to Sihon king of Heshbon offering peace and saying,
27 “Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left.
28 Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot—
29 as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us—until we cross the Jordan into the land the Lord our God is giving us.”
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.
31 The Lord said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”
32 When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz,
33 the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army.
34 At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them—men, women and children. We left no survivors.
35 But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves.
36 From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The Lord our God gave us all of them.
37 But in accordance with the command of the Lord our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.
内容观察
1. 摩西向希实本王西宏要求什么,西宏的反应如何?(27~28,30a节)
2.神为以色列人做了什么事?(30b,33节)
思考与默想
个人感受
决心与应用
5. 你可曾经历神使用你意想不到的人或事物来成就池的旨意?
6. 为了打开信心的眼睛看见神所行的一切,你需要下定什么决心?
使他性情顽梗,内心刚硬(30节):这句话并非指西宏的自由意志被夺去,任凭神摆布,而是指神也会使用人错误的决定或悖逆的行为来成就自己的旨意。类似情形也记载于出埃及记中法老的态度(参出7:3).
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